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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!
Apparently a couple of guys have the green light on first pitch if that is actually a thing.Originally Posted by techman05
Where are all the fans who usually complain about the over emphasized LOB stat?
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.
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.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?
But, I know you love leaving runners on base, even when Tech fails to score in that inning. So, carry on!
Naw, probably personnel.
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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
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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.
This is a word salad that would rival anything produced by Vice-President Kamala Harris.
"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
Thomas Jefferson
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.
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
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.
"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
Thomas Jefferson
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.
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.
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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