re: Bryce Jordan was our best hitter in SEC games

Bryce hit .311 or 82-103 in SEC play including the SEC tournament. Beau hit .304 or 38-125. That is very average.
Not including the SECT final SEC batting averages:
KRob .355
Freeman .333
Bryce .329
Reid .326
Fraley .321
Antoine .306
Beau .283

Freshman Chris Reid was .003 from Bryce's 3rd place in SEC average. Its far less impressive as you are making it sound.

Beau was 7-31 .225 in the post season (6 of those hits came in the SEC tourney) and 1-18 .056 in the NCAA tourney. He finished the year on an 0-16 .000 run.

Sorry, I replied to you because you're the one who pointed out there were 2 games missing and i went and did the calcs... I was talking to Lester about it being impressive! My bad.

The real problem I had with Bryce wasn't his late season slump. It was bad but it doesn't tell the story. Lester talks so much about Bryce's OB% so let's start there.

He lead the team in free passes. 43 walks or HBPs. Impressive. Others were close behind though. Freeman had 38; duplantis 35; Kramer 41; Fraley 40. We will come back to this in a moment.

Bryce was near the bottom 3rd in other areas. 7th in RBI, 6th in Slg%, and even 6th in runs. Wait... How can he be so far down in runs with such a good OBP? Most will say because he had the bottom of the order behind him all year. And that can be relevant. But let's go back to those free passes...

Those other 4 players had a combined 81 stolen bases. Bryce had zero. Meaning he was in scoring position for the next batter behind him only 7 times the entire season. That's how many doubles he had. 9th on the team. It's great getting on base. (Hot take!) But what good is it if it doesn't translate to the scoreboard? Every time he's on, two good things still have to happen for him to cross the plate.

All that being said, I find it funny that people think the twins hit a ceiling. Baseball is a game of failure and many of the best players have to really fail for it to click. They've been successful their whole careers. And they put a lot of pressure on themselves to come through in big spots late. That happens so damn often with young players. They were over aggressive. Period. 3 weeks doesnt mean they aren't good hitters and fielders

Why don't we wait till next year and let the players earn their spots in the lineup. Who had KR make all SEC this year?

We have had numerous players make major improvements from one year to the next and also players who had major slides. The Jordan's are good hitters who work very hard. They both went cold at the end. I look for them to work very hard between now and next season to become better hitters.

For almost the entire time PM has been coach, with very few exceptions, the best 9 hitters played. Even this year he went from Pap to Romero when he was hitting well, then back to Pap when Romero cooled down and Pap started hitting much better

Put the bats and balls away.
We got got our a$$@#& kicked.

Its Football Season now. :-D

With those numbers in post season, he should have been pinched hit for at least.

I feel better now

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. How can he be so far down in runs with such a good OBP? Most will say because he had the bottom of the order behind him all year

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Freeman 66 starts 216 ABs : 46 runs

Duplantis 66 starts 272 Abs: 45 runs


Bryce Jordan 54 starts 188 ABS : 40 runs


now im not great at math, but im pretty sure Jordan scores more frequently than Duplantis and at the very same rate as Freeman.


which makes your hot take of just getting to first base more ridiculous.

39 SBs compared to zero for Jordan

87 & 114 Total bases, vs 77 for Jordan


You're last paragraph is on point though. But "Just" getting to 1st base will never be out style.

The Jordan twins WERE highly recruited and were high profile recruits.

The truth is that when it counted most Bryce disappeared. He can not hit a curve ball and came up time and again with runners in scoring position at crucial points in games a did not produce. That is a fact. Plain and simple.