We definitely aren’t as bad as some wanted us to believe but let’s take a wait and see approach through march 27 and then we’ll know a lot more.
So is anybody feeling any better about baseball?
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That looks pretty bad to me. South Carolina and Bama are playing well.
They're all better than Lipscomb and Nichols, so let's hope we have a strong start and have figured things out.
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That's #6, #16, #24 and #3 in the latest poll. If that's the part of the schedule that's not that bad, we're in real trouble. (Looks at back half of schedule and see it includes #2, #6, #1 and #15.) We're screwed.
Shows how much some of you actually keep up. Bama isn't good, their schedule is terrible.
But either way, the SEC is the best of the best. That many rankings isn't really a surprise to anyone.
But either way, the SEC is the best of the best. That many rankings isn't really a surprise to anyone.
You tell me. Do umpires check the RPI / ELO rankings of teams before deciding what their strike zone is going to be?
I reserve my comments on this year’s baseball team till after SBW, then we’ll really know what we got.
My answer to the question should have been obvious. If you can’t locate pitches and throw strikes, it doesn’t matter who you are playing.
But, you realize that pitchers locate and throw different pitches depending on the quality and/or scouted tendencies of the hitter, right? No, of course you don't, because your answer is obvious.
Great job.
Not true, in any way. You lean so far negative on MSU baseball that your opinion is, again, laughable. It's time to give it up, you have basically been wrong for like 10 of 14 years since Cohen got here (2009, 2010, 2015, 2022) and you were only right those years because you just spew negativity until it hits. And you weren't really right in those years, any logical unbiased person understands what went wrong during those seasons.
I've given Cohen plenty of credit for the good years in his program. He did some great things rebuilding our baseball program from what Polk did to it. So don't start this crap that I've been wrong for 10 of the 14 years he was here.
Of course. But previously we couldn’t throw the pitches we were trying to throw, regardless of scouted tendencies. We were throwing pitches multiple feet off the plate against VMI. Every time Loftin reached for anything off-speed on Tuesday night, he had no clue where it was going. Even MVSU and Jackson State are good enough to lay off pitches that are in the other batter’s box.
It’s gotten better in the past 7-10 days for everybody besides Loftin. We’ll see what SEC play brings.
Generally of course the competition matters. Pitchers can get away with more against weaker competition, so they can give themselves more margin for error when locating. And there is just the confidence/mental aspect of it. I haven't watched enough to know, but it doesn't appear that competition has been playing a huge part of our control issues. We were walking bad teams and not as bad teams, and now we're not walking bad teams as much. And didn't walk ULL (who I guess is a not so bad team this year?). I'm hoping that we have some snakes out of pitchers heads and we will not revert when we face good competition.
Certainly feel better now that we are at least beating the teams we should be beating as opposed to the first couple weeks of the season. Won't really know a lot about this team until the competition stiffens which it is about to.
With all due respect, we’ve been hearing that for weeks. Now SEC play is here and it seems they still aren’t available, which is concerning. Not doubting your info….just curious where you are getting it because nobody seems to have the slightest clue as to what is ailing any of those 3 guys.
I wonder how much different the perception would be right now if we simply hadn’t blown the huge lead in the one VMI game. We’d be 14-4 against the 4th toughest schedule of any SEC team, which would put us record-wise in the same category as every other team in the conference with no truly bad losses.
Right now, there don’t seem to be any bad SEC teams, and no one is really standing out as being head and shoulders above the rest, either. Every team seems to be in one of two categories: 1-2 losses against weaker schedules or 3-5 losses against tougher schedules. Its pretty wide open. And no one should think that any of the poll voters have the slightest clue who the best teams are right now, either.
Well, talk to Perd about it. He says our competition has nothing to do with it. He's apparently the expert.
If your dumba$$ had made it even halfway through his post, you’d have seen he was saying the same thing as I was.
Tapper was living up to his name last night. He was getting tattooed but fortunately they were mostly Atem balls. I wouldn’t go all googoo eyed on the hitting just yet. We have had some good timely hitting this year that we didn’t see last half of last year. But every team we have played has found a pitcher during the game that shut us Don and got a lot of ground ball outs. Last year the team couldn’t get many out of the infield. This year, because of speed, I think we already have a lot more infield hits. Again, the level of competition may change that with 6 SEC teams in the Top 10 and 9 in the Top 25.
No, he didn't say that level of competition has no impact on throwing strikes. That was all you.
