2026 Razorback Baseball

[BleedinRed]

At the end of the day, this is just a shit job of roster construction. Hell, DVH would probably say as much over a beer. For whatever reason these guys haven't gelled, aren't producing, and haven't lived up to billing.

Stewart has been absolutely horrendous against SEC pitching. He's hitting .069 in conference games.

Pompey is a guess hitter who has a ton of swing and miss and is incapable of drawing walks. He can crush it when he barrels one up, but that's too infrequent for the astronomical number of strikeouts and horrendous swings he takes, especially in 2 out situations. He has 42 (!) strikeouts on the season and just 9 walks. For context, no other player even has 30 (next highest is Niu with 28).

Pinning our hopes on Brumbaugh (and him being a complete failure as a freshman) at shortstop also put us into a hole on the left side of the infield. I certainly didn't expect him to be the second coming of Aloy, but I also expected him to be better than John Bolton.

Hell, even our lineup anchors like Helfrick, Kozeal, and Aloy have sucked as well. Aloy has sucked out loud while the other 2 have flowing under the radar. 2 of those guys are under the Mendoza Line in SEC play, and Helfrick isn't far off.

Robinett is also more miss than hit. I may be old school, but I hate getting nothing offensively from first base under any circumstances, and I'd certainly prefer to get better than a .567 OPS. The last few years we seem to be getting these glorified .200 hitters in guys like McLaughlin, Robinett, Rocco Peppi, et al. at first base. Maybe I'm over-emphasizing it, but first base seems to be a position we've been consistently whiffed on offensively in the portal and HS recruiting.

Ruiz seems to be the lone bright spot out of the portal this year.

Why I pay the dues right here.  Well said.  

[Pig Benis]

I'm assuming we had to have lost out on a portal SS. Brumbaugh wasn't expected to make it to campus and DVH hadn't started a freshman in 20 years anyway. Feels like it snowballed from there when we had to shift guys around in the infield.

[Barton Fink]

Nui out. Ruiz in CF and Turner in LF.

[buff2.0]

Odds we get swept?

On SECN in a minute.

[Feral]

Welp, top of the 1st and Turner has already given up a single, hit a batter, and an RBI single.

Our offense has been horrendous this year, but it's overshadowed our pitching staff being very pedestrian and gettable. 

I'm willing to at least give Hobbs a pass. His staffs have carried our team for the last several years while Thompson's lineups spent most of the season playing with their food.

[buff2.0]

We're seeing the ball well too.  Got one past the infield to tie it 1-1.

Aloy got a base hit.  Bounced it to third base who threw the first baseman off the bag.

[Barton Fink]

Gotta take advantage when they give you extra outs.

[Feral]

Aloy got a base hit.  Bounced it to third base who threw the first baseman off the bag.

Aloy's was an E5.

He hit a typical chopper to left side (something he does nearly every AB now) and the 3B didn't set his feet.

[buff2.0]

Aloy's was an E5.

He hit a typical chopper to left side (something he does nearly every AB now) and the 3B didn't set his feet.

Look, we need all the optimism we can get.  He got on base.  It's improvement.  Now the next Billy Beane will probably draft him in the first.

[Barton Fink]

Interesting hook by DVH. Fisher has gone from looking like a Friday night guy back to a mid week starter in just a few weeks. Disappointing

[Feral]

Fisher has gone from looking like a Friday night guy back to a mid week starter in just a few weeks. Disappointing

Was thinking the exact same thing.

Fisher looks like a midweek starter, not a Sunday starter.

[Feral]

Interesting lineup decisions from DVH today.

Rutenbar at 1B and leading off.
Turner in LF.
Ruiz in CF.
Robinett at 3B.

Ruiz and Turner in the 8 and 9 hole, while Aloy and Souza are 5 and 6.

Maybe he's trying to get some decent bats at the bottom of the order.

At this point I simply don't understand giving Aloy AB's. He needs to sit until he can un-fuck his swing.

[Feral]

3 straight strikeouts by the top of the order in the 3rd.

I really dislike this team.

[Hizog]

At this point I simply don't understand giving Aloy AB's. He needs to sit until he can un-fuck his swing.

I agree. Problem is, there's no one on staff capable of unfucking any swing, much less his swing.

[Barton Fink]

Yeah, we're bad.

[Feral]

Florida with 13 hits through 5.

Oof

[Feral]

Florida up 6-2 in the bottom of the 5th.

Might as well be 16-2 with the way we are at the plate.

[Barton Fink]

We might want to play our young guys and let them develop.

Btw, that ball hit the kid.

[Feral]

Florida with 17 hits.

Jesus H. Christ

[Son of Spam]

We are pathetic at the plate.