⚾ 🥎 Baseball is turning some heads...

[TerryP]

Yesterday I caught a note from D1Baseball on X mentioning they were back at "The Joe" and hoped for a game to match the one they saw Saturday. I wasn't surprised; Fay and the Tide caught a few eye balls last weekend sweeping Florida.

I follow Baseball America. Their latest rankings changed, a little bit, from last week.

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[TerryP]

On rankings that matter ... I understand there was a jump in RPI this week.

 

[TerryP]

On rankings that matter ... I understand there was a jump in RPI this week.

 

[Bammerboy321]

I was down on Vaughn earlier this season. Did not like that we retained JJ. It seems to have flipped. Pitching has improved. And like @Brandon Van de Graaff said, our approach has completely changed from long ball to small ball and it has worked for the best.

Keep the momentum going and this team can host a regional.

 

[TerryP]

Yesterday I caught a note from D1Baseball on X mentioning

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Yesterday I caught a note from D1Baseball on X mentioning they were back at "The Joe" and hoped for a game to match the one they saw Saturday. I wasn't surprised; Fay and the Tide caught a few eye balls last weekend sweeping Florida.

I follow Baseball America. Their latest rankings changed, a little bit, from last week.

3/23	3/30
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#10 feels really aggressive and little over reactionary, but maybe the burn wounds that this team gave me up until about 10 days ago are just healing too slowly. We shall see though. They are playing their best baseball, easily. The past 2 seasons under Vaughn, they've had some impressive conference series wins, but they've also been wildly inconsistent. Up until this past weekend, under Vaughn they'd not won 2 conference series in a row. They've accomplished that now, but the next step is to play better on the road. They got 1 road conference series win last year, a conference weekend opening sweep against A&M.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I was down on Vaughn earlier this season. Did not like that we retained JJ. It seems to have flipped. Pitching has improved. And like @Brandon Van de Graaff said, our approach has completely changed from long ball to small ball and it has worked for the best.

Keep the momentum going and this team can host a regional.

A shame that they won't have Logen Davenport this season. IMO, he's have been a nice bat in the #4 spot. Would have hit 10+ HR's and probably .320 + overall or so. That middle of the order power and consistency would have been nice.

Hopefully when Sam Christensen return soon he can add something. If nothing else, he gives a solid LH bat at 1B to play over Vaughn when needed. Beyond that, just need the rest of them to stay healthy.

 

[TerryP]

#10 feels really aggressive and little over reactionary, but maybe the burn wounds that this team gave me up until about 10 days ago are just healing too slowly. We shall see through. They are playing their best baseball, easily. The past 2 seasons under Vaughn, they've had some impressive conference series wins, but they've also been wildly inconsistent. Up until this past weekend, under Vaughn they'd not won 2 conference series in a row. They've accomplished that now, but the next step is to play better on the road. They got 1 road conference series win last year, a conference weekend opening sweep against A&M.

OU looms large in my view. I felt a little better about OU after seeing TX run rule them TH night; then OU comes take and, while getting swept, took the last two to extra innings.

Three weeks in for the SEC slate; seven to go. The RPI isn't doing justice to OU in my opinion because of that.

Geez...UArk sliding into town following OU only to see the team flying to Austin ...

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

OU looms large in my view. I felt a little better about OU after seeing TX run rule them TH night; then OU comes take and, while getting swept, took the last two to extra innings.

Three weeks in for the SEC slate; seven to go. The RPI isn't doing justice to OU in my opinion because of that.

Geez...UArk sliding into town following OU only to see the team flying to Austin ...

I've not seen them on TV a lot this year, just a couple of games and then bits/pieces/highlights. But they look a lot like last year's squad... very solid. Good starting pitching, though I don't think their ace this year (the Johnson kid) is on the same elite level as Kyson Witherspoon was last year. Still, he and their other 2 weekend guys are good. Their Sunday starter is a Fr. like Upchurch. Pretty good hitting team, not great. But they have a shit ton of speed at the top of the order which can cause issues. It'll be another tough challenge... interested to see how UA responds now after they've had some success and now have to go on the road. If they can get another really good weekend out of Fay and Adams, I'm going to start getting excited. Just wish 2 or 3 guys from the bullpen would step up and claim a weekend, high leverage role so that so much isn't put on the literal shoulders of Heiberger, Crowther, Alcock, Banks, etc.

 

[TerryP]

now have to go on the road.

A little scoot up the street tomorrow night...last I looked Jax St was putting together a pretty good season: fewer losses than Bama, I believe.

 

[alabama mike]

The boys just need to continue working hard and playing smart baseball. Glad to see them doing well so far.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

A little scoot up the street tomorrow night...last I looked Jax St was putting together a pretty good season: fewer losses than Bama, I believe.

They have a great program. Although he retired a few years ago, their former longtime coach Jim Case, is college baseball royalty as far as I’m concerned.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

They have a great program. Although he retired a few years ago, their former longtime coach Jim Case, is college baseball royalty as far as I’m concerned.

Named the field after him, I believe. GA tix are available for $20 that run down the left field side, reserved behind the Bama dugout $25. I looked at buying a pair, may still, but I'm watching the weather, chance of showers.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Named the field after him, I believe. GA tix are available for $20 that run down the left field side, reserved behind the Bama dugout $25. I looked at buying a pair, may still, but I'm watching the weather, chance of showers.

Yep. Very good coach. Very good man. Got to know him many years back when he was at UAB.

Hopefully the weather stays dry. Get to the game if you can…

 

[TerryP]

Named the field after him, I believe.

Maybe I'm wrong here. Their playing field, for games? I think I remember seeing a sponsor jump on this...wanna say it was financially related.

 

[RTB X Bot]

Alabama Moves Way, Way Up​

This wasn’t so much a question as it was a reaction. Several readers pushed back on how aggressively we moved Alabama, jumping the Crimson Tide from No. 22 to No. 10 after a sweep of then-No. 6 Auburn.

It’s difficult to follow the case against that kind of movement. Consider the resume:

• 22-7 overall
• 6-3 in the SEC
• 7-1 against Top 25 teams, the most such wins in the country besides Texas’ eight
• 6-1 in weekend series
• No. 6 in RPI, a metric I don’t like leaning on but, because many people insist on it, I’m including it here

Now remove the name.

Evaluate that profile blindly, especially coming off a sweep of a top-six team, and it lands comfortably inside the top 10. That’s the exercise. That’s the standard. So that’s where we put it.

 

[RTB X Bot]

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Maybe I'm wrong here. Their playing field, for games? I think I remember seeing a sponsor jump on this...wanna say it was financially related.

Stadium, based on their ticket site.

Baseball Single Game Tickets | Jacksonville State University

jaxstatesports.evenue.net

 

[Bammerboy321]

Guessing we're getting a new commit