What's everyone expecting for this year? I'm expecting about 35 reg season wins... solid 2 seed.
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What's everyone expecting for this year? I'm expecting about 35 reg season wins... solid 2 seed.
Beating the shit out of NM.... F***in Shirtbirds...
But im with you. 30-40 wins and a solid 2 seed unless the stars magically align and we host... You never know.
32-24 before sec tourney. On da bubble.
First.....FIRE THE HEAD COACH !!!
I have a hard time seeing this is a great team. Too many unknowns and injuries on the pitching staff of guys we are counting on and lost a ton of production offensively. We could be a 2 or a 3 in a regional or just as easily be at home. Ball needs to bounce right for post season play.
3 seed somewhere. We're young and lost a lot of offense.
I think we might struggle for a while this year. Lost too much offense.
Yeah Keegan's done. As my ole coach used to say " if you ain't got pitching you ain't got squat". We will be as good as our pitching. We could win 30-35 hopefully,
Squarely on the bubble, with work to do in Hoover to get in.
Its really sort of amazing that the current SO class I thought was the best pitching class we had ever signed. However, due to a rash of injuries like I've never seen its turning into just an OK class.
Why so many worries about us offensively? Rooker, Mangum, Brown, Alexander, Gridley all have shown they can hit. You guys know more than I do but I think we should be pretty good
Losing James for the season was the final blow to being a top 15 team. We will get in the NCAA Tourney- but this team is young and has lost too many quality arms to surgery to make any real noise in 2017.
[QUOTE=Todd4State;689605]Brian Neal is still the strength coach- but I don't think he's the problem.[/QUOTE
So many young arms, whatever it is I sure hope it's fixed now.
Depends on how they recover. They still have a chance to be good with how pitchers recover nowadays. The biggest thing still in our favor is we have a legit SEC ace in Pilkington and that's really the most important piece of the rotation that you need every weekend. Cyr I think is clearly the two guy now. He's a solid pitcher but he needs to take some strides because I'm not sure that he can eat a ton of innings for us. I think Riley Self is going to be good but he's a true freshman. I thought we might use him like we used Lindgren and Girodo in the past but now I'm pretty sure he is in line to possibly be a weekend guy for us. Kale Breaux has as much talent as anyone on the staff but his command was way off.
We're going to have to rely on Rigby and Blake Smith a lot. We could see Jacob Billingsley pitch a lot too- and I think he could be a candidate to start too. We need some of our JUCO guys like Peyton Plumlee or Spencer Price to step up to help us out as well.