Hey Commerce

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Originally Posted by Commercecomet24

Kudos to Cowbell for starting this thread. This has been a very good baseball discussion without any name calling or insanity(so far, lol). I love these type of discussion threads with all the excellent insights. Good stuff.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Cowbell again

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I'm just glad it's baseball season man! I was thinking last night that even if this team can't get it together (and let's hope they do), I'm still going to watch like most everyone on here. Because we love this team and we love this game.

One thing that probably needs to come to a halt is the hate on our coaches for pitching recruiting. Twitter is blowing up right now because we have the most talented freshman in the game. He along with Lofton and Forsyth are huge coupled with the three solid transfers we have. Another year of recruiting like that and we will be fine.

We all need to remember these guys are committing in the 8th grade (IYKYK). That means at some point we were going to be hurt by the three coaches in three seasons mess.

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Originally Posted by Cowbell

I'm just glad it's baseball season man! I was thinking last night that even if this team can't get it together (and let's hope they do), I'm still going to watch like most everyone on here. Because we love this team and we love this game.

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Amen to all this! Very well said!

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Originally Posted by Cowbell

One thing that probably needs to come to a halt is the hate on our coaches for pitching recruiting. Twitter is blowing up right now because we have the most talented freshman in the game. He along with Lofton and Forsyth are huge coupled with the three solid transfers we have. Another year of recruiting like that and we will be fine.

We all need to remember these guys are committing in the 8th grade (IYKYK). That means at some point we were going to be hurt by the three coaches in three seasons mess.

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Well and COVID. Coaches weren't able to off campus recruit for over a year. I mean our 2021 class was signed almost without ever seeing the kids play. And that was Lemonis' first true class.

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

Well and COVID. Coaches weren't able to off campus recruit for over a year. I mean our 2021 class was signed almost without ever seeing the kids play. And that was Lemonis' first true class.

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Not to mention what COVID did to limit development of players we've had on campus. '20 season cut short; no summer ball '20;
Fall '20 still distancing and quarantining limited coach /player time; early '21 still distancing and screening plus having overloaded rosters for the '21 season. '20 and '21 signees got zero development unless they were already talented enough to play. Yes, other teams dealt with that, but couple with 4 coaches in 4 seasons and we were bound to have it impact the program. That's a ton of stuff to overcome.

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Originally Posted by Topbulldawg

One other factor I see impacting throwing out runners is our pitchers control. If the ball isn't where the catcher expects, it makes their job even harder. I am not saying its the only cause, but its a factor.

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Amen, there is so much that has to happen perfectly to throw out a good base runner especially if he is not being kept close