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Tyler Frank versus Gunnar Lambert: comparing the numbers behind FAU baseball’s catching platoon

Related Topics: Catcher, Sophomore

Neither player had any collegiate catching experience prior to this season.

Photo of Tyler Frank by Max Jackson | Staff Photographer. Photo of Gunnar Lambert by Ryan Lynch | Multimedia Editor.

t this time last year, it appeared that Florida Atlantic head baseball coach John McCormack would have two experienced catchers at his disposal during the 2016 campaign.

However, Ryan Miller, who started 31 games during his freshman season in 2015, chose not to return to FAU for his sophomore year. Then in December, doctors diagnosed projected starting catcher junior Kevin Abraham with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.