Bham Bammer

Alabama Fan has already got the list going I the first post here. We are at 47 as of now. I’d think we will lose a handful through the draft and a couple with eligibility may walk away. So if what he says about DSA is correct we may be good for next year.

Been this way for three or four years now.

I really enjoyed the baseball season this year but overall the college sports have lost me a little bit each year. I just simply don’t care as much as I used to. I can’t follow recruiting anymore and connecting to the team is more difficult than ever.

Not exactly what you’d hope for but if he is solid defensively (I have no idea) and he can be a bottom of the order guy it’s a little more palatable.

I do know our catching situation as of today doesn’t look great for next year so there may be a little bit of desperation.

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He only played bc Vaughn loved him.

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Any suggestion that Vaughn intentionally left a superior player on the bench just because he liked another guy is ludicrous.

He didn’t like anyone as much as he liked Will Plattner I guarantee you and Platt barely played this year.

People don’t want to accept that Torres was our best option this year but he was. He gave his all. Stop shitting on the dude who did nothing wrong.

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I don’t think anyone on the board has been overly ugly toward him

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:lol:

Elevation too. Gotta be within the right elevation window or you get no field.

No thanks. One of the beautiful things of the game is the varying dimensions of the playing fields. It doesn’t need to be like every other sport.

I don’t think you know what hyperbole is. In the clip, he referenced one of his own players being extended over two separate outings he brought it up. He talks about the format, forcing players to pitch in uncomfortable situations. That is not reality. The reality is that he and these other coaches would rather win and risk in injury to an arm than lose and have their season end because they took a chance on an arm that they don’t feel is as capable.

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didn't need to have a pitcher throw 100+ and then do it again in the same regional, but some other teams did.

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Nobody NEEDED to. That’s the point. They chose to.

I saw that earlier and was very disappointed.

I posted in another thread as well, but basically he’s complaining because he didn’t have the guts to utilize his full roster. There is zero question that he had guys dressed and available that he never went to all weekend or even guys that threw very little that he just didn’t trust to put out there.

I’ll be pissed if this sentiment gains traction and ends up ruining regional weekend in a few years. He and any other coaches complaining need to zip it and either win the thing in three games or have the guts to put another guy you recruited out on the mound.

It is not about player safety when the coach has the ability and option to put a fresh guy on the mound and chooses not to. If player safety is that much of concerns, then he needs to look himself in the mirror and ask why he prioritized winning over his guys health.