TIDE BASEBALL FANS:
I haven’t paid much attention to Tide baseball this year so I’m not sure what’s going on your observations. How’s the starting pitching, relief pitching, hitting, fielding, & overall team play? Are you seeing improvement from 3 years ago?
IMO the baseball program is in much better shape in Coach Bo's 2nd year. He inherited a mess. We have 22 new players this year being a combination of freshmen and JUCO. Only two position players from last year start. We are hitting for a better average and have more pop in the bats. We do not have a lot of HR power but we hit the ball hard. Pitching still needs to improve.
We picked up two good conference wins yesterday improving our record to 4-7. We were 2-7 in our first three conference series but that was against #8 Ole Miss, #4 Arkansas and #14 Florida. Two of those series were on the road. We were 8-22 last year. We are 22-10 overall. We were 27-29 last year.
As a team we have a .274 batting average. It was .256 last year. Our ERA is 3.22. It was 4.11 last year. We have 4 players hitting over .300 with another hitting .296. We did not have anyone hitting .300 last year.
The SEC is very difficult especially in the West. It is going to take more time to compete with the elite teams in our conference but the program is trending in a positive direction.
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