Montpelier Locomotives
February 1, 2022
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2022 Spring Team Preview: Montpelier Locomotives
Team Name: Montpelier Locomotives
Head Coach: Toby Hutchison
Division: IV
2021 Record: 20-7
Returning Starters/Pitchers: 3/1
2022 Team Strengths:
- Positional Flexibility: Almost every one of our athletes can play multiple positions. With this season specifically, we are going to have to find out quick who can play where. Guys are going to be asked to play a position that maybe they aren't comfortable with and so it's nice to know that we can plug and play them.
- Athleticism: Knowing the kids that we have coming back, we are going to be very blessed with athleticism. Correlating that natural talent and harnessing it will be the next step however. Our boys will be in great shape, we just need them to trust our philosophy.
Coach Outlook: "Last season, 2020-21, was a record breaking season by all standards. Our team finished the season 20-7 as league champions for the 3rd season in a row and district runners up. We had two athletes selected as all state nominees (Collin Crisenbery 1st Team, Tylor Yahraus Honorable Mention) and the conference player of the year (Blake Altaffer). We graduate 7 seniors from last season and are looking to continue to build our program without those leaders. This season, we are returning three starters. David Bowman is our lone senior and we plan to have him be our ultimate utility guy. He can catch, pitch, and play the corner infield positions very well. Easton Richmond, a junior, also returns and is a very versatile athlete. He will be splitting time behind the plate with David and can also play any of our infield positions as well as fill innings on the mound for us. Jaxon Richmond is our last returning starter, a sophomore. Jaxon was our number three/four in the rotation last year, but we are expecting this year to be a breakout from him. He will pitch and play the left side of the infield. We also have a good number of athletes that have been waiting for their opportunity to make the jump to varsity baseball. Trent Thorp, Jamison Grime, and Garrett Girrell are juniors that we are looking to fill the holes from our seven seniors. Landon Fackler, is a sophomore middle infielder that has been working hard in the offseason and looking to surprise a lot of people. One last interesting note is a freshman Kamron Smith who is a great athlete for us in basketball and football and we are hoping that this can correlate to success on the ball field. As we say every year, the BBC conference is as competitive as ever. With the addition of Holgate to our conference play, coaches are going to focus a bit more on who you throw against what team, since we now only play each team once as a conference game. We have had the bullseye on our back for several years and it's now up to the new generation of Locos to carry the tradition of success. "
Top Returning Players:
- David Bowman, C/IF/RHP - 6-3 Class of 2022
- Easton Richmond, C/IF/RHP - 6-0 Class of 2023
- Jaxon Richmond, RHP/IF - 6-3 Class of 2024
Class of 2022 Prospects To Keep Eye On:
- David Bowman, C/IF/RHP - 6-3 Class of 2022
Class of 2023 Prospects To Keep Eye On:
- Easton Richmond, C/IF/RHP - 6-0
- Jamison Grime, 1B/RHP - 6-3
- Trent Thorp, MIF/RHP - 6-1
Class of 2024 Prospects To Keep Eye On:
- Jaxon Richmond, RHP/IF - 6-3
- Landon Fackler RHP/IF - 6-0
Class of 2025 Prospects To Keep Eye On:
- Kamron Smith, RHP/Util - 5-10
A Look Back At The 2021 Season:
To view the 2021 Team Previews, click here.
To view the 2021 Ohio Spring HS Report, click here.
To view the OHSAA Baseball Tournament Roundup, click below.
To View the 2021 PBR All-State Teams click below:
To view the 2021 Preseason All-State Teams, click below:
To view the Weekly Team Rankings, click below:
To view the 2021 Ohio Spring Scout Blog, click below:
- March 27-April 4 | April 5-11 | April 12-18 | April 19-25 | April 26-May 2 | May 3-May 9 | May 10-16 | May 17-23 | May 24-31
A Look Back At What Would've Been The 2020 Season:
To view each of the parts to the No 'Last Dance' Series, click below:To view the 2020 Team Previews, click here.
To view the 2020 Preseason All-State Teams, click here.
To view the 2020 Virtual Ohio High School State Tournament/Preseason Team Rankings, click here.
A Look Back At The Last Decade:
To view the Ohio High School All-Decade Team 2010-2019, click here.
A Look Back At The 2019 Season:
To view the 2019 Team Previews, click here.
To view the OHSAA Baseball Tournament Roundup, click below.
To view the 2019 All-State Teams, click below.
To view the 2019 Preseason All-State Teams, click below.
A Look Back At The 2018 Season:
To view the 2018 Team Previews, click here.
To view the OHSAA Baseball Tournament Roundup, click below.
To view the 2018 All-State Teams, click below.
To view the 2018 Preseason All-State Teams, click below.
A Look Back At The 2017 Season:
To view the 2017 Team Previews, click here.
To view the OHSAA Baseball Tournament Roundup, click below.
- State Final Four Roundup
- State Final Four Scouting Notebook
- News, notes and numbers from each of the top prospects at state
- ABC's of the OHSAA State Tournament
- 6th Annual Top 22 All-Tournament Team
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To view the 2017 Preseason All-State Teams, click below.
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