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If Tennessee wasn't playing so poorly I wouldn't bother with this scout.
Cincinnati sits in last place in the American Athletic with a 6-15 record. They have yet to start conference play. They were swept by Miss. St. by a combined score of 41 to 14. They have given up 7 or more runs 10 times in 21 games. UK beat them 9-1 in a midweek game. They are 0-10 on the road.
In fact the numbers are so bad, it's almost hard to take value of what they mean.
When you look at the hitting, two guys, Ian Happ (.427) and Noda Ryan (.307) are responsible for 13 of the teams 16 HR's and over a third of the teams RBI's. Wallace Woody is batting .348, but after those 3 guys, every player on the roster is hitting .238 or worse.
As you can imagine the team ERA isn't pretty at 6.59. Andrew Zeller is the teams best pitcher with a 1.33 ERA and a 2-0 record. I doubt we will seem him, but it is possible I guess.
After that, the next best ERA is Doug Lowe's 3.95 and it starts dropping from there. Lowe is a freshman and he's a lefty, I think he'll get the ball, but it's just a guess.
They do have a respectable .970 fielding percentage, 25 errors on the year, spread out fairly evenly amongst the team.
Let's face it, this isn't even remotely interesting. This should be a game where Aaron Soto, Eric Freeman, Tei Vanderford, Richard Jackson, Quint Robinson, or Zach Reid would get a shot. Of those guys only Reid has pitched, and that was versus one batter.
I can't remember a time where 6 guys haven't pitched at all or that through 20 games we've really only used 10 guys.
That's not changing anytime soon and it's scary because an injury or two and we'd be in deep you know what because we have no idea what those guys can do in a game situation. Just something I've been thinking about.
We can't afford to look at some of the new guys because of the lost games due to weather and the losses we've suffered as a team thus far and the hole we are now in.
It seems ridiculous to start talking "must win", but until we get out of the hole that's exactly what every game is. This is one of the last chances to get up big on a team, close the door early and give some other guys their shot. That's of course a best case scenario and it's very difficult to have confidence we can do it, even against Cincinnati. If they bust out their best pitcher against us it could be a game, if not, we should take care of business.
Let's hope the turn around starts tomorrow, game time 7PM.
GBO!!!
Cincinnati sits in last place in the American Athletic with a 6-15 record. They have yet to start conference play. They were swept by Miss. St. by a combined score of 41 to 14. They have given up 7 or more runs 10 times in 21 games. UK beat them 9-1 in a midweek game. They are 0-10 on the road.
In fact the numbers are so bad, it's almost hard to take value of what they mean.
When you look at the hitting, two guys, Ian Happ (.427) and Noda Ryan (.307) are responsible for 13 of the teams 16 HR's and over a third of the teams RBI's. Wallace Woody is batting .348, but after those 3 guys, every player on the roster is hitting .238 or worse.
As you can imagine the team ERA isn't pretty at 6.59. Andrew Zeller is the teams best pitcher with a 1.33 ERA and a 2-0 record. I doubt we will seem him, but it is possible I guess.
After that, the next best ERA is Doug Lowe's 3.95 and it starts dropping from there. Lowe is a freshman and he's a lefty, I think he'll get the ball, but it's just a guess.
They do have a respectable .970 fielding percentage, 25 errors on the year, spread out fairly evenly amongst the team.
Let's face it, this isn't even remotely interesting. This should be a game where Aaron Soto, Eric Freeman, Tei Vanderford, Richard Jackson, Quint Robinson, or Zach Reid would get a shot. Of those guys only Reid has pitched, and that was versus one batter.
I can't remember a time where 6 guys haven't pitched at all or that through 20 games we've really only used 10 guys.
That's not changing anytime soon and it's scary because an injury or two and we'd be in deep you know what because we have no idea what those guys can do in a game situation. Just something I've been thinking about.
We can't afford to look at some of the new guys because of the lost games due to weather and the losses we've suffered as a team thus far and the hole we are now in.
It seems ridiculous to start talking "must win", but until we get out of the hole that's exactly what every game is. This is one of the last chances to get up big on a team, close the door early and give some other guys their shot. That's of course a best case scenario and it's very difficult to have confidence we can do it, even against Cincinnati. If they bust out their best pitcher against us it could be a game, if not, we should take care of business.
Let's hope the turn around starts tomorrow, game time 7PM.
GBO!!!
