Heading into South AL

[LifeTimeCajun]

We are a few days removed from a bad bad weekend of baseball so im trying to look at the whole picture with a little less emotion(probably not possible). But just how close is this team? Offensively, i think they are close. How good can they be? I dont know but i do know adding Max back into the lineup will help and i think the musical chairs position wise will calm down. I firmly believe that could help mentally for guys to settle in and we could see offensive numbers increase. However that doesnt fix the baserunning mistakes. That will be what it is as long as we are over aggressive on the bases. You just cant continue to get picked off first base or try to outrun a throw from SS to 3rd. Thats just stupid. Pitching has got to become consistent. If it doesnt, it will be ugly. The only thing that makes me optimistic is they have all shown flashes of being able to do it. How to we get them to be the same guy each night out is the million dollar question. That is what needs to get figured out. Despite showing flashes it gotta get better quick to compete in this league this yr. Everybody in the country has a Friday arm. We need to figure out who that is for us. If it was me id move Tally to friday. I hate using him as a starter just bc hes so versatile out the pen. He can be used twice on a weekend in short work or be a long reliver to get u to the end of a game if a starter gets roughed up early. I think hes extremely valuable in that regard but he may need to be a starter on this team. Outside of one outing hes been very steady. Walks and hit batters by this staff has basically taken us out of over half of the games we have lost. The good news is its not as bad as it was early in the yr. We may get by against teams the bottom of the league but clubs like Tx St, Coastal, and S. Alabama will beat the ____ out of us. When pitch and play defense we can be good but it all starts on the bump. I hope we figure SOMETHING out this weekend and take 2-3…that would be a great start. So just how close are we?

[CajunStros]

Unfortunately, not close. This the worst pitching staff in many years. The hitting can’t overcome the pitching unless something drastically changes and quickly.

[sportsfanatic21]

Unfortunately, not close. This the worst pitching staff in many years. The hitting can’t overcome the pitching unless something drastically changes and quickly.

Pitching was very similar to this year in 2018 and 2019.

[sportsfanatic21]

Nm

[babysitter]

Pitching was very similar to this year in 2018 and 2019.

Very much

[Dad04]

One game at a time. We are better at home than on the road.

[CajunStros]

Our team ERA was 6 in 18 and 19?

[sportsfanatic21]

Our team ERA was 6 in 18 and 19?

No. But it was 4.50 in 2018 and 5.07 in 2019.

This year its not 6 either. It’s 4.71

[CajunStros]

Perhaps I should have said runs given up, which is 5.6/game. Not all on the pitchers, because the defense has made us share of errors, but the result is the same….unless things improve in a hurry this is a .500 team.

[zeppelincajun]

Very similar ERA numbers as a whole but the 2018 staff had Colten Schmidt and Hogan Harris. Schmidt fell off at the end of the year (probably from too many high stress innings because we can’t hit) but was a clear ace for us and finished with a 2.45 ERA. Harris finished with a 2.62. We don’t even know who are 3 starters are at this point but just going off of last week’s starters: Ray 6.86, Talley 3.32, and Wilson 4.38.

[zeppelincajun]

Our Friday night starting lines this year:
UCI Shifflet 2.2 IP; 2 ER; 4 BB; 6.75 ERA
Stanford Ray 4.0 IP; 4 ER; 0 BB; 9.00 ERA
USM Ray 5.1 IP; 2 ER; 2 BB; 3.38 ERA
Houston Ray 2.1 IP; 5 ER; 2 BB; 19.29 ERA
Troy Ray 4.0 IP; 4 ER; 1 BB; 9.00 ERA

[sportsfanatic21]

Perhaps I should have said runs given up, which is 5.6/game. Not all on the pitchers, because the defense has made us share of errors, but the result is the same….unless things improve in a hurry this is a .500 team.

Same as 2019 (5.58 per game). And to your point, that team was 28-31

[sportsfanatic21]

Our Friday night starting lines this year:
UCI Shifflet 2.2 IP; 2 ER; 4 BB; 6.75 ERA
Stanford Ray 4.0 IP; 4 ER; 0 BB; 9.00 ERA
USM Ray 5.1 IP; 2 ER; 2 BB; 3.38 ERA
Houston Ray 2.1 IP; 5 ER; 2 BB; 19.29 ERA
Troy Ray 4.0 IP; 4 ER; 1 BB; 9.00 ERA

That’s all kinds of ugly

[LifeTimeCajun]

Our Friday night starting lines this year:
UCI Shifflet 2.2 IP; 2 ER; 4 BB; 6.75 ERA
Stanford Ray 4.0 IP; 4 ER; 0 BB; 9.00 ERA
USM Ray 5.1 IP; 2 ER; 2 BB; 3.38 ERA
Houston Ray 2.1 IP; 5 ER; 2 BB; 19.29 ERA
Troy Ray 4.0 IP; 4 ER; 1 BB; 9.00 ERA

That is why id like to see Tally in the Friday role

[sportsfanatic21]

I think one of the things that frustrates fans the most is their expectation that this program should be in a regional every (or most every) year.

The reality is that its a good program, especially for a non “power” conference school. But it’s not what many people think that it is.

There was a really good run from 1989-1992. There was a great run from 1997-2000. And there was a really good run from 2013-2016.

Besides those special groups, this has been a program that makes a regional every 4-5 years and has about the same number of seasons that aren’t so good.

For example, between the 2000 Omaha season and the nice run from 2013 to 2016, the Cajuns made 4 regionals. They also had 4 losing seasons, and a 5th that ended at 28-28.

History says that what’s going on now is basically what the program has been for the last couple of decades. History also says that another good run is coming…hopefully soon.