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Baseball RPI update
I know not everyone keeps as good of track of RPI in baseball but I think what happened this weekend should highlight how good a position we've now put ourselves in. Going into this series we were around 65th. After this sweep, we are now 43rd according to Warren Nolan.
Current SOS is 21st and I have to believe that goes Top 10 with Florida, TAMU, @UK, @Bama, mid week Troy (RPI 38) and the midweek against OM still left to play on our schedule.
We've got ourselves at 8-10 in a conference that's looking like a 10 big league with 6 regional host sites. If we can get 13 conference wins plus one in the tournament I think we can get in the NCAA Tournament. 4 weeks ago I would have laughed had you said that, but let's give credit to everyone involved. We've played hard and have overcome some major adversity.
Last point I'll leave is that we are 2 games out of 1st place in the West. And we hold the tiebreaker over both Ole Miss and Arkansas who are tied for the lead in the West. Crazy to think we are even in that position.
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Even if we don't make a regional, the OM and Arkansas series wins are big for the team and program
The quasi-blessing of not making the Regionals is that our team will be very popular for Summer Ball assignments. All these freshmen will be heading to the cape for a 60 additional ABs against quality opposition
Too bad we don't have any freshmen pitchers. Maybe Ashcraft can be summer ready- we need him to have a summer and fall to get productivity in 2019
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Every team has what ifs, but I would love to have the game 3s vs mizzou and auburn back.
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You can see the potential for next year.
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Originally Posted by
The Federalist Engineer
Even if we don't make a regional, the OM and Arkansas series wins are big for the team and program
The quasi-blessing of not making the Regionals is that our team will be very popular for Summer Ball assignments. All these freshmen will be heading to the cape for a 60 additional ABs against quality opposition
Too bad we don't have any freshmen pitchers. Maybe Ashcraft can be summer ready- we need him to have a summer and fall to get productivity in 2019
New coach's first talk should be with Ethan small. He is draft eligible, but a sophomore. Small could make this team really good next season
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Small is a RS sophomore right?
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Originally Posted by
Bulldog1
Small is a RS sophomore right?
Yes. I would guess he is really improving his draft stock too, so it may be a lost cause. Here are his overall stats and sec only...
Overall...
58.0 ip 53 h 17 bb 75 k 2.79 era
Sec...
37.2 ip 33 h 10 bb 44 k 2.39 era
He has easily been our best pitcher this year. Oh and the scary part is he doesn't have his pre-TJ velocity back yet. He would be an absolute monster if we could get him back
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Off topic, but the stadium gun had the Arkansas starter throwing 100 mph in the sixth inning. That guy has a arm!
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Originally Posted by
Bulldog1
Off topic, but the stadium gun had the Arkansas starter throwing 100 mph in the sixth inning. That guy has a arm!
Wes Johnson doing work! First they throw 100, then they get a sweet cast and a full year of vacation from pitching!
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Originally Posted by
the_real_MSU_is_us
Wes Johnson doing work! First they throw 100, then they get a sweet cast and a full year of vacation from pitching!
How nice of him****** LOL
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Junior Member
Lets say we get to 13 SEC wins that would put us at 27-26 overall. That means we can only drop one of the midweek games to put us at 28-27 going into the SEC tournament where two losses would automatically knock us out of contention for the NCAA tournament.
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Junior Member
Sure would like to have the game that got cancelled mid game while we were leading back.
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Originally Posted by
the_real_MSU_is_us
Wes Johnson doing work! First they throw 100, then they get a sweet cast and a full year of vacation from pitching!
He also tinkers with the radar board too.
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Originally Posted by
msstate7
Yes. I would guess he is really improving his draft stock too, so it may be a lost cause. Here are his overall stats and sec only...
Overall...
58.0 ip 53 h 17 bb 75 k 2.79 era
Sec...
37.2 ip 33 h 10 bb 44 k 2.39 era
He has easily been our best pitcher this year. Oh and the scary part is he doesn't have his pre-TJ velocity back yet. He would be an absolute monster if we could get him back
The most MsState thing to happen is that Small announces his sincere intention to stay to develop his craft in college. Then the New York Mets draft him 6th overall - after we get pillaged of our future Ace, we are happy for Ethan and we start tracking his climb to the "show"
The healthier thing for us to hope for is that we get a 100% Keegan James, 100% Graham Ashcraft, and 100% 3-Pitch-Riley Self
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Originally Posted by
Bulldog1
Off topic, but the stadium gun had the Arkansas starter throwing 100 mph in the sixth inning. That guy has a arm!
The gun isn't even close to right, it had pilk at 98 on friday and he doesnt come close to that.
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Originally Posted by
Homedawg
The gun isn't even close to right, it had pilk at 98 on friday and he doesnt come close to that.
That makes sense. I thought it seemed kind of odd considering he didn't touch over 96 until then.
Last edited by Bulldog1; 04-23-2018 at 04:07 PM.
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Whichever elite coach takes over our program will have a CWS ready team. I’d think Small would be back considering he can only improve his draft stock if he came back. I think it most likely will depend on who we hire. I doubt he would go that high after this year to justify him going unless he just wanted to go. The thing I hate about this team is you could easily say 6-7 of our losses were completely from mismanagement. We could easily be 29-13 and at least 11-7 or 12-6 in the league and then we are not just talking about hosting but a possible national seed. We are winning right now in spite of our coaching. I think Cann (if he would have been focused) could have easily won 40 games again this season with another super or more. But in the end if we get a Tadlock, Schlossnagle, or McDonnell we would have upgraded our coaching with very little down time.
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Originally Posted by
MarketingBully
Whichever elite coach takes over our program will have a CWS ready team. I’d think Small would be back considering he can only improve his draft stock if he came back. I think it most likely will depend on who we hire. I doubt he would go that high after this year to justify him going unless he just wanted to go. The thing I hate about this team is you could easily say 6-7 of our losses were completely from mismanagement. We could easily be 29-13 and at least 11-7 or 12-6 in the league and then we are not just talking about hosting but a possible national seed. We are winning right now in spite of our coaching. I think Cann (if he would have been focused) could have easily won 40 games again this season with another super or more. But in the end if we get a Tadlock, Schlossnagle, or McDonnell we would have upgraded our coaching with very little down time.
Absolutely.
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Originally Posted by
msstate7
Yes. I would guess he is really improving his draft stock too, so it may be a lost cause. Here are his overall stats and sec only...
Overall...
58.0 ip 53 h 17 bb 75 k 2.79 era
Sec...
37.2 ip 33 h 10 bb 44 k 2.39 era
He has easily been our best pitcher this year. Oh and the scary part is he doesn't have his pre-TJ velocity back yet. He would be an absolute monster if we could get him back
One more year and he gets that 93-94 fastball back, he’s a first round pick. It’s a no brainer you come back.
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Originally Posted by
MarketingBully
Whichever elite coach takes over our program will have a CWS ready team. I?d think Small would be back considering he can only improve his draft stock if he came back. I think it most likely will depend on who we hire. I doubt he would go that high after this year to justify him going unless he just wanted to go. The thing I hate about this team is you could easily say 6-7 of our losses were completely from mismanagement. We could easily be 29-13 and at least 11-7 or 12-6 in the league and then we are not just talking about hosting but a possible national seed. We are winning right now in spite of our coaching. I think Cann (if he would have been focused) could have easily won 40 games again this season with another super or more. But in the end if we get a Tadlock, Schlossnagle, or McDonnell we would have upgraded our coaching with very little down time.
Cool the jets. At least until after the draft. We lose 5 of the 7 guys that pitched this weekend. And that's if small returns. Offensively, we just lose mangum to speak of but our offense is bad and needs some instant help to be competive. Like lots of it. And thats assuming Stovall doesn't sign for a cup of coffee. Cws isn't a realistic goal w what we have coming back. Not really close.
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