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In my opinion, Esquer demonstrated over the last two seasons that he’s a very good bench coach. ... All that said, most of the talent was already in place upon his arrival. His ability to recruit and develop remains an open question in my book and this year’s start is not promising on those two fronts.

A small breakdown on these issues.

This year's seniors and fifth years played their first year or two under Marquess. (there are a couple of 5th years)
This year's juniors played their first year under Esquer, but would have been recruited exclusively by Marquess' staff.
This year's sophomores would have been officially Esquer's first class signed, but obviously much of the ground work would have been under Marquess.
This year's frosh would have been finishing their sophomore years in HS when Esquer was named coach. I would think that would be sufficient to call it fully Esquer's class, but in another thread Bobk thinks that title should be to the class coming in this coming fall: Help on the way.

So, Esquer would be responsible for two years of development for everyone (or, as long as they have been at Stanford if shorter). His responsibility for recruiting the current team is mixed.

The current frosh class doesn't have the kind of guys who walk in the door as stars, but seems to have potential. However, there are probably too many frosh starting at this point.

The contribution from current second and third year players, typically the heart of a top level college baseball team, is not what one would hope - particularly among non-pitchers. Third year starters are Christian Robinson OF (bat avg 0.232, OPS 0.567), Nick Breuser 1B (0.172, 0.622), and Tim Tawa SS (0.188, 0.525). Second year starters include nobody regularly but Brandon Dieter originally was starting at 2B (6 starts: 0.133, 0.321), Andrew Kretschmar has had two recent solid starts at 2B (0.545, 1.400 on small numbers), Grant Burton has had two starts in the OF (0.167, 0.542).

The second year class is also rather small. I think we're going to have to wait for the current frosh class to develop before the baseball team is good again.

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In my opinion, Esquer demonstrated over the last two seasons that he’s a very good bench coach. ... All that said, most of the talent was already in place upon his arrival. His ability to recruit and develop remains an open question in my book and this year’s start is not promising on those two fronts.

A small breakdown on these issues.

This year's seniors and fifth years played their first year or two under Marquess. (there are a couple of 5th years)
This year's juniors played their first year under Esquer, but would have been recruited exclusively by Marquess' staff.
This year's sophomores would have been officially Esquer's first class signed, but obviously much of the ground work would have been under Marquess.
This year's frosh would have been finishing their sophomore years in HS when Esquer was named coach. I would think that would be sufficient to call it fully Esquer's class, but in another thread Bobk thinks that title should be to the class coming in this coming fall: Help on the way.

So, Esquer would be responsible for two years of development for everyone (or, as long as they have been at Stanford if shorter). His responsibility for recruiting the current team is mixed.

The current frosh class doesn't have the kind of guys who walk in the door as stars, but seems to have potential. However, there are probably too many frosh starting at this point.

The contribution from current second and third year players, typically the heart of a top level college baseball team, is not what one would hope - particularly among non-pitchers. Third year starters are Christian Robinson OF (bat avg 0.232, OPS 0.567), Nick Breuser 1B (0.172, 0.622), and Tim Tawa SS (0.188, 0.525). Second year starters include nobody regularly but Brandon Dieter originally was starting at 2B (6 starts: 0.133, 0.321), Andrew Kretschmar has had two recent solid starts at 2B (0.545, 1.400 on small numbers), Grant Burton has had two starts in the OF (0.167, 0.542).

The second year class is also rather small. I think we're going to have to wait for the current frosh class to develop before the baseball team is good again.