re: If you dropped the current Colorado Rockies into the CWS how would they do?

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That LSU team wouldn’t score.

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They could theoretically score as scoring in baseball can happen in flukish ways. Putting the ball in play always lends itself to the potential of finding holes with weak contact. But Skenes would have to likewise, as his college self, be close to perfect for LSU to have any prayer of winning and he’d also probably need to pitch a complete game as I wouldn’t trust an LSU bullpen arm from that team to hold an MLB team scoreless for an inning or more.

So basically, for that unicorn of a pitcher in college to beat a bad MLB team, he’d need to pitch the game of his life and have a lot of baseball luck go his team’s way on offense. It’s theoretically not impossible but very very unlikely. Like I said earlier, Wake Forrest held that team scoreless through 10 innings and Skenes also threw his best game of the year. And 2023 Skenes is the only college pitcher the last 15+ years id ever give a chance to pull that off. Think about it this way. He’s better now with more command over more pitches and he’s only had two outings this year where he gave up no runs and the longest outing was 7 innings

2019 LSU with Joe burrow would crush the Rockies… no frickin doubt

Absolutely incredible this generated a 6 page (and counting) thread. Absolute state of this board

I hope you are
Trolling….

They would obliterate anybody they played

I am saying I think the Rockies dominate college baseball and would be heavy favorites every game they play . That’s contrarian?

Imagine watching college baseball all weekend and thinking the Rockies would ever lose. You got guys on what was the top ranked team in the nation for much of the year swinging at balls in the dirt from the back of Arkansas Little Rock’s bullpen

Rockies beats All American team and it's not my opinion its 100% a fact Baseball would be alot closer the football and Basketball

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Rockies are currently 9-50, worst start in professional baseball since 1871. So, would they win the CWS if dropped into it this year?

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If this same Rockies team had played in the 2023 CWS and faced skenes twice I would have given us a slim chance both times. I feel like we could have manufactured a run or two each game or gotten lucky with a homer from crews or Jobert……again, SLIM, VERY slim chance.

They're run ruling 95% of teams by 20+ in the regular season and might go undefeated. Every game would be an absolute bloodbath unless they go up against a 1st round ace that's mlb-ready and has his best stuff. Here's how some of their guys played in their final NCAA seasons(6 of their 9 best players went straight to pro's)

C Goodman Memphis .307/.401/.678 21 HR 51 RBI 11 IBB
1B Toglia UCLA .314/.392/.624 17 HR 65 RBI
2B Schunk Georgia .339/.373/.600 15 HR 58 RBI
3B Hiura UC Irvine .442/.567/.693 8 HR 42 RBI 12 IBB
SS Miller Illinois St. .384/.433/.537 6 HR 35 RBI
LF Beck Tennessee .298/.391/.595 18 HR 61 RBI
CF Doyle Shepherd .392/.502/.758 13 HR 47 RBI 9 IBB
RF Bouchard UCLA .306/.396/.523 9 HR 43 RBI 6 IBB
DH Bryant San Diego .329/.493/.820 31 HR 62 RBI 21 IBB

Average .346/.464/.648
For comparison, Jones is slashing .323/.463/.621 on the year for LSU

Starters
Freeland Evansville 10-2 1.90 ERA 2.62 RA9 0.913 WHIP 11.6 K/9
Dollander Tennessee 10-0 2.39 ERA 2.85 RA9 0.797 WHIP 12.3 K/9
Palmquist Miami 9-4 2.89 ERA 3.54 RA9 1.214 WHIP 12.6 K/9
Herget South Florida 10-3 2.92 ERA 3.19 RA9 1.220 WHIP 10.0 K/9
Rollison Ole Miss 10-4 3.70 ERA 4.62 RA9 1.366 WHIP 11.1 K/9
Bird UCLA 7-4 2.18 ERA 3.63 RA9 1.290 WHIP 4.9 K/9

Average 2.66 ERA 3.41 RA9 1.133 WHIP 10.42 K/9
Comparison: Kade Anderson 3.28 ERA 3.38 RA9 1.063 WHIP 14.6 K/9

Relief
Agnos East Carolina 3-0 2.31 ERA 2.31 RA9 0.771 WHIP 7.3 K/9
Halvorsen Tennessee 3-3 3.81 ERA 5.19 RA9 1.058 WHIP 9.0 K/9

And all of those guys are significantly better now than they were in college