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Post by sagebrush on Feb 19, 2020 17:06:05 GMT -8
Backman didn't get a game. He was an off season hire and immediately the reports of "alleged" DUI and "alleged" domestic violence and after a couple days it was buh-bye. I use the word "alleged" because unlike a major media outfit, I can't afford to get sued.
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Post by Judge Smails on Feb 19, 2020 17:38:27 GMT -8
No, he was an infielder who holds the MLB record for the shortest stint as a MLB manager (2 days). It was 4 days not 2.
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Post by billsaab on Feb 19, 2020 17:58:46 GMT -8
Well back to Beavers in surprise. No small ball and we ended up leaving tons of guys on against BYU. They were pumped for this game as was Gonzaga. I witnessed too many walks,hop, and poor situation hitting. Like behind runner to advance 2 runners. I can not predict what will happen. I would not plan a trip to Omaha, but we can grow. All teams were 2-2 in surprise. The Mountain west Teams should have fun with each other.
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Post by ag87 on Feb 20, 2020 7:09:01 GMT -8
Of course I am very, very old school but with runners on you better damn well hit the ball somehow, somewhere. Years ago my Babe Ruth coach got soo damn pissed we were striking out he made every one from the 3rd inning on Bunt! Screaming make contact! Make Contact. Lessons in life. LOL You just severely dated yourself with that reference. I'm in the same boat with you, though. But the younger folks on this board are probably going to think that you were coached by Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth baseball doesn't exist anymore?
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Post by irimi on Feb 20, 2020 7:44:28 GMT -8
Stats are not official but should be fairly accurate. 1. Beavs have six players over .300. Dukart .600, Ober .412, McGarry .375, Armstrong .357 and McMahan at .333. Claunch and McDowell are lurking at .287. 2. We may need to address the DH. McGary gave us a strong 3-5 effort with 3 doubles against Gonzaga on Sunday but we were 1-12 and 6 strikeouts with Valero-Sanchez and Melton hitting there in the 3 other games. 3. Joe Casey is off to a slow start with 2-14 (.143) and 5 K's in Surprise. To his credit his OB% is .316 thanks to an error and drawing two walks. He's a potential .300 hitter and will get back on track. soon. For now, maybe the 5-hole isn't a good fit for him. 4. Our bench players were a combined 1-27 in Surprise. Offensive help was hard to come by. 5. Strikeouts and K:BB ratio are out of whack. We struck out 42 times and drew 13 walks plus 2 HBP. That isn't Oregon State baseball. 6. PC emphasized "outs are the most precious thing you have", in Surprise we gave up 37.2% of our outs without any contact. 10.5 K's a game is akin to handing your opponent 3 1/3 innings of the 9 inning game. I looked at swinging K's vs taking K's, and K's with runners in scoring position. I'm not interested in going there. 7. In the 34 innings we came to bat, we scored in 10 of them. Four or five a game is the norm, not 2.5 - are you starting an inning with a base runner? Are you putting the ball in play or striking out? 8. We left 39 runners on base including 19 in scoring position. Capitalize! Coaches trying it on with their new team, talented young players learning on the job, lots of bright spots (sure, we all expected Dukart to hit .600 and show us an OB% of .692, didn't we?), and the performance evaluation continues On to Starkville. I know it’s early and all that, but Andy batting .357 and playing lights out defense is gonna go a long way toward taking this team to Omaha. I’d love to see Armstrong really come into his own this year. I’d like to see batters protect the plate a lot more. Just feels like we aren’t fouling balls off and going deep into the count. We need to make the pitchers make a mistake, and instead, we’re watching the third strike get called. If it’s close, put your bat on it. Foul it off. Stay alive.
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Post by Judge Smails on Feb 20, 2020 7:47:03 GMT -8
You just severely dated yourself with that reference. I'm in the same boat with you, though. But the younger folks on this board are probably going to think that you were coached by Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth baseball doesn't exist anymore? Not around here. I think their are a few leagues left throughout the US, but Oregon is all JBO. Babe Ruth went away a long time ago.
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Post by chinmusic on Feb 20, 2020 8:48:44 GMT -8
Different schools of thought on plate work. Some MLB scouts complain, "they don't teach them to hit anymore, they teach them to take".
An endless debate on that one.
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Post by kersting13 on Feb 20, 2020 9:34:18 GMT -8
Babe Ruth baseball doesn't exist anymore? Not around here. I think their are a few leagues left throughout the US, but Oregon is all JBO. Babe Ruth went away a long time ago. There is at least one Cal Ripken/Babe Ruth league in Portland, although I do not know exactly how active it is, but you can currently sign up. JBO doesn't cover ALL of Oregon. There are plenty of Little League programs around as well. Some places do both JBO and LL, or transition from LL to JBO at 13 years.
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Post by Judge Smails on Feb 20, 2020 9:44:41 GMT -8
Not around here. I think their are a few leagues left throughout the US, but Oregon is all JBO. Babe Ruth went away a long time ago. There is at least one Cal Ripken/Babe Ruth league in Portland, although I do not know exactly how active it is, but you can currently sign up. JBO doesn't cover ALL of Oregon. There are plenty of Little League programs around as well. Some places do both JBO and LL, or transition from LL to JBO at 13 years. Yes, Babe Ruth was for after little league (13-15 yrs old) before you transitioned to Legion. Now JBO has replaced Babe Ruth for the most part and JBO has even replaced LL in some areas. Some parents prefer JBO because they follow HS rules. However, it's a little absurd for 10 year olds to play as any kid that reaches 1st base can easily steal 2nd & 3rd as 10 year old pitchers are slow to the plate and most of the catchers don't have the arm strength to throw out the stealing runners.
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Post by mbabeav on Feb 20, 2020 11:18:54 GMT -8
There is at least one Cal Ripken/Babe Ruth league in Portland, although I do not know exactly how active it is, but you can currently sign up. JBO doesn't cover ALL of Oregon. There are plenty of Little League programs around as well. Some places do both JBO and LL, or transition from LL to JBO at 13 years. Yes, Babe Ruth was for after little league (13-15 yrs old) before you transitioned to Legion. Now JBO has replaced Babe Ruth for the most part and JBO has even replaced LL in some areas. Some parents prefer JBO because they follow HS rules. However, it's a little absurd for 10 year olds to play as any kid that reaches 1st base can easily steal 2nd & 3rd as 10 year old pitchers are slow to the plate and most of the catchers don't have the arm strength to throw out the stealing runners. www.baberuthleague.org/
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Post by kersting13 on Feb 20, 2020 13:39:18 GMT -8
There is at least one Cal Ripken/Babe Ruth league in Portland, although I do not know exactly how active it is, but you can currently sign up. JBO doesn't cover ALL of Oregon. There are plenty of Little League programs around as well. Some places do both JBO and LL, or transition from LL to JBO at 13 years. Yes, Babe Ruth was for after little league (13-15 yrs old) before you transitioned to Legion. Now JBO has replaced Babe Ruth for the most part and JBO has even replaced LL in some areas. Some parents prefer JBO because they follow HS rules. However, it's a little absurd for 10 year olds to play as any kid that reaches 1st base can easily steal 2nd & 3rd as 10 year old pitchers are slow to the plate and most of the catchers don't have the arm strength to throw out the stealing runners. Timely enough - I just got an e-mail from my kid's JBO org saying they have 35-40 kids trying out for their American/National teams, but they are only intending to field 2 squads out of it, and cutting the rest. I guess they don't have enough coaches to field the 3rd team that they obviously have enough interested players for. Seems pretty sucky to cut a dozen 7th/8th grade kids who want to play baseball (especially when I'm not sure my kid will make the cut). I'm already coaching 2 lower level teams, so I'm not in a position to help them out. I'm hoping this e-mail is a scare tactic to recruit another couple of parents to step up as a coach, although they didn't seem to be putting out the appeal for more coaches.
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Post by giantkillers83 on Feb 20, 2020 18:41:38 GMT -8
Go the plate in a salty state of mind, know your strike zone, and if you have a hole in your swing, protect that. Wade Boggs, George Brett and Pete Rose flirted with .400 because they had all of that - plate discipline. An interesting point - good pitching coaches teach their staff how to pitch effectively "out of the zone" as well as in the zone. We had a Dude named Heimlich that could punch out a hitter without throwing a strike, close pitches but not actually strikes. I witnessed it. Coach Canham taking notes ....
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Post by giantkillers83 on Feb 20, 2020 18:42:26 GMT -8
No, he was an infielder who holds the MLB record for the shortest stint as a MLB manager (2 days). It was 4 days not 2. And THAT makes all the difference.
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Feb 20, 2020 19:36:57 GMT -8
Go the plate in a salty state of mind, know your strike zone, and if you have a hole in your swing, protect that. Wade Boggs, George Brett and Pete Rose flirted with .400 because they had all of that - plate discipline. An interesting point - good pitching coaches teach their staff how to pitch effectively "out of the zone" as well as in the zone. We had a Dude named Heimlich that could punch out a hitter without throwing a strike, close pitches but not actually strikes. I witnessed it. Pete Rose's season-high average was .348 in 1969, and it was the only time he hit over .340 in his entire career. Wade Boggs never hit higher than .368. The only players to legitimately challenge .400 for a season in the last half-century were George Brett in 1980 (.390), Gwynn in 1994 (.394) and Rod Carew in 1977 (.388).
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Post by chinmusic on Feb 20, 2020 23:55:51 GMT -8
They all flirted during some point in the season but only Brett maintained the pace through the season's end. Boggs went well into the year but tailed off in the stretch.
What do you have on Wee Willie Keeler and Rabbit Maranville? They were disciplined hitters.
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