BATTING - Good Coaching leads to 109 Homeruns and the Big 12 POY

What was the deal with Sweeney?

 

Not sure, but he was a 6’8” 245lb L/R 1st baseman.

 

What does that have to do with my comment? I wasn't comparing, just making an observation. Yes, Jacks bat sucks this year and he hasn't played much as a result.

 

Because you said Kennedy was not better than O'Dowd WRT batting. Perhaps I misunderstood what you were getting at.

 

DK has batted below avg this year
Jack has batted WELL below avg this year

The thing with Jack is that he's shown a propensity to go on hot streaks at the end of the year, and I'd hate to miss out on that (if it wasn't a "one off").

 

And

Jack - lacks range, but doesn't make too many errors
DK - exceptional range, but makes too many errors

 

I said no such thing.

 

Ok. My bad.

 

5/13/24

We now have 103 homeruns on the season.

 

Belyeu showed what he had in Summer ball. Some of these guys tear it up in Summer ball, then have break out seasons the next year.

 

With three games left, they have a good chance at surpassing the106 estimate for the season I predicted. Only 25 HR’s from their season record.

I don’t think they will break 128 though even if we count the postseason, don’t believe we will go deep enough to reach it.

 

Yeah. This will be the all-time #2 homerun team for UT.

Even if we crap out in the Regionals - say we play 3 games, that gives us a total of 6 games left. Figure 9-10 homeruns in those games, so we're looking at 112-113 homeruns on the year. More if we make the Supers and the College World Series.

On edit--Oh yeah, 2-3 games in the Big 12 championship = 2-6 more homers. So make it 114-119 homeruns on the year.

 

Powell had a good Summer Ball season before he broke out last year.

Ace Whitehead and Max Grubbs has good Summer Ball seasons before this, their break out years.

 

Don’t forget the Big XII tournament. Depending on how quickly we exit. We could hit 3-10 lol. I can’t imagine us going deeper than three games in any event, we only have enough pitching for two games, a third game is a complete coin flip.

 

Gotta be some positives in this season some where right?

 

(#2)

Mitchell Daly

bat avg. 0.282
OPS 0.918
homeruns 6

Baseball

 

Good for him. Maybe he had been eating too much bbq and tex-mex here (if that is possible) and Kentucky bourbon is suiting him better.

 

Small batch bourbon, and a mint Julip for the lady.

 

Do we get a trophy for HRs or is that only an aggy thing?

 

nah but there aren't many bright spots this year and if we are going to win, the offense is going to have to do more than it's part.

 

Having a team that hits this many homeruns is huge, especially considering how few homeruns we have historically hit. It makes us a very dangerous team for any given game, even against the top competition. Kudos to the staff, esp. Tulo.

The only year we hit more homeruns was Ivan's last year here.

 

We’re up to 109 homeruns on the year!

Very impressive job by Coach Pierce, Tulo, and the Texas Longhorns batting lineup!

 

Home runs are nice, but I don’t really care about hitting a lot of home runs in a season with a third place finish in conference play, quick exit in the big 12 tournament, and no home regional. I prefer a pitching staff with a team ERA in the 3s instead of almost 5 (4.87 when I checked today) so maybe you don't have to hit so many home runs.

 

I'd take both.

Team ERA < 3.00
Avg Runs Scored by our Offense > 7