I would kill to have an AB type playerQuote:
Originally Posted by Ari Gold
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I would kill to have an AB type playerQuote:
Originally Posted by Ari Gold
its ridiculous that as a Jr leader of our team he is 7/30 on the season and hitting .233 against alot of sub-par competition. 8 K's in 30 official AB's. Thats kinda highQuote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
No one has blamed him for our record. And u answered ur own question earlier. There are 13 other SS in this league better than him.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Team LA keeps telling everyone how good he is and give him time. And we all keep waiting for him to do something , anything and it hasn’t happened yet.
Told y?all during opening weekend this team was not good and was not going to be good. Got called out for it. Doesn?t matter who is coaching. Upper classmen have an extremely low ceiling.
One day y?all are going to learn to listen to what Confucius say.
Bottom line and will get off Belmont.
But if your the Miss State baseball program , you can not run out the worse or one of the worse SS in the SEC unless that kid is a freshman.
Our program is a damn mess. John Cohen better deal with it.
I'm not going to get into the LA stuff- but the fact of the matter is we lost because we started a pitcher who has an ERA of over 30 and he get lit up again. And if we started Keegan James we have a better chance of winning the game. No matter what LA or anyone else did or didn't do at the plate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ari Gold
This team is going to have issues hitting because of all of the freshmen- so I'm not going to sit here and say that offense isn't an issue. Because it is.
That said we do have some pitchers who have performed this year. We've got to throw those guys more and Leibelt and Neff a whole lot less. Especially with us lacking offense like we are. They've gotten their chances and they haven't performed and they need to sit until they figure it out. We need France to be in the rotation, Billingsley to go back into the bullpen, Keegan needs to be the midweek guy, Cole Gordon Blake Smith, Riley Self, and Denver McQuary need to be used the most. Pilkington and Small keep their spots in the rotation.
SSS, much? If he is still hitting that after 75 ABs, I will agree he needs to benched. To show you how SSS that is... if Monday night was an official game, Alexander would be at .272 avg with an obp right at .370Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
The reason this team is not going to hit is not the freshmen. It?s that the jr class is not good offensively. Mac, Vansau, LA, and to a lesser degree Stovall. Those guys have low ceilings.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
That Mingione recruiting rearing its ugly head
And really there are no sophomores other than Skelton.Quote:
Originally Posted by confucius say
Well the guy most responsible for this mess is currently our athletic director.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
There's that too.Quote:
Originally Posted by confucius say
Anyway, my point remains that we have to win with pitching. That's where our talent is and we can't afford to throw very many people that have ERA's of 30+ and expect to win.
Coggin shouldn't get a total pass either. But totally agree on Mingione too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
True. In hindsight I really wish we would have just gone with Henderson as an interim last year and done a proper search. I just feel like we cut a corner to a degree with hiring Cann.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
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Originally Posted by I seen it dawg
Thanks to a couple of you for reiterating exactly what i said...
Bench Belmont. Opens up a spot to put Allen who may be our best pure hitter. Then that opens the DH spot.
Use Jordan, Anderson, Macnamee, Vansau in the 2 OF spots and DH. One of the FR playing in one of those 4 spots at all times. See what shakes there. Hopefully it’s the 2 FR winning 2 of 3 spots and Mac and Vansau platoon.
Watch Westburg...if the OF/DH group above doesn’t produce move Allen to Lf, Stovall back to 2nd, and put Westburg at SS.
Mangum in CF, although it wouldn’t kill me to bench his ass at some point bc he gets himself out swinging at everything, Hatcher at 1b and Foscue at 3b should be everyday constants.
Let Gilbert and Skelton fight it out.
Oh and fire Poole as our ****ing 1b coach. He almost allowed Stovall to get back picked from CF on his single bc he didn’t say shit about the CF coming up and throwing behind him. If you’re gonna stand in the coaching box Tanner then ****ing do something while you’re there.
Time to go young already and it’s obvious.
Who got the players to get us to back to back supers and a SEC title.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
This team looks like it had mailed it in before the year started. Wouldnt surprise me with the shit Cann was pulling under our noses
Cole Gordon was the 1B coach the other night so its some kind of random dealQuote:
Originally Posted by I seen it dawg
Cohen started to get disinterested after 2013. The 2015 class was good on paper- but it got ravaged by MLB, Tommy John, and BS.Quote:
Originally Posted by BuckyIsAB****
That's was without a doubt the most unexplainable thing I've seen in a long time. It makes me not even want henderson as a pitching coachQuote:
Originally Posted by bobcat91
Maybe if Cann hadn't been ***** whipped by a married woman living in Florida he would have spent the entire offseason getting this team ready to play ball. This team is a total shitshow and it's pretty much all on Cannizarro imo. What a disaster.
Wanna bench Alexander (.233 ba, .343 obp, 8 k in 35 PAs) bc of avg and Ks, but play macnamee (.200 ba, .222 obp, 9 k in 26 PAs) and vansau (.222 ba, .300 obp, 9 k in 30 PAs). Lol @ benching mangumQuote:
Originally Posted by I seen it dawg
Anderson and Westburg must really suck to not be able to play with what we’ve got out there. I can’t imagine they’re worse.
I want to bench Belmont bc he has proven he won’t hit. Vansau and Macnamee get a pass bc they hit at the end of last year so there is hope there. And even you arent stupid enough to think I meant bench Mangum permanently. Well then again...Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
I know it isQuote:
Originally Posted by BuckyIsAB****
Believe it or not , doesn’t matter, but the ghosts of LFL will haunt this program as the goat did the Cubs
Alexander hit up until he got hit by pitch vs tenn last season. After that, nothing. Granted, that was sec play after his injury. Like I have said a few times, if Monday was an official game, Alexander is hitting .272 with an obp at .370, and tied for the team lead in doubles. Monday does not count for the stats, but it absolutely should count when contemplating benching a guy. If Alexander is not hitting after vandy series, bench himQuote:
Originally Posted by I seen it dawg
Alexander his .150 in SEC play last year. You can’t defend that
He isn’t hitting well enough now that we should waste every pre-conference AB on him but then throw the freshmen to the wolves of the SEC. Let them get some sweet stuff pre-conference to get their carrots wet before SEC play
Thanks for reiterating what I, and others, said 11 days ago with respect to our juniors and catcher spot when we were cautioned and told to pump the brakes.Quote:
Originally Posted by I seen it dawg
I think you guys are giving up on this team way too early. Our team is on mlb road trip to start this season. Mlb teams struggle on long trips... you know a bunch of college kids will too. I expect this team to play much better this weekend with the end to this trip in sight, and play pretty well next week at home
I would say Belmont is the most over rated SS we have had, he is the worse overall SS we have had in a long long time.Quote:
Originally Posted by I seen it dawg
Remember ISID, Belmontmsstate7 is his daddy** and before long he would be nominating for Msu HOF.
Belmont can’t hit... period... when you are 3-5 against a bunch of bush league teams, you make a damn change. For god sakes!!! We lost to mother****** Texas A&MCC and McNeese State!!
I’m not giving up on them. I think we will be fine. The biggest key is not whether or not Belmont hits his 240 it’s how is our band of TJs going to heal and progress to where there is some consistency when they pitch. That will tell the tale on our season.
We're 3-5. I'm guessing no longer top 25. ;) Oh well......start over with a new coach next year. He will require 3 years to get his players in before he will be held accountable. At least we will have a pretty new ballpark to look at.
I agree with this. Bc offensively we will not be good.Quote:
Originally Posted by I seen it dawg
But the problem is our pitching can?t just be good. It has to be dominant for us to compete for postseason.
Lol, do u take meds for that Multiple Personality Disorder?Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
What you mean? I have been very patient with this team. I knew replacing rooker was gonna be very tough, and this road trip to start the season is ridiculous. What did jim say, over 3000 miles of travel in this trip?Quote:
Originally Posted by preachermatt83
Agreed. Spot on.Quote:
Originally Posted by I seen it dawg
This team knew the entire preseason that they would face this road trip. To that end, all we heard is how hard they were training and creating a "Road Warrior" mentality. If this road trip has told us anything about the team, it is that they are not a mentally tough bunch. Lack of mental toughness is a recipe for disaster in the SEC. This is compounded by the fact that we are getting zero offense from our veteran players other than Mangum and Stovall. As for Mangum, he is what he is as the coaches like to say. He swings early in the count and lacks plate discipline. Same story as his first two years but I would most definitely take a few more just like him.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
The pitching staff does not appear to be a strength as many anticipated. Pilk is a solid Friday night guy but his pitch count always gets elevated in the early innings thus preventing him from being the inning eater that we so desperately need. Self is the only guy out of the bullpen that you can really have total confidence in. Maybe Smith rounds into his form of two years ago. Gordon is Gordon. Flashes of brilliance followed by the inability to throw a strike. We need a big jump from two of the following 3: France, Small, James if we are going to scratch into a regional. Losing Price really, really hurts.
I feel good about the small sample size that we have seen from the young position players. If the season continues spiraling, I hope we see an influx of young players taking their lumps this season. We are almost to the point where we should know what we are getting with Mac, Vansua, Belmont, Poole, Skelton, etc. I don't feel like any of those 5 will hit over .250 in league play; so, we will continue to struggle offensively. I want to see more of Foscue, Anderson, Gilbert, Jordan, etc. Allen and Hatcher are already showing that they can swing it. The team has potential offensively but that potential lies solely in an influx of the young guys into the lineup.
Sorry for novel but feels good to get off of my chest!