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Originally Posted by
War Machine Dawg
I'm assuming you meant bunt and autocorrect got you. But seriously, how many big time hitters want to come to a program that hasn't shown it will turn them loose to actually HIT the damn ball? In fact, a program where hitting the ball hard seems to be punished and frowned upon by the coaching staff. And why is it other SEC teams have impact freshman hitters more years than not, but we barely get one good year out of supposedly big time offensive recruits? We have to take a serious look at how we approach offense in our program.
Hitting the ball hard is "frowned upon" by our staff? Really? LOL.
Impact freshman hitters are not the norm- the ones that are get noticed. That's why it "seems like" every team has freshmen that make an impact- but that's not actually the case. And Gridley has done a good job overall for us, and Collins did a good job for us last year.
The issue is MLB takes away guys like Vallot, Burdick, etc. The power hitters that they leave for college are guys like Hunter Renfroe- who are extremely raw, or Wes Rea. It also means that a lot of speed/contact guys are left for college as well.
You can complain about the offense all you want- but the statistics show that it hasn't been a problem when compared to the rest of the SEC or country. Now, you may not like what we do but that does not mean it's not working. That would be like me complaining about Dan's offense because I would prefer us run a pro style offense- which I do by the way- but I can't argue that Dan's is not working or effective despite the fact I don't prefer it. Well, maybe if I take away our top four scoring performances a year maybe I could make a point.
What we do fits the players that we have and it fits our ballpark. Now, absolutely I want to see more power- but as long as Collins is out it's going to hurt us in that department. Our offense is designed to have 4-5 power guys and right now we have two- Rea and Humphreys. Three when Rooker plays.
If you want to see more power- do everything possible to get Greg Pickett to come to MSU. As I have said before, if I was Richard Akerson and had money to throw around, I would be in Colorado promising him 2 million once his MSU career is complete. One reason why LSU gets players like Pickett is because they promote their program and get players like that to come rather than tell them that they should take the money rather than risk career ending injury or whatever.
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