If what I heard is true it looks like a good "get". His team will be in regionals and mostly likely want be announced for a while. Comes from a P5 program who has been good.
We shall see.
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Lemon's college roommate coaches at a G5 and a PC that will make the NCAA's
No news is bad news.
He's staying.
I wish his contract could be restructured to be performance-based, because this nonsense will continue for a 3rd straight year.
I'm excited if we pull it off. He's viewed as an elite developer across baseball. He's led the Big 12 in Ks the last 3 seasons. And while the ERA is up and down, none of those are awful. If our ERA is 5.19 this year, we're likely in a regional.
You also left out 2016 where they had a 3.21 ERA and led the conference in Ks. He won the national assistant coach of the year award that year.
His K/BB ratio is solid. Over 30 MLB draft picks. Former scout. Former head coach and a success one at that. Coached Team USA in 2008.
I'm all for it.
Frankly, I don't care about Ks. I mean I do, but only as far as they play into what really matters: a low ERA. I also don't care how he's "viewed", I care about the actual on field results. Which we have a lot of
His eras over the past 7 years (includes his great 2016 team) has been just worse than 5th out of 9 teams. Literally below the conference average results across a long sample size of his recruits.
Would we make a regional with him? Probably. Would we have an elite staff? Probably not. At least not more than 1/7 seasons. Do we want to offer 2nd highest paid pitching coach money to a guy who would make us average-below average? Why we target a guy who will pretty much guarantee we won't go anywhere in the postseason due to his mediocre staffs?
Seriously though, why would I be excited about a guy who at the end of the day puts out mediocre results?
I think he would be a decent hire, much better than Foxhall, comes from a good baseball program. I think he would also have the title of "assistant HC" whatever that means except more money, LOL.
I'd rather have a change at top, but I'm over the bitching for now on Lemonis, nothing I or We can do for now.
Also him having a new start may be good for him.