Hitting numbers are down in college baseball from 20 years ago. A lot of that has to do with the NCAA deadening the bats to reduce the hitting to more normal numbers. So no more 20-18 games.
Last year really took a lot of wind out of the sails. As for this year I think we have some reasons to be optimistic. I think our pitching will be solid all year if not outright dominant at times. Our hitters are young but talented. There will be lots of growing pains at the plate. We will be flat out ugly at times. I think we hit well enough though to finish 4th or 5th in conference. Win a game or two in the conference tournament and then are a very tough out in the NCAA tournament. I do think we are better at the end of the year than at the beginning. I just don't see any way that Street and Tulowitzki allow the wheels to fall off the tracks this year. They should be good bumpers for these players to keep the metaphoric bowling ball in the lane.
My son is 4 and playing for the first time this year. He's in a modified coach pitch league. I'm coaching his team. The league has decided that there needs to be a mandatory 4 hour coaching clinic tomorrow. This is going to suck.
Lol all of you talking about 6A. I'm probably the only one looking at 1A. My son's team got put into possibly the worst district in the state. Great for us!
It doesn't hurt but really recruiting shouldn't be considered when firing a guy. Shaka deserves to be fired even if he had the number 1 class. In basketball a roster can be turned over in 1 year though. Beard at Tech has done that the last couple of years.
It's inevitable that we lose him at this point. The bad feeling in my gut is that we lose him without actually getting something good in return. Probably because we insist on throwing in Price to just shed salary.