I think the talk among coaches is this year's league is this is the least talent in the conference that they have seen in a long time and some of that may be because there are two new teams Albemarle and Windsor in the league who at this point are average at very best. It just happens that this year being a down year for Rocky Mount is also a down year for everyone else and we just might be the best still.
Post 58 has the best pitching in the league. Derrick Carter Northern's Nash rising junior is a super pitcher in waiting. By his senior year he will probably be the pitcher that all the colleges are after from this area. He is however only a rising junior and growth is still in his future. Jeremy Johnson Rocky Mount High pitcher who is headed to High Point University gives P58 two pitchers who on a bad night can give you six innings. From what I have seen nobody else has any pitching any where close to those two. When you add Chase Roupp, Spenser Ramsey, Pascal Ammons P 58 has the best pitching staff in the league.
Adam Bayless is the first baseman and frankly he has surprised me at how good he is. Good glove at First and a better hitter than I thought. David Williams and Andy Morris have shared second but they are both play any where players. Both catch and short stop if need be. Brock Waynic is a natural shortstop. Spenser Ramsey had been solid at 3rd. Linwood Jones the speedster in the outfield and on the bases. When you add Jeremy Johnson in center when he is not pitching not many balls hit in the air are not caught by Jones or Johnson. Andrew Weatherly looks like an eighth grader who plays like Lou Brock with a rifle arm. Abel Hernandez has been solid behind the plate but injury prone.
Adam Bayless is the only hitter they have that can threaten the fence but this team plays a lot like UCLA the team that just won the NCAA World Series. Good pitching, timely hitting and solid defence. The problem I see for this team in the playoffs is that you are only as good as you competition will let you be. Every team in order to continually get better need the challenge of tied in the eighth inning and who is going to make the play to win. Our division was like that last year and the trend is not good. That doesn't mean it won't trend back up.
Their record at this point is not impressive 8-5 but one habit that Hank Jones likes to do is he
loves playing the teams he thinks will give us an opportunity to play great competition early on. His problem was with so many players from the local private schools he forget their graduation weekend and played the three toughest games all year that weekend. He doesn't care if he loses to the Cherryville's or Garners what he wants to see is who he has that wants to give him the effort it takes to win.
Once he knows who he can count on and started sticking to a lineup this team has been hard to beat. There is still two more opportunities to see this team Tuesday and Wednesday night. Tuesday starts at 5:30 and Wednesday 7pm. If you want to see what a team looks like that plays as a team here is your chance. All the rain outs this team has had this year the Legion needs some good gates to keep up with expenses. If Legion is alive in the future and the future is next year and beyond they need warm bodies who support those who have been willing to give up their summer to represent us as Rocky Mount American Legion Team.
Once he knows who he can count on and started sticking to a lineup this team has been hard to beat. There is still two more opportunities to see this team Tuesday and Wednesday night. Tuesday starts at 5:30 and Wednesday 7pm. If you want to see what a team looks like that plays as a team here is your chance. All the rain outs this team has had this year the Legion needs some good gates to keep up with expenses. If Legion is alive in the future and the future is next year and beyond they need warm bodies who support those who have been willing to give up their summer to represent us as Rocky Mount American Legion Team.
