re: 2016 Texas A&M Baseball Thread

We're not playing well but the crowd is lame af

A&M coaches named R.C. always choke when it matters most.

You missed a hell of a year.

Here's my melt


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Indeed. Really mind blowing.

But this team was fun. Season just ended too early. They did bring home our first SEC baseball hardware though so at least it wasn't completely empty.

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They did bring home our first SEC baseball hardware though so at least it wasn't completely empty.

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We went 99-30 with back to back years with an RPI in the top 5? How the hell do we not find a way to get to Omaha.

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The ability to mash the ball really hid just how bad the infield play was for most of the year.

If you run into pitchers having a great day like we did w/TCU you can't afford to have the kind of infield mistakes and deficiencies that plagued this team and win the series b/c every run's importance is magnified.

Great pitching holds down great hitting the vast majority of the time. That's exactly what happened here.

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Our pitching was better (on paper) than TCU's.

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Better pitching on paper doesn't mean squat if your infield fails the way ours consistently did in this series while face two starting pitchers for TCU that both had their best games of the year. It doesn't matter that other teams were able to hit Howard. Just b/c a pitcher gets rocked doesn't mean he can't still shut down a different team that is theoretically better at the plate. Sometimes a guy just has it.

Case in point

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Who is the worst (MLB) pitcher to ever throw a no-hitter? That title belongs to Philip Humber, who like a few other names on this list had a perfect game. Humber’s perfect game came in 2012 as a member of the Chicago White Sox. This was a year where Humber was 5-5 with a 6.44 ERA. His perfect game against the Seattle Mariners shocked everyone in what was just Humber’s second start of the season. Humber was promptly shelled by the Boston Red Sox in his very next outing,leading the way to a career 16-23 record and 5.31 ERA and landing him at the top spot of this list.

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Again, great pitching almost always wins over hitting and for two of those games their starters pitched great while our were merely good and got saddled w/poor infield play.

If this year's team was simply middle of the pack in the SEC in field it would likely have caused games 1 and 3 to go very differently.

I'm actually quite surprised that nobody saw this type of series coming considering how awful they were at turning double plays and how many infield errors there were all season.

It's simply too much to expect a team to be able to mash their way out of such mediocre infield defense every single series. It's going to eventually bite you in the arse and this year it was unfortunately in the Supers.

Who's staying?