re: Assigning fault for baseball—want your opinion

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If this is near the top of concerns in your life, you must live at home.

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I made a thread while drinking my coffee and watching the news this morning. sue me arsehole.

Pitchers not hitting their locations. Killed us last night.

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The portal guys this year across college baseball weren't as good as previous years.

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Great point. You can’t make them enter the portal. There were rumors last year that Justin LeBron and Ace Reese were going to enter. Never happened. And with rev share in the P5 and the some schools increasing scholarship numbers, there may be less sure things from good programs (like Tommy White) entering the portal.

Jay already took responsibility for this - he said it was bad roster construction. He was chasing power numbers to replace Jones and Frey, and it didn't work out. What he failed to realize is that those power numbers didn't come from the approach that Jay likes to implement.

Simple as that.

It's probably the hardness thing in the world to think you know what someone will do when the test comes down. You can marry a beautiful woman, but she might turn ugly later. You didn't think that when you married.(just a joke now).

Ronnie Rantz

We were 8-0 until he started calling games

My opinion is, this is not a very good team , especially the pitching, fielding and hitting. Fat and slow

CJ has done a great job of coaching his team. When he took over he had some CPM players on board along what he brought in and that lasted for a total of four years of his tenure. This is the fifth year now it’s all new and simpley put he flunked the course this time andif the same thing happens next year then I guess we’ll know he’s not the great baseball coach we thought he was. Another words he’s on the clock.

Pitching, pitch calling, and recruiting power over all around performance.

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Jay already took responsibility for this - he said it was bad roster construction. He was chasing power numbers to replace Jones and Frey, and it didn't work out. What he failed to realize is that those power numbers didn't come from the approach that Jay likes to implement. Simple as that.

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That seems like a big part of it, and is probably about as forthright as you can expect from a coach.

I think this years team can be summed up by HOLA - How to Lose Awareness. If you look at the expected wins of each SEC team, and you think back to several of the close games that we’ve dropped, there are so many moments where we’ve come up short when we’re primed to win. So many late game defensive blunders, so many atrocious at-bats in advantaged situations - this all goes back to the roster construction.

I also think that defensive lapses at catcher throughout the season have exacerbated this, and have really hurt the pitching performances (thinking of all the exaggerated framing and lack of reliable receiving). I feel like most other teams have a savvy defensive catcher with lackluster numbers, whereas we’ve cycled through two inexperienced catchers with great offensive potential (and performance), but doing no favors for the pitchers.

We should realistically be a mid-tier SEC team right now looking to make a run as we approach the postseason, but they’ve dug themselves too much of a hole, and we still don’t have the timely hitting and solid defensive play to change the outcome of these games.