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Hookem2147

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  1. You can’t be the worse defender on the team while hitting .200 and expect playing time. This is definitely the worst depth we’ve had on the position player side since the year we didn’t have a SS in 2019.
  2. Blake Munroe mentioned an interesting stat on OTF this morning. Casey Borba leads the entire SEC in pitches seen per plate appearance. .265/.410/.554 with 5 homers and 19 RBI's is pretty solid for a guy who wasn't a starter the first 3 weeks of the season. Also has an OPS over 1.000 in SEC play. Now, if we can just get him to throw to first base without needing a cutoff man.
  3. Galvan is probably a borderline top 100 guy now. Improved a lot defensively, plays a premium position and hits with power. Plate discipline has also improved a lot from his early years when he would swing at anything and everything. He will already be 22 by the time the draft rolls around. I will be fascinated to see what MLB teams think of Flores. I don't think he plays SS in pro ball, and he is going to need a lot of work on his swing/approach to handle good breaking balls at the next level. He is also a very old junior (turns 22 a month after the draft). If Schloss had more than 5 seconds to put a roster together this summer, he maybe could have found a way to convince Flores to move to 3B because that is likely where he gets moved.
  4. Flores and Volantis are the best freshman arms we’ve had in a long time in terms of pure stuff.
  5. I think it’s more to do with the fact he hasn’t swung a bat in 6 months and probably isn’t ready to face college pitching.
  6. It would be funnier if it wasn’t like the 3rd time this year he has dropped a routine pop up.
  7. Still not sure how Rodriguez didn’t get to that ground ball up the middle. I still wonder if his long term home is first base starting next year.
  8. Borba might be the most underrated player in the program.
  9. Shoulder. He also had a significant shoulder injury in high school so hopefully it’s precautionary.
  10. Mendoza out of the lineup. Rodriguez at 2B.
  11. They are hosting watch parties on their campus for this game. Their Friday guy might throw 6 innings.
  12. Teddy Lehman apparently mentioned on the radio that he expects Taylor Tatum to portal
  13. Seems like a 100% chance DBU, TCU or UTSA will be our 2 based on the way things currently look. The selection committee will like the TCU angle but they may end up hosting if they finish strong so maybe that is a potential Supers matchup.
  14. I completely forgot the UTRGV game last year was started on the mound by one Jared Thomas. Dark times.
  15. Point remains, give me 4-5 really good pitchers on a staff over having 7-8 decent pitchers but no single guy or two you would consider “lockdown”. The postseason format is designed in a way that you really only need like 2 real starters and 2-3 relievers to make a run. Having a bullpen that is 6 guys deep sounds great on paper but if you are having to go 6 guys deep in your bullpen in the postseason you are probably in trouble anyway. That 2021 Mississippi State team had Bednar, Sims and a bunch of guys who are probably already working desk jobs. A&M last year was Prager, Aschenbeck and Cortez basically carrying them the whole way, especially after Sdao went down. It’s more likely we are let down by the offense at some point than not having enough arms in the bullpen, based on what we’ve seen up to this point.
  16. If you are referencing 2022, that team was sent home before they even unpacked their bags. If I remember right, we scored like 4 combined runs in two games and both games were over by like the 5th inning. Every part of the team sucked for those 3 days. I do hear what you are saying. The emergence of Moffett and Saunier will help us the rest of the regular season in keeping guys fresh, but once the postseason rolls around we are going to run Spencer, Harrison, Grubbs, Dre, Riojas and Volantis into the ground. Other guys will only be used in emergencies or if things get really wild. If Sunday was a regional game, there is a 100% chance Volantis would have been used for a third straight day or Grubbs would have been brought back after 66 pitches on Friday over Saunier.
  17. They both don't deserve to play. Winfield doesn't hit or get on base. Duplantier doesn't hit and gets on base at a rate a little higher than Winfield. Neither are good defensively. Matt Scott must not be hitting well in the midweek sim games to not be given a shot at this point. I've maintained all along I don't think he is playing meaningful innings for us this year, but with how bad the production has been in LF maybe they throw Jonah Williams a bone in one of these midweek games coming up.
  18. Ruger gutting out 114 pitches despite not having his good stuff was huge. He basically had to give us 6 innings for us to have any shot.
  19. Supposed to get the stitches out soon then rehab can start
  20. Borba saw the 1-2 call on Saunier last inning and said oh that must be a ball
  21. Farmer seemed surprised the runner was going to third and didn’t seem to have his full effort behind the throw. He was pretty shallow yet that ball bounced like 3 times. Borba needs to catch it but that wasn’t that great of a throw.
  22. If you like Mendoza scoring yesterday on a ball 5 feet from the catcher you have to live with that today. Flores swinging at a 2-0 pitch at his eyes was the real issue in that sequence.
  23. That wasn’t even a strike the dude hit out. Been that kind of weekend.
  24. He has the best ERA of any starting pitcher in the SEC so I’m gonna assume it ain’t total meat.
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