Robichaux wants Cajuns' bullpen to get more consistent

[Boomer]

SEC (and possibly others) is using 4 man crews now. They cherry pick from the smaller conferences and we are left with the worst of the worst.

----------My pick is that TEX ST can win the Tourney!!! Man I just thought they were very good!!

[Turbine]

This year, and this is my opinion, there are a lot more umpires with postage stamp strike zones than in the past. The reason for this is the big conferences have, for the most part, gone to four umpires on conference weekends. That has diminished the pool of available umpires for the Sun Belt.

When conference tournament time rolls around, that won't be an issue. The SEC has been using 28 umpires per weekend. They'll use 12 max at the tourney. That leaves plenty for leagues like ours.

Just about every umpire we've seen (with notable exception of Keith Sanders, the Friday umpire) that has a tiny strike zone, are guys new to the league this year.

I DO feel as though those umpires have hurt us. With a good umpire, we probably get seven or eight out of Boutte. That would have been huge. Tight zone umpires run up pitchers pitch counts. Now, you may say that's true for both teams and technically you may be right. But there are umpires that, for instance, don't give the low strike. A pitcher with really good velocity can get away with pitching up in the zone. Baranik cannot. It depends on the pitcher. And, Hunter Moody would have gotten screwed by one of the guys this weekend. We didn't get an inside corner call the entire game.

Is there a book or service coaches can turn to, so as to study the strike zone tendencies of umps they haven't faced yet?

[Just1More]

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[BayouRichard]

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I vote shortest post of the year. Love your insight.