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Experience the Difference 2001 OUTLOOK Personnel Breakdown Experience the Difference Top Returners Ninth-ranked Notre Dame baseball team looks to build off NCAA Aaron Heilman (Sr., RHP) • Preseason 1st Team All-American Tournament lessons during promising 2001 campaign. • Career: 28-7, 2.80 ERA, 314 Ks Experience is a tricky thing in the squad ironically will be- • 2000: 10-2, 3.21 ERA, 118 Ks world of competitive sport. More often gin the 2001 season on than not, achieving success on a high the same field where it level requires a certain level of experi- ended in 2000, as a par- Alec Porzel (Sr., SS) ence that backs up the play on the field. ticipant in Mississippi • Preseason BIG EAST Player of the Yet the process of attaining that expe- State’s National Bank of Year (Collegiate Baseball) rience often can be a painful one. Commerce Classic. • Career: .317, 29 HR, 158 RBI Such is the case for the 2001 Notre “This team is going to • 2000: .342, 9 HR, 58 RBI, 10 SB Dame baseball program, which took part have a lot of resolve due in a whirlwind–literally–NCAA Regional to how close it came last Steve Stanley (Jr., CF) Tournament last spring at Mississippi year to reaching its ul- • Second Team All-BIG EAST (’99) State. The Irish won a pair of elimina- timate goal. They know • Career: .344, 53 SB, 103 R tion games in that tournament–includ- it takes a lot of hard • 2000: .362, 29 SB, 24 RBI, 51 R ing one that was delayed past midnight work and focus due to a nearby tornado–before drop- throughout the whole ping a back-and-forth title game versus year. And they are will- Paul O’Toole (Jr., C) the host Bulldogs, losing 10-9 on a home ing to commit them- • Preseason All-BIG EAST Team run in the ninth inning to cap a 46-18 selves to doing what it • Career: .309, 16 HR, 78 RBI season. takes to accomplish • 2000: .302, 8 HR, 39 RBI, 16 SB After the Irish had returned to cam- those goals.” The unexpected return of three-time All-American pus, head coach Paul Mainieri addressed At the time Notre Aaron Heilman elevated Notre Dame to a spot as high Brian Stavisky (So., RF) the team by making reference to the Dame trudged off Missis- as the top 10 in the national polls. • Preseason 1st Team All-American “Rocky” character portrayed in the sippi State’s Dudy-Noble • 2000: .298, 14 HR, 45 RBI, 5 3B popular series of motion pictures. His Field to end its 2000 season, the Irish at West Virginia–was the 31st selection message was simple: Rocky lost the first knew they likely would be returning • Preseason BIG EAST Player of the of the 2000 Major League Amateur Draft title fight but he came back to win the nine of their top 10 hitters and six pitch- but never signed with the Minnesota Year (Baseball America; BE coaches) second ... and he did so because of the ers with significant experience on the Twins. And once the 6-5, 225-pound experience and lessons he had learned college level. What they didn’t antici- righthander had attended his first class Top Players Lost the first time around. pate was returning to school in the fall of the 2000 fall semester, Heilman offi- “That experience at Mississippi State with three-time All-America pitcher cially was back for his senior season. Scott Cavey (Sr., RHP) really whet the team’s whistle and gave Aaron Heilman (Logansport, Ind.) still Now that he’s back, Heilman has the • Career: 15-4, 4.20 ERA, 138 Ks them a taste of how close they truly are a member of the Irish roster. chance to become just the 17th Notre • 2000: 6-3, 4.58 ERA, 61 Ks/22 BB to getting to the College World Series Heilman–whose career stats at Notre Dame student-athlete ever to be a four- and making a very strong statement to Dame include a 28-7 record, 14 saves, a year All-American (he already is the Jeff Felker (Sr., 1B) college baseball that Notre Dame is here 2.80 ERA, 314 strikeouts in 280 innings baseball team’s first three-year honoree) • Career: .311, 232 HR, 155 RBI and here to stay,” said Mainieri, whose and an 18-strikeout game last season and could become just the fifth Notre • 2000: .307, 7 HR, 51 RBI, 21 2B Dame student-athlete competing in a team-oriented sport to post a fourth All- America season. John Corbin (Sr., RHP) “The fact that Aaron decided to come • Career: 13-7, 20 SV, 4.64, 112 Ks back to Notre Dame speaks volumes • 2000: 5-4, 11 SV, 4.69, 54 Ks about what is important in his life,” said Mainieri, who is set to embark on his seventh season at Notre Dame with pos- Top Newcomers sibly the deepest collection of all-star Steve Sollmann (Fr., 2B) caliber players during his tenure with • Cincinnati, OH (St. Xavier HS) the Irish. “Aaron has said many times how • Tri-state area male athlete of year much he loves Notre Dame. And he didn’t want to give away that last year Joe Thaman (Fr., 1B/LHP) cheaply.” • St. Louis, MO (St. Louis Univ. HS) The return of Heilman gives the Irish • Defensive whiz at first base five players who earned 2001 preseason all-BIG EAST Conference recognition Aaron Edwards (Fr., RHP) from the league’s coaches (no other • Chambersburg, PA (Chambersburg HS) school had more than three), with the others including senior shortstop Alec • Preseason BIG EAST Rookie of Porzel (Lisle, Ill.), junior centerfielder the Year (Baseball America) Senior shortstop Alec Porzel ranks as the BIG EAST’s top all-around player, with Steve Stanley (Upper Arlington, Ohio), his bat and baserunning ability leaving him on the doorstep of becoming the junior catcher Paul O’Toole (Lakewood, first Irish player ever to reach 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases in his career. Ohio) and sophomore rightfielder Brian 14 • 2001 Notre Dame Baseball ◆ Notre Dame’s probable starting lineup for the 2001 season includes senior shortstop Alec Porzel, four juniors, two sophomores and two freshmen. SEASON OUTLOOK Stavisky (Port Allegany, Pa.), with ing back could have some sort of im- Porzel and Stavisky each receiving pre- pact on the rotation we use in almost season BIG EAST player-of-the-year nods every game that we play.” from different publications. As if Heilman’s return wasn’t enough Heilman and Stavisky also were bad news for teams on Notre Dame’s 2001 tabbed by Baseball America as 2001 pre- schedule–it clearly helped produce the season first team All-Americans–defend- highest national ranking in the ing champ LSU was the only other school program’s history, at ninth in BA’s pre- with multiple players on that list, with season poll–the All-American headed one being a transfer student–while into 2000 fall workouts looking to add Heilman (seventh), Stavisky (17th) and another pitch to his already impressive O’Toole (46th) combined to give Notre repertoire that includes a low-to-mid- Dame three players among the top 50 90s sinking fastball, a sharp-breaking on BA’s list of college baseball’s top pros- slider and an ever-improving changeup. pects (only Georgia Tech had more play- In fact, Baseball America cited ers in the top 50). Heilman for having the “best true slider” Heilman’s return also sets in motion in all of college baseball while listing a dramatic shift in the probable start- him as one of three pitchers with the ing rotation, with his classmate Danny best overall control of his pitches. Tamayo likely filling the number-two Tamayo–known for his devastating spot while surging junior Matt changeup and ability to set up hitters– Buchmeier is slotted as the third returned to form in the 2000 season af- Junior Matt Buchmeier (left) and sophomore J.P. Gagne round out a potentially starter. Sophomore J.P. Gagne could as- ter undergoing “Tommy John” recon- dangerous four-man rotation for the Irish in 2001. sume a swingman type of role, as a num- structive elbow surgery, with his 2000 ber-four starter and top middle reliever. season including a 3-1 record, 3.62 ERA knows how to pitch. He sets guys up, his career). “When people look at our situation, and a three-hit shutout to beat Missis- gets them out and moves on to the next In addition to Gagne, top candidates they realize we now can throw a battle- sippi State in the NCAAs. The Miami batter.” for middle-relief work include sopho- tested veteran like Heilman against the native’s pinpoint control is far and away Buchmeier (Greenwood, Ind.) could more righthanders Brandon Viloria other team’s ace,” says Mainieri. the best on the Irish staff but he still prove to be one of the “x factors” in (Wailuku, Hawaii) and Matt Laird “But Aaron’s return will impact more remains somewhat of an unknown com- Notre Dame’s 2001 season, after post- (Bellaire, Texas) and a pair of than just one game a week, because now modity, having logged just 47 innings ing a 4-2 record and 3.88 ERA for the lefthanders, in senior Mike Naumann we have potentially one of the BIG during his first three seasons. Irish in 2000 before turning in a domi- and freshman Joe Thaman. EAST’s top number-two starters in “Hopefully, Danny gets the chance to nating summer season as a member of Laird–a product of the powerhouse Tamayo while having the option of us- go out and show what a quality pitcher the Hays (Kan.) Larks in the Jayhawk Bellaire High School program–enjoyed ing Gagne’s versatility in that swingman he can be,” says Mainieri.
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