Cajun Baseball Talk

[raginsaints]

Ask him how long we will continue to let our two aces only go 2 innings and have an ERA over 6. If we will see some weekend pitching changes.

[4LSU]

ps. any questions? _

Switching gears on you, but what did you think of the Reserve Christian team and the freshman Gathers?

I've never seen a class C team in this state with that kinda talent before and Gathers might be the most talented freshman I've ever seen play at the Top 28 in any class.

[Just1More]

_ this question works well for bab also.. thanks _

Thanks, I knew you'd bail me out.

[snote]

slight change coach can make it in so he will be on show at 2:15.. sorry for confusion

ps. and of course you can always ring 337-269-1077 and ask a question yourself

[BrudaCajun]

_ slight change coach can make it in so he will be on show at 2:15.. sorry for confusion

ps. and of course you can always ring 337-269-1077 and ask a question yourself _

Seems like there is no single or simple answer for our problems. I like that STP song going into the break!

[Cajun90]

Great question about hitting philosophy. From watching the games, it doesn't appear that there has been much of a change. We still strike out at an alarming rate and we take way too many pitches.

The last at bat in the Sunday morning game where we struck out looking with bases loaded is a perfect snapshot of last year and this year. I was not there but heard Jay say that it was a horrible call, BUT when you have two strikes and need a clutch hit, you need to swing at just about anything. Instead of looking to be "the man", our hitters are looking to walk and to let someone else be the man. Call it fear, lack of confidence, whatever it is, it isn't good.

Just for the record my question has a basis going back to our prior hitting coach. A lot of fingers were pointed at John Szefc for our hitting woes. I personally disagreed. Baseball is really a game of statistics compiled by a group of teenage boys and young men. Now that is a scary thought.

I thought Coach Szefc's teams put up some pretty good numbers. You can take a look at his bio on the Kansas website and see they pointed out a lot of those stats.

http://www.kuathletics.com/sports/m-...fc_john00.html

My point is that we have a new coach and the same woes and the bottomline is that at some point the guy in the batter's box has to take care of business. Hitting a baseball is one of the hardest things in sports. It's often more mental than physical and an 18-21 year olds head is already screwed up enough. It doesn't take much to turn a batter's box into a sandbox for some of them.

I just believe when it comes to collegiate hitting instruction there isn't a tremedous amount of new ground any coach will bring to the plate (literally). By the way I don't think the same of pitching.

Hitting is contagious but someone needs to catch it first. Let's hope it gets going soon. Griffen could be that guy.

Also for those that didn't get the memo.....gorilla ball is dead.

[RaginCajun2010]

According to ragincajuns.com, matt broussard is getting the start against mcneese.

[ZuluCajun]

_ Ask him how long we will continue to let our two aces only go 2 innings and have an ERA over 6. If we will see some weekend pitching changes. _

Now this is something that needs to be addressed. I think Haegan
has earned a weekend start..

[CajunRage]

_ Just for the record my question has a basis going back to our prior hitting coach. A lot of fingers were pointed at John Szefc for our hitting woes. I personally disagreed. Baseball is really a game of statistics compiled by a group of teenage boys and young men. Now that is a scary thought.

I thought Coach Szefc's teams put up some pretty good numbers. You can take a look at his bio on the Kansas website and see they pointed out a lot of those stats.

http://www.kuathletics.com/sports/m-...fc_john00.html

My point is that we have a new coach and the same woes and the bottomline is that at some point the guy in the batter's box has to take care of business. Hitting a baseball is one of the hardest things in sports. It's often more mental than physical and an 18-21 year olds head is already screwed up enough. It doesn't take much to turn a batter's box into a sandbox for some of them.

I just believe when it comes to collegiate hitting instruction there isn't a tremedous amount of new ground any coach will bring to the plate (literally). By the way I don't think the same of pitching.

Hitting is contagious but someone needs to catch it first. Let's hope it gets going soon. Griffen could be that guy.

Also for those that didn't get the memo.....gorilla ball is dead. _

Szefc left this program in no better shape than when he got here. The bio fails to mention that during his tenure the team's fielding percentage, amount of strike outs, and runners left on base suffered. While he may be a good coach, he was not a good fit at all for this program.

[Frenchie35]

I keep score and check stats at the game and put it on a program when I get home. And something that struck me was the FAU line-up. All were men and average around 200 lbs. A couple were 215 and 230. All were seniors except the center fielder, Anthony Meso (Jr.) and short stop, Nick DelGuidice (So.) This is a team with talent on the field and bench. It showed at the plate.

[CajunProud]

It may not be the age of Gorilla ball, at least not the way the roided up Tigers of the late 90's and early 00's did it, but you still need have power guys in the line up. I looked at last years Fresno team that won the CWS and they had 4 guys in their lineup with 10 bombs or more. We will be lucky to have 1 this year. (Hawkins should get 15 or so). Griffin has the power, but lacks the discipline and eye. Keifer has the size, but his bat is way to slow. This ain't JUCO anymore. I don't think i've seen him pull a ball yet this year.

Bottom line is, to win in today's college baseball you need some power.

[CajunRage]

_ I keep score and check stats at the game and put it on a program when I get home. And something that struck me was the FAU line-up. All were men and average around 200 lbs. A couple were 215 and 230. All were seniors except the center fielder, Anthony Meso (Jr.) and short stop, Nick DelGuidice (So.) This is a team with talent on the field and bench. It showed at the plate. _

Not sure where you are getting the 200lb average. I only saw 3 or 4 position players listed at 200+.