Thoughts on the new baseball staff

[Todd4State]

I like the hire of Chris Lemonis. He's not Jim Schlossnagle- but I don't get any bad vibes from him and even Jim Schlossnagle had to start somewhere. Hopefully we have found the next elite head coach. He's known for recruiting- and I think that's the one thing that if I had to point to as the main reason why we don't have a National Championship- we just haven't been able to recruit at the level that LSU in the 90's, and now Florida and Vanderbilt are recruiting. Players win championships period. Coaches guide them but a great coach with bad players is still going to have a losing team. The one thing we do have is a lot of resources- and now we have a coach who is a great recruiter who can utilize them to their fullest extent.


Foxhall is a good hire as well. He has SEC experience and has done a great job of developing undrafted pitchers into draft picks. If we can improve our pitching over the offseason- and we have a lot of talent to work with in Small, Keegan James, Ginn, McQuary, Self, and hopefully Carter Stewart- we may be able to take the final steps to a National Title in the next few years. It's hard to win a National Championship when your guys are giving up 12 runs to Oregon State and are just not competitive in general. I think we are going to improve quite a bit in 2019 as a pitching staff.


We know what Gautreau is all about. When the Cann stuff first happened I initially wanted a complete staff overhaul- but Gautreau was so impressive I realized as the season went on that it would be foolish to get rid of him. He did wonders with a lineup that was about half freshmen every night. With Mangum and MacNamee leading the way we should be even better offensively as I expect guys like Westburg, Foscue, Allen, Rowdey, and Hatcher to improve over the summer and offseason. Ginn could be an immediate impact bat as well. And then we got Gunner Halter through the draft and he should help us out as well.


Kyle Cheesebrough is another great recruiter who is also going to coach the catchers. This is a long time coming and another big weakness for us last year and beyond. Oregon State turned things around on us in a hurry by running at will on us. If we can shore up our defense behind the plate it is going to help immensely- especially when we play a West Coast team that is going to try to steal bases and try to put pressure on us. A good catcher helps the pitching staff out so much because it gives pitchers the confidence to throw breaking balls when they want to without the fear of the ball getting to the backstop.


All in all- we've improved ourselves and are already an Omaha caliber team. And by the time next year rolls around we are going to have the new stadium 100% complete. I'm looking forward to seeing us dogpile in Omaha in the near future.

[dawgoneyall]

We made good hires...but we will find out.
Baseball is funny.

[maroonmania]

On paper, no doubt, this is the best baseball staff top to bottom we've ever had. Will be interesting to see the product we put on the field next year. It should be very, very good.

[Cooterpoot]

We’ll know how it’s going by Cohen’s radio critiques during games.

[Todd4State]

We’ll know how it’s going by Cohen’s radio critiques during games.

I have to wonder if Cohen critiqued Henderson pretty hard because he knew that there would be some fans that would want him to be the head coach after the run to Omaha and Cohen knew he wasn't going to hire him.

Heck- there were fans on Genespage pushing for him to be the pitching coach.

[AlSwearengen]

Todd, any idea where foxnall sits on the pitching coach pecking order? Supposedly Getsy was our no. 1 target and maybe the top pitching coach so it is easy to figure out how he ended up on our list. How did foxnall make his way onto the list? Is he just well known as one of the best? I wonder if he reached out to us?

[Cooterpoot]

Getsy was our unicorn. Foxhall was our real first choice.

[Commercecomet24]

Getsy? Y'all wanted our receivers coach as our pitching coach lol? I think y'all talking about yeskie.

[ShotgunDawg]

On paper, no doubt, this is the best baseball staff top to bottom we've ever had. Will be interesting to see the product we put on the field next year. It should be very, very good.

Cohen
Minge
Wes Johnson

The best we've ever had.

[Cooterpoot]

Getsy? Y'all wanted our receivers coach as our pitching coach lol? I think y'all talking about yeskie.

Damn Apple phones........I never had autocorrect issues like this with my Galaxy. I just go with it now. Screw diving it. It?s almost become a game for me. Seizing how many worlds are confused with others and how they fill a sin in tenths.

[msbulldog]

Good post Todd +1.

[Todd4State]

Cohen
Minge
Wes Johnson

The best we've ever had.

I'd take:

Cohen
Butch
Lane
Mingione

And

Polk
McMahon
Shoop

Over that one.

[baddmann]

Damn Apple phones........I never had autocorrect issues like this with my Galaxy. I just go with it now. Screw diving it. It?s almost become a game for me. Seizing how many worlds are confused with others and how they fill a sin in tenths.

Lol. Excellent

[Commercecomet24]

Damn Apple phones........I never had autocorrect issues like this with my Galaxy. I just go with it now. Screw diving it. It?s almost become a game for me. Seizing how many worlds are confused with others and how they fill a sin in tenths.

You alright, Cooter!