re: Why is Lindsey Nelson so small?

Remember when they had an elevation running up to the fence rather than a warning track?

Surely you can't be serious?

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Home runs sell tickets and make for an interesting game. And when you recruit and develop above average pitching it becomes an advantage.

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Unfortunately, that doesn't translate well when you get to a bigger ballpark, like Omaha. For the fragile psyche of a college baseball player, the realization you only have warning track power is crushing.

Pitching & defense, and the ability to manufacture runs, wins championships. Playing in a hitter friendly park distorts the strengths & weaknesses of a team, and those weaknesses get magnified in a bigger ballpark.

Texas recruits players who can defend and hit in a big ball park, like Disch-Falk or Omaha, hosts Regionals & Supers, wins on the road, and occasionally gets to the CWS.

And, we sell a lot of tickets.

Outbid by lil ole Southern Miss.. oof

His mama and daddy weren't "big people"....Duh!

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Unfortunately, that doesn't translate well when you get to a bigger ballpark, like Omaha. For the fragile psyche of a college baseball player, the realization you only have warning track power is crushing.

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Why do simple folks believe that Vols home runs just barely clear the 320 fence?

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Unfortunately, that doesn't translate well when you get to a bigger ballpark, like Omaha. For the fragile psyche of a college baseball player, the realization you only have warning track power is crushing.

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Why do simple folks believe that Vols home runs just barely clear the 320 fence?

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I'm sure they hit plenty further than that, but you have to admit- it can get easy to get into a rhythm of lobbing HRs over a short fence, instead of squaring up and hitting a line drive for a double. If you're lazy and not disciplined, that can bite you in the arse when you move to a bigger park.

You take a guy like Tre Morgan (LSU's 1st baseman/left fielder), with good bat control and not much power, and put him at Tennessee... he might hit 20 HR, because I think he can stroke a fly ball whenever he wants to. But at LSU, he hits line drives, and occasionally swings for the fences- and gets it close to the warning track.