Interesting quote from Cohen today

[57stratdawg]

"I think velocity is more important than sink with the new balls"

 

[121Josey]

That tells me nothing. We all know that the new balls don't move like they used to.

 

[patdog]

HD6 was right. Just a plain vanilla press conference with little interesting information. About the closest thing to interesting I saw was

As for current players on the roster and possible transfers, Cohen says it’s hard to know right now, they expect to know a lot more next week. Said they’ve got some difficult and sensitive situations that have to be figured out.

Translation: I've got to make final decisions on who to cut.

 

[57stratdawg]

Wasn't there an announcer (Wyatt?) that said Ross Mitchell was struggling because of TOO MUCH movement?

 

[msstate7]

Wasn't there an announcer (Wyatt?) that said Ross Mitchell was struggling because of TOO MUCH movement?

Yeah the ball moved to SS and 2b last year. This year it moved to lf and rf*

 

[121Josey]

IDK, I quit watching after SBW. Ha! The key to pitching is changing speeds and movement on the ball. Most pitchers would die to have too much of either one.

Maybe somebody should tell Cohen that velocity is a luxury but keeping hitters off-balance is better (that and not walking the bases loaded**).

 

[Mjoelner]

Nailed it!View attachment 2017

 

[engie]

3rd highest k/9 total in college baseball overall in the past 50 years says the new balls were moving just fine... "Movement" and "drop" can be two different things though and I think in terms of this discussion they are different. The new balls are taking off more on two seamers, but Butch's arm angle/release game creating drop instead of run is not working like it once did. So, we've got to adjust along with it. And it seems in recruiting that we have done just that. Now we've got to have some guys really put it together.

 

[57stratdawg]

Yikes

 

[thekimmer]

I cringed a bit when I heard this nugget one more time.....

“I don’t think we’re that far away.” I'm sorry but Mississippi State University lost 22 SEC baseball games this season and 30 altogether. We won exactly one SEC series. We were swept 3 times and lost the last 6 to the likes of mississippi and tn. We dropped FOUR to a not-so-good bear team. From my perspective it appeared that we were pretty d*** far away. But then I am just a lowly fan. What do I know?

 

[Seinfeld]

That's too bad. I mean, I wasn't looking for an apology or any sort of admittance of screwing up, but it would have been nice to have at least a little explanation from his point of view in terms of what went wrong and what was being done to fix it prior to next year.

As far as the cuts go, I don't keep up with all numbers, but is there some sort of estimate for how many would need to be let go based on who we've got signed and how many are graduating/going pro?

 

[engie]

That's too bad. I mean, I wasn't looking for an apology or any sort of admittance of screwing up, but it would have been nice to have at least a little explanation from his point of view in terms of what went wrong and what was being done to fix it prior to next year.

As far as the cuts go, I don't keep up with all numbers, but is there some sort of estimate for how many would need to be let go based on who we've got signed and how many are graduating/going pro?

We've got something like 22 in the incoming class to go along with the 7 clearly pretty high ceiling talents that we have in the Cape Cod League... He's so secretive that we don't even know at this point exactly what all attrition we have already had, but suffice to say there is going to be a bunch of it...

 

[Phil Wenneck.sixpack]

And the Adidas bats aren't going anywhere. Rinse and repeat. We also aren't "far away". Talk about grasping at straws. Where do I begin here? We know we have little to no talent returning. Yet Cohen brags that we have 20 players in summer leagues. Hmmm John, I don't feel good at all about 20 of last year's team being anywhere close to the program next year. If they are, we're in a world of hurt. More mumbo and jumbo about the new baseballs. Evidently our pitchers can only throw a sinker. Our park is big. Yada yada

 

[patdog]

I'm a lot less concerned about the Adidas bats than I am with the lack of coaching changes. But, if we're not going to fire Cohen, we have to let him make all the decisions. I hope it turns out better than I think it will. But it will be decided one way or the other a year from now.

 

[Ace-Leroy]

Can't believe he said that...

“I don’t think we’re that far away.”

We are VERY far away. You can't be any farther away than finishing 14th out of 14 in your conference.

 

[8dog]

we won 9 games in 2010 amd were 4 in from omaha in 2011

Ucla had a losing record last yr and was the number one national seed this yr

This year was inexcusable and i dont know what the future holds but you are never too far away in college baseball.

 

[00Dawg]

Not to mention we lost 10 games where the winning run was scored in the 8th inning or later, 7 of them in conference.
We were a good relief pitcher away from 34-20, 15-15.