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Post by rgeorge on Apr 14, 2024 15:03:57 GMT -8
Two games for all the arms from the pen to fix whatever problems they have before the return to conference play. Baseball is weird game as we all know. Lots of #s can mean very little at times. Today's pitchers and how they performed overall, sort of reinforced that. Versus a fairly weak lineup, albeit Stanford, combined those guys are 14-3 on the season. Almost half our wins... |
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Post by spudbeaver on Apr 14, 2024 15:11:00 GMT -8
It was much more guided toward the anointing posters here. Believe me, I want him to excel and be as successful as possible. Laif will be fine. The arm talent is there. That’s why the Orioles drafted him out of high school. But he is a true freshman and has only thrown three innings at the D1 level. He isn’t a HOF, but who is after three innings in their true freshman season? Let’s cut him a little slack and give him time to develop in our system and under our coaching staff. Thank you for making and confirming the point of my much misinterpreted post. |
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Post by beaverinsider211 on Apr 14, 2024 15:26:49 GMT -8
I swear some people have selective memories in here. Palmer will be fine. The kids electric and has the makings of a big time arm. We have a lot of talented freshman pitching. Let’s not forgot Adley hit .240 as a freshman playing everyday or the fact that Hjerpe had a 5.25 ERA his freshman year.
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Post by beavs6 on Apr 14, 2024 15:32:35 GMT -8
Series win but with a down year for Stanford should have swept. 4 unearned runs is not sustainable for run to Omaha. If they start to give up 4 unearned runs in…say….5 or 6 games in a row, then I will worry. Another way to say that it is unsustainable. |
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Post by lebaneaver on Apr 14, 2024 15:40:12 GMT -8
Was at a grankiddos flag football camp/game in the shadow of the toilet bowl in eugene. Played on hole’s practice field. A dump…😊. Anyway…… I didn’t want to follow the baseball game. Didn’t want the distraction.
It appears our starting and relief pitching sucked. Seemed to have hammered the baseball enough to win.
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Post by nuclearbeaver on Apr 14, 2024 15:54:52 GMT -8
Going to be some reshuffling of the top 5 with Arky losing their series and Clemson losing their series and midweek. TN swept LSU and TAMU swept Vandy. Guessing we end up 3 or 4.
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Post by beavaristotle on Apr 14, 2024 16:26:40 GMT -8
Travis bunt - no bunt. He has to bunt there, Stanford has the infield back, worst case he moves the runners best case he is safe loading the bases with no outs. Mitch had the bunt on, took it off and Travis hits into a double play. Too much downside to letting him swing, DP killed the inning. if we were up a couple runs up than going for the kill shot is fine. No one is bigger then the team, if the bunt is called for than bunt.
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Post by ricke71 on Apr 14, 2024 16:31:32 GMT -8
Going to be some reshuffling of the top 5 with Arky losing their series and Clemson losing their series and midweek. TN swept LSU and TAMU swept Vandy. Guessing we end up 3 or 4. Top 2 teams in D-1 rankings (Arkansas / Clemson) went 4-5 for the week. I see no reason why those teams, nor the Beavs (who went 3-1) should push anything resembling a panic button. Baseball: if your team wins at a 67 % rate....or an individual player succeeds at the plate 33% of the time, that's damn good. If you prefer better numbers, go follow some other sport. |
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Post by nuclearbeaver on Apr 14, 2024 16:32:38 GMT -8
Going to be some reshuffling of the top 5 with Arky losing their series and Clemson losing their series and midweek. TN swept LSU and TAMU swept Vandy. Guessing we end up 3 or 4. Top 2 teams in D-1 rankings (Arkansas / Clemson) went 4-5 for the week. I see no reason why those teams, nor the Beavs (who went 3-1) should push anything resembling a panic button. Baseball: if your team wins at a .667 % rate....or an individual player succeeds at the plate 33% of the time, that's damn good. If you prefer better numbers, go follow some other sport. Aslong as we don't have to be #1 and we're in the top 8 in chuffed. |
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Post by osubeaver2018 on Apr 14, 2024 16:49:44 GMT -8
Travis bunt - no bunt. He has to bunt there, Stanford has the infield back, worst case he moves the runners best case he is safe loading the bases with no outs. Mitch had the bunt on, took it off and Travis hits into a double play. Too much downside to letting him swing, DP killed the inning. if we were up a couple runs up than going for the kill shot is fine. No one is bigger then the team, if the bunt is called for than bunt. Not sure if the bunt was ever truly on, I think after the four pitch walk previously the idea was to toy with the pitcher and show bunt until he threw a strike. Travis is great at drag bunting though so I would've been perfectly happy if it had stayed on and he tried to bunt for a hit, but he's also our most dynamic bat so it's hard to justify taking the bat out of your best guy's hands too. Sometimes those results happen, and Turley still made up for it the very next at bat.
Maybe it cost us a run, maybe it didn't, but end result is the bullpen and defense have to be better. It's a worrying trend to me and while our record is still pretty clean for the most part, better teams in the postseason will make us pay (and we still have UA/uo to play before the season is over).
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Post by Judge Smails on Apr 14, 2024 16:51:43 GMT -8
Travis bunt - no bunt. He has to bunt there, Stanford has the infield back, worst case he moves the runners best case he is safe loading the bases with no outs. Mitch had the bunt on, took it off and Travis hits into a double play. Too much downside to letting him swing, DP killed the inning. if we were up a couple runs up than going for the kill shot is fine. No one is bigger then the team, if the bunt is called for than bunt. You want to bunt a guy hitting over .460? Lol Mitch never had the bunt on. He was fake bunting because they wanted him to take a strike. The pitcher hadn’t thrown one yet. He just squared to try and distract the pitcher. |
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Post by ricke71 on Apr 14, 2024 17:06:04 GMT -8
Beavs will be #4 in D-1 baseball come Monday (#2 Clemson went 1-3...and, irrelevant to OSU ranking: so did #6 Vanderbilt)...or perhaps Clemson won't be relegated to #5 and the Beavs stay #5.
Perspective: Are Clemson fans in panic?...
....this is a very good and very exciting OSU team - one of the top teams in the nation....with a few areas that need to be tightened up. Key players will return during May.
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Post by spudbeaver on Apr 14, 2024 19:30:17 GMT -8
Beavs will be #4 in D-1 baseball come Monday (#2 Clemson went 1-3...and, irrelevant to OSU ranking: so did #6 Vanderbilt)...or perhaps Clemson won't be relegated to #5 and the Beavs stay #5. Perspective: Are Clemson fans in panic?... ....this is a very good and very exciting OSU team - one of the top teams in the nation....with a few areas that need to be tightened up. Key players will return during May. ”Perspective: Are Clemson fans in panic?...” Ha! I don’t check their message boards but I’m willing to bet there are a share of fans that are! |
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Post by speakthetruth on Apr 15, 2024 8:03:13 GMT -8
We will go as far as pitching will allow and defense can't have bonehead plays like Hainline had yesterday. Kraig couldn't make a catch yesterday. The batter heads to 2nd, Bazzana picks up the ball and Hainline is daydreaming standing 15 feet from 2nd. The runner is out had Hainline done his job.
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Post by hottubbeaver on Apr 15, 2024 11:46:37 GMT -8
Travis bunt - no bunt. He has to bunt there, Stanford has the infield back, worst case he moves the runners best case he is safe loading the bases with no outs. Mitch had the bunt on, took it off and Travis hits into a double play. Too much downside to letting him swing, DP killed the inning. if we were up a couple runs up than going for the kill shot is fine. No one is bigger then the team, if the bunt is called for than bunt. You want to bunt a guy hitting over .460? Lol Mitch never had the bunt on. He was fake bunting because they wanted him to take a strike. The pitcher hadn’t thrown one yet. He just squared to try and distract the pitcher. You want to help a pitcher struggling to find the zone, give him a "fake" bunt for a target. It's seems to work out in the pitchers favor all to often. The pitcher is not scared of giving up a bunt and the nice big bat to aim for only helps him that much more. Struggling to find the zone with 2 runners on, no outs and the leagues leading HR hitter at bat, the pitcher will breath a big sigh of relief seeing a bunt attempt. In my view a "fake" attempt is not smart, an actual bunt laid down would have been. And there is not a bigger dagger in the opposing team than having an over .400 batter advance runners into scoring position by executing a good bunt which could produce a basis loaded scenario with no outs with Baz's speed. . |
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