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<blockquote data-quote="78pike" data-source="post: 870051" data-attributes="member: 4030"><p>While I understand some of the negativity with regard to certain aspects of the pitching and base running, I find myself with more optimism than past years. I think the addition of Borrell and the pitching lab are just beginning to show what the future holds. We are getting much more talented pitching recruits as a result. Keep in mind, it takes a season or two for word to spread throughout the high school/travel ball circuits. The showing of the freshmen to date has been a real bright spot. How much of that is due to the opposition not having any significant scouting on them will be curious to see as the season progresses. IMO it is more their talent level combined with the coaching they are receiving. Now that many of them have proven themselves in live competition I think we will see them get more innings and opportunities. I think we have to credit CDH for putting together an aggressive early schedule with some weeks having as many as eight games in 10 days to give more pitchers a chance to show what they can do. I think this was intentionally done with him knowing we have a deep and talented staff.</p><p></p><p>Regarding the base running blunders, I believe much of this can be attributed to us intentionally pushing the players to be more aggressive on the base paths. Sure it sometimes shows up in us giving away outs, but many times it benefits us by having runners standing on third instead of second when the following batter hits a ground ball or deep fly scoring a run instead of getting stranded on second base. Personally I love the aggressiveness. We are not a team like we have been in the past that sits back and waits on the three run homer to score. We can still do that, but the aggressiveness on the base baths puts pressure on opposing defenses in a way that we haven't done before. This, I think, is Ramsey's doing. And kudos for CDH giving him the power to implement it. </p><p></p><p>Maybe some of us have negativity that stems from our teams in the past and I understand that. But I don't think that this team is like our past teams. Sure we still rely on our hitting to a large extent and it's great to have that. But we are evolving into a much more well rounded team that is built not only for the present but also the future. All of the credit for that goes to our excellent coaching staff. So many times I read on other teams' message boards that things never change and they are the same team they have always been. Honestly, I don't think you can say that about us. Sure we have concerns about the things that have troubled us in the past and that is reflected by some of the posts above. But it seems to me we have the ability to win games in ways we couldn't have done in the past.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="78pike, post: 870051, member: 4030"] While I understand some of the negativity with regard to certain aspects of the pitching and base running, I find myself with more optimism than past years. I think the addition of Borrell and the pitching lab are just beginning to show what the future holds. We are getting much more talented pitching recruits as a result. Keep in mind, it takes a season or two for word to spread throughout the high school/travel ball circuits. The showing of the freshmen to date has been a real bright spot. How much of that is due to the opposition not having any significant scouting on them will be curious to see as the season progresses. IMO it is more their talent level combined with the coaching they are receiving. Now that many of them have proven themselves in live competition I think we will see them get more innings and opportunities. I think we have to credit CDH for putting together an aggressive early schedule with some weeks having as many as eight games in 10 days to give more pitchers a chance to show what they can do. I think this was intentionally done with him knowing we have a deep and talented staff. Regarding the base running blunders, I believe much of this can be attributed to us intentionally pushing the players to be more aggressive on the base paths. Sure it sometimes shows up in us giving away outs, but many times it benefits us by having runners standing on third instead of second when the following batter hits a ground ball or deep fly scoring a run instead of getting stranded on second base. Personally I love the aggressiveness. We are not a team like we have been in the past that sits back and waits on the three run homer to score. We can still do that, but the aggressiveness on the base baths puts pressure on opposing defenses in a way that we haven't done before. This, I think, is Ramsey's doing. And kudos for CDH giving him the power to implement it. Maybe some of us have negativity that stems from our teams in the past and I understand that. But I don't think that this team is like our past teams. Sure we still rely on our hitting to a large extent and it's great to have that. But we are evolving into a much more well rounded team that is built not only for the present but also the future. All of the credit for that goes to our excellent coaching staff. So many times I read on other teams' message boards that things never change and they are the same team they have always been. Honestly, I don't think you can say that about us. Sure we have concerns about the things that have troubled us in the past and that is reflected by some of the posts above. But it seems to me we have the ability to win games in ways we couldn't have done in the past. [/QUOTE]
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