How quickly we forget last year’s baseball team

Yeah, I don’t get why people were expecting Omaha.

It’s the same team as last year, with worse pitching.

Now, critiquing his in game decisions should be allowed 100%.

Solid post. He's in his first year and struggling with pitching and fielding.

Things will definitely get better.

preach brudda

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It’s the same team as last year, with worse pitching.

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Except for the fact that we brought in an All-American and all those true freshman last year are now sophomores with another year under their belt. There is plenty of talent on this team. Hopefully they can put it together.

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He's in his first year and struggling with pitching and fielding.

Things will definitely get better.

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Honest question, where in his past as the head baseball coach do you get the idea that fielding will improve? All the metrics say that that is completely false and his teams are always below to very subpar out in the field.

I'm sorry but that is blind unsubstantiated faith

I agree with your post. Our biggest issue even though defense sticks out the most is pitching. Dominate teams have 3-4 starters. We don't have that right now and until we do we will not be in the upper echelon of the SEC or the country. I will give Jay the benefit of the doubt for this year and maybe next after that its a trend. It will take next year to bring them in and start developing them unless he gets them from the portal.

JJ is one month into his first season, coming off a pretty bland year.

Anyone panicking deserves to be laughed at.

Panic? No. But you have to have your head in the sand if you aren't concerned by the early returns.

The defensive play with almost the exact same position players (minus Z. Arnold) has been alarming. Like historically bad. They proved they could perform better last season. Is it mental? I don't know.

I give him a pass on the mound, as the pitching cupboard was pretty bare. Would have liked to have seen him bring in at least one transfer capable of starting on the weekend. He did not. PM at least had Landon M. last year.

Hitting has been about as expected so far.

Unless there is significant improvement on the mound and in the field this team won't reach 13-17 in the league like last year. Everyone's expectations were that they would be at least a little better than last year with all the position players returning.