BB Final G1: Louisiana (8) vs Texas State (6)

[Hammer58]

Tony, in my opinion, usually leaves pitchers in too long. I have always thought this. Before I get tarred and feathered, yes I realize Tony is a very good coach and yes hindsight is 20/20, blah blah blah. It's my only complaint about his coaching style and if I get proven wrong one day when he leaves a guy in who ends up getting out of a major jam in the post season, then I eat all the crow you guys can dish up.

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You are not the only one that feels that way. But lately with the depth in the Ken he seems to be pulling guys coming out of the pen a little bit quicker. Or at least it has seemed that way to me this year.

[Big Buds]

Tony, in my opinion, usually leaves pitchers in too long. I have always thought this. Before I get tarred and feathered, yes I realize Tony is a very good coach and yes hindsight is 20/20, blah blah blah. It's my only complaint about his coaching style and if I get proven wrong one day when he leaves a guy in who ends up getting out of a major jam in the post season, then I eat all the crow you guys can dish up.

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I think that is a legit concern. I've also felt that way in the past. Tony is a GREAT manager that at times, uses his style of trial by fire...he know's more about the game than we do!

[BirdofParadise]

No one in the TxSt bullpen threw much. Goebel was out after nine pitches. Geisler threw 16, Boes threw 15. (Williams threw 117)

Neither Dylan Bein (who warmed up) nor their closer Hunter Lemke was used.

Their bullpen is in good shape.

(FYI, Plitt threw 30, Milhorn 31 and Wilson 27)

[Boomer]

No Boomer, they do not hit the ball especially well. They upped their batting average to .284 as a team last night. The SBC April 25th official stats show them in 7th place with a team batting average of .253. They are also 8th in home run production, They are tied for third in triples with four other teams at nine. They are ninth in doubles. They are in eight place for base on balls.

There is not one metric that they are better than average as a hitting team. Individually they have nobody in the top ten batting average. Lastly they have nobody whose slugging percentage is top ten.

Our middle relief, and closers were not doing particularly well, and Austin is still rounding back into shape. On the other hand TXST does have much better pitching than most and have three individuals in the top ten ERA with sixty or more innings pitched.

Now I do listen to Coach Robe and he pretty much advised that we, as a team, would have to have good pitching to win the series because they do have good pitching. He expects our hitters to have a little harder time than normal, maybe a lots harder. You should listen to the Bitter show this morning around eight. He normally has Robe on going over the prior week, the Friday game, and even the expectations for the balance of the weekend.

You can listen live on your computer by going to espn1420, or with the pup applications on you handheld devise.

---I think your points do not lie---but against all our pitchers last night they looked pretty good ---the HR was massive and Granger is a stud---lol!!! Jay did point out that the top of their line up were some very tough outs!!!

[CrazyCajun]

No Boomer, they do not hit the ball especially well. They upped their batting average to .284 as a team last night. The SBC April 25th official stats show them in 7th place with a team batting average of .253. They are also 8th in home run production, They are tied for third in triples with four other teams at nine. They are ninth in doubles. They are in eight place for base on balls.

There is not one metric that they are better than average as a hitting team. Individually they have nobody in the top ten batting average. Lastly they have nobody whose slugging percentage is top ten.

Our middle relief, and closers were not doing particularly well, and Austin is still rounding back into shape. On the other hand TXST does have much better pitching than most and have three individuals in the top ten ERA with sixty or more innings pitched.

Now I do listen to Coach Robe and he pretty much advised that we, as a team, would have to have good pitching to win the series because they do have good pitching. He expects our hitters to have a little harder time than normal, maybe a lots harder. You should listen to the Bitter show this morning around eight. He normally has Robe on going over the prior week, the Friday game, and even the expectations for the balance of the weekend.

You can listen live on your computer by going to espn1420, or with the pup applications on you handheld devise.

There batting avgs are a little skewed, in conference they are hitting a lot better. They play a lot of really tough midweek games against good pitching texas, rice, houston, texas A&M.

[Frenchie35]

I hope you're right. Regarding Strentz, it seems like he's been having a tough go at it since he fanned about 5 times against. If all else fails, Thurman is certainly capable as well. It'll be interesting to see if a switch is made at some point before the weekend's over.

What I see is Strentz in deep in the batters box and they throw him out side for the most part. When he gets his bat on the ball it's on the end of the bat. Sliders and high fast balls on the out side kills him. At least that's what I see.

[CajunEXPRESS]

There batting avgs are a little skewed, in conference they are hitting a lot better. They play a lot of really tough midweek games against good pitching texas, rice, houston, texas A&M.

All I am saying is let's not confuse them with a team that hits hard, hits high average, and on and on. Our pitching has been ragged ever since the UNO game. Texas State is winning games because of adequate hitting and better than average pitching.

They are in third place because they have not had a full week end of the pain train. Very likely to leave tied for fourth or fifth place Sunday evening.

[Dad04]

Lots of our out of conference opponents lost yesterday. We stayed at 12 rpi at Warren Nolan.

[rc0909]

FYI Alabama at South Carolina on ESPN at 1:00 today. Rooting for Alabama to stay on top the SEC with the series win we have over them.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Bama and USC tied 1/1 top of the fifth coming up. Both pitchers have low count, but the USC guy is way low at only 40 to start the inning. .