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20. DILLON DINGLER, BASEBALL
He only had the opportunity to play in 13 games this season before the coronavirus outbreak brought baseball season to an end, but Dingler was Ohio State’s top hitter and one of the best-hitting catchers in the country during that short time. With a .340 batting average, five home runs and 13 RBIs, Dingler’s .760 slugging percentage ranked 23rd among all Division I hitters, sixth among all D-I catchers and second among all Big Ten players.
A second-team All-Big Ten selection in 2019, Dingler was named as the conference’s preseason player of the year by Baseball America and was performing up to the hype until the season was cut short.
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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Greg Beals, Baseball
+ “Our leadership has been elite during this time. It has been swift with getting us the information we need. It starts with Gene Smith, but includes the entire leadership group.”
+ “It’s student-athlete first.” That was where they started with making sure they stayed healthy, and that continued last night to make sure those seniors would be able to return.
+ The worst thing as a coach is when you feel like you can’t help, so it was nice to have that information last night and get the information to the players so they weren’t getting their info from social media.
+ The choice the seniors have is great. They will be exempt from the scholarship count this year. But there will be challenges. There are nine freshmen on the team who will be reclassified as freshmen, and he’s got another 11 freshmen coming in with the incoming class, so he’s going to have 20 freshmen on the team and they’ll have to figure out the scholarship breakdown moving forward.
+ Beals isn’t completely sure which seniors will be returning, but has a pretty good idea because they were talking about this before the decisions were made.
+ There are zero baseball players who are on full scholarship. Baseball allows for 11.7 scholarships.
+ Last week he was excited to watch the ’79 Phillies-Cubs game, so he isn’t alone in missing sports. He misses the competition.
+ He’s happy that his seniors will now have closure.
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MLB Draft coming up and 2 of our Buckeyes are looking at being picked early. This mock draft has Cleveland taking Dingler at #23
https://www.mlb.com/news/2020-mlb-mock-draft-jim-callis-picks-1st-round
23. Indians: Dillon Dingler, C, Ohio State
After taking last summer off to recover from a broken hamate, Dingler has shot up draft boards this spring by taking a step forward offensively. A center fielder as a freshman, he's more athletic and has more arm strength than most catchers.
https://www.mlb.com/news/2020-mlb-mock-draft-jim-callis-picks-1st-round
23. Indians: Dillon Dingler, C, Ohio State
After taking last summer off to recover from a broken hamate, Dingler has shot up draft boards this spring by taking a step forward offensively. A center fielder as a freshman, he's more athletic and has more arm strength than most catchers.
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