re: Baseball - Pre-Season Assumptions vs Reality

Statistically their staff regressed, particularly the number of walks issued and the staff ERA. As for his record, yeah, he has a CWS ring, but only because three Arkansas fielders forgot how to handle a pop up.

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I picked them to go 17-13. After watching a few scrimmages, I knew the offensive struggles would be there, but I kept thinking back to the 2022 team. Jay's first year here. How could a team with Ma'Khail Hilliard as their Friday night starter go 17-13 in the league, and this one can't?

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Crews, Morgan. Daughty, Dugas, Berry, etc. A really good offense made up for a mediocre pitching staff. Hench, 17-13.

eta: Plus, Gervaise and Reyzelman were money closing out games.

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I understand your point, but the pitching got worse his second year at A&M. That's not stability.

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How much turn over in the pitching staff from 2022 to 2023?

I know for a fact that aTm went from 3 established starters in 2022 to one (Dettmer) and he had injury issues during 2023 with the other two moving on from the program.

Raw numbers do not always paint the complete picture.

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Guys have hit but the guys behind them haven’t in critical moments. Take Sunday. Braswell gets on and not one guy can find a hole.

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8th inning Sunday is our season in a nutshell. Runners on 2nd and 3rd and no outs. None of the next 3 guys gets a hit. Any one of them does and it’s a tie game.

I'm disappointed at how poorly this season has gone, but I never agreed with the preseason polls, nor most of what people around here were saying on local shows about how deep the pitching was.

I had very low expectations for the offense, and I saw an awful lot of assumptions about pitchers who had way too much yet to prove, to think that they were all going to be that good. I thought this team would make the post season, but thought they'd be pretty underwhelming and not a real threat to make a run. It's gone way worse than I expected, despite the fact that we have one guy, Jared Jones, who has been way better than I expected him to be.

7.) Cam Johnson was supposed to be the Second Coming of Vida Blue.

That never happened because he has NO CONTROL of his 105 mph pitches.

Linehan, no I mean Peetz, sorry I mean Yeskie, couldn't do anything of consequence to help

MLB saw it too, thus no wretched excess contract. Go to LSU, prove yourself, then come back and see us .(All you fartknockers go look up Vida Blue if you don't know who he is)

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None of the next 3 guys gets a hit.

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True but Jones did drive in Pearson from third on the fielders choice. That’s a good, productive AB

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Any one of them does and it’s a tie game.

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No guarantee White scores from second on a hit. The frustrating part was Larson striking out with a man on 3rd and 1 out. Put the ball in play on the ground in the IF or in the air to the OF and it’s likely a tie game

Regardless, the whole team doing nothing most of the game was far more frustrating than only scoring 2 in the 8th.

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Our inability to drive in runs with runners in scoring position has been our biggest problem this year.

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I don't disagree. But I think getting two runs in when the first 2 reached base in the inning isn't a great example of us not producing runs. We've had plenty of times this season, and last weekend, where we had runners on base and no outs and scored zero runs out of the deal. It's hard for me to really complain about a crooked inning.