This baseball team

[bulldogcountry1]

Will either go down as a scrappy team who overcame a lot to make it to post season or a team the we can't forget about soon enough.

 

[8dog]

Its a bad team in an average conference

 

[CochiseCowbell]

When you can't pitch & you can't hit... it's crazy that we're even this close to postseason ball. We have improved on defense, though.

 

[Awwhellnaw]

I’m not sure about the “average” conference part..

 

[tatedog]

Cliff Hagan warning track power.**

eta: unless our grades are really, really good we aren't making the post season.

 

[Willow Grove Dawg]

Lotta warning track power on this team

 

[8dog]

An average sec. this team wouldnt have 8 wins in a good sec year

 

[tatedog]

When you can't pitch & you can't hit... it's crazy that we're even this close to postseason ball. We have improved on defense, though.

Chalk it up to the amazing job Gary Henderson has done.**

 

[Awwhellnaw]

Might be 10-12 teams in the tourney. Far from average.

 

[Original48]

Chalk it up to the amazing job Gary Henderson has done.**

Agree. Skelton hitting .120 lower than Gilbert was the ‘hunch’ play no doubt.

 

[tatedog]

Might be 10-12 teams in the tourney. Far from average.

10 teams ain't happening. 12 teams would require Ron Polk, Skip Bertman, and Ray Tanner to comprise the entire committee.

 

[Go Budaw]

Might be 10-12 teams in the tourney. Far from average.

There have never been more than 10 teams, and 10 teams has only happened once. There won’t be more this year either. Too much mediocrity at the bottom of the league.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

I hate it for Jake and those in their last season but this is the theme song for these last few weeks of the season...

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

Could easily be both

 

[patdog]

Might be 10-12 teams in the tourney. Far from average.

I'm gonna take the under on that.

 

[8dog]

I mean average relative to the sec. its not strong. Its getting rpi cred because of great records against bad teams. If our team can taken6 of 7 against alleged top 8 seeds its not that great

 

[MSUDawgFan86]

Will either go down as a scrappy team who overcame a lot to make it to post season or a team the we can't forget about soon enough.

Meh I’ll remember that they were a bad team. They will go down to me as a step above the 2015 team and I’ll barely remember them.

 

[engie]

I'm gonna take the under on that.

Seems like every year that you do this, we go undefeated the first day in regionals and end up with 6-7 teams in supers where a couple SEC off each other, another goes down, and half the field in Omaha is SEC....

 

[tatedog]

Down year or not I just can't muster much interest this season b/c a) we aren't going anywhere and b) barring a major case of asleep at the wheel Florida is going to murder anyone in their path.

 

[patdog]

We've only gotten 10 teams in the tournament once in our history and never more than 10, so the under on 10-12 in the tournament is a pretty good bet. Of course the SEC usually goes undefeated on the 1st day in regionals playing the #3 & #4 seeds. The last 5 years, we've had 6, 5, 5, 2, and 4 teams in the super regionals, so I'll take the under on 6-7 super regional teams too. I'll go with 9 NCAA bids and 4 super regional teams.

 

[bruiser.sixpack]

I hate it for Jake and those in their last season but this is the theme song for these last few weeks of the season...

I am not so sure this is Jake’s last year.

I know he is a crackerjack CF, but it seems like the MLB teams like a power hitter in at least 2 of the OF positions, and frankly, there are a lot of speed guys in MLB and in the minors so he will have a lot of competition to make it all the way to the Majors without the Power. I think he will be drafted but not until the rounds above 20. I also think he will bat left only at the next level to take advantage of that speed.

But, unless the money is just “too good”, I could see him coming back for his senior year and getting a Masters Degree while at it.

 

[Go Budaw]

Seems like every year that you do this, we go undefeated the first day in regionals and end up with 6-7 teams in supers where a couple SEC off each other, another goes down, and half the field in Omaha is SEC....

I’m not sure what you are referencing has ever happened. Only twice in the 19-year Super Regional era has the SEC gotten 4 teams to Omaha - 2004 and 2015. In 2004, 9 of 12 teams made the field, so it was a very strong year top to bottom for the league (maybe the strongest its ever been). In 2015, only 7 of 14 teams made the field, so the league was very top heavy with not a lot of depth. In neither year did any pair of SEC teams meet in the Super Regionals.

 

[engie]

I’m not sure what you are referencing has ever happened. Only twice in the 19-year Super Regional era has the SEC gotten 4 teams to Omaha - 2004 and 2015. In 2004, 9 of 12 teams made the field, so it was a very strong year top to bottom for the league (maybe the strongest its ever been). In 2015, only 7 of 14 teams made the field, so the league was very top heavy with not a lot of depth. In neither year did any pair of SEC teams meet in the Super Regionals.

What I was referring to is pat almost perpetually calling the SEC down in baseball toward the end of the conference season when we've been beating up on each other for a couple of months, directly before we break a couple of our own previous records for success in postseason play, which has happened no less than twice in the past couple of seasons on here. But thanks for the conference history update, since I don't know much about that**

I'm seeing 11, 6 or 7, 3 or 4. I think Florida's status as what very well may be an all-time type of team depending on how they navigate the postseason is negatively skewing perception on the rest of the conference. Which is ~ 11 other teams no one would be shocked if were invited or won regionals.

By conference RPI, it's the largest margin between #1 and #2 in the history of RPI that I can actually look back at. .0230 as of today. The gap between the SEC and #2 Big12 is wider than the gap between the Pac12 and ASun, Sun Belt, and Mountain West right now. Let that sink in.

 

[patdog]

Wow. You read WAY too much into my post.

 

[Go Budaw]

But thanks for the conference history update, since I don't know much about that**

You’re welcome. Always here to help.

 

[engie]

I thought the initial reply was simple enough. It's everyone's analysis of my reply that's taken it down this path.