Tennessee at Missouri Game 3 Thread - 12:30PM - SECN

[31VFL]

I can't believe there are actually people defending anyone on this coaching staff, if this was football everyone would of wanted the whole staff gone last year. There is no excuse for this team to be this bad at this point in Serrano tenure here, and I don't give a graphic we are in the toughest conference, so song give me that crap, cause I Wil just point to football and say .. Now what's your excuse?. This team, and kids( and I know they are busting their butts off) but they haven't got better either, poor coaching decisions, on the bases, not pulling people when they need pulled. It all adds up to a really bad team, and we are at the bottom of the SEC, Serrano must go.. I thought he would work out, wanted him to work out.. But its not, plain and simple.

If you look at the offensive stats you'll see why folks are defending people on this coaching staff.
The pitching is horrific, that doesn't mean the men coaching the offense are. It's amazing how view on here actually pay attention. And clearly you haven't been around long. Most of us were begging to keep Pittman when Dooley left. Using your logic, we shouldn't have hired Bob Schoop because Penn St was awful last year. A bad team can have a good coach on staff.

 

[aredfox28]

If you look at the offensive stats you'll see why folks are defending people on this coaching staff.
The pitching is horrific, that doesn't mean the men coaching the offense are. It's amazing how view on here actually pay attention. And clearly you haven't been around long. Most of us were begging to keep Pittman when Dooley left. Using your logic, we shouldn't have hired Bob Schoop because Penn St was awful last year.

You... Can try and defend it anyway you want...telling me about The offensive stuff, too bad we gotta pitch and play defense when the other team is up to bat and do something when we actually get runners on base. So be proud that our offense has maybe got better, I'll just keep watching the losses add up in the loss column, cause that what truly matters.. Not offensive stats.

 

[31VFL]

You... Can try and defend it anyway you want...telling me about The offensive stuff, too bad we gotta pitch and play defense when the other team is up to bat and do something when we actually get runners on base. So be proud that our offense has maybe got better, I'll just keep watching the losses add up in the loss column, cause that what truly matters.. Not offensive stats.

Lmao. I'm not defending Serrano. If you would actually read you would see that. You're just one of those guys that roll in after a loss and say we need to fire everyone. Again, Simcox and Thomas has seen just about every player improve offensively this year. It's not in their job description to work with the pitchers. That is Serrano's job.

 

[vol66]

If you look at the offensive stats you'll see why folks are defending people on this coaching staff.
The pitching is horrific, that doesn't mean the men coaching the offense are. It's amazing how view on here actually pay attention. And clearly you haven't been around long. Most of us were begging to keep Pittman when Dooley left. Using your logic, we shouldn't have hired Bob Schoop because Penn St was awful last year.

31 on point as usual...if one didn't suffer through the putrid offense of last season, the anemic production of some our best players due to what was being asked of them...obviously the stats are overwhelmingly better...but it only matters if you recall only one player had 40 RBI's last season, this year we have 2 over 50, and one over 40.

They called it "pressure offense" and for our players I think it was aptly named.

The only way this applies to football is expectations. The football team is expected to compete for the SEC East Title this season. The 2016 BaseVols were predicted be at the bottom of the East, exactly where we are.

Hope Butch doesn't lose to UF, that place will go nuts.

 

[31VFL]

31 on point as usual...if one didn't suffer through the putrid offense of last season, the anemic production of some our best players due to what was being asked of them...obviously the stats are overwhelmingly better...but it only matters if you recall only one player had 40 RBI's last season, this year we have 2 over 50, and one over 40.

They called it "pressure offense" and for our players I think it was aptly named.

The only way this applies to football is expectations. The football team is expected to compete for the SEC East Title this season. The 2016 BaseVols were predicted be at the bottom of the East, exactly where we are.

Hope Butch doesn't lose to UF, that place will go nuts.

No kidding. Butch loses this year and he will need a get away home, for safety.

 

[BruinVol]

Lmao. I'm not defending Serrano. If you would actually read you would see that. You're just one of those guys that roll in after a loss and say we need to fire everyone. Again, Simcox and Thomas has seen just about every player improve offensively this year. It's not in their job description to work with the pitchers. That is Serrano's job.

AT and LS have done an excellent job

After seeing a few games Lately and paying close attention I think AT deserves most of the credit. He is running the offense all together

This thing failed because CDS hasn't developed arms and he made an awful choice to bring Bergeron with him.

 

[vol66]

I think too...what could be stated...going back to the beginning of the season, or the fall...everyone expected that the pitching would be good this year. The question was where was the offensive production going to come from.

Based on last year and players like AJ and Stew...losing Lee...and then looking at who would be replacing them, I think it's fair to say we all wondered what kind of magic could/would have to be worked to even keep up with the bottom of the league production we had last year.

Of course, we were all under the impression that Andy Cox, Kyle Serrano, Zach Warren and Hunter Martin would be a serviceable rotation on the weekends with one of them being a closer.

Even with all of that we were still picked to finish last or next to last in the league, largely because no one knew how we would replace all that we lost to the draft.

So here we are. Nine SEC games left.

Here's what happened.

We have had to pitch 179.0 innings of SEC Baseball

Zach Warren has pitched 43.1

Andy Cox has pitched 37.2.

Hunter Martin has pitched 10.2

Kyle Serrano has pitched 0


Soto has picked up some of the slack and after this weekend has the best ERA, best b/avg.

The fact that 3 out of these 5 have either not lived up to the billing or were lost...I don't know how many teams could overcome that.

Of course, we lost the lead off man/second baseman before SEC play began, then we lost the SS eleven games ago...all of which has been overcome to a degree...

This is not to say we don't need a change...just a reminder of where our collective heads were to begin this season.