Gautreau

[bbqbully]

Congrats to Coach Gautreau. Named D1 Baseball Mag Assistant Coach of the Year and named one of the charter members of the C-USA Hall of Fame.

 

[Shmuley]

He’ll be missed.

 

[patdog]

Probably not for another year or two, maybe more.

 

[DoggieDaddy13]

Okay, don't mean to sound like the typical SPSer, but while our hitting was really good top to bottom for most of the year, it really tailed off after Jake cooled down.

We chased a lot of bad pitches in the post season.

Wondered what Gautreau was saying to them. Either they never got the message or he was just letting them do their thing. Congrats on the recognition, I'm glad we have him as a Coach, but our hitting was suspect at year's end.

Yes, yes, the competition was better... But we were better at the plate than we showed in the post season.

 

[MSUDC11]

Our hitting in the postseason 100% had to do with the competition level. We hit well in the Regional and the Super and all throughout the season.

 

[HumpDawgy]

Rocker's stuff is going to make many good hitters look bad for years to come.

 

[olblue.sixpack]

Probably not for another year or two, maybe more.

Has ULL named a HC?

 

[olblue.sixpack]

Okay, don't mean to sound like the typical SPSer, but while our hitting was really good top to bottom for most of the year, it really tailed off after Jake cooled down.

We chased a lot of bad pitches in the post season.

Wondered what Gautreau was saying to them. Either they never got the message or he was just letting them do their thing. Congrats on the recognition, I'm glad we have him as a Coach, but our hitting was suspect at year's end.

Yes, yes, the competition was better... But we were better at the plate than we showed in the post season.

Because we all know that hitting a baseball is so easy.***

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

17 you. Don’t you have some Calipari film to jerk off to?

 

[tbaydog]

A lot of people on this board have riding the cotton pony lately!

 

[maroonmania]

Okay, don't mean to sound like the typical SPSer, but while our hitting was really good top to bottom for most of the year, it really tailed off after Jake cooled down.

We chased a lot of bad pitches in the post season.

Wondered what Gautreau was saying to them. Either they never got the message or he was just letting them do their thing. Congrats on the recognition, I'm glad we have him as a Coach, but our hitting was suspect at year's end.

Yes, yes, the competition was better... But we were better at the plate than we showed in the post season.

We were a very aggressive hitting team all year, Jake Mangum probably being the most aggressive as he was his entire career. I think what happened was that teams in the post-season saw this in scouting us and took advantage by throwing a lot of pitches that ended up out of the zone that we aggressively went after. We were not that bad on strikeouts during the regular season but struck out significantly more in the post-season because I think some of the better pitchers we faced were using our aggressiveness against us. I mean if I don't have to throw a strike to get you to swing, then why throw a strike?

 

[InTheIttaBenaHotSun]

Never heard that Tbay....I laughed out loud.

 

[Goat Holding Inc]

We were a very aggressive hitting team all year, Jake Mangum probably being the most aggressive as he was his entire career. I think what happened was that teams in the post-season saw this in scouting us and took advantage by throwing a lot of pitches that ended up out of the zone that we aggressively went after. We were not that bad on strikeouts during the regular season but struck out significantly more in the post-season because I think some of the better pitchers we faced were using our aggressiveness against us. I mean if I don't have to throw a strike to get you to swing, then why throw a strike?

I agree. I understand being aggressive got us to where we were, but you KNOW in Omaha you are going to face the absolute best pitchers every game, due to the way it's spread out and teams can use their top 2 guys repeatedly. That aspect changes from regionals, to Supers and Omaha. So why not slightly change our approach too?

Unfortunately for us, Rocker was throwing that right to left slider for a strike.

 

[Goat Holding Inc]

He's got a chance to really sky-rocket his stock next year, with our order, specifically the Jordan-Westburg-Allen-Foscue-Hatcher. Murderer's Row.

 

[Misfit]

Everybody figured out that our guys were thoroughly bad *** against the fast ball, but struggled with breaking pitches, which is quite common in college baseball. The only fast balls in the strike zone our guys saw in the post-season were thrown by pitchers who couldn't throw a breaking pitch for a strike and we saw very few of that type pitcher. A lot of what looked like swinging at a bad pitch to you looked to me like they got fooled by a great pitch. If the pitcher can make it look like a fastball when its not, he will make a lot of hitters look bad.