re: Is our hitting issues a slump or a sign of poor offense?

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Why the callout? OP made fine sense.

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some stupid typos, I'm a bad speller it's brought up all the time in my posts, I just choose to ignore it instead of dealing with it every time it comes up.

Well whatever. I agree with you. I don't think our team is just shitty offensively. I think Ibarra will come around. Didn't he lead the SEC in triples for awhile last year? Breg is definitely in a slump. Stevenson has shown major improvement. Scivique, though slower than molasses going uphill on a cold day, has the potential to develop some serious power and become a good hitter.

People are overreacting, but I do think we have major hitting issues right now. This isn't to say it's permanent - I just think it's something that PM needs to start seriously addressing both publicly and amongst the team.

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But hey, look at UCLA last year...not exactly the best hitting team ever.

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Yes, but they could bunt you silly. We don't even play small ball well.
Miss St put FOURTEEN on Vandy in five innings, we can't get 14 in TWO Series'. No way the whole team slumps at the same time like this. Something is wrong. Time to stop recruiting the scrappy ball players and get mashers back. I know the bats are a problem, but I see nothing wrong with balls going off the wall instead of over it.

^ exactly. I never see them try to work the count. They never try to hit the ball where its pitched/ slap it into the opposite field. Its just a terrible approach at the plate. It has been like this since the season LSU went out and lost the ucla regional.

We should hire Achord.

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one thing I think we all can agree on is Javi needs to go.

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I blame the gris-gris.

This team just doesn't seem to be as good as last years club. It happens when you lose the hitting power they did from last years squad, and it doesn't get replaced. I do think like everyone else that Javi sucks. There doesn't seem to be any coaching from him at all. The players seem to just do what they want at the plate, without thinking of situations. IMO. And may I had I hate the new bats.

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We will have issues all season....this is not a slump!

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I tend to agree with this. To me, it's has a lot to do with the philosophy, or lack thereof, of how this team approaches hitting. Two examples from Sunday's game against UGA...First, and I would say most glaring, is with bases loaded and 2 outs in extra innings Robertson is at the plate. He has a 2-0 count and our coach calls time out to talk to Kramer...he then proceeds to swing at the very next pitch and hits a lazy fly ball to center field. I don't know what CPM told him, but wouldn't you think the best thing to tell a player batting under .150 that has a 2-0 count is to take until you get 2 strikes especially with the winning run only 90 feet away and a walk would end the game? Several players I know who played for Coach Bertman said that is what Skip would have told him.

Secondly, while I understand McMullen is hitting descent for average he came up in consecutive plate appearances with runners at the corners and 1 out and swung at the first pitch he sees and then grounded into consecutive double plays on the very next pitch to end both innings.

Finally, I truly don't discount the affect that Blake Dean may have had on last years team hitting...he's gone this year and we still have Sanchez. Now Bregman has a year under Sanchez.

All of this may be circumstantial, but there is a pattern here. To me the pattern is reflective of a coaching style that seems to teach...this is the end of the bat you hold, step of to the plate on the side you're most comfortable and swing, swing, swing.

Just as pitching is more than just throwing the ball as hard as you can, there is more to good hitting than just swinging the bat as hard as you can.

Just my two cents.