{"id":5365,"date":"2011-11-02T11:07:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T16:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=5365"},"modified":"2011-11-02T11:07:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T16:07:51","slug":"shilo-mccall-commits-to-arkansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/5365","title":{"rendered":"Shilo McCall Commits to Arkansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sportsB1pvBaseball0507.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5366\" title=\"sportsB1pvBaseball0507\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sportsB1pvBaseball0507-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sportsB1pvBaseball0507-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sportsB1pvBaseball0507.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most accomplished position player in the history of San Juan County, Piedra Vista HS and Strike Zone Cardinal CF, Shilo McCall, has verbally committed to Arkansas.\u00a0 McCall is an excellent student with elite tools across the board.\u00a0 At 6-foot-1 and 210-pounds, and just 17 years of age, Shilo is one of the more imposing players on any diamond he plays.\u00a0 His mechanics have always been sound as he takes a very direct path to contact with excellent weight transfer.\u00a0 Everything Shilo does on the offensive side of the ball is exceptional as he also has run 60\u2019s in the 6.5 to 6.6 range.<\/p>\n<p>Shilo still has room to grow as a player, particularly on the defensive end.\u00a0 His actions in the outfield are representative of a player who is still somewhat new to an everyday outfield role.\u00a0 Some have suggested that his tools play better in left, but with obvious speed and the ability to improve in terms of jumps on the ball, there is no reason that Shilo cannot stay in center.\u00a0 There is also no reason that his arm can\u2019t tick up to a point that he can be an everyday right fielder.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve heard from pretty reliable sources that Shilo has a chance to get inside the top three rounds of the draft, so hopefully he is left with a very difficult choice to make this summer.\u00a0 Now that he has a career in the SEC as leverage, something tells me that his stock is rising.\u00a0 Good luck and congratulations!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the most accomplished position player in the history of San Juan County, Piedra Vista HS and Strike Zone Cardinal CF, Shilo McCall, has verbally committed to Arkansas.\u00a0 McCall is an excellent student with elite tools across the board.\u00a0 At 6-foot-1 and 210-pounds, and just 17 years of age, Shilo is one of the more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,15,1300,8,6,9,13,10],"tags":[244,2282,606,2866],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5368,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365\/revisions\/5368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}