The Official “I could see VMI making some noise this year” Reaction Thread
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A bunch of those walks turned into doubles because we ain’t throwing nobody out on the bases. 11 or 12 stolen bases too.
Just crazy.
Just crazy.
Just be glad SEC Roll Call & SEC Shorts are Football only operations.
Not a coincidence Cohen left right after Fall Ball
Told my son basically the same thing. Don’t think he wanted to be around for this season.
Sadly, I'm normally able to quickly write off a single bad game, but I'm afraid this game simply exposed a large number of very large deficiencies in this team.
I hope I'm very wrong.
I hope I'm very wrong.
The good thing is nobody outside the SEC West footprint cares about the club sport. So it’s less embarrassing.
Long Beach was a whole hell of a lot better than VMI. Losing to the Dirtbags is somewhat understandable, although losing 2 to them at home shouldn't have happened. Talent wise, Long Beach vs VMI is like a Junior College is to T-Ball
They have a very nice marching band. They were with one of the earlier floats for Endymion today. Had bag pipes too.
Did we even practice fielding, like really practice it? I think if we did we just went through the motions from what I'm seeing
I think we spent 95% of the time in the batting cage
I think we spent 95% of the time in the batting cage
What is Foxhall doing in Fall ball? This is a mystery to me that we are not ready to pitch. 13 runs is plenty of offense. This one is on you Foxy!
How much money did we spend on The New Dude? How much do we pay Lemonis and staff? That’s a lot of money to suck in year 5.
Pitching is obviously going to be a work in progress (at best) for the time being…..there’s no single solution there yet. But the most obvious problem that needs to be fixed immediately is catcher. 11 stolen bases in a game can’t happen at any level above little league.
We need to platoon DH Chance and Hancock, and try Highfill or anyone else at catcher who can throw out baserunners. Don’t really care how badly they hit. As bad as we pitched yesterday, we still win if the walks didn’t automatically turn into doubles.
We need to platoon DH Chance and Hancock, and try Highfill or anyone else at catcher who can throw out baserunners. Don’t really care how badly they hit. As bad as we pitched yesterday, we still win if the walks didn’t automatically turn into doubles.
Yeah, 11 stolen bases is no bueno. That's a nine year old USSSA baseball stat line.
And we will face MUCH better running teams, and much better coaching than VMI.
It's an unbelievable stat. How can you not know your catcher is an absolute no go in terms of holding runners??
Well, only the 3 that have won national championships recently and the one ranked #1 the majority of last season.
I think the coaching staff knew. Probably just one of those deals where you give the 5th year senior captain a shot before the true freshmen just out of respect. It lasted all of 2 games it seems like.
Maybe. But they sure didn’t do him any favors by putting him in a situation they had to know he couldn’t succeed in. He’s a good player, but he’s not a catcher.
Well, against VMI, it honestly shouldn’t have mattered. Plenty of opportunities were blown elsewhere, too. And Highfill really may not be ready, either, guess we’ll see. But if he can hit .200 and throw out 40-50% of runners, he has to play every day. But he might not be able to do that.