Baseball season prediction thread...
- Thread starter dawgstudent
- Start date
Make a regional and lose. Just like Ron Po....I mean Lemonis has always done once the program becomes 'his'.
Finishes middle of the pack to lower top part of the league. Hosts a regional as the 13-16 national seed. Gets swept in the Super.
EDIT: One thing I'll add is as tough as the SEC is year in and year out, the schedule does seem to set up for a decent conference record. Outside of the LSU series, most of what appears now to be the better SEC teams on the schedule are home series.
EDIT: One thing I'll add is as tough as the SEC is year in and year out, the schedule does seem to set up for a decent conference record. Outside of the LSU series, most of what appears now to be the better SEC teams on the schedule are home series.
Last edited:
Ceiling: 2-2 in Omaha
Floor: upset in regional
most likely: host regional, maybe a super....get bounced by super red hot team that we would have swept in the early season
Floor: upset in regional
most likely: host regional, maybe a super....get bounced by super red hot team that we would have swept in the early season
Just far enough to not move on from Lemonis. Again…
I think our SEC schedule will allow us to have a nice conference record, and we'll host a regional. I also think we'll ride homefield advantage to a Super.
At that point we'll get swept as we don't have an arm on the roster ready to be a national-seed-level ace and probably not a Saturday starter for a top seed, either.
I hope to be wrong on the latter, and that Grant or someone else grows/heals during the season and is killing it by May.
At that point we'll get swept as we don't have an arm on the roster ready to be a national-seed-level ace and probably not a Saturday starter for a top seed, either.
I hope to be wrong on the latter, and that Grant or someone else grows/heals during the season and is killing it by May.
16-14 SEC without any bad OOC losses & host a regional as a 13-15 seed. Win a regional & hope that the national seed in our bracket loses their regional.
Last edited:
I think we make a regional as a 2 or 3 seed. Our starting pitching leaves me unimpressed. Get bounced in the regional final
^^^ I'm leaning toward this conclusion. Has the right feel to it. I think lard bucket @$$ is feeling some serious heat and that should translate into less laziness generally.
I think we're a host team (not top 8). Advancing to Omaha will depend on who we get matched up with in the Supers.
This team is going to be really good offensively, solid defensively and have quality pitching depth. If we had a proven weekend starter or 2, I'd predict Omaha.
For those that don't follow too closely, go ahead and get familiar with the name Ace Reese. He adds a ton to the middle of the lineup and has a really high ceiling. He's a big (6'3") strong lefthanded hitter. Will be a double digit HR guy.
This team is going to be really good offensively, solid defensively and have quality pitching depth. If we had a proven weekend starter or 2, I'd predict Omaha.
For those that don't follow too closely, go ahead and get familiar with the name Ace Reese. He adds a ton to the middle of the lineup and has a really high ceiling. He's a big (6'3") strong lefthanded hitter. Will be a double digit HR guy.
And just for the record, I’m fairly certain that Lemonis said just a few weeks ago on T&L that this is a Top 10 in the nation team.
He could learn a thing or two about under promising from Jans who said that his own team wasn’t very good a couple weeks before basketball started
He could learn a thing or two about under promising from Jans who said that his own team wasn’t very good a couple weeks before basketball started
I was here, but when I think about what we lost - geez. We are counting on a lot of assumptions about the newcomers.
If you’re a top 10 team, you don’t have to tell people you’re a top 10 team. Right now we’re 18th. Will we finish higher or lower? Who knows? But that just looks more right than top 10.
I think offensively we'll be better than last year, from what I've seen and heard from fall ball and early practices and scrimmages. Unless there are some big surprises and some kids take huge steps, pitching will regress some this year. Defense and base running will be a question mark, as it always seems to be. I say we'll be in the close running to host, but will fall a little short, and will be a 2 somewhere close (possibly Hattiesburg). We could get through that regional if we get hot at the right time, but I don't see us having the pitching depth for tournament play (unless, again, someone takes a big step forward). As Seinfeld said, we'll be just good enough to retain Lemonis.
I'd be shocked if Southern is a Regional host. They're gonna take a step back this year.
you need to do some more research on that. they're ranked pre-season just behind us
By all means, please educate me with your "research". I've followed all the preseason polls and have yet to see Southern ranked in any of them.
D1 Baseball
Baseball America
Perfect Game
Going to be more and more separation from the rich to the poor D1 programs IMO. I think they'll still field teams in the short term, and get lucky and make runs, as there are still plenty of travel ballers wanting to play, even if they have to pay. But you better have some coaches that know how develop pitching, because that was always the mid-majors' problem before, and that was before you could poach. Only reason Evansville made the Supers last year is because they rigged that site with East Carolina.
I hate that it's become so regional now. I see the B1G de-emphasizing baseball in a big way. The California teams don't seem to care much about it anymore. For whatever reason you have the Oregon schools still into it, but how long? May as well call the CWS the SEC/ACC Invitational.
The new roster rules, while GREAT for the players good enough to be in the SEC or ACC, will precipitate this decline in the overall landscape of D1 college ball.
Last edited:
It will be good enough to get us all excited then we'll all end up disappointed and sad.
Putting a lot of stock in Sullivan and Reese to be productive. Also reese being able to man 3rd base after being an outfielder at Houston.
That along with is Kupp and Highfill the players we want them to be.. or are they just run of the mill guys.
That'll determine the season from the offensive side of things.
Pitching is impossible to know until we see it. Have a hunch losing those Fri/Sat guys are going to hard to replace.
That along with is Kupp and Highfill the players we want them to be.. or are they just run of the mill guys.
That'll determine the season from the offensive side of things.
Pitching is impossible to know until we see it. Have a hunch losing those Fri/Sat guys are going to hard to replace.
Next year the rosters will be capped at 34 (currently 40). I think that will help the mid-majors tremendously.
Yeah, a lot of Cali kids are coming down south now.
Stanford is still a national power. I'm beyond intrigued to see how Rintaro Sasaki does out there.
USC is building a brand new stadium so at least they're investing in facilities.
UCLA is a mess right now and there's a good chance they lose their stadium to the VA.
That's just Teddy Cahill's poll. He no longer covers baseball full time. He's in law school at the moment and moonlighting as a journalist for some extra money.
Roster cap will help even the playing field.
16 sec teams: each basically having to cut 6 players.. thats 100 players needing places to play, landing at those mid major spots... and it'll be that way yearly moving forward.
Maybe so, at least depth wise. But overall number of players isn't the problem. The SEC and ACC are going to pay more scholarships (most likely) and NIL. So any known quality player will be swooped up - they have to in baseball. The players have no choice, they have to go to the best financial situation.
no different than it is now. Kids were willing to come to places for nearly free to play in the SEC and ACC while passing over bigger scholarships at other places. Our rosters over the years were littered with that type kid.
Now some of those type kids.. will be forced to go elsewhere due to roster size alone.
The acc/sec powers will keep getting the cream of the crop, like they currently are, but the marginal P4 kids will have to look elsewhere to keep playing... instead of paying their way on rosters
No clue but if it's June and I'm not floating in my pool listening to Neil Price call MSU post season baseball, Lemonis has got to go.
I don’t know but we need to host, not necessarily be a Top 8 seed but we host or Chris Lemonis needs to be fired!
Sick of mediocrity or below for 3 straight years.
Bryce Chance (.286) and Hunter Hines (.257) back, that's the only full time starters. After the slump of a lifetime last season hopefully Hunter figured out curve balls in the offseason.
Some experience back at catcher is a plus (Highfill, Powell). Ethan Pulliam showed positive signs early in the infield last season but slumped badly.
Friday and Saturday starting pitching, gone. Sunday starter was by committee last season hopefully someone will step up from that group
Top 3 hitters (above .300) gone (Jordan, Hujsak, Mershon)
Lots of new faces so who knows who can make the transition from another school or who grows up this season that was here last season. Preseason rankings are for click bait and selling magazines, those clowns don't know any more and probably less than we do. I'm open minded but not extremely hopeful
Some experience back at catcher is a plus (Highfill, Powell). Ethan Pulliam showed positive signs early in the infield last season but slumped badly.
Friday and Saturday starting pitching, gone. Sunday starter was by committee last season hopefully someone will step up from that group
Top 3 hitters (above .300) gone (Jordan, Hujsak, Mershon)
Lots of new faces so who knows who can make the transition from another school or who grows up this season that was here last season. Preseason rankings are for click bait and selling magazines, those clowns don't know any more and probably less than we do. I'm open minded but not extremely hopeful
Last edited:
agree.. if we can somehow fill the shoes of our Fri/Sat night guys.. then we'll be fine regardless. If we cant, then the offense is going to need to be much better than it was last season.
I too have no idea how anyone can know anything yet. Not sure we've even been outside more than a few days in a row with the weather. Cant imagine we'll have a clear picture of how good we are as a team until 2-3 weeks into the season.
Get unlimited access today.