Best Players in Blount County

[TnVols23]

Who are the best Ball players in Blount County from each grade?

[hmslb32]

You tell us Mr./Ms. Alcoa.

[dheat]

I can tell you some and if I leave off somebody will post it. WB will have Andrew Clabough soph. Brian Crosby sr. trey Burstrom sr. Cory Churchill sr. Daniel Holden sr. Mark Mcgill so. Jake snyder sr. Coy Best jr. all quality players. Maryville will have Cade Thompson sr Shawn Blair sr. Andrew Clement sr. Tyler King jr. Chad Berrong jr. Aaron Gaylor jr. Heritage has a lot of people comming back that played a lot of varisty this year. Same for Alcoa. I would look for Maryville, WB and Heritage playing for the 3 seed behind Farragut and South Doyle. Everybody has a opinion and they are free,that's why we play the games!!!!!

[mhsfan]

I believe Jason Lambert Sr. and Brown Watson Sr. should be added from Maryville. You need to look at Jr. and Sr. playing Varsity this year.

[dheat]

Sure, add Kyle Hodges, Alex Rouse, David Parker, Jason Bott, and Bill Burns all seniors and all going on to play at the college level. From WB Corey Williams 2 time all dist. Craig WoJo going to Walters state.

[hmslb32]

dheat is classifying players by their grade level as of next year, mhsfan is doing the opposite and classifying them by their grade this year, just to clear things up!

[dheat]

yep!!

[FBEmeritus]

I think I said this before, but.. There are some pretty good baseball players in Blount County who do not play for their HS teams, due to the current try-out systems and other factors. Maybe if more of these over looked players were on the teams, the county to include MHS could get by the Knoxville teams during the post season someday.

 

There are a few players mentioned who may go on and do well at the next level but not many. Mainly in my view because the schools in the county have no real commitment to baseball, in my view.

[Rebel9]

I think that you should look a little closer at the record. MHS made it to sub-state last year. They didn't get to that level with players that should not have been there. William Blount and Heritage also have fine baseball programs and have good players that will do well. Alcoa is playing in the championship game in there district tonight and might just win it. They also have some good players. It souunds like that you have a problem with one of more coaches that failed to see the same thing that you saw.

[STATEment04]

I think that you should look a little closer at the record. MHS made it to sub-state last year. They didn't get to that level with players that should not have been there. William Blount and Heritage also have fine baseball programs and have good players that will do well. Alcoa is playing in the championship game in there district tonight and might just win it. They also have some good players. It souunds like that you have a problem with one of more coaches that failed to see the same thing that you saw.

where are they now???

[fan4ever]

Who are some names of quality players that have graduated from blount county schools? And where are they now?

[FBEmeritus]

Three former players off the top of my head are Brad Hitch, WB at Milligan Batted .213 last year, Barry Cunningham. MHS, still a Fr Year haven’t heard how he is developing, and Josh Sing from WB at Hiawassee has been doing some good pitching early. Jason Phillips was at CN but did not do too well but in his defense I think he was injured while there or maybe into his second year. I think there was a kid from Maryville who made it to the minors who played for Coach Hawkins in the early 90’s from MHS.

 

Blount County has not produced many top notch Baseball players. Being a fan and former top prep player in my day, I wish the community had a real commitment to baseball because there are athletes here who could develop given more opportunity to do so. Most cannot afford these so called “Travel Teams” who really mainly made up of parents who have the cash and time for that kind of life. I am glad Maryville College has a camp; it will help the local players.