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Had Enough

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  1. What were those two things you said you know/did really well? Partially joking, but also seriously trying to recall. Now being smartass, those two things are not related to football, right?
  2. So they make Arizona travel east and effectively start at 9am their time?
  3. Wonder if he bought it while at the state fair.
  4. Pretty piss poor upping there. Terrible forcing that 3rd strike swing.
  5. Inside the numbers. Beard improved year over year with ERA dropping from 5.51 to 3.28. His K/9 was basically 1:1 his freshman year. No reason to think he wouldn’t improve again. A little more context to the numbers. 3 appearances versus UTSA. 15.1 innings versus UTSA the past two years. 12 hits, 10 earned runs, 13 Ks, 7 walks, 4 HBP. He did not finish strong this year - 10 earned in 17.2. 17 hits, 5 walks, 16 K, 1 HBP and 4 WPs in his final 3. He did not show up strong in the conference tourney with the season on the line against an average Tulane team. His best outings against better competition were FIU and Charlotte. Quite a few games against Texas Tuesday competition. Not the UTSA kind. A little help from Weiner could go a long way.
  6. I thought he was a TE from around the 1990’s from Plano or some such place.
  7. Well, yeah, you don’t see me running my mouth on the rowing thread do you?
  8. Some of us might give a shit about your opinion if we knew how much football you played.
  9. What is “very talented?” I’ve said we’re likely not upper echelon of the SEC. If we’re top 10 in talent in the SEC, we’re likely top 15 in the country. Based on recruiting rankings and results, any non-SEC school has an uphill recruiting battle. We only have 1 year of that so still working through it. Again, 42 conference wins the past two years. No other major conference team can say that. Is that evidence to the contrary? That includes losing our #1 pitcher each year. Lost our biggest bat for the majority of conference this year. And let’s say one of Ole Miss or Auburn or LSU wins it all. Is that more “a ton of evidence to the contrary” regarding our talent level? We were what 6-1 against those guys? Perhaps that terrible, non competitive game against defending champ and their clear #1. So that leaves Arkansas. That finished two games behind us. Clearly all evidence to say we were inferior. For 2024, Perfect Game says our frosh class was #6. On a per player basis, that’s 3rd highest. Only Georgia Tech is non-SEC above us in the top 6 but it took 8 more commits to get there. In 2023, we were 7th overall. Only UCLA above us that was non-SEC. 7th in average per player rating, which actually traded 3 teams from the overall rankings. Just last year Jalin Flores was prep baseballs #83 draft prospect. That included high school prospects and collegiate guys. Gasparino was top 50 in his high school class per Perfect Game. Galvan was the #1 high school Catcher in Texas his senior year. Borba was reasonably well thought of entering. Mendoza has now two solid years. Rodriguez had a very solid frosh year. As a pure athlete, hard to beat Williams. Add in some good experience and maturity. The hang up on “talent” in the lineup is Flores and Will just falling apart the last month or so. And unfortunately, two of our freshmen signees went top 20 in the draft so missed out on them. But then, I clarified to say pitching regarding the portal. Rerick. Reported up to 98 MPH. A top 60 prospect per Perfect Game. Top 125 MLB prospect per Baseball America. Flores Perfect Game top 75. Volantis roughly top 150. Navarre too. That is 4 top 150-ish pitching prospects in one class. We lost at least 1 to the top 75 picks to the draft. I’ll entertain discussion on the other 5-10 teams with more depth there in one class. So the pitching side, I’d assume you have Volantis, Burns, Flores, Rerick back. Then a likely good chance that you get Riojas, Harrison, Bing, Whitehead, Grubbs, Saunier, Walker, Navarre (no 152 player), Hamilton (no 295), Howard. From a group that has the 7th best team ERA in the country. A good combination of righties and lefties. Hard throwers and pitchers. You know what’s missing there? Incoming freshman. I’d assume our top flight incoming class has some good ones there. Now, your little buddy BO&W says there will be no 34 man roster limit so that definitely opens things up. If that’s accurate, it changes things. I was operating under the assumption that was the case and that the freshman class would mean not a ton of pitching movement. I do appreciate the typical, cordial tone of your post. And let’s not forget the supporting data and analysis that you provided.
  10. In this instance I was referring to pitching. And based specifically on what we have currently. Presumably there’s a contributing freshman arm or two coming aboard. Given limited roster spots, limited dollars, we should be in position to not need to chase the portal much. Probably more under the radar guys. And I’d think more positional players. Also dependent on guys like Riojas, Harrison.
  11. We likely don’t need much portal action if you believe we develop. Flores and Rerick, per Perfect Game, are top 100 recruits. I assume Rerick still is here. He has to have a bigger role next year or he’s not developing. The Texas A&M roster from 2022 to 2024 should give you some good guidance on progression. Prager had a 5+ ERA in 2022. K/9 is less than 1/inning. Cortes in 2023 had a 7+ ERA with a 1k/inning. Prager missed 23 then had that ‘24 season. Cortes had his ‘24 breakout season. Aschenbeck had a better ‘24 than ‘23. This tracks Schloss, Weiner too. And PG had Flores/Rerick considerably higher than Prager/Cortes for whatever that’s worth. Maturity/experience matters a great deal for many pitchers. It will be interesting to see where Volantis ends up.
  12. Perfect Game is pretty easy to find recruiting rankings. But otherwise they seem tough to come by. Any others you’re aware of that don’t have them locked down?
  13. I understand. Flores and Will were not good. Flores was pretty solid defensively until the last few weeks. I don’t know exactly the reasons for their struggles. I do believe they have far better upsides. Flores is running out of time show it. Total speculation on my part, but I’d guess neither are here next year. My original point was that our guys natural abilities are downplayed and particularly in relation to other teams and really historically.
  14. Then elaborate on the talent of other teams. Why was Vandy, the #1 overall seed, so talented yet they beat Wright State (who?) by 1 then lost by 1. They lost to a 15-15 regular season ACC team. UF. Lost by a combined 22-10 to East Carolina. East Carolina finished 10 games behind UTSA. ECU was 5 games closer to last place than first. I guess they were “hot” though. Kentucky, Georgia. Eliminated by “shit-ass” Big 12 teams. LSU. How the hell did they get such a pathetic regional? I guess Little Rock is a good loss. You know with their losing record on the season including a split with Arkansas Pine Bluff. Nothing inspiring about MSUs run. Ended about where you’d expect. Alabama 0-2 including a loss to a mediocre Miami. OU, Ole Miss and Tennessee possibly advancing today. Auburn and Pig advance pretty easily. It is reasonable to say that no other SEC team has beaten a team as good as UTSA except OU over UNC. Creighton maybe. DBU. NCstate.
  15. One could not have asked for a better regular SEC season. The point is that many, maybe damn near all, don’t know the actual talent. I’m not sure we overachieved. Regular season better than thought. Disappointing post season. Offensively, Rodriguez was probably better than expected but not really anyone else. We got less out of our big 3 than expected. Pitching-wise Volantis was huge, but he was pretty highly rated. The hit rate on other pitchers improving was pretty high, but it’s not like they were building from nothing. I guess Walker and his 10 innings were a surprise.
  16. I’m aware. So the predictors were dipshits? I’d guess quite often predictions in balanced conferences are all over the board. I really wouldn’t hold them to a standard however. People, on this very board, were reasonably hyped about Easton Winfield. Think he may have been a top 10 transfer guy. He may well turn into a fine player even. But anyone could have a taken 5 minutes to review his stat line from last year. Much of his production was against SWAC teams then a few good games versus mid tier teams. For one year only. There were legit questions about his conversion to the next level. Much of that ignored. Then you take an Ace Reese. Small town kid. The first article I find says he had 1 offer out of high school. Then 247sports shows 1 transfer offer. You might could say Texas missed twice. Expect outcomes all over the map. Tons of variables in baseball. Lots of volatility.
  17. You continually down play the talent/ability. The objective is to win. Get outs, score runs. You reference them struggling mightily to start on other teams. How they are playing now is the narrative you inferred above, but that’s not the drum you’ve been beating. And Yet to my knowledge, you’ve never provided evidence that outside of Mizzou or USC the other rosters are chock full of fiery, all conference SEC talent players. And you’ve absolutely referenced several guys not being SEC caliber. So what I gave you in the previous post was examples of guys not looking like SEC caliber players then all of a sudden they do. So maybe it’s not a talent thing. A Quick Look at Vandy shows their 2 hole hitter coming in .257 with a .383 slugging percentage. 0-5 today versus the mighty Wright State. Their cleanup hitter does have 15 homers and better average than Flores but OBP is less than .300. Their catcher bats .253 with a .307 OBP. Wilson and Evans numbers for UF on the season are pretty similar to our shit birds. Burkes, a multi year starter, has had an atrocious offensive year for Ky. Ole Miss had 3 sub.250 hitters in their lineup today. Braswell, Hernandez aren’t overly inspiring for LSU. Kentucky, last year, SEC Co-championship/CWS participant, had 3 guys with sub-.240 averages and less than .756 OPS. UF last year had 7 guys with 150 ABs and averages less than .261. Comparable or worse slugging and OBP in several cases than Will. Yes, we get it. We all want top 3 level talent. The holes that often mention are found in damn near every team, every year. So if you are chirping about lacking SEC level talent, it’s bullshit. And that’s nothing to say if you put a guy in a different lineup, with a different philosophy, in a shitty little ballpark, that those numbers don’t look different. And congrats to that MSU for whipping hapless Missouri and blowing up their numbers. Lotta hollow numbers in those 50 runs. You even roughly previously quoted Schloss saying we need a stars to be great or something similar. You don’t say? We need our stars to be stars. Oddly enough, ours weren’t all the time. That’s a statement that downplays the rest of the guys. And since Farmer didn’t play this weekend to speak of, was Borba was one of your 3? In the end, a non-SEC team with non-SEC players handled us. They did it at our place. And looked pretty solid in doing so. Probably time for people to roll into football and talk about how much production we lost and ignore how much production our opponents lost. But Hook Em to you. You’re seemingly a good and loyal fan.
  18. You don’t like me calling you out then fail to respond when I do. Yet this lineup did enough to win 22 games. Farmer, Gasparino, and Flores? Then I’ll ask you was Ace Reese destroying the Big 12 last year? So he was a middle of the road player at Houston. Did he just became talented in one year? How did Mitchell Daly go from the worst hitter in the Big 12 to 5-hole hitter on co-conference champion and CWS participant? Granted the Aggies faltered but Ben Royo went from sub-.200 to starting in the SEC. The vaunted Vandy Dores lost too. Georgia too. Kentucky I think has a 5 hole hitter at sub-.250. Single digit homers. Just absolutely odd these teams have so many guys riding pine that are better than our 9. Production and ability are two different things. Oh and by the way, these guys couldn’t hit the non-SEC staff last night.
  19. And I never argued otherwise. I asked the question. Boom responded.
  20. I’m well aware of the usage of metal spikes. Also ran track so I’m aware why those exist. I did give up baseball in high school. I’m old enough that we didn’t play on turf so I cannot speak to that. Also old enough that I wore jeans in little league so have a make it work mentality. They are a safety issue. Dipshits once upon a time used them as a weapon. That’s been addressed. It still is a safety issue to a lesser degree. Obviously not deemed enough of one to change anything. That’s fine.
  21. There has to be some discretion here. Take the Jonah play. He contacted the defender above the waist. There was virtually no way he could avoid that. But if you want to argue this runner is out by that, then so is Williams. And strictly you cannot dislodge a ball that the fielder does not have. The ball has already passed the catcher, right? So that can be interpreted to not apply. As to the second part, since the runner cannot dislodge a ball that’s not held, you have to move to the unavoidable contact. You can clearly see the runner taking a posture that is not to bowl the catcher over. The catcher extends beyond what is normal. For the runner to avoid contact, he basically has to leave the base path which is not a reasonable expectation given the real time circumstances. Seems like a crappy call to call him out.
  22. This is an accurate depiction. And damn witty too. I can buy this. The key is “bigger” safety concern. This a bitch response. As for the slide, he started inside the bag when the defender was inside the bag. At one point he rolled on his hip and to finish his foot was so high it’s never going to touch the base thus allowing more time for a tag. I cannot imagine many defenders being pleased with the lead foot being roughly 12-18 inches high when it arrives at the base. And I can’t imagine a coach believing that slide was good. Yes, it was a wild throw but that’s not uncommon. It’s not uncommon for the fielder to try and catch it either. As for my question being legitimate, yes it is. So, first, not all MLB players wear metal. And sorry for not being a field turf expert but no other sports to my knowledge wear metal spikes on the stuff. Obviously, there is significantly more contact in those other sports, but there’s also tons more movement. Now the below is not the same situation but it does highlight a health consideration. Earlier in Posey’s career, he wore metals. His switch to MCS stemmed from a devastating leg injury back in 2011 when he snapped his ankle on a play at the plate. Posey is unique in that he switched BECAUSE of the downgrade in traction he gets from MCS cleats. By wearing MCS, Posey accepts the decreased acceleration and handle to avoid having his foot “snagged” in the ground, a common reason for significant baseball injuries and partially to blame for Posey’s stomach-churning ankle injury two seasons ago.
  23. That was a terrible slide. The truth is had he been kicked out it was earned, intentional or not. Why exactly do we need spikes?
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