Come on Bruce, just two years ago we had Foscue and Westburg there. Brett Pirtle was a great hitter, Ryan Gridley was second in average his senior year. Going back further, Brad Freeman was a good hitter, Matthew Maniscalco could hit.
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Come on Bruce, just two years ago we had Foscue and Westburg there. Brett Pirtle was a great hitter, Ryan Gridley was second in average his senior year. Going back further, Brad Freeman was a good hitter, Matthew Maniscalco could hit.
We've played one SEC game against a great pitcher.
We haven't done ourselves any favors to host a regional with our bad losses, but let's step back from the ledge.
We haven't done ourselves any favors to host a regional with our bad losses, but let's step back from the ledge.
And how many more great pitchers will we see the rest of the year? It’s the lack of adjusting and improvement among veteran players that is maddening.
How is making reasonable assessements of the team's overall play in 19 games against largely unimpressive teams akin to standing on a ledge? Our team looks mediocre so far. That's easy to see while standing far away from any ledge. I hope we get better, but my hope is based on a sort of optimistic feeling not derived from watching almost every game we've played so far this year. I'll keep hope alive, for now. But hope and optimism aren't always based in reality.
Likely not many this year. But, how many non-great pitchers have we lost to so far this year in non-SEC play?
I'm guessing your use of "us" means those on here who say ignorant and incorrect things. I'll be in Fayetteville this year in maroon and white sitting with my Arky relatives. I'll be the one with the National Championship cap. That makes at least 3 away series for me this year and I'm planning on one more. Weird thing for someone at Nafoom or a non-supporter to do, but you didn't share the logic that led you to make such a comment.
You have an odd obsession with the middle infield somehow being who we should be relying on offensively. Dunno how much baseball you’ve watched, but SS, 2B, and C are the 3 biggest premiums for defense. In a perfect world, you don’t want liabilities in your lineup anywhere….but if you have them those are where you want them to be if they are elite defenders (or, at the college level, significantly better than their replacements). Thats the case we have on our hands, as luck would have it.
There’s plenty of blame to go around for this offense at the actual positions that are supposed to be producing big numbers (corner IF and OF spots, etc.). And yes, the middle IF needs to hit better too, but there’s no reason whatsoever to single them out over everyone else.
What's really maddening is you posting the same thing over and over and over and over and over as if we couldn't read it the first 10 times.
I said I was sure you could correct me. Still if you look through the record books our best hitters have been outfielders and corner infielders and much more of them by a wide margin. With that said remember one of the big reasons for our NC was no errors in the CWS. The middle infielders need to be great defensively. Hitting very well is a bonus.
Their weaknesses were masked by superb pitching that was mostly recruited by former coaches. I want us to be a good baseball team, but we are not right now. A first baseman should be over 5’6” to provide more reach and to provide a decent target for infielders. Cam James is too tall and slow twitch to play infield. Our middle infielders are pretty darn good defensively, but they can’t hit, which is a problem. Major holes in this team.
our pitching depth is conference USA level
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