What are you guys thinkin about MSU baseball?

[Indndawg]

Some MSU baseball fans asked me about help/hurt program w/Thompson leaving.

Pat answer: the new blood may help...but the Intense Bastard is still there and could be lame duck after another dumpster fire.

Your opines....help/hurt?

 

[57stratdawg]

Butch is a damn good coach, but I'm looking forward to a more conventional starter-bullpen relationship.

 

[patdog]

Butch is a damn good coach, but I'm looking forward to a more conventional starter-bullpen relationship.

Well said. I agree.

 

[dawgphd]

Butch is a damn good coach, but I'm looking forward to a more conventional starter-bullpen relationship.

I am not a baseball guy. So I can only relay.

In chatting with a friend that's a retired pro scout today, he said if we can bring Jason Dietrich to Starkville we will have upgraded our pitching immediately.

His words not mine.

 

[engie]

Pitching staff will be elite. Just need someone to keep the train on the tracks. Look forward to seeing more from younger guys although the 5 juniors will carry us and should all be top 10 round draft picks.

My expectation is that we host. This team is very capable of that just looking at it on its own merits rather than letting the hangover linger from last year.

Regional holds serve. Anything less is unacceptable and it might be time to actually start considering something different. Will have an absolutely elite SOS this year -- so we should be in line to host with fewer wins than you would normally expect -- provided there isn't a glaring weakness like losing conference record, etc. Noncon is going to be really interesting this year...

 

[AlSwearengen]

Butch was good but Dietrich is an upgrade and elite pitching prospects will be paying attention.

 

[engie]

Butch was good but Dietrich is an upgrade and elite pitching prospects will be paying attention.

Upgrade is such a tedious word. We signed arguably the best pitching class in the country last year. How much more attention can they pay?

Hoping for an upgrade is a wishing well IMO. Just need to continue what we have been doing with our PITCHING staff(I'd agree upgrades are possible and needed offensively). I'd certainly like and expect him to do some stuff better -- but Butch was national assistant coach of the year last year for a reason that many of our own fans seem to miss. While it hasn't been traditional, it's been mostly elite...

 

[CoastDawg18]

I'm not thinking about it. It's football season.

 

[Will James]

I'll believe in the IB offense when I see it.. I think he's like Mullen as far as that goes, hardheaded.

I'll believe the pitching when I see it.. Butch was good at taking lemons and making lemonade but didn't really maximize our talent with starting pitching. I like that this new guy has worked with and developed talented starting pitching.

We miss regionals again and the IB can sign up for unemployment checks

 

[engie]

We miss regionals again and the IB can sign up for unemployment checks

Quoted for sake of undeletion. Not that you'll manage to keep this username for that long.

 

[Will James]

Quoted for sake of undeletion. Not that you'll manage to keep this username for that long.

Since your reading comprehension is lacking Engine, I was saying IF we miss the regionals again then Cohen can pack his bags.. not predicting that we miss regionals.

So we agree

Regional holds serve. Anything less is unacceptable and it might be time to actually start considering something different.

Quoted to save your incompetent reading skills