re: I wanna believe in Jay Joihnson Tell me why I should?

Dam DRock, you are right.

The baseball gods don't favor this manager and it is showing, so brightly that everyone can see it.

I'm glad you put it into words.

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One of those all Americans is a guy who followed Jay from Arizona so stop trying to spin it like Mainieri left a loaded roster

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Doughty, Crews, and Morgan are all projected 1st round draft picks. Morgan and Crews were both AAs. Gavin Dugas led the SEC in RBIs last year and led the SEC in HRs in conference play (3rd overall). Dugas is batting at the bottom of the lineup or not playing. Gio has shown he can hit against SEC pitching and it took a month before he started playing. What do you know, he has one of the highest OBP on the team. Thompson has talent and has regressed since his freshman season last year. Milazzo is an elite defensive catcher. That's more than enough pieces to work with in the lineup not to perform so poorly against decent teams. But he's too stubborn to realize moving Berry to DH, Doughty to 3rd, and Merrifield to 2nd helps shore up one of the biggest issues we've had. His excuse about LH hitters doesn't even make sense. We started 5 on Saturday and 4 on Sunday. Moving Berry to DH and putting anyone else in LF would still leave the same number of LH bats as any replacement: Gio, Pearson, Stevenson, Drost, Jobert all are LH hitters. Yet, somehow, he said that'd leave us with only 2. Wat?

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Come April/ May he will have his answers and so will we.

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April is a week away

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so I’m not sure what you guys were expecting?

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playing like a team that's at least well-coached and has a plan. A&M is trash and it was very clear they are a well-coached team in comparison.

There is not such thing as NO other options at SS.

JT needs to sit and watch someone else make errors. Why not, that's what he is doing while other players are watching.

At least for a game.

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I can’t understand for the life of me why y’all think habits that took years to form would be broken in a matter of months?

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I'm talking about moves he makes. That is completely within his control. A&M has a bad bullpen, generally. But they have competitive at bats and are sharp in the field. They play like they have a plan even if they're not always able to execute that plan. Jay coaches like a guy guessing hoping something works. And it's been that way all year.

And this isn't just about wins and losses. It's how we're losing games many times.

Comparing us to A&M. They are one of the best fielding teams in the entire country. Scholssnagle basically recruited an entirely new team from the portal. But those guys are sharp as hell in the field. They don't have a greta bullpen and only decent starting pitching but they're 2nd in the SEC in fewest walks allowed. They pitch to contact and keep the ball low and induce ground balls (196 ground outs to 128 fly outs), which is a big reason why they;ve only allowed 8 HRs all season. They seemingly know who they are and Schlossnagle coaches based on what they have, which isn't a lot.

Johnson, on the other hand, doesn't appear to know his team very well and is still trying to figure that out. He has shown he cares very little about defense, at all, which has been a major reason why we're losing games. It's as if he failed to scout his own team after he took the job. I'm not saying he didn't but he coaches like it.

And to say habits can't change? Really? We went from an overly aggressive lineup who swung at pitches early and often to a team that stares at pitches all night trying to extend at bats. But that doesn't work when you consistently find yourself in 2 strike pitchers counts and are just trying to stay alive.

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We’re hitting well.

We’re drawing walls

We’re scoring runs

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In SEC play, against La Tech 2x, and against the teams we played at Minute Maid (the decent teams on our schedule thus far) we are not doing any of those things well.

That’s not true though.

We scored 6 runs in both games vs La Tech.
We scored 5 and 6 runs against OU and Baylor
We scored 4 7 and 7 runs against A&M

Were averaging 6 runs a game in SEC play.

Numbers don’t lie.

We’re scoring runs. You can’t complain about the bats.

We’ve literally scored less than 4 runs 1 time.

The bats are good we just set the bar so damn high with our shitty fielding and pitching

You don’t have to see a bad outing to know he’s not an SEC starter, we’ve known that before the bad outing. If I told you I had a guy who can only throw fastballs and he can’t throw them for strikes consistently, would you say he needs to be starting SEC games? Of course not