2021 Baseball Season

[GTNavyNuke]

Just saw that NC State's weekend series was cancelled due to Covid outbreak at VMI. Hope we get the series with them next weekend.

Miami lost to Florida 5-7. While I don't like Miami, I want the rpi points from them winning.

 

[JacketOff]

Just saw that NC State's weekend series was cancelled due to Covid outbreak at VMI. Hope we get the series with them next weekend.

Miami lost to Florida 5-7. While I don't like Miami, I want the rpi points from them winning.

They picked up a double header on Sunday with Davidson, who also had their originally scheduled series cancelled. Will be interesting to see what that does to their weekend rotation.

 

[gtrower]

Just saw that NC State's weekend series was cancelled due to Covid outbreak at VMI. Hope we get the series with them next weekend.

Miami lost to Florida 5-7. While I don't like Miami, I want the rpi points from them winning.

Yeah GA State lost in extras to a ranked WVU team too.

 

[JacketOff]

Georgia State walked off WVU in game 1 of their double header today, and currently lead 18-1 in the 4th inning of game 2 (no that’s not a typo).

Tennessee hit a 2 run homer in the 9th inning of a tie game against Georgia Southern to win.

Georgia won both ends of their double header against Evansville after a walk off in game 2. Shifting the 4 game series into their favor. Game 4 tomorrow

No. 2 UCLA lost on Friday to San Francisco.

UConn beat No. 16 UVA today

North Florida beat No. 24 Florida State today

Texas A&M lost to Xavier in game 1 of their double header today

Missouri dropped their series with GCU after losing Friday and today

Part of what makes college baseball pure compared to football and basketball is simply in the nature of baseball. Anybody can beat anybody else on any given day. You never get that in football, and the only time you see it in basketball is during the NCAAT. Even then the underdogs are rarely as underpowered as some of the

 

[MWBATL]

Georgia State walked off WVU in game 1 of their double header today, and currently lead 18-1 in the 4th inning of game 2 (no that’s not a typo).

Tennessee hit a 2 run homer in the 9th inning of a tie game against Georgia Southern to win.

Georgia won both ends of their double header against Evansville after a walk off in game 2. Shifting the 4 game series into their favor. Game 4 tomorrow

No. 2 UCLA lost on Friday to San Francisco.

UConn beat No. 16 UVA today

North Florida beat No. 24 Florida State today

Texas A&M lost to Xavier in game 1 of their double header today

Missouri dropped their series with GCU after losing Friday and today

Part of what makes college baseball pure compared to football and basketball is simply in the nature of baseball. Anybody can beat anybody else on any given day. You never get that in football, and the only time you see it in basketball is during the NCAAT. Even then the underdogs are rarely as underpowered as some of the

I don't disagree, but with the way we pitched, it sounded ot me more like we beat ourselves, not that we got beat. That always is going to drive me nuts!

 

[GTNavyNuke]

Great to see Miami take the series from @Florida. Now Miami is worth more for us when we take the series.

 

[GTNavyNuke]

Our loss won't raise any eyebrows. Top 25 didn't look like top 25 this last weekend. Ouch to UCLA and Texas Tech though.

How The Top 25 Fared: Opening Weekend 2021 • D1Baseball

Miami made the biggest statement of the weekend with a road series win over top-ranked Florida. Look back at how the Top 25 teams fared.

d1baseball.com

 

[FittedJacket]

College Baseball Top 25 Rankings

Tennessee finishes the season ranked No. 1 in our College Baseball Top 25 after winning the first national title in program history.

www.baseballamerica.com

We moved up in the Baseball America Poll

 

[FittedJacket]

D1Baseball Top 25: Ole Miss Vaults To No. 1 • D1Baseball

Ole Miss ascended to No. 1 in the D1Baseball Top 25 following a 3-0 weekend against Big 12 powers, capping a tumultuous opening weekend in college baseball.

d1baseball.com

 

[eokerholm]

Nice to see the new unis

 

[GTNavyNuke]

Must be a new thing as Stephen's is listed as 37 and Medich 55 on roster site and media guide.
Drops roster to 42 or did we lose others?

As we talked about in chat yesterday with @GT Bravo , I bounced the current roster from the NC State game against the roster from about a month ago.

We have 43 on the roster. Jack Friedman (RHP) and John Marant (OF) were no longer on the roster. As someone said, Medich appears to have #37 and Xander Stephens (LHP) is unaccounted for .......

And we have 23 players who realistically could pitch still on the roster (I didn't include Jenkins, Taylor or Grenkoski in that count)

Number	First Name	Last Name	Position	B/T	Perfect Game Ranking	Year
2​	Dalton	Smith	LHP	R L	500+ Overall, 104 LHP	Freshman
8​	Marquis	Grissom	RHP	R/R	85 Overall, 27 RHP;	Freshman
10​	Andrew	Jenkins	1B / LF / DH / RHP	R R	182 Overall, 8 3B	Freshman
12​	Jackson	Finley	RHP	R R	401 Overall, 138 RHP,	Freshman
14​	Austin	Wilhite	RHP / 2B	R/R	274 Overall, 48 2B	Senior
15​	Hugh	Chapman	RHP	R/R	473 overall, 156 RHP	Junior
16​	Will	Coquillard	RHP	L R	500+ Overall, 664 RHP	Freshman
19​	Cort	Roedig	RHP	R/R	261 Overall, 98 RHP,	Sophomore
20​	Jamie	Taylor	C / RHP	R/R	500+ overall, 104 C	Junior
21​	Brant	Hurter	LHP	L/L	197 overall, 23 LHP	Junior
22​	Chance	Huff	RHP	R/R	268 overall, 101 RHP	Sophomore
24​	Brody	Westbrooks	RHP	R R	500+ Overall, 259 RHP	Freshman
27​	Luke	Bartnicki	LHP	L/L	34 Overall, 3 LHP, Astros 29th Round	Sophomore
32​	Joseph	Mannelly	LHP	L/L	500+ Overall, 25 LHP	RS Sophomore
34​	Will	Shirah	LHP/OF	S/L	183 Overall, 21 LHP,	RS Sophomore
35​	Dawson	Brown	RHP	R/R	500+ Overall, 520 RHP	Freshman
36​	Sam	Crawford	LHP	L/L	No data	RS Sophomore
37​	Xander	Stephens	RHP	R/R	344 Overall, 116 RHP;	Freshman
39​	Jake	Brace	RHP	R/R	500+ Overall, 314 RHP	Junior
41​	Zachary	Maxwell	RHP	R R	84 Overall, 28 RHP; Yankees Rd 30	Freshman
45​	Andy	Archer	RHP	R/R	Top 1000, 813 RHP	RS Junior
46​	Ben	King	RHP	R R	500+ Overall, 619 RHP	Freshman
47​	Tyler	Watson	LHP	L/L	500+ Overall, 161 LHP	Freshman
48​	Josiah	Seigel	LHP	L L	High Follow 432 LHP	Freshman
50​	Brad	Grenkoski	OF/RHP	R/R	146 Overall, 30 OF,	Freshman
55​	John	Medich	RHP	R/R	No data	Graduate

 

[FredJacket]

How many travel? Did Roedig?...& could he be good to finish the game? Threw 50 or so pitches on Wed.

 

[THWG]

How many travel? Did Roedig?...& could he be good to finish the game? Threw 50 or so pitches on Wed.

He's who I thought of as well to finish the game. I would think that he could, but I also don't know if Hall is willing to push him just yet because of the surgery. I think we'll see Smith or Mannelly try to finish this one.

 

[eokerholm]

Is this good or bad?
Good for our ranking but what about RPI

 

[FredJacket]

Is this good or bad?
Good for our ranking but what about RPI

It's wonderful. College baseball is one of the last bastions of high-level amateur athletics. ...plus baseball is a game where you just don't/can't win them all.

 

[GTNavyNuke]

Is this good or bad?
Good for our ranking but what about RPI

1. #1 Ole Miss lost to @UCF_Baseball - Good for sec to lose OOC game for ranking but no direct rpi impact.
2. #2 Vanderbilt lost to @GaStateBaseball - good for us since GaState worth more when we play them. Good for sec to lose
3. #4 Louisville lost to @WIUBaseball - bad for us since L'Ville worth less when we play them.
4. #5 Miami lost to @HokiesBaseball- push since we play both. But I thought that Miami was the bestest team ever after last weekends reviews. And to lose to some castrated turkeys at home.
5. #6 Miss. State lost to @GreenWaveBSB - Good for sec to lose OOC game for ranking but no direct rpi impact.

 

[gtrower]

1. #1 Ole Miss lost to @UCF_Baseball - Good for sec to lose OOC game for ranking but no direct rpi impact.
2. #2 Vanderbilt lost to @GaStateBaseball - good for us since GaState worth more when we play them. Good for sec to lose
3. #4 Louisville lost to @WIUBaseball - bad for us since L'Ville worth less when we play them.
4. #5 Miami lost to @HokiesBaseball- push since we play both. But I thought that Miami was the bestest team ever after last weekends reviews. And to lose to some castrated turkeys at home.
5. #6 Miss. State lost to @GreenWaveBSB - Good for sec to lose OOC game for ranking but no direct rpi impact.

Not only that but both Vandy and MSU needed B9 rallies to avoid losing their series yesterday. Believe both were down multiple runs heading into the B9 before pulling them out.

 

[gtrower]

Think we should slot in around 7-8 in next week’s polls. And if we beat UL next week you could honestly make a case for us being #1. We’d have the best resumé in the country with series wins against two Top 15 teams and nobody in the current Top 10 is really crushing it.

That being said we did not cruise to the sweep today. Our staff looks better than previous years but still isn’t the lockdown bullpens you usually see from the really elite teams.

 

[THWG]

Think we should slot in around 7-8 in next week’s polls. And if we beat UL next week you could honestly make a case for us being #1. We’d have the best resumé in the country with series wins against two Top 15 teams and nobody in the current Top 10 is really crushing it.

That being said we did not cruise to the sweep today. Our staff looks better than previous years but still isn’t the lockdown bullpens you usually see from the really elite teams.

They got outs when they needed to though and that's really all that matters.

 

[jatchet]

Think we should slot in around 7-8 in next week’s polls. And if we beat UL next week you could honestly make a case for us being #1. We’d have the best resumé in the country with series wins against two Top 15 teams and nobody in the current Top 10 is really crushing it.

That being said we did not cruise to the sweep today. Our staff looks better than previous years but still isn’t the lockdown bullpens you usually see from the really elite teams.

Finley looked elite in relief yesterday and went 3 innings. We also had multiple guys come into pressurr situations and immediately sit down the batter. Pretty sure we will have an elite pen when we look at the stats in a few weeks.