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If you want my honest opinion the 13th is wide open this year. Harlan will have a good staff with Boggs and Bond but you can't really count on them to do anything in the postseason. South will definitely be deep. But honestly if you think about it, if Hensley hadn't of come up short with bases loaded TWICE and not being on his game that day pitching wise, Clay could have very well beat them last year. Hoskins come in and shut South down, Clay just couldn't capitalize. Clay loses Corum and Hensley but South lost 3 intrical parts to their team as well. North lost basically all of it's offense with Storm, Eversole and Shears. Even with Carson on the basepaths it'll be tough to score runs without those 3. Oh and Middlesboro didn't impress me at all last year. Can't be much better losing Epperson and Brock. All in all it should be a great season and a exciting 13th Region tournament.

What 3 players did SL lose that will hurt them? Simpson maybe, but other than him they didn't lose anything that they wont replace with a better player. SL's only worry should be keeping all their starting pitching healthy.