Latest / Whatcom Preps Podcast / Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 263 - Top 50 Fastpitch 10-1

Transcript

Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 263 - Top 50 Fastpitch 10-1 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

0:00
This is for No Catcher calin Blakeley and you're listening to the Top fifty Fast
0:04
Pitch Countdown with Tyler and Ryland. It's a matter of pride. Greetings and
0:24
welcome into the watcum Preps podcast. This is episode at two hundred and sixty
0:28
three, the last of three podcasts. As we unveil the Fast Pitch Top
0:32
fifty Countdown. I'm Royland Spencer. Along with me as always is Tyler Anderson
0:37
of watchcum Preps. Tyler, how are we doing? Doing great? Doing
0:42
great? Just you know, came off a camping trip. That's why there
0:45
wasn't any posts there for a couple of days. And the worst part about
0:49
it is that I looked at like my numbers on walkompreps dot com. There's
0:53
like this daily graph that shows kind of how many clicks I get, and
0:56
there's this big dip for a couple of days, and then it comes back
0:59
up and it's like, well, I guess I really got to do stuff
1:02
every day if people are going to keep coming back. So it's always a
1:04
nice little reminder of you know, gotta stay on top of it. Now.
1:08
If you own your own business, it's there aren't days off you gotta
1:12
just go go, go, keep it going and keep it steady. A
1:15
nice little face plant while you were gone there, Tyler, Hey, we
1:19
need to give a thank you to Kaylin Blakelee Frindale Junior. Obviously we will
1:25
talk about her at some point where she'll be who knows, we'll figure it
1:29
out later. I don't know. We also need to give it thanks to
1:32
Kurt Mayberry Farm. Kurtmayberry Farm dot Com is their website. They are a
1:36
fourth generation, family owned and operated berry farm committed to growing the highest quality
1:41
berries, strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. Tyler, at some point,
1:45
we need to rewrite this so that it sounds a little bit different. Maybe
1:48
people will continue to listen. Kurt with A C, M, A,
1:51
B E r Ry Farm dot com. Go check them out. We also
1:55
need to give a thank you to Mana Insurance. They provided the scoreboards all
2:00
spring season for fast Pitch and line Drive at Northwest that they provided the weekly
2:05
stat leaders. So thank you to those two sponsors. Tyler. You were
2:08
out at District Brewing last weekend. You're gonna be out there again this weekend.
2:13
Twelve to two sixty nine to twelve Hannigan Road Lynden corner of Poll and
2:17
Hannigan. That's where you can find him twelve to two. What's going to
2:22
be going on there, Tyler? Yeah, I'll just be hanging out there
2:24
watching an old game film and if you there's a specific game that you want
2:28
to watch, come out and let me know, and you most likely have
2:31
it, especially if you go back to nineteen ninety there. I got a
2:36
big chunk from the eighties as well, but not like I do from the
2:38
nineties and going forward. And it's actually funny because there's kind of a window
2:43
there where I'm missing a ton of games, so I'm working on getting them.
2:46
What's it. Don't give away too many clues there because I don't want
2:50
to remember I laid something out for the last podcast we did here, right
2:53
right, so but yeah, there is a little window, but I won't
2:57
talk about that too much. But anyways, Yeah, yeah, I'll be
3:00
out there, and yeah, it's a good time. The food there is
3:05
unbelievable. Holy cow, it's uh the biggest wings I've ever had. They're
3:10
just huge, They're awesome. They don't disappoint good prices, So so yeah,
3:15
come on out, check it out, support local business, support walk
3:20
and preps all that stuff, Tyler was it was it Fred Flintstone that used
3:23
to eat the pterodactyl wings. I can't remember. It's a long time ago
3:30
for me. I don't know. Maybe I'm making that up. I don't
3:31
know. But when you said that sounds pretty good, sounds right. Yeah,
3:34
I'm thinking terodactyl and Tyler. If somebody wants to get in touch with
3:38
you about sponsorship opportunities with walk on preps, how do they do that?
3:44
Best way is through social media. Just look up Walking Preps, send them,
3:47
send a message to me and and just say, hey, you know,
3:50
how can I get involved? Hey? This is what I really like.
3:53
Hey, I love what you do with tennis. Hey, you know,
3:55
whatever, whatever it is, we can talk and and and get the
4:00
ball rolling and get get ahead of it, you know, because before you
4:02
know it, you're gonna blink. And you know, you're probably on vacation
4:05
right now, you're probably doing something, and all of a sudden, you
4:09
go to the store and you see all this back to this back to school
4:12
stuff and you're like, oh man, it's right there. Well, at
4:14
the same time, when you're thinking, oh, my kids are going back
4:15
to school or all this is happening. Think, oh man, Walking Preps
4:19
is going to be diving into all this stuff right away too. So uh,
4:24
sponsorships can keep it going and look forward to hearing from you. Yeah,
4:28
you're down there at the local Safeway and you're walking through the magazine.
4:30
I all of a sudden, you see feel still college football magazine. You're
4:32
going, oh my goodness, Walk the Preps has got to be coming out,
4:36
dude. That is the best magazine every year is Could you imagine if
4:41
we could put something together like that for Walkham County football. We're not going
4:46
to do it, Tyler, because the amount of effort that guy puts in
4:49
is I don't know how he does it. It's unbelievable. I mean,
4:53
I think my first magazine I got it is was like, oh, I
4:58
think Carson Palmer was on the cover. Maybe, Yeah, I've gotten it
5:00
every year for the last like twenty years. Yeah. Same same here,
5:04
Yeah, and it's in the same I mean, it's it's way more information
5:08
than you and I can even process. And you and I combined large brains,
5:13
I mean real large brains. So it's like, and you know what
5:16
the craziest thing is the first time you read it. If you're a true
5:21
football fan, you don't even need the the what is it? Like the
5:26
key at the beginning that tells you what the like you see like he does
5:30
a lot of shorthands. So you got it. You read it about wide
5:32
and you instantly know last year means you eventually pick it up and then it
5:39
keeps the same format and I love that. I love the continuity. And
5:44
so yeah, if you if you enjoy college football at all, Oh,
5:48
the Phil Steel Yearly magazine comes out in July usually, I'm sure if you
5:54
google Phil P. H I L. And then it's s T E E
5:58
L E. Right, yep, yep, yeah, if you if you
6:00
google that, you'll find it. It's it's it's honestly, it's it's ridiculous.
6:05
It really Yeah, it's I mean, think about your favorite football magazine
6:09
that you get every year and it's like that, like times one hundred.
6:11
Yeah, I mean steroids. Yeah, it is. It is crazy,
6:14
and it's a huge inspiration for a lot of the stuff that I've done.
6:17
And it's funny because I've done things in the past and Walker Preps and I'm
6:20
talking like years ago, even before Walker Preps, when it was history of
6:25
Walking County High school football, and you would send me a message and say
6:29
I'm glad you didn't go full bonkers this time, or you know, yeah,
6:31
you'd always say something like that, and I always think about, like,
6:34
yeah, I know, but I that Phil steele Man just yeah,
6:39
I'd say you didn't go full psycho or whatever, and you're like, I
6:42
know, well nuts, yeah, yeah, that's so that's probably what I
6:45
said, because that's what I say a lot. But and at the same
6:46
time, you easily could have you know what I mean, like you have
6:49
the information, you know that stuff. But uh yeah, I mean if
6:54
you think of like Lindy's Magazine, like some of these other ones are.
6:57
They're great too, they really are, but those are like very Bonds in
7:00
Pittsburgh and then Phil Steeles Barry Bonds in San Francisco. It's a great point,
7:03
you know what I mean. Yeah, I got the Lindy's magazine for
7:06
pro football. Yeah, I think every year since it came out. Eighty
7:09
seven was the first year. I remember Bosworth on the cover for the Regional
7:13
and they do a good job too, but not the film field. They
7:15
have a little sentence about every player, and that was like that was revolutionary
7:19
when that started happening. Yep. And uh and they get a big,
7:23
big paragraph about each draft pick and I used to love that stuff. Oh
7:27
man. See the big the big difference is back then, Tyler, we
7:30
had to basically like take what they're saying and and just believe it is the
7:33
truth. Now now we can watch all the film and disagree with them,
7:38
you know, but exactly. Yeah, anyway, Tyler, we've got well,
7:43
okay, now we got to talk about something here because on the if
7:46
you listen to the podcast earlier today, that was Baseball and that was ten
7:49
down to one, and now we're going to do fast Pitched down you know,
7:53
ten down to one. And basically, Tyler, you and I did
7:56
not do a good job of communicating early and we screwed it up and we
8:00
were like, oh, hey, yeah, but you're going to have no
8:03
this is what's going to go on. Now we're posting fast pitch after baseball,
8:05
even though on the Baseball podcast we basically talked ourselves into posting fast pitch
8:09
first. And the reason we did is because we realize the numbers were going
8:13
to be wrong. So here we are. That being said, Tyler,
8:18
we've got ten to one to talk to and to talk about. And we've
8:20
already talked about fifty down two eleven, and that was on two separate podcasts,
8:26
So go back and listen to those if you haven't already listened to them.
8:28
It's kind of like you can't start watching, you know, major League
8:33
three. You got to start with one and two, right, Yeah,
8:35
so go back listen to the fifty down to thirty one. That's major League
8:39
one. Now go down to you know, that's how it works, right
8:43
like, yeah, you know, or hey, when the time comes and
8:46
there's a Top Gun three, you can't start with Top Gun three. You
8:48
gotta go Top Gun one, that's right, and then you have to watch
8:52
Maverick, you know, Tyler, I'm saying all of this, and I'm
8:54
trying to avoid talking about Star Wars just because I want to. I know
8:56
you're doing a really, really good job. You're doing a really good job.
9:00
Proud of you. I figured if I could try to do that and
9:01
just maybe get your riled up a little bit, then maybe when I get
9:05
to number ten here in a second, you'll be off your game. I'm
9:09
always off my game. Man, It's summertime. I'm as relaxed as it
9:13
gets. Yeah, I mean, Tyler, when I think about when I
9:16
think about you and me talking about the baseball and the fast pitch, and
9:18
when that one's getting posted, boy, that's a lot of lemons. It
9:22
was lemons. That's what we did. We had a lot of lemons,
9:24
Tyler. A little bit there, Yeah, a little. It's like I
9:28
don't know, a ninety eight Toyota Corolla. It's a lemon, Tyler.
9:31
Not much we can do about it now, though, we just got to
9:33
talk about the top ten fast pitch and we got them. We got I
9:39
got it right here, Tyler. Yeah, we got a lot of catchers.
9:41
Oh yeah, my goodness. This seems like a pretty important position here
9:45
in fast pitch. But that's where we're going to start, too, Tyler.
9:48
We're going to start at number ten with a junior catcher from the Blaine
9:52
Border Rights. It's Shaley Daniels. And you're right, it is a lot
9:54
of catchers. And she's not a natural catcher. This was kind of out
9:58
of need this year for for Blaine. They had a tremendous catcher the last
10:05
few years she graduated. And you bring back you know the you know the
10:09
picture of the year from the year prior. But sometimes the picture is only
10:13
as good as the catcher is. So you you take your best overall player
10:18
out there and you plug you plug her in at catcher and see if it
10:22
works. And it worked great. Uh, Shayley Daniels was really impressive back
10:26
there, and like I said, not her natural position, but but did
10:31
it really really well. All year at the plate, it was just laser
10:37
City, Holy cow, and these all all all ten of these girls.
10:41
The numbers are going to be ridiculous, and so you're just gonna have to
10:45
bear with me on that. But it's really really impressive. She batted five
10:48
sixteen this year, hit five doubles, a triple, three r three home
10:54
runs, twenty five RBIs, walked twelve times, and struck out just seven
10:58
times, the only play on the Blaine team that struck out less than ten
11:03
percent of the time. And again just a junior too. And there were
11:07
there was a time, kind of a third into the season where Blaine was
11:13
slumping a little bit. A lot of it had to do with their schedule.
11:16
At that point. They were playing some big time competition, you know,
11:18
the the Seedgral Woolies and those kinds of teams. It was kind of
11:24
like boom boom boom, was like, oh, man, this is a
11:26
rough part of the schedule, but man she was. That was when she
11:30
was really carrying that that team, especially offensively. She was still having big
11:35
time games. And then they all kind of caught back up to her and
11:39
and you know, the rest is history, as they say, so just
11:43
another tremendous year for her, really really good offensive player. Another one of
11:48
those plays she led the team with thirty two hits, and she was a
11:52
player that this year. I for some reason, for like the first half
11:58
of the year, I thought she was a senior. But I love when
12:03
that happens. And we've talked about this multiple times, where oh, it's
12:07
it's like a little Christmas present. You're like, oh, they get to
12:09
play another year. This is awesome. I love this. This is great.
12:13
When it goes the other way, it's not so fun. You think
12:16
they're an underclassman, you realize they are a senior, it's like, oh,
12:18
that's a bummer. But it was the other way around and so much
12:22
fun to watch her play, or you see a player for the first time
12:26
and then oh, what a senior, damn senior. Yeah, only only
12:30
get the next five games or you know whatever. But well, that happened
12:33
to me a lot this year with soccer, because it was my first year
12:35
covering it, and I'd go out and I'd be like, Oh, they're
12:39
a senior. This is it, this is my this is my one chance
12:41
to watch them. Yeah. Absolutely, Tyler number nine in the top fifty
12:46
fast pitch countdown. Another junior, another catcher, this time Nook sac Valley's
12:52
Alena Dykstra. Yeah, left handed hitter and does everything extremely well. I
13:01
mean she's just she's a baller, man, I'm again, and she she
13:07
goes the other way a lot. I saw a triple off the bat to
13:09
left field, but you don't see a lot of triples to left field.
13:13
You see those maybe the gap or right field. You don't see a lot
13:16
down the left field line. So she could mote around the bases, led
13:20
the team in basically every single category that you can. So you're talking run
13:28
scored, thirty eight hits, forty six singles, thirty five doubles, four
13:33
triples, seven home runs, thirty one RBIs, fifteen stolen bases, a
13:37
five ninety batting average, and she struck out the least amount of times six
13:45
on the on the team. My goodness, say some stats for the rest
13:46
of us. Yeah, yeah, slugged slugged over one thousand. Wow,
13:52
not ops. Yeah, obviously lot ops is over a thousand, but slugged
13:56
over one thousand. The ops was six sixteen eighty that, you know,
14:01
and she was really good and a left handed catcher ros left handed. Yeah,
14:07
you know what you see that I wouldn't say quite a bit, but
14:11
you see that, you know more, you know than you would think in
14:16
softball. But it obviously that's something you just I know, like either when
14:20
we were younger, you would see that occasionally in baseball. You really don't
14:24
see that anymore in baseball. Yeah, you'd almost see it more like in
14:26
little league or junior high. Yeah. And then they turned that kid into
14:30
a pitcher of first basement. Yeah, absolutely, an outfielder. But but
14:35
yeah, I mean, and she's she has no qualms about throwing the ball
14:39
to first or third after a pitch if there's a player off the base too
14:43
too far. She wants she is, she is looking for that and the
14:48
you know, her teammates better be ready, you know, whoever's at first
14:52
or third, and man, just what a force offensively, and those numbers
14:58
are just staggering off the charts. And like you said, just a junior
15:03
as well, So pretty incredible. Number eight in the top fifty countdown.
15:07
Another junior. Another catcher, except this one is high school. It's Gracie's
15:13
Ender. Yeah, it's again, it's another junior catcher. It's unbelievable.
15:20
This this, I mean, the catchers are just crazy. And you know,
15:24
we talked about a least krout in the in the podcast before with Fast
15:30
Pitch and she was like, I think she was like number sixteen or something
15:33
like that, and she was a senior catcher. But the catching class is
15:37
really ridiculous with so many of them. And again, you know, to
15:41
play catcher Fast Pitch, I mean, you're gonna be one of the top
15:43
players generally, so it makes sense. The first time I saw Gracie's in
15:48
her play a couple of years ago, I went out to a game and
15:50
I think she hit two bombs and they were bombs. They were fifty feet
15:54
over the over the fence, and after she hit the first one, I
16:00
kind of took you know, I just like, okay, who what number
16:03
is that? You know, because I've never seen this player before, and
16:06
I was like, okay, number six, and then all of a sudden,
16:08
the next time she came up, I wanted to pay attention and like,
16:12
she's really patient at the plate, and then all of a sudden,
16:15
boom another home run. And I just thought, man, that bat speed
16:18
is incredible. I had no clue who it was, and I ended up
16:22
figuring it out and I was like, oh, she was the catcher.
16:26
Oh she's a freshman. Oh this is crazy. And she's just been hitting
16:32
bombs ever since, it seems like, and driving in runs. She drove
16:36
in fifty three runs this year, which is just a crazy, crazy number.
16:41
Had eight home runs on the year, seven doubles and a triple.
16:45
Batted four eighty one. She walked thirty one times, which I believe led
16:49
the county this year. So extremely extremely patient, sometimes to a fall.
16:56
I mean I saw a couple strike threes looking, you know, and that
17:00
that happens sometimes when you're really really patient, and that would happen a little
17:03
bit here and there. But uh, but you know, unbelievable arm behind
17:08
the plate. Not very many players ran on her, even in the state
17:11
tournament when you're you know, the against these best these best teams. I
17:15
mean, she would just gun them down. Been batting in that number three
17:21
spot now for a while from from for Mount Mount Baker. And is you
17:26
know, gonna remain there. I'm sure she might be. She might be
17:29
moved to the four. She might stay at three. It's hard to say.
17:30
But and one of the one of the few catchers that you know,
17:36
runs the bases quite a bit. You know, you get you know,
17:37
you get a free courtesy runner if you want. And part of that is
17:42
because Mount Baker just doesn't feel a huge team. You know, they might
17:47
have, they might bring eleven, you know. Wow, And and that's
17:52
just kind of what happens, especially if they have a JV game going the
17:55
same day. They just don't have they don't have a bench, and uh
18:00
that's just program. Yeah yeah, and so so anyways, but Jav's not
18:07
playing, then yeah, she might get a break here and there. And
18:10
and but wow, what what a what a talent. And again another one
18:14
of those players that's like, I can't believe she's not a senior because it
18:17
seems like I've been watching her forever and I've seen I've mean at least twenty
18:21
home runs, you know, twenty twenty five home runs so far in her
18:23
career, and I don't I don't have her career numbers here, but it's
18:27
got to be around there, and she's just going to add to that next
18:30
year and at number seven in the top fifty countdown another junior. This time
18:37
we're talking about a pitcher from Lyndon Christian, Cassidy van Seust. What a
18:44
great, great, great pitcher. And you know, really, you know,
18:48
she is that classic fast pitch pitcher, you know where all gets a
18:55
good arm whip on it. It has the same motion all the time,
18:59
rarely rarely rose ball. She's in the strike zone a lot, which is
19:03
a huge advantage, I mean at any level. But went thirteen and eight
19:07
on the year. In one hundred and twenty one innings. She struck out
19:10
one hundred and forty nine only walked thirty six, so great, great ratio
19:14
there over one hundred more strikeouts than walks an era of three point zero seven.
19:18
As the year went on, I thought she just got better and better
19:22
and better and tough as nails too, because there was a game, you
19:27
know, the game where Lyndon Christian beat Mount Baker in the district tournament but
19:33
they were going to meet up again. She took a line drive like it
19:38
looked like off her neck or collarbone, and she had to get taken out
19:42
of the game like immediately, like she just ran off the field. And
19:45
I was like, oh my goodness, Like that's that's gonna be tough,
19:49
because these they're you know, they have to keep playing. They still have
19:53
to win the next day too, you know, or two days later or
19:57
whatever it was to actually go on to State. Yes, And I was
20:02
like, I don't know if they're going to have their their picture. And
20:04
when Elsie showed up, I was watching the game before it and I asked
20:10
the coach, I said, is Cassidy okay? And she's like, she's
20:11
a tough girl, she'll be ready. And I was like wow, because
20:15
that was a shot. And and you know, you can talk about all
20:18
these things about being the main picture on a really good team and then you
20:22
turn around and you look at her offense and it was just it was unbelievable.
20:29
A left handed hitter throws right handed, bat's left handed. She hit
20:33
five twenty five on the year, hit eight doubles, four triples, a
20:37
home run, big time in the clutch, huge in the clutch. Thirty
20:41
nine RBIs in ninety played appearances. She only struck out six times. That's
20:47
a really really low percentage, unbelievable. And you know just got on base,
20:52
got on base five seventy eight on base percentage. Like I said,
20:56
these these top players are just are just outright good. I mean they they
21:00
are so unbelievable. And I remember last year watching her hit and she would
21:07
she would go the other way a lot, and she would have even hit
21:10
some home runs to the opposite field, which you know tells me a lot.
21:15
And this year it was a lot more confidence in her swing. She
21:18
was driving the ball to right center field, batting left handed, and and
21:22
and and confident even running the bases about you know, legging out to a
21:26
triple. You know, she had four triples on the year and those are
21:30
small fields, so that that says a lot too. So really really good,
21:33
good player. One of the few athletes that I don't think. She's
21:37
on Instagram, and I always respect that. You know, when I see
21:41
a player that I'm trying to tag them in some great thing that they did,
21:45
and I don't even I can't find them, and then they get shared
21:48
by all their teammates and they're not taking her tells me that she's not on
21:51
Instagram, which I I kind of find that refreshing a little bit. I
21:53
think she's old school and it's just about her studies and athletic accomplishments and just
22:00
doesn't let any distractions get in the way. And and that's a that's a
22:03
really unique thing. And I really admire that. Number six in the top
22:10
fifty count down. We are still talking about an underclassman here, Tyler,
22:12
and this time we've got a sophomore second baseman from the Lyndon Lions. It's
22:17
Campbell the young Yeah, the Ricky Henderson of Walkam County. And it's not
22:22
even close. I don't know how many times she let off the game with
22:26
a home run. I think it was at least three. Wow. It's
22:30
like just to lead off the game, you know, and and as you
22:33
know, as a visiting player, you can't do it at home. So
22:37
that's really really impressive her Her pure athleticism might be she might be the pure
22:45
best athlete on this you know, in Walking County, just as far as
22:52
you know, just athletic ability. Uh, the plays that she makes at
22:56
second base, diving to her left diving to her getting right back up throwing.
23:00
Everything is like just go, go go, Like she's only plays that
23:06
she only knows one speed. Like that. That kind of player. Didn't
23:10
see a ton at the varsity level level from volleyball or basketball, but she
23:15
was on both squads just they had really really good players ahead of her,
23:18
and I think we're gonna I'm gonna see her a lot more doing those other
23:22
sports. But even since she was a freshman, I mean, she's been
23:26
batting leadoff, dominant right away, and this year she took her game to
23:30
a whole nother level. She scored This is just stupid. She scored sixty
23:37
runs and that's just a crazy number. Sixty runs. Of her forty nine
23:44
hits, twenty of them went for extra bases, eight doubles, four triples,
23:48
eight home runs. She drove in twenty five from the leadoff spot and
23:52
stole a walkam County leading thirty four bases, batted four to seventy one on
23:57
the year, And just I just a player that you have to be aware
24:04
of all the time, keep an eye on. She's gonna take that extra
24:08
base, slightest hesitation, and she will take it on you. I mean
24:12
there were times when I would see her generate runs by herself where she would
24:17
lag out a single into a double, you know, and then she would
24:19
steal third and they had to hurry up and throw, so then the third
24:23
basement wasn't there yet. So the ball goes outfield and she scores. It's
24:26
like only she can do that, you know. It's like those kinds of
24:30
players and those kinds of plays as well, and so really excited to see
24:36
her, you know, play the next couple more years over at second base,
24:40
and then also you know, in these other sports, because I could
24:42
see the athleticism, I could see it pouring into the other sports. I
24:45
think fast pitch is her sport, but a three sport athlete's that should excel
24:51
in all three. You mentioned the triples. I think I went to about
24:56
ten or twelve Boffel games this year, and I only remember one triple,
25:03
and it was a it was a line drive to right. The girl go
25:07
for the ball and it went byer, you know, and well it didn't
25:11
go buyer. I don't think she could have caught it, like even if
25:15
she had go go gadget arm. But other than that, I mean,
25:18
that's tough to do in fast pitch because, like you said, the field
25:21
is so small. I mean you have to either you got to like put
25:23
it down in the corner, down first baseline or something and have them shipped
25:26
it over. I mean you put it in the gap. It's tough to
25:30
get to third from there. You know you gotta Yeah, I mean you
25:34
got to be hot out of the box and just go. And I mean
25:37
that's that's pretty impressive. Number five in the top fifty count down. Our
25:42
first senior of this podcast. It's a pitcher from a Blaine. She's going
25:47
to strike me and Tyler out. Emerson Baker. Yeah, she's she's the
25:51
premiere pitcher in Walking County. It's it's weird because I almost want to say
25:56
she might have had a down year from last year, just you know,
26:03
overpowering can get in trouble a little bit with walks, but not really that
26:10
bad. She went fourteen and seven on the year in one hundred and twenty
26:12
four innings. She struck out two hundred and eighteen. She didn't walk eighty
26:18
two batters. She gave up only seventy nine hits, so she gave up
26:22
more walks and hits. Really hard to get a clean, clean hit off
26:25
her an ERA of under two one point nine to eight. Just you know,
26:30
when she gets in that rhythm, she can beat anybody. And she
26:33
did it against Lindon. I mean, that was a really good game that
26:37
I was at where it was really close and you could see the little moments
26:41
where she knew when she made a mistake, she corrected it, and then
26:45
she just got in the zone and just they couldn't do anything about it.
26:49
And Blaine got hot, and I think, I want to say it was
26:53
you know, Jordan Vezzetti and Jaylee Daniels, you know, I think they
26:56
may have had back to back home runs and that was kind of the beginning
27:00
of that and and the and the tables kind of turned after that. And
27:06
Emerson Baker as a pitcher has been amazing the last couple of years. The
27:11
total numbers that she's been putting up are incredible. She's gonna go pitch at
27:17
Edmunds as well, and and uh to be able to continue her career as
27:21
great. And you know, even at the plate, a really really quick
27:25
bat. I saw multiple times where she would just hit when like she just
27:29
painted the line basically the third base line just boom right down the line,
27:33
the ball jumps off her bat. She batted three eleven on the year,
27:37
had three home runs, seven doubles, a triple, twenty five RBIs ops
27:44
of over a thousand. So it wasn't just at the plate. Did some
27:48
did some good thing I'm sorry, it wasn't just in the circle. So
27:51
did some really really good things at the plate as well. And and there
27:55
were there was a few times during the year where she struggled and had some
27:59
bad stores there at the at the plate, and you know, kind of
28:02
got moved down the lineup, but then she eventually came back up. But
28:04
the pitching. Pitching was always there, reliable. I mean you could there
28:10
was a lot of games where you look at the box score and you're like,
28:11
man, she gave up like one hit or two hits and she struck
28:15
out fourteen. I mean that happened. Seemed like to happened once a week.
28:18
You know, big, big time numbers, great great player, awesome
28:22
kid, all that stuff. So uh yeah, really fun to watch her
28:26
throughout her entire career. Number four in the top fifty Countdown senior shortstop high
28:34
school Danilee Cohne. Yeah, this is another great, great leadoff hitter.
28:41
You know her and Campbell the Young. Hard to say who the you know,
28:45
the the better leadoff hitter is And I I apologize, I gave you
28:51
the wrong information. She is just a junior h so that's that's that's my
28:56
bad. It's another one of those players that you know right away was starting
29:03
at shortstop and it seems like she's been there forever and she has. But
29:08
you know, we talked about I talked about Campbell de Young was sixty runs
29:12
scored Anna only Cone scored sixty three and she and she stole twenty seven bases,
29:18
so she was right behind her in that category. Had seven doubles,
29:22
four triples, a home run. The home run was great because definitely not
29:27
a home run hitter at all. Uh and she hit a walk off,
29:32
which first ever her home run, and UH rush like it. Yeah,
29:38
yeah, it was a great, great moment. Thirty two RBIs from the
29:44
leadoff spot. That's it is. That's it's crazy. She only struck out
29:48
three point four percent of the time. I think that was the best.
29:52
Wait wait wait, you said how many rbies thirty two and how many runs
29:57
scored sixty three with only one home run so she only scored herself once.
30:03
So one of those RBIs is herself. That means she was a part of
30:07
ninety plus runs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's incredible. There are
30:12
some teams that didn't score ninety plus runs. Yeah wow. Yeah. I
30:17
mean about at five hundred on the year, walked fourteen times, only struck
30:22
out four times in one hundred and eighteen played appearances. She played the entire
30:26
year with a really bad injury and that a lot of people probably didn't know
30:30
about. And the toughness that she showed. She reaggravated it in the district
30:36
tournament and it really really showed after that she had to go over and play
30:40
some second base. I think throwing was tough, Swinging the bat was tough.
30:44
I could tell that she wasn't quite you know, swinging the bat like
30:48
she could. But if she just put the bowl on the ground, she's
30:51
going to get on base, especially if she hit it to the left side
30:52
of the infield. She's that fast. So it just her value was just
30:57
always there. And I just I just admire the toughness. I just I
31:03
I awed at it. I mean it was I could see that she was
31:07
in pain, but she's so stoic in her face all the time, you
31:11
know, where she doesn't get too high, she doesn't get too low.
31:14
It's kind of like the Eli Manning, right, you can't tell if he
31:17
just threw a touchdown or an interception. He just onto the next play.
31:21
And and that's what she was like. And yeah, I yeah, I
31:25
couldn't believe that I told you that she was a senior because again, it's
31:27
one of those players that's been there forever. And uh, and she's gonna
31:33
she's gonna end up when she graduates. She's gonna lead in a ton of
31:37
categories all time, uh at Mount Paker High School. And uh, it's
31:41
it's gonna be deserving because she is one heck of a player. And you
31:45
know, hopefully she'll be injury free and she'll get everything fixed going into a
31:49
senior year so she could go out with a bang and and uh and she
31:53
deserves it because she's put forth so much effort and so much hard work and
31:59
and uh and it showed on the field and you and I talked about it
32:01
before we hit record. She was also in the top fifty for volleyball.
32:06
Correct. Yeah, she was the only player named from the volleyball team,
32:08
and I did hear that it's possible that, I mean, if she ends
32:14
up getting surgery, she might miss the volleyball season for her senior year,
32:19
which you know, it is what it is, but she'll be ready for
32:22
fast pitch that if everything is the case from what I'm hearing, I mean,
32:27
I hear a lot of stuff, and you never know and all that
32:30
stuff, So I don't want to put anything out there, but yeah,
32:34
great, great overall athletes, you know, really really good, really good
32:37
athletes. Yeah, and eventually, I mean, I guess if we're being
32:39
completely honest, if you made the top fifty, you're probably pretty dang good
32:43
overall. Yeah, right, but yeah, yeah, I mean you get
32:47
here to the top, you know, five ten, and you're talking about
32:51
girls, some of them that are doing it in multiple sports and some who
32:55
was it. There was one girl that you mentioned maybe in the last one
32:59
that was like got trophies and all kinds of stuff from like three sports or
33:02
something, right, Yeah, Laney Kimball, Yeah, that's right. Yeah,
33:06
And I found out it wasn't just the one A Female Athlete of the
33:09
Year, it's the one a slash two way. So that has I think
33:15
it was SB Live did. Yeah, it's like big school, medium school,
33:17
small school type things. Yeah, and so that's really really cool.
33:21
And yeah, you know multiple state champion, three times state champion and and
33:25
and also you know high placements in state and you know all state athlete and
33:30
all these different sports. Yeah, she's and it's it is crazy the athleticism
33:35
that's out there and to see it firsthand is really cool. Tyler. We're
33:38
into the top three here, and in at number three is a senior catcher
33:43
from the Linden Lions. I believe she did a intro for US earlier this
33:47
year. Casey Thomas, Yeah, she did. She did one pretty pretty
33:51
early in the year. She uh, she won a Player of the Week
33:54
once. She can't really close to winning two of them. Man oh man.
34:01
It's it's crazy because I saw Lindon a bunch of times and she always
34:09
impressed, like every single game. And I would see them against teams that
34:13
maybe weren't great, and you know, the teams hit pretty well blah blah
34:15
blah, and then you see them against like the better teams and you see
34:19
a lot of players struggle and it's like she it's the exact same She's just
34:22
always awesome and that was that was a lot of joy to watch where she
34:27
could she could change. She can change her game and up it to the
34:30
competition against even the best pitchers out there. She's gonna get her hits and
34:37
especially extra base hits. She had twelve doubles on the year, that's more
34:42
than anybody in the county. She ended up with six home runs. She
34:45
drove in fifty three runs, which broke broke a school record. Batted four
34:50
to seventy seven on the year. She got hit by pitch ten times,
34:52
which I think also led the county. So she led and hit by pitches
34:57
and doubles. She's yeah, just just an awesome kid too. And uh,
35:05
you know, played some played some third base, and some catcher.
35:09
Last year. She was the everyday catcher this year. I don't even know
35:14
if she took an inning off the entire year. Uh there's you know,
35:19
there's just a really good catchers area. And uh so I'm excited to see
35:23
what she does at the next level. She will be catching and playing a
35:28
little second base, I believe from what I hear, But again, unbelievable
35:32
numbers. She batted four to seventy seven on the year to lead to lead
35:36
the team and Lyndon this year. You know, coming into this year,
35:39
it wasn't when we talked about this a little bit on the last podcast with
35:43
Fast Pitch, was there. I don't think the expectations were as high as
35:46
it's been in the last you know, five years or so. There was
35:51
a lot of new varsity players and uh and she was kind of one of
35:54
the holdovers from the previous teams, and she just put that team on her
36:00
back and got them to the second day of State. I mean, that
36:01
was That's really what she did. I think that. I mean, obviously
36:07
Trinity Andrew was all another great senior in the circle. But the two of
36:10
them together they kind of pushed the rest of the team. A lot of
36:14
the youngsters on that team and and uh and got them to believe and they
36:19
moved on. And she is she is the biggest part of that team.
36:22
She was to me, she was the best player on that team. And
36:24
and she had a just a wonderful season. Number two in the Top fifty
36:30
Countdown Senior Year Pitcher High School Avid Jeretzky, Yeah, a pitcher extraordinary and
36:39
at the plate, just scary. We brought up some numbers earlier with some
36:46
of these other players, and and she is. She is right there.
36:52
The big number that jumps out right away is the the RBIs seventy one RBIs.
37:00
I just can't in how many games, twenty four, twenty five,
37:08
something like that, so we're talking like three a game basically, yeh three
37:13
a game. That's it's crazy. I think she had a couple of games
37:16
maybe where she had nine. I mean it was hard hitting, Mark Winton,
37:22
Yeah, right, it was. It was one of those things where
37:27
if the bases were loaded, she's getting an extra base hit and she might
37:30
be hitting it out. She loved the big what's that I said intentionally?
37:36
Walker? Yeah right, yeah, like Buck Showalter did against bonds loaded,
37:42
and it was and she hit ten home runs, nine doubles, two triples.
37:46
Like I said, seventy one RBIs. She'd added five thirty nine on
37:50
the year. You said ten home runs, yeah, Mike, yeah,
37:54
And I think she led the county with ten the year before, So ten
38:00
of those seventy whatever it was, are just her scoring herself on home runs.
38:04
Yeah. I mean that is incredible. Yeah, it's you know,
38:07
and we talked about Analie Cohen scoring sixty three runs. Well, you know,
38:14
you know the you know, the the Payton batting three batters ahead of
38:16
Ava Dreskis, you know, the Peyton manning to Marvin Harrison, you know,
38:20
touchdown thing. Yeah, I'd like to know how many times Annalye scored
38:23
when Ava hit the ball, right, Yeah, I mean, it's it's
38:28
it's a lot. If Grace Zender wasn't hitting a home run and she had
38:31
eight of him herself. So uh but yeah, forty eight hits on the
38:36
year, nine doubles, two triples, ten home runs, seventy one RBI,
38:38
seven stolen bases as well. But at five thirty nine on the season,
38:44
she walked twenty one times and struck out just five times in one hundred
38:47
and thirteen played appearances. Good, So the offensive numbers are there, obviously,
38:54
just incredible. And then again, and I know I say this over
38:58
and over again, but another incredible kid. I mean, she asked me
39:00
to come out to her her college signing picture, like you know, come
39:06
out and witness the college signing thing. And I had, like I had
39:09
a game I was going to be at at like Seahome High School before that,
39:15
and I had a thing after that, like it linded so it's not
39:19
really in the way, you know, and I and and but I made
39:24
it. I was like, I'm gonna go because she asked me to be
39:28
there, and I thought, okay, she wants me to come and take
39:30
pictures. So I show up and I have my camera in there, and
39:31
she's like no. They're like no, no, no, we want you
39:34
to be in a picture like you were a big, big part of this.
39:37
And I just I just felt so overwhelmed. I was like, you
39:39
want me to be in the pictures? Like yeah, And I was like
39:44
wow, like talk about a way to ruin a good picture, Mike,
39:47
Yeah, I mean nobody's ever asked. I mean, I think I might
39:51
have been in a picture with Ethan Larson when he signed, but it's,
39:55
you know, it's it's that's not a usual thing for a media member.
40:00
And and I remember I remember contacting her when she hit her first home run,
40:06
her first first New home runs as a freshman, and I didn't know
40:09
anything about her. I didn't, you know. And I contacted coach lep
40:14
and I just said, you know, cause I just needed a head shot
40:16
for this for the story because this was COVID was still kind of a thing,
40:20
and I didn't, you know, I didn't go out and I didn't
40:22
get head shots and and so and I was like, this is weird,
40:25
this is like this this freshman, I don't want to like just reach out
40:29
and say, hey, send me a picture, like how do I do
40:30
this? Actually? And I reached out to coach Lep and he took care
40:34
of it, and all of a sudden, she set me and she just
40:36
took a headshot and sent it to me in and uh. I remember interviewing
40:39
her as her sophomore year, going like as we got ready to go to
40:44
state, and she was she was so quiet, like I could I almost
40:46
I think I had to tell her to speak up a little bit because I
40:50
she was just so mild mannered and so quiet. And then uh, and
40:53
then that now as a senior, and I remember interviewing her her junior year
40:58
at the district tournament and then and then boom, her senior year, and
41:01
she's just she's grown up so much. And it's just so funny because there
41:07
were times when she'd hit a home run and she'd like cross first base and
41:09
just kind of give like a little like cactus jack like bang bang. You
41:14
know, it was just so funny to see that funny. She could just
41:20
drive it all over the field. I mean home runs to right center field.
41:22
She might have had more home runs to the opposite field, and she
41:25
just could extend her arms and drive the ball. And we haven't even talked
41:29
about her pitching yet. And that's just the overall overwhelming thing about her game.
41:34
I mean she as a pitcher, she won seventeen games, she went
41:37
seventeen and six did get a save as well. There were a lot of
41:40
games where she would pitch and then she'd come out for a couple innings and
41:45
then she'd come back and close the game. In one hundred and thirty one
41:49
innings, she struck out one hundred and thirty three ERA of four point four
41:52
to four. Incredible career, breaking the school record with seventy one RBIs in
41:58
a season. And I don't know because I I don't have the information,
42:02
but you know, as everyone out there knows, it's my life's work to
42:06
get it. See that might be the most RBIs in a season it period
42:10
in Walking County. Seventy one is just crazy. So here's the thing that's
42:16
that's a full season playoffs and everything, right, Yes, So I mean
42:22
you're already limited because so many teams aren't gonna play that many games. So
42:28
it's going to be really hard for anybody to get to that number. I
42:30
mean, it just is like that's a lot just in general, but how
42:35
many teams don't play as many games, you know what I mean. So,
42:37
like I'm not taking anything away, I'm just saying for somebody to get
42:40
to that many, Yeah, the options are limited because there's just not enough
42:47
teams are playing enough games to you know, even get close to that.
42:52
I mean that number is when you said it, like it didn't even register
42:55
in my brain right away because it just that's not a number I should be
43:00
hearing, you know what I mean. And then it's like whoa, whoa
43:01
wait a second, will how many? Like what? That's crazy? Yeah,
43:09
Tyler mount Baker. Three girls in the top ten, I mean yeah,
43:16
So is this remind me again? So you said you've done baseball three
43:21
years? Is this the first one of the top fifty for fast pitch?
43:24
It is, it's the first year, did the first year for volleyball earlier
43:29
in the fall, and so yeah, this is my first year during fast
43:30
pitch. Tell me this, do you think in the last couple of years
43:34
a team would have had three in the top ten? Yeah, I think
43:37
so. Linden's had some pretty strong teams. I think Blaine last year probably
43:43
would have. Yeah, it's hard to it's hard to go back and think
43:49
about that and come up with an answer right away. I mean, it's
43:52
very possible that last year the same three from Baker could have been in it
43:57
last year with Juretzky, Cone and Zen. That's true, and it's you
44:02
know a lot of times there's a lot of players that just come in and
44:06
are great right away, so they're just great for four years. And that's
44:09
the thing that's kind of that happens more in in in female sports because they're
44:16
just they're just they're just ready as freshmen a lot of times, and it's
44:20
a very a lot of times it's very sports specific as well. You know,
44:23
there's different sports that are just you could pick up right earlier and you
44:28
could just go, Yeah, football is not so much like that because it's
44:30
so physical, Yeah, exactly. And I think the development that you know,
44:37
boys make from freshmen to senior year sometimes I mean kind of and it's
44:40
it's exactly what you're saying though about football? How many how many freshmen are
44:46
actually physically capable of going out and getting hit by a senior on a Friday
44:50
night? Right, It's just there's just not a lot of them, you
44:53
know what I mean. And that's that that the guys that do play and
44:58
that are really good, you know, Like I remember watching Taylor Rapp,
45:01
you know, between his freshman and sophomore year at a camp and then it's
45:04
like, all right, I gotta Gary Hatchett. His freshman film is stupid,
45:09
I mean, really really good, you know. And so yeah,
45:14
I mean I think you're right about that and that it's I don't know,
45:17
I think it's also kind of kind of more fun in a way, you
45:21
know what I mean when you get to see some freshmen, because then you
45:22
get excited about like you said before, I gotta watch this kid for another
45:28
three years, like this is right, you know, it's almost like gluttony,
45:30
you know what I mean. But yeah, yeah, Tyler, we're
45:34
down to it. The number one that's not talk Okay, okay, okay,
45:39
Number one Top fifty fast pitch countdown here, Tyler, Am I reading
45:45
this right? Another junior catcher on the list. Yeah, from the Ferndale
45:51
Golden Eagles. The young lady that gave us the intro obviously it's Kaylin Blakely.
45:55
Yeah. Hard to be number one and not make the playoffs and not
46:01
pitch and you've been hearing the offensive numbers so far, so you can only
46:08
imagine what this will be like. Tyler. I'm very excite, very excited.
46:16
It was. It was a home run watch every time she came up
46:22
to the play and I probably saw I don't know, probably six Ferndale games,
46:29
maybe more than that. And I think every time I went to go
46:34
see a game she hit one out or two she knew you were there.
46:37
Yeah, it was. It was crazy and more. I mean, I
46:44
don't know how many times she's almost taken out her head coach over coach in
46:47
third base. She just gets around on that ball so quick, and you
46:54
know, I mean, it's unbelievable to see. And we're gonna get into
47:00
the numbers here in a second. But uh, and then defensively, even
47:04
as a catcher. And I don't know if she'll be a play she will
47:08
play at the next level and that's a no brainer, but I don't know.
47:12
I think she could. I think she'll probably play a little third base.
47:15
But again, you know, on your play for your high school team,
47:19
you want to you want to put your stud back there at catcher.
47:22
I mean that's just so so important. So I get that, and maybe
47:25
she will catch the next level. But I see her more as a third
47:29
baseman. But she batted six ninety eight on the AA whoa, whoa,
47:37
whoa. So she's getting a hit seven out of ten. Yeah, that
47:43
is I don't. I mean, I wasn't even that good in tea ball
47:47
Tyler. That's unbelievable. I think she had multiple weeks or she batted a
47:53
thousand, get out of here, multiple weeks, Yeah, playing three games
48:00
or something like right, what, yeah it was, and you've logged onto
48:07
Game Changer, I believe, right and yeah, and sometimes you look at
48:09
it you go no, no way, no way, right and and you've
48:14
you know, probably when you were little, you'd look at the sports page
48:15
and you see those box scores, and when you look at her boss scorn,
48:20
it says like like it says the APT bats runs, hits RBIs.
48:23
It would say like hers would say, like you know, like four four
48:28
four nine. It's like what it's like, and everybody else says like four
48:35
zero, one zero. You know, yeah, it's like, holy cow,
48:38
how in the world. And and then you know, it went from
48:44
seeing that to go out out and watching her and the hype is real.
48:47
It's crazy. She had thirteen singles, and she also had thirteen home runs
48:55
thirteen singles thirteen and she had eight doubles, three triples. She drove in
49:01
forty two runs. The team didn't even play twenty games. She also Tole
49:07
Tyler, do you think anybody's ever done that in baseball? The same amount
49:08
of home runs as singles. I'll look that up while you give the rest
49:10
of the Yeah, I would imagine that. I mean, it'd be pretty
49:14
crazy. I mean, Mark McGuire. Maybe. She also led the team
49:20
with eleven stolen bases, and that's that's crazy to think of, because most
49:24
times she's just rounding the bases on freebie after she hit it over the fence.
49:29
You know, sixteen walks, only five strikeouts, So she had the
49:35
least amount of strikeouts on the team. She slugged sixteen ninety eight, not
49:40
six ninety eight. Sixteen ninety eight. Her ops and this is crazy.
49:47
Her ops is twenty four to seventy what twenty four to seventy Yeah, and
49:57
so now I get it fast pitch, they could be higher than baseball and
50:02
so but like usually like one and a half times higher. Like in baseball,
50:07
if you have an ops of a thousand, like you're probably winning the
50:10
MVP. Like it may absolutely raking, Yeah, And so I equate that
50:15
to like high school fast pitch is like fifteen hundred ops. Yeah, and
50:21
she's like a thousand ahead of that twenty four to seventy four, seventy,
50:27
twenty four, seventy. I don't I didn't count the amount of intentional walks
50:31
that she had, ye she had. She walked sixteen times this year.
50:35
I would imagine probably twelve of them were intentional because I saw a lot of
50:40
them, and I loved the one, you know where she was intentionally walked.
50:47
And then JASONA. Luwan right after that hit hit went out to close
50:52
out the game to we talked walk it off. That was when you said,
50:54
was just a bomb too, right? Oh? Yeah, and it
50:58
was. And you know, nobody likes to be intentionally walked, but when
51:01
that happens, that's just the coolest thing in the world. And you know,
51:05
she's got to love her teammate for that, obviously, And it's the
51:07
smart move I made good where she was in a zone the entire year.
51:14
And it's a different, it's different when she swings the bat. I mean
51:17
I brought you know, old joke and sens Us out to a game just
51:22
to watch, just to show him her. I said, watch her swing
51:25
the bat, you know, because he was part of that co ed team
51:28
where we had you know, uh, the McDowell twins, and we had
51:34
Kennedy West and we had Riley Anderson, who just threw out the first pitch
51:38
at the Bells game last last week, which is pretty cool being the playing
51:42
on the Western team and and that went so far. And it's like he's
51:45
seen like these girls that could just crush the ball. I'm like, this
51:49
is different, this is something different. You have to see this live.
51:52
And she hit a couple of home runs in that game, and yeah,
51:58
it's it's pretty it's pretty incredible, and uh, what a career it's been.
52:04
And another year to go. And I don't I I can't project like
52:08
I can maybe or maybe I can't at all with any sport. But you
52:13
know a lot of players here go on to the next level and play fast
52:16
pitch. But I think she's got d one talent. I mean, it's
52:22
I just don't there's not a lot of holes and and the offense is just
52:25
it's just crazy. Tyler, tell me this, is there a you know,
52:32
like how there's like a max QB rating is eight point three? Yeah?
52:38
Is there a max ops? Uh, it would be five thousand because
52:47
it would mean you're on basis a thousand and you get a home run every
52:52
like if you if you hit a home run every time you're up at bat,
52:55
ye, you're it would be five thousand. You're slugging would be four
52:58
thousand. Gotcha. So she's got some work to do. So yeah,
53:04
she's got some work to do. Absolutely, I mean she can still double.
53:07
I mean she could. Oh man, that's crazy and then some actually
53:10
I mean yeah, but to be a thousand points ahead of the next person,
53:15
Oh that's I mean, Tyler, Like when you said the number,
53:20
in my head, I'm just thinking to myself, like hold on that,
53:23
Like that's got to be wrong, Like there's no way because that's that's it
53:29
just doesn't it doesn't compute, you know what I mean, Like like,
53:32
no, that's not right. Like there's no way. But I mean,
53:36
obviously I'm never going to challenge you on numbers. I'll challenge you on what
53:38
grade they're in, because you get that wrong quite a bit. But obviously
53:42
the numbers, I mean, that's I mean, that's just insane. I
53:45
mean, the the the batting average is stupid. Yeah, on base percentage
53:51
seven seventy one. Yeah, so you give me the you give me the
53:54
batting average, and it's like, all right, Tyler, that's just dumb.
53:57
Oh the on base person that's really dumb. Oh by the way,
54:00
the ops yeah, yeah, twenty four or something like what yeah, I
54:05
mean that is just insane. And it's funny too, because I don't remember
54:07
if we talked about it on the air, or maybe it was when when
54:12
you gave me the numbers of some girl that was like number twenty six,
54:15
and I remember saying something along the lines of like, Tyler, wait a
54:17
minute, if she's at like twenty six, what's going to be in the
54:22
top five? And you're like, oh, just wait, just wait,
54:24
little did I know, Little did I know this girl was going to be
54:29
have an OPS of five thousand or something. I Mean, the crazy thing
54:31
too, is that like she letting home runs with thirteen. Yeah, the
54:35
players that were behind her had like forty more at bats than her. Yeah,
54:39
because most of them probably played more games too. Yeah yeah, what
54:45
yah, Yeah, I mean that's that's truly incredible. I mean you said
54:51
it too. Is like to be number one and to not make the playoffs,
54:55
I mean, that's it was. It was a tough one to pick
54:59
here between two and one, one and two with Ava, because Ava had
55:02
a great year. She's a senior, she pitched and and you know,
55:09
seventy one RBIs is crazy. They got in the state, they got to
55:15
the semi finals of the state tournament. But Caitlin's numbers are so outrageous that
55:21
you just that's the perfect word, outrageous. It's outrageous. Yeah. And
55:24
it's kind of like Austin Engels with baseball. I mean he hit five hundred.
55:29
Yeah, you know, I mean that's crazy. And it's and even
55:31
in high school, Tyler hitting four hundred is crazy. Yeah, in high
55:36
school baseball, hitting four hundred is really hard to do. Yeah, and
55:40
he I mean come on, yeah, so they're and you know they're both
55:45
juniors too, but it's it's a cool deal. Uh. You know,
55:49
I hope that. You know, if people are listening to this and they
55:52
haven't seen her play, you get another year and just go out to a
55:55
Ferndale game. Trust me, it's worth it. And and it's it's pretty
56:02
it's pretty crazy. And again I haven't met her. You know, she
56:07
did the intro for us, but from everything I've heard, great, great
56:10
kid. So that's that's really cool. I you know, I'm hoping to
56:15
you know, it'd be fun to you know, do an interview with her
56:19
or something like that, and and you know, it'll be interesting to see
56:22
what where she goes and what the next step of everything is for because but
56:27
again, got another year of high school to go. So we'll just get
56:30
to that when we get to it. You know what, Tyler, I
56:35
know what we're gonna do. What's that? So after Emmer what was her
56:42
name, Emerson Baker? Yeah, after she's done striking us out, how
56:45
about a little home run derby against Kaitlin Blakely. Yeah, how about it?
56:52
Does she hit righty or lefty? She hits righty, Okay, so
56:54
she's got to hit lefty? Is that the rule? Well, I'm just
56:58
trying to even it out. Ron d Tyler trying to give us going to
57:02
pitch to us for a home runer. No, no, no, it's
57:04
just a lob, just the you know, just something not not a slow
57:07
pitch lob. But it's it's gonna be like a batting practice lob, you
57:09
know what I mean, just like I got you. Yeah, yeah,
57:12
yeah, I mean Tyler, you and I can pitch to each other.
57:14
Then we can really slant it our way, you know what I mean?
57:16
Yeah, because I like it a little inside, I do. Can we
57:20
can we combine our score against her? I mean, if we want to
57:22
win, we probably should. It's crazy. Can you imagine, like what
57:29
does she do in batting practice? If she's you know, ops and two
57:32
thousand, five hundred or whatever. It was like, like is batting practice
57:37
just dong after? You know what I mean? Like is she just going
57:38
yard NonStop? What's good? They got the JV players on the other side
57:42
of the fence. Yeah, Well, what way does the field you know,
57:45
what what way does it it face? Because you know, I know
57:49
the freeways, you know, a little ways out there. But it's not
57:52
that far away, is it. No, I mean it's it's kind of
57:55
close to the freeway, but it's it's facing you're hitting the ball on a
58:00
north northwest to centerfield. Oh okay, Well then are you okay at your
58:04
house? Yeah? No, kidding, Yeah, I'm about I'm about three
58:08
and a half miles from the school. But well then what about Camden Raymond?
58:13
Are you okay there? Yeah, that's a that's a close one.
58:15
At the heighs at the baseball field, they might hit Edeln Darry if they
58:21
hit one out. It's right on the other side of the fence and the
58:22
train tracks there. Edelin Darry should put up like a big target and just
58:25
be like, you know, hit it here, get a free gallon of
58:28
milk. You know it'd be a shot. Trust maybe a shot, but
58:31
that's what's there. But you know what, who better a sponsor than the
58:35
guy that's been drinking milk and he it does a body good, right,
58:37
Like that's right, Tyler? Is that it? Are we done with softball
58:42
fast picks? We're good. We got a lot of catchers on this one,
58:45
A lot of catchers, Tyler, and a lot of juniors and actually
58:51
underclassman seven out of ten, that crazy seven out of ten. So we
58:55
could be talking about these seven again next year. I mean it's very likely
59:00
we will be ye, which is awesome. Yeah, just let me talk
59:05
about a way to grow a following that they got to come back and listen
59:07
to us again, Tyler poor SAPs. Anyway, let's wrap it up right
59:12
there, Tyler again, You're gonna be at a district brewing this Sunday twelve
59:15
to two, twelve pm to two pm. Come out, pick a game.
59:20
Tyler will throw it on for you. Sixty nine to twelve Hannigan Road
59:24
in Lindon at the corner of Hannigan and Poll. Also thank you to Man
59:30
Insurance and Line Drive Northwest for their sponsorship all spring long. And again,
59:35
as always, thank you to Kurt Mayberry Farm their website Kurt with a C
59:38
M A B E r ry farm dot com. He's Tyler Anderson, Walkompreps,
59:45
walkampreps dot com. I'm Ryland Spencer. You've listening to episode two hundred
59:47
and sixty three, the last of the three podcasts we unveil the top fifty
59:52
four fast pitch here on the walkam Preps podcast. We will talk to you
59:57
sometime soon. What da n