Schlossnagle in Omaha...

[engie]

1) I love Wes Rea, but he couldn’t hit a curveball if you told him it was coming. He wasn’t a good hitter at all. Did he hit .250?

He hit .291 with 7 bombs. He struck out 3 more times than Detz and 5 more times than Renfroe that season.

That team hit .293 overall, good for 43rd nationally. They were a good top-to-bottom hitting team. Now, the power numbers weren't there -- but it was also a different era with the old balls.

 

[MSUDC11]

Rea was really clutch for us that postseason, but I still think Nate Lowe’s one year on campus > Wes Rea’s four years on campus. Would’ve given anything to have Lowe for more than one year.

 

[Go Budaw]

That team hit .293 overall, good for 43rd nationally. They were a good top-to-bottom hitting team. Now, the power numbers weren't there -- but it was also a different era with the old balls.

Correct. And the team we played against (and lost to) in the Championship Series was 259th nationally in hitting with a team average of .250. UCLA was 6th nationally in Team ERA (2.55), but we were not too far behind at 15th nationally (2.79), and against a much tougher schedule. It’s hard to look at all that and say we didn’t hit well enough to make it as far as we did, considering the caliber of hitting team that actually won the whole damn thing.

 

[kendesu]

Has anybody found a list of active college baseball coaches by number of College World Series appearances? I would assume Schlossnagle is high on the list with five. A quick list I came up with according to Wikipedia:

Mike Martin-16
Kevin O'Sullivan-6
Paul Mainieri-6
Mike Fox-6
Dave van Horn-6
Pat Casey-5
Jim Schlossnagle-5

Can y'all think of anybody else?