Cajun Baseball Talk

[CajunProud]

_ I agree about Ian. He was a hard thrower, but had trouble with command at time. However, his senior season the time he pitched he did very well. especially against Alabama in the regional.

I think the 2005 team could give the 2009 team a run for their money right now! _

I would tend to agree with you on that.

[wcd35]

_ Ok. Pick ONE more newcommer that is doing well. Better yet pick one guy period you can say is playing well. Fuse will get the start against UALR this weekend and we will see how he does. Buts let's remember cook and Osborne made Nebraska look like a sunbelt
team... They have had two bad starts against USM who is a great hitting team and FAU which is not a bad hitting team too. I'll see how he does against a team like troy and then I'll tell you what I think then about fuse but I'm not impressed with him at this point.

igeaux.mobi _

Are you not impressed with Fuselier as a pitcher or a hitter??? If you aren't impressed with him as a pitcher than you fell on your head because he has easily been our most consistent arm. You say Cook and Osbourne made Nebraska look like a SBC team, well Fuselier pitched almost as well against them too. He had 6 IP and 4 ER.

Of our starters, only Wilborn has a better ERA. Wilborn! not Cook or Osbourne.

I think our staff is fine no matter who starts on weekends. All 4 guys can get it done.

Oh yea, and Alex is only a true Freshman who has not seen college batters until this season as opposed to the other guys.

[cajunbaseball1]

Agreed cajun2bag. And also agree it puts stress on our pitching not having a comfortable lead. Your slider will bite that much harder and your fastball will get a couple more mph's with an 8 run lead.

igeaux.mobi

[cajunbaseball1]

No one is bashing Wilborn on here. He is our best arm by far. Just has control issues. 4 runs in 6 innings is not satisfactory. That's a 6 ERA. Osborne was good enough to get drafted last year and cook was our Saturday guy all year last year. And they have all thrown bad and inconsistent this year. Not knocking fuse but if you consider him consistent with pitching bad against Nebraska and bad against lsu and dominating a Bad Houston team consistent you're wrong.

Are you not impressed with Fuselier as a pitcher or a hitter??? If you aren't impressed with him as a pitcher than you fell on your head because he has easily been our most consistent arm. You say Cook and Osbourne made Nebraska look like a SBC team, well Fuselier pitched almost as well against them too. He had 6 IP and 4 ER.

Of our starters, only Wilborn has a better ERA. Wilborn! not Cook or Osbourne.

I think our staff is fine no matter who starts on weekends. All 4 guys can get it done.

Oh yea, and Alex is only a true Freshman who has not seen college batters until this season as opposed to the other guys.

igeaux.mobi

[Turbine]

How much does small ball or trading outs for a base hurt the team batting average at the end of the season?

Anyone ever study up on this?

I'm just thinking that for a team that plays small ball the batting ability may be just a little better than it looks on paper.

[CajunRage]

_ How much does small ball or trading outs for a base hurt the team batting average at the end of the season?

Anyone ever study up on this?

I'm just thinking that for a team that plays small ball the batting ability may be just a little better than it looks on paper. _

If you execute small ball then you actually help your batting average. For example, a double followed by a sacrifice bunt and sacrifice fly results in a 1.000 batting average (1 for 1) with an rbi. You made 2 outs without adding the 0 for 2 to your batting average. On the other hand, failing on a sacrifice fly or bunt results in an 0 for 1, which hurts your BA.

[wcd35]

_ No one is bashing Wilborn on here. He is our best arm by far. Just has control issues. 4 runs in 6 innings is not satisfactory. That's a 6 ERA. Osborne was good enough to get drafted last year and cook was our Saturday guy all year last year. And they have all thrown bad and inconsistent this year. Not knocking fuse but if you consider him consistent with pitching bad against Nebraska and bad against lsu and dominating a Bad Houston team consistent you're wrong.

igeaux.mobi _

What are you talking about? How did he pitch bad against Nebraska or LSU.

Nebraska 6 IP 7 H 4 ER
Houston 7 IP 7 H 0 ER
LSU 4.1 IP 6 H 5 ER Not his best but was against one of if not the best hitting lineup in the country. Could have been way worse and was affected by a rain delay.

All this for a freshman. The kid has been solid. I think you may be the only person on here who thinks otherwise.

So come back and post something else negative about a true freshman who is overachieving in many's eyes and make it seem like I am saying our other starters are bad or like I have no idea what I am talking about. The kid has something special. You can see it when he is on the mound.

All of our starters are solid pitchers. Hitting has been more of the issue.

[cajunbaseball1]

Those stats don't impress me. Nothing to wrote home about against two bad teams and one good team. I never said he wasn't going to be a good player but as far as a Friday night guy this weekend or leading off this weekend I think we have a lot of better options. He's a freshman you're right and has done OK. That's it. But he's going to be a pretty good player eventually. He's just not ready. I think we are having to lean on people who are not ready and we think a 5 ERA is good because the lack of performance the past couple years but our fans should expect more than that.

What are you talking about? How did he pitch bad against Nebraska or LSU.

Nebraska 6 IP 7 H 4 ER
Houston 7 IP 7 H 0 ER
LSU 4.1 IP 6 H 5 ER Not his best but was against one of if not the best hitting lineup in the country. Could have been way worse and was affected by a rain delay.

All this for a freshman. The kid has been solid. I think you may be the only person on here who thinks otherwise.

So come back and post something else negative about a true freshman who is overachieving in many's eyes and make it seem like I am saying our other starters are bad or like I have no idea what I am talking about. The kid has something special. You can see it when he is on the mound.

All of our starters are solid pitchers. Hitting has been more of the issue.

igeaux.mobi

[cajun2bag]

agreed!

[Cajun90]

If you execute small ball then you actually help your batting average. For example, a double followed by a sacrifice bunt and sacrifice fly results in a 1.000 batting average (1 for 1) with an rbi. You made 2 outs without adding the 0 for 2 to your batting average. On the other hand, failing on a sacrifice fly or bunt results in an 0 for 1, which hurts your BA.

Don't know if anyone here follows Sabermetrics or Bill James. The book "Moneyball" is the story of Oakland A's, Mgr. Billy Beane and his use of Sabermetrics and is a good introduction and an easy read.

Sabermetrics has spent years (decades) compiling various stats. The bottom line is that many of the current stats (i.e. batting avg.) don't necessarily measure the true success of a player and a team.

Two measures are used pretty significantly in pro ball teams that use Sabermetrics. They are OPS which is On base plus slugging which has the best correlation statistically to runs scored and WHIP which is Walks plus Hits per Inning Pitched which is basically a good correlation against a pitchers runs given up. There are a couple of other significant stats that try to eliminate defense from a pitchers stats.

A good question for the next coaches show would be if the Cajuns use any of the Sabermetric stats. Until recently it has primarily been a tool used in the pros but with the advance of statistical software it has become fairly easy to collect and process data at the college level also and some schools are starting to utilize it.

[wcd35]

_ Those stats don't impress me. Nothing to wrote home about against two bad teams and one good team. I never said he wasn't going to be a good player but as far as a Friday night guy this weekend or leading off this weekend I think we have a lot of better options. He's a freshman you're right and has done OK. That's it. But he's going to be a pretty good player eventually. He's just not ready. I think we are having to lean on people who are not ready and we think a 5 ERA is good because the lack of performance the past couple years but our fans should expect more than that.
igeaux.mobi _

See now I agree with what you are saying for the most part. Before it just came across as saying Fuse is not a good pitcher. It is definitely a risk moving him to Friday. We'll see how it pays off. Sometimes freshmen step up when they get a shot over upperclassmen, sometimes they arent ready. I'm hoping we get a good performance.

[LifeTimeCajun]

_ agreed! _

2bag- in your opinion, since u have played the game....is it that the talent is ot there offensively? Or is it that there is a lack of leadership again? Can you put your finger on it? Just curious