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taylorvol said:
No offense but sitting Luc would be ridiculous. He’s only one of 3 players with a hit last night. He also had a walk and a hard liner to 3rd. You dont bench your veteran 1B who’s a team leader on the field and in the clubhouse. Team will regroup and play hard. Off nights happen but CTV will not overreact or panic.
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You don't bench him but moving him to 8th might snap his ass out of the slump
 
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whobethis16 said:
It's not fully wrong. 90 HRs in 32 Games at LNS (2.81/gm). Only 18 in 14 games away from LNS (1.29/gm). Now, 1.29/gm is usually very acceptable, but when that's your foundation of offense, it's less than half what you do at home. Big difference.
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That is a significant difference for sure. Difference of level of competition home/away is a confounding factor as well.
 
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Jax_Vol said:
As I recall, Evan was the only one to even reach the warning track. Big field.

However, more importantly, they faced tremendous pitching in Omaha. Both, Virgina and Texas threw good arms who kept the ball low. Virgina started a lefty who truly bothered our left handed guys. Our left handed DH enjoyed Omaha, but all of the others struggled.
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Beck reached the warning track, dead center. CF caught it right in front of the 400 ft sign.
 
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Drewbydoo said:
The TV announcers have said something repeatedly about baseball and that it's a game where there is a lot of failure. When a player is hitting .400, they're failing to get a hit 60% of the time. An MLB team that wins 70% of their games is considered amazing.

For the past few weeks Vitello has said he's got to figure out how to get some very good players some at bats and that as a coach, it's hard to keep everyone happy and that's important because the reason the Volunteers are so good is because of their depth.

With the transfer portal, unhappy players can easily transfer.

I expect to see more bench players over the next 3 weeks because Tennessee has the luxury of locking down a post season spot so early.

One way to fail in the post season is to not get more players, more at bats because in the next 5-6 weeks of baseball, players unexpectedly will miss some games due to injury or something else. When that happens, he wants his team prepared. That's why he allowing and will continue to allow players with a fairly low batting average like Booker to continue to get at bats. In order for players to perform well as a starter, they need to actually be a starter.
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Some good points to what you say. I would also comment that rhythm and flow are paramount to a hitter. You don’t want too much inactivity for too long, because destroying that timing can make you who you haven’t been in the postseason. It’s a fine line, and it can be the difference in winning and losing.
 
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The weather not looking good for tonight at UK. So if it’s rained out would we do a double header or just move to Sunday?
 
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cardvolfan said:
Some good points to what you say. I would also comment that rhythm and flow are paramount to a hitter. You don’t want too much inactivity for too long, because destroying that timing can make you who you haven’t been in the postseason. It’s a fine line, and it can be the difference in winning and losing.
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I completely agree.

There's a lot going on within any team. Even who your lead off hitter is. Some guys just aren't cut out for the lead off position even if their fast and have a good on base percentage batting lower in the order. Moving every player up a spot in the order ends up being a disaster and one of the vols strengths imo is that they have two different lead of hitters.

I try to put myself in Vitello's position to understand what he's thinking: Presently he feels some pressure to keep winning and set records because it fires up the fan base, alumni and team, but I think he wisely is focusing on the post season and he's more than hinted at it when he says things like, "records are made to be broken". I think he means that he realizes that whatever regular season record his team sets, he knows that record will fall, but making the post season, playing in the CWS and perhaps winning a CWS all stand the test of time if he can do that even once.

The Vols are in a position to be very good for several years and they remind me of Duke Basketball where they have many bench players that would would be starters on most other teams, but would rather be patient to have the chance to play for a team that could be legendary.

I follow the vols because I know some players there, but the college team I have seen the most IRL is Georgia Tech. I wouldn't begin to know how to make a team like Georgia Tech become as good as the Vols are right now. I really wouldn't. I honestly believe if the Vols took out half of their current starting pitchers and benched two of their best batters, they'd easily beat GT. THAT'S how good the Vols are right now.
 
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TennEddie said:
Swinging for the fence works well in Knoxville,
but not so much in larger ballparks.
Thats what hurt them in Omaha last year.
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Swinging for the fence is what got us to Omaha..... It just can't possibly be the teams you play in Omaha are their because they are good too and usually have above average pitching right ?
 
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whobethis16 said:
It's not fully wrong. 90 HRs in 32 Games at LNS (2.81/gm). Only 18 in 14 games away from LNS (1.29/gm). Now, 1.29/gm is usually very acceptable, but when that's your foundation of offense, it's less than half what you do at home. Big difference.
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Good point but those stats are likely skewed bc of all the non-conference home games against less than stellar pitching. Better stat would be home/away HRs in SEC play only.
 
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BigALWiLson said:
Swinging for the fence is what got us to Omaha..... It just can't possibly be the teams you play in Omaha are their because they are good too and usually have above average pitching right ?
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We have 6 regular players batting .300+, a couple are flirting with .350. You have players 7&8 that could finish over .300.
We have a pretty good OBP, right?
I don’t think that’s indicative of a team that just swings for the fences.
We can hit for average or with power, all through the lineup.
GBO!!
 
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cobbwebb0710 said:
We have 6 regular players batting .300+, a couple are flirting with .350. You have players 7&8 that could finish over .300.
We have a pretty good OBP, right?
I don’t think that’s indicative of a team that just swings for the fences.
We can hit for average or with power, all through the lineup.
GBO!!
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My post was about the other guys comment swinging for the fences. We had solid averages last year as well. We hit in all aspects very well. I was more so implying Texas and UVA were both pretty ***** good last year and making it to Omaha and losing should not be looked down on.
 
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taylorvol said:
Also going against elite pitching impacts that as well. I can’t remember but we likely faced TX and UVAs aces (or #2s) in Omaha.
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I was there for the CWS. UVA had a right handed, All-American. But, last year, our lineup was weaker against left handed pitching. Therefore, UVA started a very good left hander (their # 2 guy) and he mowed us down.

Texas has a roster full of arms. Quite amazing
 
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taylorvol said:
Good point but those stats are likely skewed bc of all the non-conference home games against less than stellar pitching. Better stat would be home/away HRs in SEC play only.
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35 at home in 12 games (2.92/game), and 13 on the road in 10 games (1.3/game). Right on par with the overall.

10 vs USC, 8 vs Mizzou, 8 vs Bama, 9 vs Auburn
5 @ Ole Miss, 3 @ Vandy, 5 @ Florida, 0 @ UK.
 
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BigALWiLson said:
My post was about the other guys comment swinging for the fences. We had solid averages last year as well. We hit in all aspects very well. I was more so implying Texas and UVA were both pretty ***** good last year and making it to Omaha and losing should not be looked down on.
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I was just following up on your comment.
I got yer back BigAl!
GBO!!
 
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