Can someone splain me what happened to our once-poud baseball program?

[Dad04]

The ONLY positions Cantrelle could have played that year are 3rd (move Shug to 1st), 1st, or take Butler's spot in the outfield and adjust the outfield to factor in for his speed. He would not have played 2nd or short over Conrad and Trahan.

Yep. Current SS is not moving Conrad or BT out of MIF. Jace had 7 total errors his last two seasons here. Current guy is more than double through 1.5 seasons and yes it's a different position, but still not even close to the same level.

[CajunVic]

I'm assuming you are speaking of Cantrelle. Bourgeois had 9 more hits in 13 more plate appearances. That being said, I think Cantrelle would have had an extremely hard time cracking that lineup.

I don't think either Bougeois or Cantrelle would have cracked that lineup, but the post seemed to be questioning Bougeois but not Cantrelle or Lott. I gave one factor that went right in the face of the analysis against Bourgeois.

[Turbine]

I'm assuming you are speaking of Cantrelle. Bourgeois had 9 more hits in 13 more plate appearances.

That's batting .692

KeeYaw

[Rougarou]

The ONLY positions Cantrelle could have played that year are 3rd (move Shug to 1st), 1st, or take Butler's spot in the outfield and adjust the outfield to factor in for his speed. He would not have played 2nd or short over Conrad and Trahan.

Again, Leonards was the starting 3B, not Shug. I don't think Cantrelle would have supplanted Leonards. Cantrelle's only hope I think would be the outfield with that 2014 lineup, specifically replacing Butler.

[zeppelincajun]

The second half of the 2019 Ragin' Cajuns baseball season began yesterday with a 4-3 win over Troy.

A season of promise has been sabotaged by injuries, but there's nothing that can be done about that.

First two lines of Jay’s article today. Boy I hope we turn this around because the excuse train is gonna be nauseating if we don’t.

[CajunAmos]

We scored runs until Coach Szefc left. The Lucroy years were runs scoring years.

Actually, we had some pretty poor hitting years under Szefc as well.

[CajunAmos]

Cantrelle would've started, I know this team had Trahan and Conrad, but one of those guys would have been moved to another position, Tyler Girourd was a good player, but Trahan, Conrad and Cantrelle would have been a great infeild ala Hunter Kasuls, but you would not have been able to keep both off the field. A healthy Gunner would have been one of the weekend starters.

Todd Lott would have been hard to keep out of the lineup. May not have been an everyday guy, but would have platooned.

Cantrelle would have started, but probably at another position (maybe outfield). He was not a better shortstop than Trahan. I also don't see him replacing Robbins at third or Jace Conrad at second. JMO

[ConfusedFan]

That's batting .692

KeeYaw

Crazy right? Check out the last two games against UALR and game against Northwestern.

[cajun_lannister]

The second half of the 2019 Ragin' Cajuns baseball season began yesterday with a 4-3 win over Troy.

A season of promise has been sabotaged by injuries, but there's nothing that can be done about that.

First two lines of Jay’s article today. Boy I hope we turn this around because the excuse train is gonna be nauseating if we don’t.

Regardless of what we do the rest of the way we have to win the tournament to get into the postseason..

It would be easier to part the Mississippi river than this team to string together conservative wins.

[Dad04]

Actually, we had some pretty poor hitting years under Szefc as well.

Not sure what is classified as poor hitting, but we hit .300 or over every year he was here, except his first season in 2003 (.277) and the last year he was here 2008, after Lucroy left (.248).

We hit .300 or better four of the six seasons he was here. In the 11 seasons, counting this year, since he left we hit over .300 just two seasons. Any guesses which two years those were and who the hitting coach was? Class?

[GeauxLouisiana]

Ok Jay. Let's say we go 21-7 again in the 2nd half of the season to end the season 33-23. Will we still be on the outside looking in again? Yep. It's all about those 3-4 games in May for this program now.

But a finish like that again, all that does is give Maggard a pass to let Robe continue. And then we'll have another start like this in 2020 because we'll be young to start the 2020 season. And we'll be right back here again for the 4th straight year.

[Dad04]

I don't see 21-7 coming from this team. Goodness gracious.