13 base-runners today; 1 run

I don't understand how we keep getting in these funks. We are obviously hitting better than last year, but we are getting the same results.

Are we hitting better, WBS? OBS is higher, but that looks to be about it at this juncture.
I'm borrowing this post from Lance Uppercut (on TA). He lays out the situation pretty well:

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Relief pitching hasn't been bad. Minter gave up some long balls and Jester had his issues but apparently had elbow tendinitis. Not shut-down, but beyond decent. Team ERA going into today is 2.10.

The problem, again, is why are we scoring 1 run on a Sunday against La Tech.

You have some guys that produced before with another year under the belt. Melton, Stein, Lankford, Bratsen should be very productive.

You got some guys from JUCOs that have had college ABs before. One has an average that tanked, one sat the bench for weeks before getting back in and raising his average, and a few more never see the field.

When I posted that our team average was dropping year by year, it was at .259. After 2 games against La Tech and one at UTA and one vs Texas Southern....it went up 2 points to .261.

It used to be that you padded averages before conference and then people came back a little to reality over the course of conference games. So what happens now that your team average is .261 and then you're headed into SEC play?

The bats squandered an amazing 2012 staff, a huge handful of games in 2013, and have had a least one no-show per week in a young 2014.


2011-2012-2013-(2014 so far)
AVG: .291-.288-.270 (.259)
OBP: .364-.369-.339 (.359)
SLG: .402-.385-.370 (.353)
OPS: .766-.754-.709 (.712)
Runs: 405-354-278
BB: 228-227-176

Since I posted that, average is up 2 points, OBP is down 2, and Slugging is up ONE POINT.

RC has put together pitching staffs that either keep us in games or win us a ton of low scoring ones. The other side of the equation has been letting us down for years, and some kind of change needs to be made.

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It seemed like we were until I saw those numbers. I'm sure our performance out in California made those drop drastically.

From 2008 to 2011, his teams were streaky offensively. In 2010 and 2011 we got hot in the post-season. In 2011, without John Stilson, we were able to take 2 of 3 at FSU in their super-regional. Think about it, just three years ago, we over-accomplished.

We even started off 2012 hot. We were 28-7 (.800) going into game three of the KU series. And Sunday was a great looking day.



We lost 5-3 to a terrible Jayhawk team. We went into another bad April funk. We'd had one in 2011 as well, but we never came out of this one. We went 15-11 (.577) the rest of the way and lost two of three at our own regional. One of these 15 wins was Ross Stripling's complete game no-hitter... a 1-0 victory in which we failed to score an earned run.

We've never come out of this "funk." We were terrible in 2013, and now it's 2014. At some point it stops being a funk, and you're just a bad offense. That's why I wanted to replace Andy Sawyers at the end of the 2013 season.