Can Puliam bat leadoff?

[cheewgumm]

He's been hitting well lately.

[Leeshouldveflanked]

We have basically 4 hitters that are automatic outs right now.

[msstate7]

This is being overthought by lemonis. You want your best hitters to hit the most...

Mershon
Jordan
Hines
Husjak
Do whatever after these 4

[TALL DAWG]

We need to start bunting the crap out of Chance, Larry and maybe a few others. I?m at the game and I?ve seen way too many pop ups through 5 innings.
Good grief

[Homedawg]

He's been hitting well lately.

Leave him at the bottom. Let him hunt fastballs.

[Homedawg]

This is being overthought by lemonis. You want your best hitters to hit the most...

Mershon
Jordan
Hines
Husjak
Do whatever after these 4

Won't argue that. But chance went the best 0-13 last weekend you will ever see. He squared up a lot of balls. Don't get caught up w avg.

[Homedawg]

We need to start bunting the crap out of Chance, Larry and maybe a few others. I?m at the game and I?ve seen way too many pop ups through 5 innings.
Good grief

Chance isn't our problem.

[Lord McBuckethead]

And he hit tonight as well. I like Chance.

[Homedawg]

This is being overthought by lemonis. You want your best hitters to hit the most...

Mershon
Jordan
Hines
Husjak
Do whatever after these 4

A week ago we had half the idiots on this board that either wanted Hines benched or moved down. After the weekend, we had the sane number wanted Jordan to get off his ass. He's had two hitless games in his last 14. And had 3 hits tonight so, just maybe, the majority of the board needs to sit it out

[viverlibre]

A week ago we had half the idiots on this board that either wanted Hines benched or moved down. After the weekend, we had the sane number wanted Jordan to get off his ass. He's had two hitless games in his last 14. And had 3 hits tonight so, just maybe, the majority of the board needs to sit it out

^^^^^ this.

We have the dumbest (and worst) fans.

[Coach34]

We need to end the Trout experiment leading off

[HoopsDawg]

^^^^^ this.

We have the dumbest (and worst) fans.

Definitely not true. Horrible post.

[HoopsDawg]

We need to end the Trout experiment leading off

I think it's ok. He's tough to strikeout. Mershon didn't seem to love batting leadoff. And like Homedawg posted, he's been finding barrels. Still hitting .300 in SEC games. We really need Larry and Kohler to get hot. Such a shame we haven't gotten Stevens 50 more ABs. He should be platooning with Larry.

[Coach34]

I think it's ok. He's tough to strikeout. Mershon didn't seem to love batting leadoff. And like Homedawg posted, he's been finding barrels. Still hitting .300 in SEC games. We really need Larry and Kohler to get hot. Such a shame we haven't gotten Stevens 50 more ABs. He should be platooning with Larry.

He's 1 for his last 17 since leading off. He has walked twice. He hit one ball hard all weekend vs Candy. And his K rate is going up as he has struck out 3 times in 4 games. He had 8 total going into Candy.

He just doesnt look comfortable there at all. Need to bite the bullet and make Dirtbag do it.

[Commercecomet24]

This is being overthought by lemonis. You want your best hitters to hit the most...

Mershon
Jordan
Hines
Husjak
Do whatever after these 4

This, the top 1-4 hitters almost always get one extra ab per game compared to the other spots and that one extra ab can be the difference!

[Commercecomet24]

We need to start bunting the crap out of Chance, Larry and maybe a few others. I?m at the game and I?ve seen way too many pop ups through 5 innings.
Good grief

Chance has just had bad luck. Of his 0 for 13 at Vandy 8 balls had an exit velo of over a 100. That's just bad luck dude can hit. Even with that 0 fer he's still over 300 in sec play. Now I would move him back to the 6 hole. Mershon needs to bag leadoff

[Coach34]

This, the top 1-4 hitters almost always get one extra ab per game compared to the other spots and that one extra ab can be the difference!

Ari says this constantly too and I'm conflicted. My older ass just likes having that guy in the 2 hole that can Run/n/Hit or bunt. I'd rather us try Trout in the 2-hole first and if that didnt workout either- then yeah- go to that

[Commercecomet24]

Ari says this constantly too and I'm conflicted. My older ass just likes having that guy in the 2 hole that can Run/n/Hit or bunt. I'd rather us try Trout in the 2-hole first and if that didnt workout either- then yeah- go to that

lol I'm old right there with ya. I'd be fine with working that either way, but chance needs to move down he's not comfortable batting leading off he's better with runners on. I actually have a lot of confidence when Hujsak or Chance are hitting with runners on, I liked Chance in that 6 hole

[Commercecomet24]

A week ago we had half the idiots on this board that either wanted Hines benched or moved down. After the weekend, we had the sane number wanted Jordan to get off his ass. He's had two hitless games in his last 14. And had 3 hits tonight so, just maybe, the majority of the board needs to sit it out

Now Homedawg you know that all the answers are on this board lol!

[Todd4State]

I don't know why Lemonis doesn't flip Mershon and Chance.

Mershon gets off base more and has more speed. Chance is good at making contact. That's the kind of guy you can do hit and run stuff with and with a runner on I think it may open up some things for him and maybe get him more fastballs to hit.

I would put Pulliam at 9th. He's a freshman and I wouldn't want to put a ton of pressure on him at this point in his career. Let him play and keep doing what he is doing. By hitting him 9th you open up the possibility of Pulliam and Mershon on base at the same time too. Then you can potentially do double steals and stuff like that.

[Todd4State]

So synopsis:

1. Mershon SS
2. Chance LF
3. Dakota RF
4. Hines 1B
5. Hujsack CF
6. Larry/Stevens DH depending on SP
7. Kohler 3B
8. Long/Powell C
9. Pulliam 2B

[msstate7]

Won't argue that. But chance went the best 0-13 last weekend you will ever see. He squared up a lot of balls. Don't get caught up w avg.

I like chance. He has good pop for a little guy, and that's something we need. I don't think he's a better hitter than the 4 I listed, but he's 5th - put him 5th.

[Coursesuper]

Now Homedawg you know that all the answers are on this board lol!

You damn right! These boys are sharp as marbles.

[PMDawg]

Definitely not true. Horrible post.

But it's the easiest way to insult someone who doesn't agree with you.

[Commercecomet24]

You damn right! These boys are sharp as marbles.

Awesome! I can't give you anymore rep!

[Goldendawg]

Will Powell start at catcher against bama or was Long getting a mid-week rest?

[Coach34]

Will Powell start at catcher against bama or was Long getting a mid-week rest?

Powell usually catches midweek and on Saturday

[viverlibre]

But it's the easiest way to insult someone who doesn't agree with you.

My issue is we eat our own. No one shits on our players, program, university and town like our fans. I know you guys will respond, "every fan base does it." I don't know if that's true, as I don't read other school's boards, but as I get a ton of OM fansites in my facebook feed (i have no idea why as I report them all for "hate speech") and they are usually filled with positive comments. If a player transfers from OM, the comments are much more, "thank you for your service and good luck," on our fansites, it's much more, "he sucks," "better off without him," "he's a cancer," etc.

No matter what you think, players and their friends and family read all this stuff and many are prima donnas, I just wish we had a more positive outlook. It seems OM is light years ahead of us in using the media and crafting their narrative.

I do believe OM fans masquerade as MSU fans to make us look bad on the internet.

[The Federalist Engineer]

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[Todd4State]

Will Powell start at catcher against bama or was Long getting a mid-week rest?

I wonder if Lemonis gave Long the night off to try to avoid a brawl with Ole Miss? That bat flip caused their fans to completely melt down worse than I have ever seen.

[Todd4State]

My issue is we eat our own. No one shits on our players, program, university and town like our fans. I know you guys will respond, "every fan base does it." I don't know if that's true, as I don't read other school's boards, but as I get a ton of OM fansites in my facebook feed (i have no idea why as I report them all for "hate speech") and they are usually filled with positive comments. If a player transfers from OM, the comments are much more, "thank you for your service and good luck," on our fansites, it's much more, "he sucks," "better off without him," "he's a cancer," etc.

No matter what you think, players and their friends and family read all this stuff and many are prima donnas, I just wish we had a more positive outlook. It seems OM is light years ahead of us in using the media and crafting their narrative.

I do believe OM fans masquerade as MSU fans to make us look bad on the internet.

I guarantee you that Quinshon Judkins disagrees with you about Ole Miss fans.