re: It’s a lack of talent

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Talent is not an issue. Player development, game management, defensive positioning, lineup choices....those are issues

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I’m leaning that way too, but it could be a bit of both. I have a hard time believing Hal Hughes might still be the best option at shortstop in his junior year. Have we recruited no one or developed no one in that time that’s better than him?

And as far as the offense goes I think back to the box scores scuba was posting in the fall and the preseason. I don’t have a photographic memory but from my recollection the offensive results so far are not that much different than the results in those scrimmages. Not much hitting going on except from a select few. A lot of walks from the pitchers too. And that’s exactly what we’re seeing so far early in the season. I know you want to be playing your best ball at the end of the season but over the last two games we don’t even look like the best team on the field in any phase of the game. And talent-wise, playing a lot of freshmen or first time players, just from an eye test I would have thought we’d look better than Nicholls and EKU. But that really hasn’t been the case. Further to the actual results we didn’t look better than them at the plate, didn’t look better on the mound, and certainly didn’t look better in the field. Unacceptable.