Catching

[the_real_MSU_is_us]

Interesting discussion.

If the rules make it easier to steal 2nd, the answer is to not put men on 1st. Those free walks will hurt more than ever this season.

Pound the zone and trust the defense. I also feel like we haven't stolen many bases this year, but with the Clark and Hines slides we've seen so far I'm not sure I want us to lol

[Commercecomet24]

Interesting discussion.

If the rules make it easier to steal 2nd, the answer is to not put men on 1st. Those free walks will hurt more than ever this season.

Pound the zone and trust the defense. I also feel like we haven't stolen many bases this year, but with the Clark and Hines slides we've seen so far I'm not sure I want us to lol

We're 15-15 in stolen bases. Not bad at all.

[Randolph Dupree]

I don't know if it translates the same to the college level but at least in the minor league and spring training it's working really well at speeding up the games.

"Over the first weekend of spring training games, the average game time was 2:38. That?s down 23 minutes from last year?s spring training average. When pitch clocks were tested in the minors last year, the average game time dropped by 25 minutes," https://espnswfl.com/2023/02/27/base...-games-faster/

I hate the pitch clock, BUT don't disagree that there is a lot of time wasted while guys step out of the box and readjust everything for every pitch. There has to be a better way to regulate that than a pitch clock though. One thing that chaps me though is that we can watch football for 3 hours and nobody has an issue but a 3 hour baseball game is too long? MLB wants to get more eyes on baseball? End the stupid blackout and make more games accessible to people ($$).



Really great thread!

[Cooterpoot]

Don't walk batters and stolen bases are far less a concern. But I think Highfill is the everyday starting C soon. He's hitting it pretty well and that was the concern with him.
This baseball clock bullshit is a 17ing shame. Let's do everything we can to ruin the game.

[Offshore Dawg]

Solve part of the problem by not walking anybody!!

[KB21]

Don't walk batters and stolen bases are far less a concern. But I think Highfill is the everyday starting C soon. He's hitting it pretty well and that was the concern with him.
This baseball clock bullshit is a 17ing shame. Let's do everything we can to ruin the game.

I think Ross is the better pitch framer already. I like Luke, but he's not getting some of the borderline pitches called a strike due to his framing technique. Logan Tanner knew how to frame the borderline pitches and fool the umpire.

[PMDawg]

It's already been said, but 90% of our problem is walking opposing batters. Cut our walk rates down to something manageable, and we're actually a pretty good team. Walks make errors hurt more, they give an opportunity to steal, they make pitch counts go up so we use more pitchers, off target pitches cause passed balls, the list goes on and on. Cut the walks, and we're instantly a much better team.