Feb 16-18 vs. Northern Colorado

Fri, Feb 16	Northern Colorado	J. C. Love Field	4:00pm	No Stream
Sat, Feb 17	Northern Colorado (DH)	J. C. Love Field	12:00pm
Sun, Feb 18	Northern Colorado	J. C. Love Field	1:00pm

Friday A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly after noon. Cloudy, with a high near 69. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph.
Friday Night Rain likely, mainly before midnight. Cloudy, with a low around 36. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Saturday Partly sunny, with a high near 48.
Saturday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 28.
Sunday Sunny, with a high near 57.

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Game 1 and Tech is already screwing with the fan’s’ abilities to attend games. This sort of thing is a giant piss off and absolutely disrespectful of the fans. So typical…

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Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg

Game 1 and Tech is already screwing with the fan’s’ abilities to attend games. This sort of thing is a giant piss off and absolutely disrespectful of the fans. So typical…

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It's either move it early or lose it. Already a DH scheduled for Saturday and early start Sunday for Travel so can't play DH then.

At least it's 48 hours notice and not day of.

Knowing we had a DH on Saturday. The schedule should have been 4pm the whole time.

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Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg

Game 1 and Tech is already screwing with the fan’s’ abilities to attend games. This sort of thing is a giant piss off and absolutely disrespectful of the fans. So typical…

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So what would you do to try to avoid a rain-out besides validate your charter membership in the CCC Club.

I expected the game to be moved up when I saw the forecast yesterday. We usually have to deal with some cold rainy weather in February and March.

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Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg

Game 1 and Tech is already screwing with the fan’s’ abilities to attend games. This sort of thing is a giant piss off and absolutely disrespectful of the fans. So typical…

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Nope -

Weather issues - window looked more favorable 2 hours earlier - it will do one of two things, start raining at two and push it way back or it will be perfect weather and folks will gripe cause it should of been left at 6

Feb & March are always hit and miss on weather

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Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden

Nope -

Weather issues - window looked more favorable 2 hours earlier - it will do one of two things, start raining at two and push it way back or it will be perfect weather and folks will gripe cause it should of been left at 6

Feb & March are always hit and miss on weather

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I thought there for a sec we had a roof over the LovePat installed in the off-season. . . .

It’s more annoying that there isn’t a stream available. Anyway it’s GAMEDAY!

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Originally Posted by rlirette

It’s more annoying that there isn’t a stream available. Anyway it’s GAMEDAY!

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Amen. I understand the costs of doing ESPN+ broadcasts - there are standards required - 2018 standards. However, there is no reason you can't throw the other games on YouTube with less than ESPN+ standards. It costs nothing. The games should already be recorded.

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Originally Posted by sportdawg

Amen. I understand the costs of doing ESPN+ broadcasts - there are standards required - 2018 standards. However, there is no reason you can't throw the other games on YouTube with less than ESPN+ standards. It costs nothing. The games should already be recorded.

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ESPN contract prohibits it...

I believe next year is the look-in year for renegotiations, that needs to be addressed

This is one instance where the SBC's Disney dollars trump the actual cash payouts

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Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden

ESPN contract prohibits it...

I believe next year is the look-in year for renegotiations, that needs to be addressed

This is one instance where the SBC's Disney dollars trump the actual cash payouts

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That seems simple enough to get waived (what can they really be losing out on here)?

I hope they don't just re-up this whole thing for another year.

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Originally Posted by inudesu

That seems simple enough to get waived (what can they really be losing out on here)?

I hope they don't just re-up this whole thing for another year.

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About 3/4 of a million to a million dollars cash...

I don't think any 3rd tier rights are under the current contract outside of radio -

I think all in-house broadcasts are prohibited

I don't know if ESPN+ requires Profession PXP & Color (do they require 2). But I was talking with another fan this morning, and we should have a Grad Assistant position for Broadcasting. Have someone that calls the non-conference games we weren't going to broadcast and have students run the cameras/controls. Maybe some students in the Communications Studies | College of Liberal Arts (latech.edu).

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Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg

Game 1 and Tech is already screwing with the fan’s’ abilities to attend games. This sort of thing is a giant piss off and absolutely disrespectful of the fans. So typical…

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This is a ridiculous post lol...Lets get further in the season before we see this nonsense.

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Originally Posted by TexasDawg8

This is a ridiculous post lol...Let’s get further in the season before we see this nonsense.

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I seriously doubt you’ll be at the game this afternoon or the games this weekend. I doubt that you’re a season ticket holder… ever have been or ever will be. I doubt you invest anything in Tech, but you’re still welcome to pretend to know anything about it all.

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Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden

About 3/4 of a million to a million dollars cash...

I don't think any 3rd tier rights are under the current contract outside of radio -

I think all in-house broadcasts are prohibited

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I meant what could ESPN/CBSSN being missing out on by allowing us to stream our baseball games that they aren't otherwise streaming. Surely the resident genius negotiators representing CUSA (you know, the consulting firm) can get that sorted for us (for nothing).

My other comment was about the one year extension option that I think we have (not sure how it works - I'm just hoping neither side exercises it, not because I'm unaware of the risks/downsides of a new deal, but just because I am against mid-week October football and the GOR fee and them continually adding new programs we don't care about).

Our baseball fans need a lot of practice looking at balls and strikes. UNC pitcher piped several called strikes and our fans were livid.

Ball sounds dead off the bat. Were there changes made to bats or balls in offseason?

Even balls getting squared up don’t sound right to me.

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Originally Posted by inudesu

I meant what could ESPN/CBSSN being missing out on by allowing us to stream our baseball games that they aren't otherwise streaming. Surely the resident genius negotiators representing CUSA (you know, the consulting firm) can get that sorted for us (for nothing).

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ESPN would be missing out on the ad revenue if we went with a 2-camera setup with a PxP person and put it on another platform. So they insisted on ESPN+ being the exclusive home to any digital broadcast Tech produces.

The look-in for the deal is in the next few months. I suspect ESPN will increase the dollars to cover production costs for more events. The question is how many more events? Ideally, every home game for every olympic sport would be covered.

FWIW, the first game today will not be on live radio. WBB will be on 97.7. Game 1 will be streamed on the Peach App.

Baseball will potentially be bumped in favor of WBB on 2/24, 2/28, 3/6, 3/9, then during the WBB tournament which will likely only be for one game.

ALL of the WBB games can be found on ESPN+.

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Originally Posted by techman05

Our baseball fans need a lot of practice looking at balls and strikes. UNC pitcher piped several called strikes and our fans were livid.

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The home plate umpire was inconsistent the entire game. We have a few fans who stay in the home plate ump's ear the entire game just for fun.

Hubka did a great job last night getting the win.

One base running mistake by our 3B coach probably cost us an early run. A couple of errors, but overall it was a good showing.

You referring to Corona getting thrown out?

What’s the word on Cole McConnell?

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Originally Posted by rlirette

What’s the word on Cole McConnell?

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I believe he has to sit out the series to satisfy his suspension

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Originally Posted by techman05

I believe he has to sit out the series to satisfy his suspension

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Awesome, I thought we were getting him back. These games so far showcase the need for his bat in this lineup. Hopefully whatever he did last year is behind him.

Burroughs proving hands down again what a horrible baseball strategist he is. Gaspard has to be the worst hitting coach in the country. Tech’s batting is absolutely pathetic.

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Originally Posted by The Historian

ESPN would be missing out on the ad revenue if we went with a 2-camera setup with a PxP person and put it on another platform. So they insisted on ESPN+ being the exclusive home to any digital broadcast Tech produces.

The look-in for the deal is in the next few months. I suspect ESPN will increase the dollars to cover production costs for more events. The question is how many more events? Ideally, every home game for every olympic sport would be covered.

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The problem is overlapping games like baseball and basketball today. Do we use the same equipment at multiple venues?

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Originally Posted by techman05

You referring to Corona getting thrown out?

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Yes. No signal from LB so Corona slowed down before he got to 2nd to look at the outfielder(s). Had he been held up at 2nd or told to round the bag he would have been safe.

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Originally Posted by sportdawg

The problem is overlapping games like baseball and basketball today. Do we use the same equipment at multiple venues?

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Apparently.

We don't even have a live stream deal worked out with the radio guys for two live games at one time. The first default station used to be 99.3 for live coverage. Now they just use the app which prevents live listening to Dave while at the game

So far, so good thanks to a surprisingly much improved pitching effort and some sound defense. Hopefully this senior heavy team will figure out how to put the ball in play before the weekend series is over.

Our game under Burroughs seems to be primarily trying to draw walks and HBP often enough that one guy can finally come through with a hit to score a couple of runs at a time. This works against erratic pitchers who can’t stay in the zone. Good pitching will beat passive at bats. We watch a lot of first pitch fastballs that are piped at 87-88mph. I would be coaching guys to jump on those pitches because it may be the best one you see.

Can't argue with a 4-0 start....

Good job Diamond Dawgs!

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Originally Posted by techman05

Our game under Burroughs seems to be primarily trying to draw walks and HBP often enough that one guy can finally come through with a hit to score a couple of runs at a time. This works against erratic pitchers who can’t stay in the zone. Good pitching will beat passive at bats. We watch a lot of first pitch fastballs that are piped at 87-88mph. I would be coaching guys to jump on those pitches because it may be the best one you see.

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Apparently a couple of guys have the green light on first pitch if that is actually a thing.

Where are all the fans who usually complain about the over emphasized LOB stat?:icon_razz:

Have to hand it to them for sure. Winning 4 games against any 1 team is tough. Pitching was pretty solid. Bats came around when we had to have it. Overall good weekend.

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Originally Posted by PawDawg

Apparently a couple of guys have the green light on first pitch if that is actually a thing.

Where are all the fans who usually complain about the over emphasized LOB stat?:icon_razz:

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Not an "over emphasized" stat. Like other stats it is a simple measure of how a team is performing, no different than ERAs for pitchers and batting averages for hitters, etc... When you win, like ALL other stats, it doesn't matter. When you lose and you don't score with runners in scoring position inning after inning, game after game, it is a legitimate concern. To me LOB is a lot like Red Zone trips in football and the percentage of finishing drives, i.e. scoring. If a football team is struggling, losing games, and they fail to score often after reaching the Red Zone, that should be a concern and it's up to the coaches to examine why and fix it.

But, I know you love leaving runners on base, even when Tech fails to score in that inning. So, carry on!

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Originally Posted by sportdawg

The problem is overlapping games like baseball and basketball today. Do we use the same equipment at multiple venues?

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Naw, probably personnel.

We never tested their slow catcher all weekend long -

I'd like us to place more pressure on a defense

Baseball is a marathon - we got out of the gate at a decent pace

I did like the fact that we seemed to throw strikes this weekend, the ump Sunday was really consistent - the only call he blew was the foul off of bates foot but he drew the walk anyway and Davis doubled

I don't understand the fascination with Drost - he is still lost at the plate

Kent St will be a step up in competition this weekend and the weather should be much nicer

It’s a sad fact that Burroughs still can’t figure out who to play. With all the people I see in uniform lined up in the dugout I have to think there are three guys who can field as well as and bat better than Berch, Drost and Safford. These guys proved last season that they weren’t effective at the plate and yet here they are again essentially performing the same ways all over again and against weak competition too. The only excuse for this decision making is that it was their last chance to get something going being that NC was really only a high school caliber team. In addition to who he ends up playing next series he’s got some serious batting order adjustments to make. Yes, it’s a very good thing that McConnell is due back for the next series. We’re all highly hopeful that he’s going to be a quick fix to Tech’s run production woes. Let’s just hope he’s not too rusty, that he won’t be feeling too pressured to make up the massive slack of some others and probably most important that he hasn’t been paying too much attention to Gaspard’s underachieving hitting coach instruction. To be completely honest, Northern Colorado was a minimally competent team that was about as threatening to Tech as their last year’s record indicated and yet 2 of the 4 games were very close. Any better competition and Tech would’ve probably gone more like 2 and 2 for the weekend.

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Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg

It’s a sad fact that Burroughs still can’t figure out who to play. With all the people I see in uniform lined up in the dugout I have to think there are three guys who can field as well as and bat better than Berch, Drost and Safford. These guys proved last season that they weren’t effective at the plate and yet here they are again essentially performing the same ways all over again and against weak competition too. The only excuse for this decision making is that it was their last chance to get something going being that NC was really only a high school caliber team. In addition to who he ends up playing next series he’s got some serious batting order adjustments to make. Yes, it’s a very good thing that McConnell is due back for the next series. We’re all highly hopeful that he’s going to be a quick fix to Tech’s run production woes. Let’s just hope he’s not too rusty, that he won’t be feeling too pressured to make up the massive slack of some others and probably most important that he hasn’t been paying too much attention to Gaspard’s underachieving hitting coach instruction. To be completely honest, Northern Colorado was a minimally competent team that was about as threatening to Tech as their last year’s record indicated and yet 2 of the 4 games were very close. Any better competition and Tech would’ve probably gone more like 2 and 2 for the weekend.

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This is a word salad that would rival anything produced by Vice-President Kamala Harris.

I’m not surprised that your reading comprehension is so bad. It’s equal to your knowledge and understanding of sports competition. Besides that did you attend any of the games this weekend? Do you have an insightful perspective of Burroughs’ coaching or the players’ performances? It has to be getting tougher for you to do your usual underachieving defending when it’s so much more prolific these days, right? I’d be very interested to hear you sell me on Drost. Come on give it your best candy coated sales job :).

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Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg

I’m not surprised that your reading comprehension is so bad. It’s equal to your knowledge and understanding of sports competition. Besides that did you attend any of the games this weekend? Do you have an insightful perspective of Burroughs’ coaching or the players’ performances? It has to be getting tougher for you to do your usual underachieving defending when it’s so much more prolific these days, right? I’d be very interested to hear you sell me on Drost. Come on give it your best candy coated sales job :).

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Our men's basketball team is tied for first place and our baseball team just won four games to open the season. Yet, all you can do is criticize, condemn and complain. No, I did not attend any of the four games, but I listened to three that were available on the radio. Many that visit this board may, like me, wonder why you spend your money on tickets and perhaps parking (LTAC contributions) when you appear to never find any pleasure nor be entertained by what you see.

Oh, and can you do me a favor? Please interpret the sentence that you wrote shown in blue font above. Vice-President Kamala Harris would give you a gold star for that piece of gibberish.

Pointing out a very well paid coach’s repeated stupid decisions is included in what a sports fan and contributor to Tech does. I can’t help it if he puts his players in the spotlight to fail over and over again. If my speaking up brings Burroughs to the higher standard to which he should be held then good. The same goes for the rest of Tech’s coaches. At least you didn’t try to include Tech football and women’s basketball in your attempted defense. Tech baseball is the last sport I’m going to support. All the others lost me for one reason or another over the years. It’s probably as simple as that if you played at Tech or ever invested anything in Tech you’d feel differently.

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Not an "over emphasized" stat. Like other stats it is a simple measure of how a team is performing, no different than ERAs for pitchers and batting averages for hitters, etc... When you win, like ALL other stats, it doesn't matter. When you lose and you don't score with runners in scoring position inning after inning, game after game, it is a legitimate concern. To me LOB is a lot like Red Zone trips in football and the percentage of finishing drives, i.e. scoring. If a football team is struggling, losing games, and they fail to score often after reaching the Red Zone, that should be a concern and it's up to the coaches to examine why and fix it.

But, I know you love leaving runners on base, even when Tech fails to score in that inning. So, carry on!

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Good grief. Your lack of baseball knowledge shows when you compare a "talking head" stat to RIBs and ERA.

LOB only matters if you leave a guy on 2nd or 3rd and that depends on how many outs we had when they got there. THATS the reason the stat is over emphasized. Leaving a guy who just walked to get to first has as much meaning to the talking head stat as leaving a guy on 3rd with no outs.

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Originally Posted by PawDawg

Good grief. Your lack of baseball knowledge shows when you compare a "talking head" stat to RIBs and ERA.

LOB only matters if you leave a guy on 2nd or 3rd and that depends on how many outs we had when they got there. THATS the reason the stat is over emphasized. Leaving a guy who just walked to get to first has as much meaning to the talking head stat as leaving a guy on 3rd with no outs.

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Yep, good grief! Not talking about a two-out walk and that runner not scoring. But I think you know what I, and others, am talking about. Runners in scoring position with less than two outs. That's what we're talking about and it has happened way too often. No, I did not see the Northern Colorado series, so I am talking about it, but rather the last several years and an alarming trend of LOB and then Tech losing a close game. I don't know why that wouldn't concern everyone who wants to see Tech win.

Heck, you even supported my contention with the bolded statement.

lob is a silly stat to worry about on its own. if you're getting runners on the bases, you're going to leave runners on the bases. if you've got lots of lob and no runs, that is a problem, but not as bad as no runs and no lob.

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Originally Posted by arkansasbob

lob is a silly stat to worry about on its own. if you're getting runners on the bases, you're going to leave runners on the bases. if you've got lots of lob and no runs, that is a problem, but not as bad as no runs and no lob.

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Thank you!

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Originally Posted by dawg80

Heck, you even supported my contention with the bolded statement.

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Actually this was your "contention"...Like other stats it is a simple measure of how a team is performing, no different than ERAs for pitchers and batting averages for hitters, etc...

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Originally Posted by PawDawg

Good grief. Your lack of baseball knowledge shows when you compare a "talking head" stat to RIBs and ERA.

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To be fair, RBI and ERA aren't any better.

Well for all you fans of high LOB I hope Tech has one game where we leave 27 LOB, fail to score a single run, and all of you will cream your drawers in ecstasy! That should make all of you so happy!

For me, I won't waste any more time trying to explain a fundamental fact that runners only count when they touch home plate.

Carry on all you delusional ones!

Conversion percentage with RISP (not just batting avg) is a much more important stat -

Much like the "inherited" runners on the pitching side - give me a dude who is lock down when he inherits runners all day long - he is much more valuable than the cat with a sub one ERA who is going to allow the long fly or short single that allows the runner at 3rd to score most every single time and then induces the ground ball to get the next batter and end the inning

When I played Dixie Senior recreational ball, that's 16-19 yr old, we had a coach, a young fellow, not much older than us, who had played for UNO in college and spent 3 years toiling in the minor leagues, in the Cardinal organization, I think. He taught us "situational" baseball. Understanding the score, the situation in a game, and how to MANUFACTURE runs! That meant, among other things, changing how you batted in certain situations. We practiced hitting a grounder to the right side of the infield to get a runner home from 3rd, for instance. It was like a "swinging bunt." You had to practice that, it doesn't just happen. And there are other examples.

Earl Weaver, the Hall of Fame manager of the Baltimore Orioles used to preach "3-run homers" as the ticket to success. That's great if you have a lineup of heavy hitters who can hit the long ball. Which he did, and of course one of the best pitching staffs in baseball history. Usually one 3-run homer was enough to win a game with that staff. But, most baseball teams can't rely on homers so manufacturing runs makes sense.

I realize I just wasted more time...:icon_roll:

You make a very good point in that through Burroughs years at Tech his teams have appeared to be and are statistically proven as free-swingers. Meaning they just swing as hard as they can, seemingly trying to hit the ball off the wall or over it. As it turns out most often and what happened this weekend was that Tech did most of its damage by way of fairly simple grounders. It’s not the least bit complicated. To get out by fly ball the fielder only has to get to the ball and catch it. To get an out by grounder the fielder has to get to the ball, catch the ball, get the ball out of his glove, get control of his body and then throw the ball, but that’s not all. The throw then has to be on target, to a second player who has to have his body under control, who catches it cleanly while also being on the base of target or tagging the runner and maintaining possession of the ball. Clearly having gone through all of that Tech would be far better off practicing to swing more under control in order to directionally hit the ball thereby putting more pressure on the defense to make fielding plays. If you pay attention to Tech’s batters with lesser batting averages it’s either because they strike out quite often, which is often also a hard swinging failure, or they fly out a lot. Bates for one does a good job of choking up and swinging more to simply make contact when he’s got 2 strikes on him. Tech/Gaspard really doesn’t appear to coach batter situational awareness or hitting as much as free swinging.

Corona is a natural fly ball hitter, even when he doesn't homer he hits fly balls deep enough such that a runner on 3rd with less than two outs will score. It does depend on the hitter and his skill level and tendencies. That said, I would feel comfortable playing the percentages with allowing Corona just to go up there and hit, swing away with a runner on 3rd. But a lot of guys have a bad habit of striking out in such situations. Any pitcher will love to get a strike out with a runner on 3rd and one out.

Yes, good hitters will change their approach when they have two strikes on them. Shortening their swing to make contact instead of going down on strikes will, over the course of a long season, pay dividends. Make the defense have to make a play to get you out.

But, what do I know? I am told that high LOB numbers is good for a team....:rolleyes:

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Corona is a natural fly ball hitter, even when he doesn't homer he hits fly balls deep enough such that a runner on 3rd with less than two outs will score.

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Not true.

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Originally Posted by Dowty

To be fair, RBI and ERA aren't any better.

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I don't agree. Neither stat means much until several games are played, but both indicate pitching and hitting strengths.

Some of our fans start complaining about LOB early on, but only when we lose a game. We could lose 2-1 and only leave three guys who walked to first and they would complain that we had 3 LOBs.

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Originally Posted by PawDawg

Not true.

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Given your limited capacity, I will add "not 100% of the time," which is probably what you assumed I meant.

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Originally Posted by dawg80

Given your limited capacity, I will add "not 100% of the time," which is probably what you assumed I meant.

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LOL! Limited capacity from a guy who has never attended a game.

FYI, Corona did not hit a single fly ball to the outfield in his 16 plate appearances over the weekend. He did hit one line drive to right field.

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Originally Posted by PawDawg

LOL! Limited capacity from a guy who has never attended a game.

FYI, Corona did not hit a single fly ball to the outfield in his 16 plate appearances over the weekend. He did hit one line drive to right field.

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Let's see how he does over the course of the season.

Usually when Corona homers it's a line drive to left or left center - he seldom homers to center or right

Drost is a weak fly ball hitter

McConell before suspension was a gap hitter

Now Swafford (sp?) is a fly ball hitter

Davis is more than not a straight pull hitter

McLeod - singles hitter and gap roller

AD is a fly ball hitter

Haven't seen enough of Furr to make a determination but he is in the top 30 in returning lifetime hits leader frm his time at UNO

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Originally Posted by PawDawg

I don't agree. Neither stat means much until several games are played, but both indicate pitching and hitting strengths.

Some of our fans start complaining about LOB early on, but only when we lose a game. We could lose 2-1 and only leave three guys who walked to first and they would complain that we had 3 LOBs.

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I don't like them simply because they're too reliant on multiple players. It's hard to get much good information about a single player and make predictions about his future performance when the stats being used are based on the performance of other guys around him.

For example, a solo home run and a bases loaded HBP count the same in the box score as RBI. If I'm setting a lineup based on RBI total, those guys are equal producers. Can I reasonably predict that the guy that got HBP will produce at the same level as the guy that hit the home run? I'd say it's easier to predict a home run than a HBP unless maybe you're the kid that got hit 7 times last weekend! :laugh:

As for LOB, it tells you nothing about what a hitter did other than he produced an out with someone on base. Big whoop. I want to know what the hitter did that produced the out because that's likely to tell you more about what might happen the next time he's up, whether there's someone on base or not. Was it a barreled line drive right to a guy or a flailing strikeout on a pitch 2 feet off the plate?

ERA is too reliant on things outside of a pitcher's control (i.e. defense), which is why we have FIP now. It looks at things that the pitcher has the most control over: walks, strikeouts, HBP, and home runs. Other balls in play are removed from the equation because defensive positioning and fielder skill cannot be controlled by the pitcher. A guy with a high ERA and low FIP would suggest that he's run into some bad luck (ground balls finding a hole, bloop hits, etc.) where a guy with a low ERA and high FIP (see 2023 Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell) would show a fair amount of luck due to giving up a lot of walks, not striking guys out, and relying on a great defense to make plays.

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Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden

Usually when Corona homers it's a line drive to left or left center - he seldom homers to center or right

Drost is a weak fly ball hitter

McConell before suspension was a gap hitter

Now Swafford (sp?) is a fly ball hitter

Davis is more than not a straight pull hitter

McLeod - singles hitter and gap roller

AD is a fly ball hitter

Haven't seen enough of Furr to make a determination but he is in the top 30 in returning lifetime hits leader frm his time at UNO

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You’re giving Drost and Safford way too much credit simply by calling them ‘hitters’. Last year they struck out more than anything and this year hasn’t started much better if at all. Drost had 75 Ks last season and yet he’s still on the roster and even playing. That alone is inexplicable. Even this past weekend against weak college level pitching he went 0 for 7 with 2 Ks.

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Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg

Drost had 75 Ks last season and yet he’s still on the roster and even playing. That alone is inexplicable. Even this past weekend against weak college level pitching he went 0 for 7 with 2 Ks.

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Thinking he will be first man out based on last week's performance and McConnell coming back. Did you notice his name was NEVER brought up by LB in any of the pre-season interviews? I really want him to succeed, but he has not shown us much so far (last year). He has so much power, but he is far from a clutch hitter.

Drost has a long swing that’s too slow through the plate to hit consistently. To make up for that he has to start his swing early which makes him especially vulnerable to curves. He’s usually overpowered by good pitching. He swings a lot like Matulia did except Drost’s contact isn’t as solid.

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Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg

Drost has a long swing that’s too slow through the plate to hit consistently. To make up for that he has to start his swing early which makes him especially vulnerable to curves. He’s usually overpowered by good pitching. He swings a lot like Matulia did except Drost’s contact isn’t as solid.

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I was thinking the same thing only making less contact than Phil.

I forgot to post links to my action photos from Friday and Sunday.

Best one I got was of Pawdawg's bride. ;-)

Check out my "2024 Season" images using the following link:


https://tommorrisphotos.photoshelter...000EE_QZez0JVo

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Originally Posted by Dawgpix

I forgot to post links to my action photos from Friday and Sunday.

Best one I got was of Pawdawg's bride. ;-)

Check out my "2024 Season" images using the following link:


https://tommorrisphotos.photoshelter...000EE_QZez0JVo

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Thanks Tom. She got lucky!