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re: Props to Pearson, but let's not forget
Posted on 4/28/24 at 7:19 am to shrevetigertom
Posted on 4/28/24 at 7:19 am to shrevetigertom
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Well, one good thing is that any team looking to pick up a national champion type coach can easily find one by coming to the Rant.
Its incredible. According to these dweebs, Jay must be an idiot.
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Posted on 4/28/24 at 7:35 am to RogerTheShrubber
No one thinks he is an idiot. My question from the beginning was simply wondering what Jay saw or didn’t see in the offseason that made Larson 5th off the bench even behind a catcher.
If Neal never steps foot in the outfield then it’s easy to explain that Brown had a good fall and Pearson and Frey have seniority…
But putting Neal in RF seemed like a last ditch effort to throw shite at the wall and hope something sticks.
If Neal never steps foot in the outfield then it’s easy to explain that Brown had a good fall and Pearson and Frey have seniority…
But putting Neal in RF seemed like a last ditch effort to throw shite at the wall and hope something sticks.
Posted on 4/28/24 at 9:26 am to FredbullTN
Just stop please. You want to blame a coach for not starting a unproven player? Johnson said MULTIPLE times that Larsen would play this season and he is playing.
Fall stats for a true freshman do not mean it’ll translate. You know what you have in Pearson, Bingham, Kling and others before a true freshman. It isn’t like he is pitching.
With that, none of the aforementioned are hitting like they should. As for Neal, he is like a redshirt freshman. He was more of a known quantity than Larsen so I can see why he was put in right.
What else don’t we know? Injury? Grades? Or some other reason he was being held out.
Fall stats for a true freshman do not mean it’ll translate. You know what you have in Pearson, Bingham, Kling and others before a true freshman. It isn’t like he is pitching.
With that, none of the aforementioned are hitting like they should. As for Neal, he is like a redshirt freshman. He was more of a known quantity than Larsen so I can see why he was put in right.
What else don’t we know? Injury? Grades? Or some other reason he was being held out.
Posted on 4/28/24 at 10:28 am to FredbullTN
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My question from the beginning was simply wondering what Jay saw or didn’t see
It’s always a simple answer to these questions, He wasn’t performing in practice until something starting clicking and then he took off in games. Every coach deals with these situations. Jay gave ample opportunity to others who were producing in the fall and early spring and it didn’t translate to the games. Larson struggled at first but finally adapted to SEC caliber ball and here we are. Not much more too it than that.
Posted on 4/28/24 at 10:52 am to deathvalleytiger10
That’s fair honestly. All I’m saying is that the fall and spring keep coming up and if you look at it, Brown regressed and Larson improved, yet one guy was in the opening day lineup and the other was buried behind a catcher trying to play outfield.
When you add in our struggles offensively and then look at the improvement in K% for Larson between the fall and spring as well as his overall numbers improving in the spring, imo it’s fair to wonder what the deciding factors were. Neal in RF felt like forcing a round peg in a square hole. I wouldn’t have thought twice if it had gone Brown, Pearson, Frey, then Larson.
And to be clear, I have never been under the impression that our season would be different if Larson had started from day one. This team was only going to go as far as our pitching would take us. I don’t blame Jay for anything and like I said in my opening post, it doesn’t even matter at this point. We got the right guy in the right spot. It’s just a curiosity question that some people can’t wrap their heads around without thinking the coach is being blamed, is an idiot, or someone on TD could do a better job.
When you add in our struggles offensively and then look at the improvement in K% for Larson between the fall and spring as well as his overall numbers improving in the spring, imo it’s fair to wonder what the deciding factors were. Neal in RF felt like forcing a round peg in a square hole. I wouldn’t have thought twice if it had gone Brown, Pearson, Frey, then Larson.
And to be clear, I have never been under the impression that our season would be different if Larson had started from day one. This team was only going to go as far as our pitching would take us. I don’t blame Jay for anything and like I said in my opening post, it doesn’t even matter at this point. We got the right guy in the right spot. It’s just a curiosity question that some people can’t wrap their heads around without thinking the coach is being blamed, is an idiot, or someone on TD could do a better job.
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