re: Deeper dive into hitting

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Unrelated to hitting but someone on the team has a .444 fielding %.

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As fans, we see only the games and think we know everything base on a small sample size. I don't mean that towards you, HCB, I am referring to all of us. Mainieri who actually sees these guys practice has a little more info to go on. I am assuming Hellmers was hitting well in practice and showed a decent glove. Safford one of the early leaders for the job must have fell off a little bit. Thompson had a little accuracy issue with throws from third and not a great bat. It was a desperate move by Mainieri and having hindsight now not a good one. To expect this guy to come in and be a SEC level 3B without even much practice at the position, well..... It was actually unfair to Hellmers. This guy is a really good baseball player and he doesn't deserve the bashing, that should be on Mainieri.

I will get into the freshman pitchers on a different thread, once we have seen them all. Still waiting to see Rice and Murray.