Baseball NC One Year & Bottom Of SEC the Next (No Hoover)

[BrunswickDawg]

Our offense and defense were sub SEC average that year. So even if you want to say our pitching would have been say, 5th without the injuries (doubtful given how awful of an in game manager Fox was) we'd have still been roughly middle of the pack overall.

That's not entirety true. In SEC only:
5th in AVG
5th in SLG
3rd in Hits
4th in HR
6th in Fielding %

So top half of the league.
BUT, we had major problems scoring Runs.
When you mix that with the pitching injuries and us giving up the most runs - it was a bad combo.
Middle of the pack pitching likely still gets us to post season though. And while that's a let down coming off a Natty, people would have understood more with the talent we lost from '21.

[the_real_MSU_is_us]

That's not entirety true. In SEC only:
5th in AVG
5th in SLG
3rd in Hits
4th in HR
6th in Fielding %

So top half of the league.
BUT, we had major problems scoring Runs.
When you mix that with the pitching injuries and us giving up the most runs - it was a bad combo.
Middle of the pack pitching likely still gets us to post season though. And while that's a let down coming off a Natty, people would have understood more with the talent we lost from '21.

Ahh my bad, I misremembered the stats. Haven't looked up '22 stats in about a year and must have been mixing them up with '23