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Hookem2147

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  1. Mark Etheridge of D1Baseball.com laid out what SEC teams in the hosting mix need to do to secure a top 8 or top 16
  2. Wasn't the UConn game also the front end of a home-and-home? So we will get Duke and UConn on the schedule this upcoming year. Nice.
  3. I don't have the time to go back and look, but my guess is the number of pitchers who have made it through 6 complete innings against us this year can be counted on one hand. Over the course of a series, that is always going to greatly increase your chances of winning when the opposing team has to dip deeper and deeper into the bullpen. Of course, when you run into Zach Root or Kade Anderson that strategy isn't as effective, but don't think this staff is stupid enough to think it does. Schloss made a comment after the Thursday Arkansas game that they had a plan to be more aggressive against Root early in the count but he was just so good that there wasn't much they could do. There is a fine line between being selective and being passive, and I think some of these guys are still trying to find that balance. For a team that leads the country in pitches per plate appearance, we are actually in the middle of the pack in terms of walks drawn in the SEC.
  4. Sometimes I have to remind myself that this is the least talented pitching staff Weiner and Schloss will have, and we are still performing as a top 10 staff in the country. They have Cody Howard throwing at an acceptable level and are getting outs from Ethan Walker throwing 84 MPH from a funky arm slot.
  5. Borba is going to my guy in 2026. The patience and plate discipline is there. Just have to get him swinging more. He is a guy who could easily hit 12 bombs with an OBP over .400 for an entire season.
  6. Jonah is like slowing his bat down to make contact. It looks really odd.
  7. I have never not seen Howard miss low and glove side
  8. If we really felt like arguing that, the dude stuck his arm out to get hit by that.
  9. Gasparino is better than he was last year but damn he still leaves so much meat on the bone when you see how good his hot stretches are.
  10. The Kade Bing experience is never bad enough to make you disgusted but never good enough to make you excited for the next appearance.
  11. Mendoza not being in there does not feel like a great sign considering we aren’t giving guys rest days at this point in the season.
  12. Aren't polls supposed to be a reflection of an entire body of work? H2H should only come into play if the two teams hold similar resumes, imo. Arkansas had lost 3 series in a row prior to last weekend, 2 of them to teams that Texas swept. You can't just throw that to the side.
  13. Kendall Rodgers during D1baseball's chat today Guest: Are you willing to lock any team in as a Top 8 seed with 3 weeks still to go in regular season? Kendall Rogers: I would lock in Texas for sure with two weekends left. I would lock in Arkansas and Florida State, I think, with one more series win.
  14. Here is what RPI looks like with the points that are separating the teams. For reference, we only lost about 10 RPI points for each loss this weekend (-30 total). You are penalized much more for home losses, so I would imagine we would lose around 30 points for any loss this upcoming weekend, while gaining 15-20 RPI points for any win.
  15. That is always their default. When you have a committee full of athletic directors who haven't seen Cal Poly or Oregon State or UConn play one time, they just default to the easiest metric to use.
  16. The conference is missing a lot of the big boppers of the last few years. There is also probably a bigger conversation to be had about hitting because home runs are down across the board and several coaches have commented they think the balls aren't flying as far as previous seasons. I was just looking this morning and 11 of the 16 teams are hitting under .270 in SEC play. Arkansas is the only team over .287. Georgia was seen as this offensive juggernaut a month ago and they are hitting .252 in conference play.
  17. Tennessee at 13 might be a bigger joke than Georgia being #1
  18. I still don’t quite understand what South Carolina was thinking when they hired Mainieri last year. I’m sure he’ll get a second season but he’s about to be 68 and there is no excitement around that program.
  19. I think it’s as simple as 3 teams (UK, A&M and Mississippi State) are 10-14 and two of them play Missouri over the next two weeks and the other (Kentucky) doesn’t. That is who is likely to be left out. 13 SEC teams get in.
  20. Considering the number of teams already with 11 losses (several of which Texas holds the H2H tiebreaker over) and Tennessee/Vandy having a matchup upcoming, it feels like Texas can’t finish any lower than 5th if I’m doing the quick math correctly. Top 4 gets the double bye in Hoover IIRC.
  21. Are we sure LSU is a really good team? Their signature series win is against Tennessee who doesn’t look great themselves. Swept by Auburn, series loss to Texas, series loss to A&M and played no one worth a damn in non conference play.
  22. Kentucky will have to find 3 wins over the next 2 weekends to have any hope at a regional. Oklahoma at home and Vandy on the road. Going to be very difficult.
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