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Gibler has been done for 2 batters now and DVH is doing it again just like last weekend.

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I yield to few in my love for DVH, but he has a penchant for leaving in struggling pitchers several pitches too late. Anyone could tell Gibler had lost it.

This game should have never been close.

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Great win. Gaeckle looked good.

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McElvain was great, too. Came in for the 9 out save, struck out 7, and even overcame some dipshittery in the field (looking at you, Robinett).

Another 3 errors last night. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again- this is the worst defense we’ve ever had in the DVH era.

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It’ll be close if we win the next two. Gotta keep in mind that due to our history, ballpark and crowd, we often get the benefit of the doubt.

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Not trying to be an a-hole, but we are absolutely not hosting. We simply aren’t, and our fans really need to get past this notion of “well we’re Arkansas so the committee will factor that in.” The RPI math just doesn’t math, and quite literally every projection for weeks has had us as a 2 seed in Tallahassee, Lawrence, or (lately) Eugene.

Our only hope is making a deep run in Hoover, but I don’t see that happening since DVH doesn’t really care about the SEC tourney.

We likely weren’t hosting even if we swept this weekend. Dropping game 1 basically ensures it, unless we win the next 2 and make a run at Hoover.

I think we need past the idea of hosting – it’s almost certainly not happening.

Our schedule was too soft this year, and we’re currently at 26 in the RPI. Even if we sweep Kentucky, it’s most likely not going to cover enough ground.

I just don’t think we have the pitching to get out of a regional this year, especially if we have to throw Dietz in the 2-3 seed game. Unless you take your chances and start Gaeckle in game 1, but Game 3 is still looming.

We just don’t have that backend of the rotation guy, and Game 3 has been our kryptonite this season. We’ve lost 7 Game 3’s of series this year — Stetson, USC, Florida, Auburn, Georgia, Missouri, and OU. We’re giving up an average of 10 runs on those games.

The key to a regional is going the 2022 route and just blowing teams’ doors off and out hitting them.

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He can't develop, and not bringing in shite from the portal after we lost every starter and Jimenez is just inexcusable.

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Not to mention the hubris to think they could turn Gaeckle into a starter again after it went tits up last year.

And the belief that Fisher was a day 3 starter after never having been more than a midweek guy.

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Saw a stat that we are outscoring opponents 56-18 in the 8th inning this year

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And they flashed that stat right before we plated our final 2 runs.

Crazy how this team has responded in the late innings all year.

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I’ve been extremely hard on this team, but the approach at the plate has improved a ton. Especially Aloy, he stopped chasing the outside slider for the K. Love to see it

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I’ve been hard on Nate for years (deservedly so), but he’s done wonders this year in fixing Aloy’s swing and approach, changing Pompey’s approach, and bringing along the freshmen to where they have contributed in big games.

I still have too many doubts about our lineup, our fielding, and our pitching depth, but he deserves credit for the lineup (and our record) not absolutely cratering this year when Brumbaugh went tits up and we had to play guys out of position. Crazy to think that we effectively don’t have a shortstop, a first baseman, a RF, and a day 3 starter and we’re still going to finish .500 or better in conference.

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Now he'll probably enter the portal and go home to OU or OSU and we wasted a spot on him for a year instead of maybe another portal guy that could have contributed at all. Hopefully he won't do that but it's 2026.

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You left out “and win the Golden Spikes Award en route to leading OU to a CWS title.”

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There's no point in keeping up with recruiting class rankings until after the draft. All of those top classes are going to lose guys.

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This.

Baseball recruiting isn’t like football and basketball in that there’s a downside to having one of the top rated classes because more than a few of your top guys might not even make it to campus. DVH has even mentioned this in terms of slightly altering who they go after.

SEC rosters have also been skewing older as coaches have gone to the portal more heavily. I’ll be more interested in terms of who we’re able to pull out of the portal.

College baseball recruiting is also really hard to project. Just look at Brumbaugh - he was a huge get in recruiting and named preseason SEC freshman of the year, and he hasn’t played meaningful innings since the last non-conference series before we started SEC play and will probably be playing elsewhere next year.