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<blockquote data-quote="GT_ATL" data-source="post: 139709" data-attributes="member: 1925"><p>I've only been following college baseball for a couple of years (starting with the Farmer/Palka/Evans team a few years ago) and keep having the same couple of questions about the sport nag at me.</p><p></p><p>1. Why aren't midweek games particularly high-scoring?</p><p></p><p>You'd think games that feature a high-powered conference team hitting off a meh mid-major's bullpen would be a festive affair, but they don't seem to be any more high scoring than a typical Saturday or Sunday game. Why? How do mid majors have the pitching depth to keep a program like GT from rolling over them? Case in point: Ohio brought out TEN pitchers against GT, and presumably none of them were their main starters, and gave up 7 runs in 12 innings. How did GT's starters not put up like 30 runs on these surely-marginal pitchers?</p><p></p><p>2. Does anyone have any idea who will make it to the big leagues/who is a legitimate pro prospect? </p><p></p><p>I guess my question is, *when* did people know that Teixeira/Blackmon/Weiters/etc were something special? Did they come in right in with a lot of hype and dominate from day one, or were they fairly normal players at first? Without the hype machine that follows college basketball and football it's hard to get a feel for when a guy has a chance to be a pro player. Good example of my question is Buck Farmer- he was presumably just a normal player, did midweek games as a freshman/soph, etc etc and then by his senior year he was dominant and then a year later he was starting games for Detroit. Did Farmer have a lot of hype? Is a guy like Kel Johnson considered a sure thing to at least make it to AA or AAA, for example?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GT_ATL, post: 139709, member: 1925"] I've only been following college baseball for a couple of years (starting with the Farmer/Palka/Evans team a few years ago) and keep having the same couple of questions about the sport nag at me. 1. Why aren't midweek games particularly high-scoring? You'd think games that feature a high-powered conference team hitting off a meh mid-major's bullpen would be a festive affair, but they don't seem to be any more high scoring than a typical Saturday or Sunday game. Why? How do mid majors have the pitching depth to keep a program like GT from rolling over them? Case in point: Ohio brought out TEN pitchers against GT, and presumably none of them were their main starters, and gave up 7 runs in 12 innings. How did GT's starters not put up like 30 runs on these surely-marginal pitchers? 2. Does anyone have any idea who will make it to the big leagues/who is a legitimate pro prospect? I guess my question is, *when* did people know that Teixeira/Blackmon/Weiters/etc were something special? Did they come in right in with a lot of hype and dominate from day one, or were they fairly normal players at first? Without the hype machine that follows college basketball and football it's hard to get a feel for when a guy has a chance to be a pro player. Good example of my question is Buck Farmer- he was presumably just a normal player, did midweek games as a freshman/soph, etc etc and then by his senior year he was dominant and then a year later he was starting games for Detroit. Did Farmer have a lot of hype? Is a guy like Kel Johnson considered a sure thing to at least make it to AA or AAA, for example? [/QUOTE]
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