OnFocus Medford Raiders Baseball Season Preview
- Key returners this season:
Logan Baumgartner–SR–1st team pitcher/2nd team infielder in 2022–will be a top candidate for POY this year. WIll bat third and play SS when not pitching. (4-year starter)
Tanner Hraby–JR–2nd team infielder in 2022. Will play SS and 2B and bat second for us in the order again. (3rd year starting
Braxton Weissmiller–JR–Hon Mention AC–will catch for us this year and be our 4 hitter
Parker Lissner–SOPH–started as a freshman last year on a top five D2 team. Will play infield for us and bat leadoff
Max Dietzman–JR–will play first base for us this year and hit 5. Be a big run producer for us.
Tucker Kraemer-_SR–utility guy with good speed
Ty Metz–SR–#2 pitcher and outfielder–what he does on the mound this spring will dictate how good this team will be.
Miles Searles–SR–Center fielder
Other seniors-Gavin Fuchs, Jacob Eckert, Peyton Gilles, Alex Dittrich (all will contribute in positive ways)
- Strengths of your team:
- —Experience; Top end pitching; Ability to manufacture runs; Leadership
- Conference outlook:
—-Mosinee is the team to beat. 4 top-notch players and they have a load of talent, an experienced group. Lakeland and Antigo have new coaches…could be surprise teams. Pines has one of the best pitchers in the conference. Tomahawk–getting better. Rhinelander is well coached and will surprise some people this year
- Coaching staff: Head Coach–Justin Hraby (year 19), Asst coaches-Dan Kraschnewski, Matt Krueger, Jason Gardner, Cory Mudgett, Ryan Paul JV1–Butch Wiegel and Joe Konop; JV2–Steve Reynolds and Taylor Shaw
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