Quote Originally Posted by Smitty View Post
Uh just getting bigger "power" hitters won't do shit if Cohen can't/won't develop their power stroke. We have guys that would be much more productive at other schools due to instruction.

You mention some names like Vickerson and Brown as people we "can only expect to hit singles and bunt". Dummy.

Cody Brown leads the team in doubles! He's slugging .420! Vickerson is slugging .415! You act like they have to sac bunt, which is as wrong as it's been for 5 years of you loving the sac bunt!

The problem is Cohen cannot develop our deep ball threat because his instruction takes that swing away. Collins 2 HR. Rea 4 HR. Hump 5 HR. Holland 1 HR. That's pathetic. We don't have very many actual "singles hitters".. We just have a illiterate offensive approach sucking their production away.
You talking about swing instruction is laughable for reasons that you've proven on here with your thoughts on how to hit with two strikes. Even if we had a bad approach, you wouldn't know the difference.

What power hitters have we had that Cohen has "not developed"? We've had so few to start with. Collins has been hurt, Rea was recruited as a pitcher, and Holland is not a power hitter to start with. And even Humphreys has improved over last season and I expect him to continue to do so.

Who cares if Cody Brown leads us in doubles? I'm wrong because he's the tallest midget? He only has 13 extra base hits total. Why don't you compare their slugging percentage to the leaders of the rest of the league rather than against other singles hitters? NO ONE on our team is in the top 15 in the SEC in any extra base hit category right now.

A .420! slugging percentage compared to the SEC leader who has a slugging percentage of .729 and the number 15 guy has a slugging percentage of .549. But please tell me what a dummy I am when our hitters aren't even slugging remotely close to the top 20 in the entire league. And yes, when you have that many singles hitters you have to create runs by bunting for hits, stealing bases, and putting runners in motion. It's not ideal, but it's what we have to do to survive.