A new article has been posted on www.latechsports.com:
On Monday afternoon Louisiana Tech Baseball head coach Lane Burroughs announced the signing of 20 players to the 2017 class.
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A new article has been posted on www.latechsports.com:
On Monday afternoon Louisiana Tech Baseball head coach Lane Burroughs announced the signing of 20 players to the 2017 class.
More...
Discuss it here.
We're gonna be fine
2017-It's just baseball
2018- youth
It was never "It's just baseball". It was "It's baseball". Poor pitching was never brushed off as "It's baseball". While strikeouts are part of the game, too many strikeouts never received the "It's baseball" excuse.
The "It's baseball" replies from me were directed at those who look at the box score, see men left on base, then say "we can't hit" when a guy hit a line drive shot to a diving center fielder who made a great catch. "Men left on base" was used way too much by many of our drive by fans.
Next year pitching will be our big question mark, not youth.
Yes pitching was a problem. Not being able to get base runners home was also a problem. We left waaaaay too many men on base. A base hit or two with runners on base in Tennessee or at the CUSA tournament and we aren't sitting here "hoping" USM extends our season for us. Brushing the offensive scoring problem under the rug doesn't change anything.
BTW, I WATCHED every LA Tech conference baseball game except two that weren't shown on CUSA.TV. Did you?
I acknowledged that strikeouts hurt us. They hurt us at Middle in game one. Pitching hurt us in game 3.
Unfortunately our offensive production was down during the early part of our conference schedule (when pitching was at it's worst...there is a connection) then in the last two games.
You know I was not cracking on you as a "drive by fan". You have been consistent with your "lack of situational hitting" talk all year. I just don't agree with that argument because it does not take bad breaks into account. As you know, base hitting a baseball 1/3 of the time is a great feat. We almost did that as an team.
Yes, we got lots of hits, just not with runners in scoring position (ie all of the stranded base runners). We managed 4 runs over two entire CUSA tournament games. We stranded 7 runners during three innings of the last game where we had at least two runners on with NOBODY OUT. That's not poor pitching, poor fielding,.. it was mainly striking out, popping up, and grounding into a double play. If you want to credit the freshman pitcher who had his longest outing and most strike outs of his college career then feel free, but it was one of several career days by opposing pitchers vs Louisiana Tech's batters during conference play. At some point our "senior, Juco experienced" batters have to PRODUCE RUNS, not just scattered hits and a truckload of strike outs.
We are back to where we began. I have said a number of times that strikeouts hurt us. Popping up and grounding into double plays is part of the game. You know that. Even .375 hitters do that. Great hitters like Gladu do that. We struck out too much in the last two games. We had poor offensive production early in the C-USA season (game 1 vs USM 2 runs, game 3 at Charlotte 3 runs, games 1 and 2 vs. UTSA, at McNeese, game 2 at Rice, and game 2 at ODU) We still won two of those series because HCLB inserted a great starting pitcher.
Well, if we accomplished that because Burr inserted a great starter, why didn't he insert some great hitters too?
For yall local guys, what's up with the pitching in this class? Is that Byrd kid gonna be a ace? Are we re-loading or re-building?
And that guy from Saskatchewan is a good catcher but not a great hitter.
Just commenting on the notion that Burr is some kind of baseball genius, and following that to its logical conclusion. Nothing wrong with my reading skills. And, I was not knocking you for it either, if you took it that way. Rather, I was attacking Burr's lack of coaching ability. There was a TON of sarcasm in my previous comment. Maybe it didn't come across as I intended.