Baseball Stats: The Opponent HR in 2021

[CadaverDawg]

I may be way off, but I feel like Foxhall likes power arms that pitch up in the zone to blow it by people. When you use that strategy, you're going to give up some bombs, but you're going to strike a lot of guys out and get a lot of pop ups. So based on this years results, I'll gladly take the increase in homers along with the 750 K's and overall lack of hard contact we give up. Gotta keep recruiting big arms though, or that could turn ugly if the K's come way down.

[Todd4State]

I may be way off, but I feel like Foxhall likes power arms that pitch up in the zone to blow it by people. When you use that strategy, you're going to give up some bombs, but you're going to strike a lot of guys out and get a lot of pop ups. So based on this years results, I'll gladly take the increase in homers along with the 750 K's and overall lack of hard contact we give up. Gotta keep recruiting big arms though, or that could turn ugly if the K's come way down.

I'm not sure that Bednar and MacLeoud really fit Foxhall's style that well in that I don't think either one has enough velocity to pitch without being prone to giving up home runs. I do think that guys like Fristoe (who yes, I know gave up 9 home runs himself), Cade Smith, Tepper, and the recruits we're getting fit it much better.

Didn't we beat Leither in the regular season?

Yes. If we play them in the championship round- getting ahead of myself here- the best chance we have is to split with Rocker and Leiter and then hope that Hootie can outpitch their third guy. We also won't hold Landon back and we'll be at a neutral site as opposed to Nashville.

Not me, I like Maddux Ball

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maddux_(statistic)

I wish we had a Chuck Holly, Caleb Reed, and/or Jonathan Holder that did not throw 97, but were reliable, mental Titans. We are missing this precision ingredient because Brandon Smith is not yet back to 2019 performance. Or, maybe Foxhall does not cultivate the trait like Butch did.

After watching many regional games, NCAA is full of +95 Canadians. The short draft did not make the pitching talent too dominant, it left a ton of A-ball head cases in D1.

The biggest thing I miss about Butch was all the sidearm/submarine guys. Not that I think we should go back to that. But I'd like to have a guy or two that we can rely on to eat innings like Chase Patrick that we use some. It's just a weird thing I like as far as baseball players go. Loved me some Dan Quisenberry back in the day.