Post by nuclearbeaver on Mar 18, 2023 7:28:18 GMT -8
Man the state of baseball fans is something else sometimes. Let's maybe do some expectation management cause some people and other boards are acting like duck fans who just lost their shot at the Natty.
1) We essentially return 3 full time starters on offense. Dernedde, Forrester and Bazanna are the only guys who played more than 70% of games last year. Of our many rotating players 11 were not on the team last year, that's right, we have more new players taking swings than their is places in the batting order. We lost most of our offensive production and have replaced it with young talent. Lots of reasons for this but mostly top program suffer attrition from transfer portal and the draft, that's it. Were young and most of our players have never played 15 straight games in a P5. They will make mistakes and figure stuff out cause they are still learning how to compete at this level. It will cost games but their talent also pulls rabbits out of the hat.
2) We're not consistent on offense. We have too many guys figuring things out and it means we have errors on the bases and can't get timely hits and base runners. It's going to improve but you can't deny that the potential is there. Were outscoring opponents 137-66. If you take out Coppin it's 96-60. We have 23 homers which is more than we get most seasons. The talent is there but it's gonna take them awhile locked in. We may not even see a polished product this season but we will win plenty of games.
3) We're replacing tons of guys in the pitching staff. Outside of a few bad innings that hurt us badly pitching has been quite good this season. Defense has gotten better since surprise but we are still having more errors and misses than we are used to, again that's going to happen when theirs more active new faces than returners.
4) Expectations are too high for the program in general. Making the post season should be the satisfaction point for any program over long spans. You will have years where you are more loaded than others where satisfaction may be higher but crying end of the world over every loss when 30 wins is a very conservative break even point on post season is just annoying. People are calling the season cause we lost to Stanford by 1 run AT Stanford. Some of our best teams have been completely demolished in that stadium. Yeah it's a loss and it hurts more because it was in reach but maybe let's wait tell the series is over before the 'calling the season' competition starts. There's no reward for calling the season, it's just egotistical bitchcraft to make yourself feel cool when we fail. Get over it and focus on the actual game. Expectation should always be post season but fan hopes can soar go anywhere, obviously we all want to host.
Sorry for the rant but it's just so annoying watching people call losses and seasons when we're 12-6. It's even worse in football where dummies call the game in the first quarter d spite Smith teams having a record of never giving up.
1) We essentially return 3 full time starters on offense. Dernedde, Forrester and Bazanna are the only guys who played more than 70% of games last year. Of our many rotating players 11 were not on the team last year, that's right, we have more new players taking swings than their is places in the batting order. We lost most of our offensive production and have replaced it with young talent. Lots of reasons for this but mostly top program suffer attrition from transfer portal and the draft, that's it. Were young and most of our players have never played 15 straight games in a P5. They will make mistakes and figure stuff out cause they are still learning how to compete at this level. It will cost games but their talent also pulls rabbits out of the hat.
2) We're not consistent on offense. We have too many guys figuring things out and it means we have errors on the bases and can't get timely hits and base runners. It's going to improve but you can't deny that the potential is there. Were outscoring opponents 137-66. If you take out Coppin it's 96-60. We have 23 homers which is more than we get most seasons. The talent is there but it's gonna take them awhile locked in. We may not even see a polished product this season but we will win plenty of games.
3) We're replacing tons of guys in the pitching staff. Outside of a few bad innings that hurt us badly pitching has been quite good this season. Defense has gotten better since surprise but we are still having more errors and misses than we are used to, again that's going to happen when theirs more active new faces than returners.
4) Expectations are too high for the program in general. Making the post season should be the satisfaction point for any program over long spans. You will have years where you are more loaded than others where satisfaction may be higher but crying end of the world over every loss when 30 wins is a very conservative break even point on post season is just annoying. People are calling the season cause we lost to Stanford by 1 run AT Stanford. Some of our best teams have been completely demolished in that stadium. Yeah it's a loss and it hurts more because it was in reach but maybe let's wait tell the series is over before the 'calling the season' competition starts. There's no reward for calling the season, it's just egotistical bitchcraft to make yourself feel cool when we fail. Get over it and focus on the actual game. Expectation should always be post season but fan hopes can soar go anywhere, obviously we all want to host.
Sorry for the rant but it's just so annoying watching people call losses and seasons when we're 12-6. It's even worse in football where dummies call the game in the first quarter d spite Smith teams having a record of never giving up.
