re: Tide Softball 44 -13 (16-8)

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Inning after inning batters were sat down in order. A random hit seemed to often be followed by pop ups, ground outs or double plays to negate it.

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If you'll stop and think about it, you'll notice how few hard-hit balls our kids generated. As a team, they're just not physically able to attack the ball. Watch the better offenses and you see that the players are bigger, stronger and more aggressive at the plate. Hell, I doubt that Alabama has a player, outside of Fouts, that could start for Oklahoma!

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Some of the freshmen will progress I think but we need to recruit some hitters or get them from the portal for next year… we will have two good pitchers to build around

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Really? Who was the last freshman that progressed at the plate under Murphy? I’m still waiting to see that. And as for 2 pitchers, Montana has got to be tired of carrying this team on her back every fricking game. As for Lexi, as already mentioned, she can’t stay healthy long enough to contribute. Further indictment of the S&C program? It certainly isn’t a positive. Things need to be shaken up in a big way. Team 27 or whatever number Murphy is on needs to be a new beginning.

Hemphill, Braud, McCleney, Brown got better although I don’t like slappers. Turner was good and all time great Kretschman was consistent all four years . We just don’t ever have a bunch at one time . I still think Dowling will improve her power numbers next year . I think we need some bigger players … look at MSU. This board would call them out of shape as they are trotting around the bases

Having said that, I want a new hitting coach

Yep. She didn’t learn it pregame . She just likes to throw what she has confidence in but teams are laying off the rise a little more this year. She has a drop too

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There's definitely no love lost between her and Bama softball. Rumored that she pissed everyone off. Things came to a head, and Montana and some of the other girls said either KB leaves or we do. I have no evidence as to the truth of that just what I read.

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If that's true, it looks like she showed them all who was right.

Yep. A lot of successful pitchers across the country are throwing 62-66 and she hits 68-72 so it could only help her

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trying to recall if I’ve ever seen an entire team, top to bottom collapse offensively like this one has.

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Outside of Hemphill, last year’s did.

And so it begins:

Alabama’s Jenna Lord, Abby Doerr Enter Transfer Portal

I thought Lord was one of the better players in the last part of the season

She was but that production can be replaced . I imagine they are having their individual end of year meetings with Murphy/ staff so there may be more