Quote Originally Posted by confucius say View Post
Not offensively. The team has gotten better offensively. Worse on the mound. From the twitters today:

Sec games only

2021
Hit .266; slugged .416; OBP .354
2023
Hit .266; slugged .486; OBP .366

All games

2021
Hit .278; slugged .439; OBP .375
2023
Hit .286; slugged .505; OBP .399
This is true in a vacuum, but you've got to remember this season had the tighter strike zones and ALL offenses saw a benefit to it, and pitching staffs saw the ERA go up. You've got to look at the relative stats, how we finished in the SEC.

SEC only stats:

2023: 9th in BA, 3rd in SLG, 10th in OBP, 10th in runs scored.

2021: 7th in BA, 8th in SLG, 6th in OBP, T5th in runs scored.

The '21 team was good at scoring runs because that '21 team had DUDES on it, and they nutted up when they needed to. The secret State sauce left with TA and Rowdy and Lemonis never learned the recipe