Quote Originally Posted by TheLostDawg View Post
I think this is how college sports will be for the blue bloods. Cut the fat. Buy prime and if you have the money then get the wagyu.

We didn't cut our fat last year and paid for it dearly along with losing some quality players through transfers and injuries. Seems our boosters and Lemonis aren't going to let us make the same mistake twice- NIL/ cutting the fat.
I think that that was partly timing for us and partly coming out of a CWS run where pretty much everyone stepped up and performed. Look at the '21 stats for the guys in the '22 pen - outside of Cam Tullar, everyone had pitched pretty well. It's not like we didn't recognize we needed an OF and 2B, and did pick up some pitching. While everyone points to Sims going down, in hindsight, Stone going down hurt us more because it left the bullpen no anchor. Knowing you have a closer changes the mentality of every guy in the bullpen, and probably puts us in as a 3 seed.