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re: Vanderbilt Baseball Season (51-21): CWS Runner-Up: UMPS WIN!

Posted on 5/25/15 at 12:47 pm to
Posted by Athanatos
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Member since Sep 2010
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Posted on 5/25/15 at 12:47 pm to
I think we got pretty lucky on regional. I was worried we would have a Virgina 2 seed and a Texas 4 seed. Lipscomb gets to celebrate making the tournament...by driving down the street. Hopefully, we hit better against them than we did last time. Radford is a 15 in the RPI, but that's because of their scheduling additional away games a la MSU and DBU. Their OOC RPI was 55. Not to say they aren't a good team, but we definitely could have had a more difficult selection. And Indiana shows up to Nashville a year late. They could be a dark horse. They've underperformed this year, but they could get hot for the tourney.
Posted by Athanatos
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2010
8143 posts
Posted on 5/25/15 at 5:20 pm to
Nashville Regional Statistics

Vanderbilt Commodores (42-19, 20-10 SEC, won the SEC East)
D1 Baseball RPI--10
BA: .289 (65th in D1)
ERA: 3.08 (23rd)

Radford Highlanders (43-14, 20-4 Big South, won the Big South)
D1 Baseball RPI--15
BA: .294 (42nd in D1)
ERA: 3.71 (75th)
Record Against Top 25/50: 4-6, 4-6
Rotation:
Michael Boyle (2.27, 10-2, 85 Ks, 35 BBs, 99.1 IP, .219)
Dylan Nelson (3.97, 6-3, 53 Ks, 27 BBs, 81.2 IP, .277)
Mitchell MacKeith (4.41, 7-4, 41 Ks, 17 BBs, 81.2 IP, .286)

Their two best pitchers are Daniel Bridgeman, who we might see in mid-relief (0.63, 6-2, 23 Ks, 10 BBs, 28.2 IP, .181) and their closer, Ryan Meisinger (1.75, 5-0, 15 saves, 62 Ks, 7 BBs, 36 IP, .186). Their closer seems legit, but his inning total would suggest that they won't bring him out early if they start falling behind. As a staff, they throw twice as many strikeouts as walks, but other than Meisinger, they don't seem to have anyone that is a threat to strike out the side. They've also hit 43 HRs over the year, and are slugging at a .434 clip. They are going to have to try to outhit us with four guys hitting over .320 in the lineup. Patrick MArshall is the big threat with 12 HRs and a .622 slugging %.

Indiana Hoosiers (34-22, 12-10 B1G, 7th in B1G)
D1 Baseball RPI--33
BA: .276 (125th in D1)
ERA: 3.41 (53rd)
Record Against Top 25/50: 5-3, 14-7
I got busy

Lipscomb Bisons* (39-18, 13-8 Atlantic Sun, 2nd in A.S.)
D1 Baseball RPI--71
BA: .278 (118th in D1)
ERA: 3.66 (72nd)
Record Against Top 25/50: 1-0, 5-4
*As an establishment of higher education, Lipscomb should be ashamed of itself.
This post was edited on 5/29/15 at 3:23 pm
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