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Realistic baseball expectations
What's everyone expecting for this year? I'm expecting about 35 reg season wins... solid 2 seed.
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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.
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32-24 before sec tourney. On da bubble.
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First.....FIRE THE HEAD COACH !!!
"I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here." -- Arthur C. Clarke
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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.
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3 seed somewhere. We're young and lost a lot of offense.
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Senior Member
Win the whole 17'n thing in 17.
Originally Posted by
preachermatt83
What's everyone expecting for this year? I'm expecting about 35 reg season wins... solid 2 seed.
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I think we might struggle for a while this year. Lost too much offense.
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Originally Posted by
Bothrops
I think we might struggle for a while this year. Lost too much offense.
The pitching injuries are far more worrisome. I've yet to see a team win that didn't have good pitching. If James is out I imagine we're going to have to rely on Riley Self or Kale Breaux to take the third spot in the rotation.
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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,
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Squarely on the bubble, with work to do in Hoover to get in.
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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.
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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
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Junior Member
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.
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Originally Posted by
Random Poster
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.
Why so many arm injuries?
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Junior Member
Originally Posted by
basedog
Why so many arm injuries?
Either Wes Johnson created some problems with delivery and regimen or we are doing something wrong in the weightroom.
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Originally Posted by
Random Poster
Either Wes Johnson created some problems with delivery and regimen or we are doing something wrong in the weightroom.
Dang, did we change the weight/condition Coach? Seems we have more arm injuries that I can remember.
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Originally Posted by
basedog
Dang, did we change the weight/condition Coach? Seems we have more arm injuries that I can remember.
Brian Neal is still the strength coach- but I don't think he's the problem.
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[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.
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Originally Posted by
maroonmania
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.
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.
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