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Hookem2147

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  1. For those who want to get familiar with the incoming class https://www.perfectgame.org/college/CollegeCommitments.aspx?college=1829 Cunningham and Fien are gone. Pack, Crossland, Cozart and McKernan will be draft sweats.
  2. I don’t see Burns as a starter. His best role seems to be throwing 98 out of the bullpen. Jason Flores had a 2.78 ERA in 32.1 innings as a true freshman. Opposing hitters batted .205 against him. He ran out of gas towards the end of the year but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect him to compete for a Sunday/midweek role next year. He has the stuff.
  3. Through all the frustration and anger, I have to somewhat laugh at the fact that the first two pitchers in our regional final game were Hudson Hamilton and Ethan Walker. Imagine telling someone that back in February. This game is so stupid and delivers so many unexpected turns. Imagine knowing before the season that Easton Winfield would have 1/3rd of his season hit total against Prairie View A&M, Will Mercer would pitch 2 games before getting hurt, Jalin Flores would hit under .200 in SEC play, Jonah Williams would have to start in LF because we had no one else, Max Belyeu would miss 2 months and Jared Spencer would be done for the year by mid April. I would have asked if we finished higher than 12th in the SEC standings. Doesn’t make tonight any easier to stomach, but yeah….
  4. They beat us 3 times in our own place. They were the better team. Frame it however you’d like to frame it.
  5. UTSA is the better team. We didn’t get beat by a team that got hot for a weekend or beat us with a bunch of bleeders and bloop hits. I don’t know if that makes it sting less or more but I hate that this weekend is going to be the taste left in our mouth when there was a lot of good this year. May be my last comment for a few days as I decompress from this but the simplest way to sum it up is this team just ran out of gas.
  6. I expect UTSA to fire all the bullets they reasonably can tonight. You do not want to play conservative and have it all come down to one game tomorrow.
  7. Not even top 50. Welcome to college baseball
  8. Any other game and Ruger is pulled 2 batters into that inning. Massive for him to give us 7 innings
  9. This crowd could be scary. And not in a good way.
  10. He must throw the straightest fastball of all time because I’ve never seen more comfortable swings against someone throwing 98 and it’s happened in several outings this year.
  11. We hit around the lefty yesterday I figured we would struggle with then couldn’t hit the righty with a 4.5.
  12. The decision to bunt Flores was also an atrocious coaching decision. I know he is in a bad spot but you have 2 sac bunts as a team all season and the guy hitting behind Flores is in just as bad of a funk as he is. If it was the bottom of the 9th to try to win the game, maybe I get it. But sac bunting to try to tie the game in the 6th inning? Schloss has made a lot of good moves this year but that was really, really bad.
  13. The season could end today. Volantis is available for a whole lot longer than just an inning. It was 35 relatively low stress pitches and he has been stretched out.
  14. Of course it’s all relative. LSU has one regular who hit lower than .236 in SEC play. We have 4, and 3 of them are multi-year starters.
  15. That we don’t have another SS on the roster because we have 2 sac bunts all year and they both came from Jayden Duplantier.
  16. I’m not sure the point you are trying to make. At the current moment, 1/3rd of this lineup would struggle mightily to start for any SEC team outside of Missouri or South Carolina. That doesn’t mean they couldn’t improve or get better next year. I’m speaking to the state of things currently as of June 1st. This team found ways the last 3 months and I am glad they won 22 SEC games. But we all acknowledged during the season we were winning despite some pretty large holes in various places.
  17. Do you think they are willingly playing Rodriguez over Mendoza at second base? Mendoza physically can’t play the field and Rodriguez isn’t a good defensive second or third baseman so not sure why we believe he will magically be a better SS while also playing with pretty much one hand. Nothing signals panic to your locker room like benching the guy who has played every inning at SS this year in an elimination game.
  18. Jim Schlossnagle runs the offense. Tulo spends a lot of time in the cages working on mechanical and swing stuff but Schlossnagle is the one instilling the approach and gameplan he wants. And Jim Schlossnagle ain’t changing his approach so we will need to ride out whatever the rest of this season holds then hope we upgrade personnel in several spots and guys get more comfortable in year 2.
  19. -The decision to not go straight to Volantis in the 6th with 2 outs, only to turn to him to start the 7th down 2 runs, was mind blowing. -The offense shit the bed the second half the game but a 6-1 lead in the 6th should be a win 98% of the time. -1/3rd of this starting lineup is not occupied by a SEC caliber player. -Tulo ain’t getting fired and I don’t think he should be given the point I made above but the fact his star pupil is borderline unplayable as a 3rd starter is ridiculous.
  20. UTSA going with their #3 starter who is a lefty over their best starter statistically is very interesting. Wonder if Owens could come out of the pen like in the Tuesday night game against us.
  21. I have a theory on guys like Walker that he may cause more problems for big boy teams who don’t see 84 MPH fastballs…ever? But he may not be as effective against teams from the Southland who see that velo more often. We’ll see. HCU also starts quite a few left handed bats so it could still be a good spot for him regardless.
  22. Was the HCU midweek the one where we had a shutout and Winfield dropped the routine fly ball to end it and we had to play another inning? Or am I thinking of another game?
  23. I don’t think UTRGV is getting in with a RPI in the 40’s and only 2 Q1 wins. That is a very weak resume for a Southland team considering the stolen bids the last few days.
  24. I would be shocked if the #6 RPI team (Oregon State) with 11 Q1 wins is the 15 or 16 seed.
  25. This article was just made free if you have 5-10 minutes to read about how bad things are at South Carolina
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