Road to Omaha - 2017 College Baseball

PaulinMyrBch · Feb 16, 2017

Headed to Clemson in the AM. Gonna catch Fri/Sat games and hang with my kids. Baseball baby. No better feeling than hanging with my kids at a ballgame.

steveluck7 · Feb 16, 2017

Bryant is again favored to win the NEC. They lost a lot of offensive production but have some solid hitters returning and a few new faces to hopefully close the gap. Pitching looks to be the strength this year
Brief season preview

RedOctober3829 · Feb 16, 2017

Preseason BA Top 10
1. TCU
2. FSU
3. Florida
4. LSU
5. South Carolina
6. ECU
7. Louisville
8. Fullerton
9. Oregon State
10. Clemson

A buddy's son is the catcher at Florida State so I tend to root for them these days. As Paul knows, I am a big Clemson guy as well. Let the season begin!

PaulinMyrBch · Feb 16, 2017

RedOctober3829 said:
Preseason BA Top 10
1. TCU
2. FSU
3. Florida
4. LSU
5. South Carolina
6. ECU
7. Louisville
8. Fullerton
9. Oregon State
10. Clemson

A buddy's son is the catcher at Florida State so I tend to root for them these days. As Paul knows, I am a big Clemson guy as well. Let the season begin!

Yea, looking forward to it. Cal had a hell of a freshman year. Okie/Beer/Raleigh would have been a nice 3/4/5, but he seems to have landed in a good spot.

AMS25 · Feb 17, 2017

Going to watch #17 Long Beach State play the OU Sooners this weekend. Here's hoping that the Sooners' pitching is better this year. (Can't get much worse than last year's.)

RedOctober3829 · Feb 17, 2017

VCU is beating Florida State 3-0 in the top of the 7th inning. VCU has held FSU to 1 hit so far.

This is now a final. Shocker.

AMS25 · Feb 17, 2017

RedOctober3829 said:
VCU is beating Florida State 3-0 in the top of the 7th inning. VCU has held FSU to 1 hit so far.

This is now a final. Shocker.

Wow. Who saw that coming?

Oklahoma 6, No. 17 Long Beach State 2. The Sooners win on opening day behind dominant outing from Jake Irvin. Yay! Better pitching.

Bosoxen · Feb 18, 2017

AMS25 said:
Going to watch #17 Long Beach State play the OU Sooners this weekend. Here's hoping that the Sooners' pitching is better this year. (Can't get much worse than last year's.)

Their new pitching coach is my wife's uncle - Skip Johnson. He is a good recruiter and will be able to coach them up so you should see a marked improvement.

From a personal standpoint, it pained me greatly to see him go from Texas to Oklahoma. Would have much preferred to see him go to Texas Tech, where I figured he would go because he's good friends with Tim Tadlock. I just still can't get over seeing him wear those colors (puke).

AMS25 · Feb 18, 2017

Sorry, Bosoxen! While I'm on the sidelines of the Texas-Oklahoma rivalry (didn't grow up here so I don't really hate Texas), I do understand sports hate. (Still annoys me to see Ellsbury in pinstripes.) I'm looking forward to some baseball today! It's 70 degrees and sunny.

AMS25 · Feb 26, 2017

Bosoxen said:
Their new pitching coach is my wife's uncle - Skip Johnson. He is a good recruiter and will be able to coach them up so you should see a marked improvement.

Well, your wife's uncle is working miracles already. The Sooners are 7-1, and the one game they lost, the starting pitcher was quite good (bullpen melt-down). Of course, the offense is playing out of its mind so the pitchers are getting tons of run support. But, the pitching is 100% better than last year.

Bosoxen · Feb 27, 2017

AMS25 said:
Well, your wife's uncle is working miracles already. The Sooners are 7-1, and the one game they lost, the starting pitcher was quite good (bullpen melt-down). Of course, the offense is playing out of its mind so the pitchers are getting tons of run support. But, the pitching is 100% better than last year.

I knew he would. He was supposed to be the heir apparent to Augie Garrido but apparently Mike Perrin had other plans. The only reason the Texas teams were even moderately competitive over the past few years was due to Skip's pitching staffs. I'm sure he's just tickled pink to finally have some offense and not have to worry about winning 2-1 Augieball games all the time.

ethangl · Feb 27, 2017

I gave up on Augie when I saw one of our guys, who was deep in a slump, toe tap with his back foot and and stride backwards towards the catcher on every pitch.

Bosoxen · Feb 28, 2017

ethangl said:
I gave up on Augie when I saw one of our guys, who was deep in a slump, toe tap with his back foot and and stride backwards towards the catcher on every pitch.

Not sure when that happened but I gave up on him shortly after they got pummeled by LSU in the CWS. Rather than recognize that the game was shifting to a more offense-friendly environment (to the point where the NCAA had to deaden bats), Augie stubbornly clung to bunting five million times a game. Naturally, the best players stopped going to Texas because what top hitting talent wants to go to a program that goes out of its way to suppress offense (even that of its own team)?

But anyway, that's a topic for a different thread. Sorry for the hijack.

AMS25 · Mar 4, 2017

Bosoxen,

Your wife's uncle is the gift that keeps on giving.... Jake Irvin with another dominant performance last night -- 14 Ks, 2 hits, 1 walk. Sooners on a 9 game winning streak.....

Bosoxen · Mar 6, 2017

AMS25 said:
Bosoxen,

Your wife's uncle is the gift that keeps on giving.... Jake Irvin with another dominant performance last night -- 14 Ks, 2 hits, 1 walk. Sooners on a 9 game winning streak.....

Looks like my father-in-law and I will not be getting our wish. We had hoped the pitching staff would shine but the land thieves would lose a lot of 2-1 type games (not unlike the games Texas was losing of late). I guess only the good half of that is coming true.

Fred not Lynn said:
New Mexico State is really good...

Speaking of pitching staffs, it looks like that might be NMSU's weakness. They're putting up runs in bunches, sure, but the games they're losing look pretty lopsided. To be fair, two of those losses are against top programs (Texas Tech and Arizona State) but the combined score of those two games was 28-6. Looks to me like State will make hay against smaller programs but will struggle with the big boys.

steveluck7 · Mar 18, 2017

I can't confirm the specific news you've heard but there is major concern in Smithfield about his elbow.
Horrible for him... likely cost him a lot of money

steveluck7 · Mar 18, 2017

I know he had an MRI the week after he was pulled but haven't heard a diagnosis. Best case, they're hoping he can come back late this season. FYI, he was complaining of forearm soreness, rather than shoulder
He put on a lot of muscle in the offseason and is a workout fiend so I'm not sure if this injury is symptomatic of any of that as opposed to a torn UCL or something

steveluck7 · Mar 18, 2017

I'll look for an update this week. Coach Owens is pretty intense and they've played poorly these past few weeks so Ive stayed away!
I think they can still win the NEC even without J.K. Steve Thetgee is a soph and pitched really well last year so he'll slot in as the Friday starter.
Bryant's weekend series at FDU was postponed but they actually picked up a 3 game series at Brown for today and tomorrow

steveluck7 · Apr 12, 2017

Bryant's finally starting to get healthy a bit.
James Karinchak was named Collegiate Baseball newspaper player of the week and NEC pitcher of the week for his 1 hit, 11k outing against Wagner.
They followed that up by beating #25 UCONN yesterday.
5-1 in conference after a sluggish non-conference schedule.

steveluck7 · May 6, 2017

Fred not Lynn said:
...and of course I wander into the Brown ballpark after 3 and Karinchak is done for the day with a 7-0 lead and three perfect innings. I came all this way to see two pitchers and he was one of them, darn...

are you going to the games tomorrow? I may bring the kids to campus (weather permitting)

AMS25 · May 14, 2017

Saw that crazy game between the OU Sooners and TCU yesterday. Walk-off three run homer by Renae Martinez; Sooners win, 9-8. Since their awesome start to the season, the Sooners' pitching has come down to earth a bit. The bullpen is completely unreliable, just like that of the Red Sox. Thankfully, the offense doesn't quit, or the Sooners wouldn't be in most of these games.

PaulinMyrBch · May 30, 2017

Brackets set. Lots of noise about Clemson being a surprise host. They limped through the last month of the season. To their credit, it was heavy backloaded with Louisville and UNC late and their RPI and SOS were both high. UVA had a case, but their out of conference SOS was really weak and I think that hurt them. That's the thing about baseball, mid week games are dependent on convenience to some degree, so who is nearby greatly effects the out of conference SOS. Clemson has Georgia and USC close, so that's 5 games right there, plus they schedule College of Charleston and Coastal, so they get some decent out of conference games without too much trouble.

Anyhow, anyone checking out games this weekend?

DIV 1 Baseball Championship Bracket

RedOctober3829 · May 30, 2017

They have to do something about the makeup of this tournament. They have to seed this 1-64. It makes no sense at all for Virginia who was a top 15 team to be a #2 seed in TCU's region. They need to get away from placing so much emphasis on travel distance as it matters for some teams and doesn't for others. The top 16 teams should host and then seed the 2-4 seeds from best to last. The top seed should have the #17, #33, and #64 rated teams in their pod and work from there. Of course some adjustments for conference opponents would have to be made. But the current format stinks.

PaulinMyrBch · May 30, 2017

RedOctober3829 said:
They have to do something about the makeup of this tournament. They have to seed this 1-64. It makes no sense at all for Virginia who was a top 15 team to be a #2 seed in TCU's region. They need to get away from placing so much emphasis on travel distance as it matters for some teams and doesn't for others. The top 16 teams should host and then seed the 2-4 seeds from best to last. The top seed should have the #17, #33, and #64 rated teams in their pod and work from there. Of course some adjustments for conference opponents would have to be made. But the current format stinks.

Totally agree. The regional travel makeup of this tournament is so unfair. But shouldn't the 1 get the 32, 33, and 64? I would think the 17 should be headed to the 16 as a 2 seed.

Detts · May 30, 2017

Also agree. Indiana went to Arizona Florida Alabama and Hawaii to avoid the cold at the start of the season. School is out. Indiana gets to play close to home in UK regional.

yay

RedOctober3829 · May 30, 2017

PaulinMyrBch said:
Totally agree. The regional travel makeup of this tournament is so unfair. But shouldn't the 1 get the 32, 33, and 64? I would think the 17 should be headed to the 16 as a 2 seed.

Yes of course. My bad.

canderson · May 30, 2017

Texas going to California is absurd. They should be in Houston.

PaulinMyrBch · May 31, 2017

RedOctober3829 said:
Yes of course. My bad.

Is there reluctance to put team in a regional where a conference opponent is hosting? If not, UVA should easily be the 2 in either the Wake or Clemson regionals. Each of those teams is clearly in the 14-16 range if you're ranking them.

DeJesus Built My Hotrod · Jun 4, 2017

This Texas/Long Beach State game is fantastic.

stp130 · Jun 4, 2017

Anybody watching this Texas-Long Beach State game? Holy cow.

stp130 · Jun 4, 2017

Good recap of last night's ridiculously entertaining Texas-Long Beach State game, which included not one, but two game-saving defensive plays by Texas - the first, a diving outfield catch to prevent the game-winning run from scoring in the bottom of the ninth, the second a bare-handed relay catch-and-throw to the plate to prevent a game-winning inside-the-park home run in the bottom of the 10th. Texas went on to win 5-3 in 12:

http://www.burntorangenation.com/2017/6/4/15736112/texas-longhorns-baseball-defeats-long-beach-state-5-3-in-thrilling-ncaa-regional

DeJesus Built My Hotrod · Jun 5, 2017

And now Long Beach State, who beat the Longhorns 4-3 tonight after beating SDSU earlier in the day and Texas are going to play again on Monday night at 11pm ET/8pm Pacific. I could watch these teams play 100 games, let alone three.

h8mfy · Jun 6, 2017

Dirtbag frosh lefty from my kids' HS comes in and strikes out two longhorns (including Kacy Klemens) with runners on 2nd and 3rd, holding the lead at 2-1 in the 6th.

Just a bit outside · Jun 6, 2017

h8mfy said:
Dirtbag frosh lefty from my kids' HS comes in and strikes out two longhorns (including Kacy Klemens) with runners on 2nd and 3rd, holding the lead at 2-1 in the 6th.

Absolutely nasty on lefties. Reminds me of Javier Lopez.

DeJesus Built My Hotrod · Jun 6, 2017

These teams are so fun to watch play one another. If this game is tied LBSU is going to need to find pitching.

h8mfy · Jun 6, 2017

Texas' closer escapes a bases-loaded jam, on to the 8th, still 2-1

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