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 coach
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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.
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.
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 him
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
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
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.
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.
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!