re: Why don't we just admit it about our baseball team

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but there is no legitimate excuse for this team to be this bad. JJ isn't on the hot seat or anything, but ye needs to be feeling some pressure.

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Let’s use a grade vs what he inherited and has done in 1/2 of a season.

Pitching A+. He inherited literally zero SP and has them in the top third of the SEC.
Fielding C. He inherited a bad SS but the only one he had that could hit and it has cost him about 5 games from that spot alone. Doughty was not good last season even at third and Berry was PUTRID last year at Arizona. Because of that I give him a C in that he should have made a better decision on the 28 man roster. Thompson fielding at .93% like last year would make a bunch of people feel a lot different.
Hitting B - I expected them to be good with Morgan, Berry, Crews and Doughty. Because they are not “great” vs excellent pitching is not anything to cry home about. Games like yesterday where they have success hitting but can’t get the timely hit, happens. It was one game.

A - on overall, game decisions - he is a better in game decision maker than the last 2 HCsand it isn’t close.

Overall, he has done a good job so far and has his team right there with others in the conference western div. He wins vs Bama, Ole Miss and a couple others, does ok at Hoover and make the tourney, I’ll call it a successful year 1.