re: What would you assess this team's chances are of 1) making to Omaha 2) winning the CWS?

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Great post but it ignores the one thing everyone keeps forgetting about which is defense. Everything you said is true. This team is 2nd in the conference in runs per SEC game and 7th in ERA (and we would expect that to get better as the season goes based on past JJ teams). We should be competing for a national seed. But the defense is so incredibly atrocious that we're only average. We lead the conference in errors and unearned runs. We make things so much harder on our pitchers. And I just don't see a way to fix the infield anywhere on this roster.

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Hopefully the removal of Yorke at first, Dardar not having to worry about losing his spot, and Pearson getting more reps fixes that issue - to an extent.

I understand Stanfield has an error (maybe 2?), and Jake Brown has 2 (I think) but I'm confident in the outfield defense.

Maybe Yamin's emergence can light a fire under the catchers.

Slim and none, and Slim left town.