BB Final: Louisiana 8, Tech 12

[Dad04]

That is the issue. I don’t think team era means a lick when it’s getting thrown in our faces every time we complain about hit batters and walks. I can handle getting the ball smacked around but I cannot stand to see all the free bases. Playing state Marshall and Monroe prop up those era numbers. Just tired of hearing about it. Can someone who had looked at the stats tell me where we sit in the league standings as far as giving up free bases?

We are 5th highest in hit batters. We are tied with old Dominion for 1st in least walks allowed.

We have actually given up the lowest number of runs overall in the league, 244, 13 less than USM. We are tied with USM for 1st in fewest earned runs given up at 228.

[Dad04]

6th on walks
9th on HBP

Not even close

[ULvictory]

Everybody's pitching is worse than ours, though. If pitching shows up we have a puncher's chance, imo.

If we pitch like we did at JMU, probably not.

The issue isn't the ERA as much as timing of the unfortunate events.

Against App State, we give up 3 runs but walk 2 batters home to lose 3-2. Against JMU, we give up a walk off HR with the lead in the 9th. Against Coastal, we give up 3 runs but give up a game tying home run with 2 outs in the 9th. Against Southeastern, we only give up 5 runs but hit 6 batters and give away 3 unearned runs. We lose by 1 run.

Like a timely hit, we seem to give up a timely pitch or a gift.

[GeauxLA]

We actually led the Sun Belt in ERA after this weekend. Went up from 4.78 to 4.9 after last night. The average team ERA is 6.17, more than a run above us. Pitching is horrible everywhere in college.

At times, our pitching is very bad, almost unwatchable, but it is relatively good compared to peers.

We also lead the Sun Belt in fielding % and are in the top half of most offensive catagories.

https://sunbeltsports_ftp.sidearmspo...23/lgteams.htm

Fun exercise...our team ERA in Quad 1 and 2 games goes up to 6.42. Basically, play teams with a pulse, pitching can't stop them from scoring. Play 22 games against bad teams (quad 4), pitching is good enough to keep the runs down enough.

[Dad04]

Fun exercise...our team ERA in Quad 1 and 2 games goes up to 6.42. Basically, play teams with a pulse, pitching can't stop them from scoring. Play 22 games against bad teams (quad 4), pitching is good enough to keep the runs down enough.

The performance against "good" teams is just not there. There are times, like JMU, when we pee the bed start to finish. Both reasons why success in Montgomery will be surprising for many. Nobody will take us lightly there, but I doubt better teams are skeered either. The good teams Troy, USM, Coastal, TX State will be playing for better seeds in the tourney

[CajunVic]

Not even close

https://sunbeltsports.org/stats.aspx...ball&year=2023

[sportsfanatic21]

Our offense runs along these lines too. I won't say really bad, but we beat up on bad pitching and often get handled by above average to elite pitching.

Is there a team at any high level of baseball that is any different than this?

[sportsfanatic21]

Fun exercise...our team ERA in Quad 1 and 2 games goes up to 6.42. Basically, play teams with a pulse, pitching can't stop them from scoring. Play 22 games against bad teams (quad 4), pitching is good enough to keep the runs down enough.

Who are the teams that have better numbers against the better teams on their schedule?

[LifeTimeCajun]

Teaching and development, a corner stone of this program for 30 years, is how you fix it.

Them days are over and gone. He has the blueprint, its no secret, but refuses to use it.

[LifeTimeCajun]

Didn’t Warren Nolan predict us to go 47-9 at one point in the season? He must not know our issues. I’d be happier than a pig in schitt if we win the next two series but that is very very unlikely.

But its very possible. Neither of these two teams really scare me. Ill go on a limb here and say we are the best team in the conference when we put it all together. We just struggle with consistency

[CajunRage]

Is there a team at any high level of baseball that is any different than this?

It's the point that people look at our stats and ignore the fact that we've played 2/3 of our games against quad 3&4 teams. We've scored 10+ in 22 (of 33 or 67%) of our Q3&4 games and only twice (of 17 or 12%) against Q1&2. Our offensive stats are padded with an extremely weak schedule.

"we beat up on bad pitching and often get handled by above average to elite pitching."

Most good teams beat up on bad pitching and find ways to manufacture runs against above average to elite pitching.

[GeauxLA]

Who are the teams that have better numbers against the better teams on their schedule?

I decided to look at USM next since they are just behind us in team ERA on the Sun Belt stats page.

Their team ERA in quad 1 and 2 games (30 total games) goes up to 5.61, not as significant as a jump as the Cajuns jump. And I believe that the USM number is skewed due to the CCU series. Take out that series, which accounts for 25% of the earned runs given up in the 30 quad 1 and 2 games, and their team ERA in quad 1 and 2 games is 4.72, which is actually better than their current team ERA.