2027 Razorback Baseball

[Boarat]

Sounds like we're winning it all next year.

Yeah...no.

[Boarat]

Bryce will play either 3rd or 1st. 

Souza will hit .300+ with 12+ HR in 2027.  He improved as the season went on, and was less than a year out from shoulder reconstruction.  It takes time for the power to come back.  By the end of the year the opposite field warning track outs from early season were going over the wall. 

Shoulders are tough to come back from. Losing Maginnis and Diaz fuckin sucks. Seems like we got rugpulled.

[DirkPiggler]

Shoulders are tough to come back from. Losing Maginnis and Diaz fuckin sucks. Seems like we got rugpulled.

I think they oversigned infielders intentionally knowing this might happen.  Got burned last year in committing to Grego as starting SS only to see him sign for less than he told our staff it would take. 

Not worried much about the infield, or the lineup in general.  Someone is going to have to make a massive jump in the offseason for the starting rotation to not be asstastic.

[Boarat]

Yeah outside of Malki the pitching situation looks bleak.

[soldiersooie]

Bryce will play either 3rd or 1st. 

Souza will hit .300+ with 12+ HR in 2027.  He improved as the season went on, and was less than a year out from shoulder reconstruction.  It takes time for the power to come back.  By the end of the year the opposite field warning track outs from early season were going over the wall. 

My sweet summer child.

[DrMongoose]

Conference-leading 5 players selected in first 3 rounds including 3 first round selections (also conference-leading).

I'm not sure whether to be proud of the Razorbacks or disappointed in Dave; heck with it, I'll choose both.

Agree, it is awesome that they had a program record number drafted but why were they so hard to watch so often?

[DirkPiggler]

Good news. 

https://x.com/On3/status/2077445148942680479?s=20

[Son of Spam]

Good news. 

https://x.com/On3/status/2077445148942680479?s=20

Yes. At first, I wasn't sure. But now am totally behind it. I wish they had had it in the CWS this year. It was definitely needed.

[Cornhogio]

Just take balls and strikes away from the home plate ump.  They can call catcher balks, swings, etc. 

[DirkPiggler]

Just take balls and strikes away from the home plate ump.  They can call catcher balks, swings, etc. 

Exactly.   

[BleedinRed]

Count me in the camp of the retards who don't like it.

[PorkyPig]

Count me in the camp of the retards who don't like it.

I don't either. Ump fuckups are part of the game.  Might as well get rid of the umpire altogether. 

[Pig Benis]

I don't either. Ump fuckups are part of the game.  Might as well get rid of the umpire altogether. 

That works too.

[Boarat]

I don't either. Ump fuckups are part of the game.  Might as well get rid of the umpire altogether. 

Perry Costello approves.

[DirkPiggler]

I don't either. Ump fuckups are part of the game.  Might as well get rid of the umpire altogether. 

That's like saying cancer is a part of life, so we shouldn't take an opportunity to get rid of it if one presents itself. 

The game has a set of rules, including a defined strike zone.  Human umpires don't enforce this consistently, at least not without being held accountable by technology.  Watch any MLB game now that ABS challenges are available.  Umpires have adjusted their strike zones to the actual rule book definition.  The rule change has forced them to get better at their job. 

[Ray Zorback]

That's like saying cancer is a part of life, so we shouldn't take an opportunity to get rid of it if one presents itself. 

The game has a set of rules, including a defined strike zone.  Human umpires don't enforce this consistently, at least not without being held accountable by technology.  Watch any MLB game now that ABS challenges are available.  Umpires have adjusted their strike zones to the actual rule book definition.  The rule change has forced them to get better at their job. 

This.

...and I've seen games changed on correcting a bad call. For example, instead of an inning ending strikeout on a bad call, the inning gets extended when the call gets reversed. I'm a big fan of new system. It doesn't slow the game down while correcting human errors.

As a Braves fan, I'm glad they didn't have it when Glavine pitched.

[DirkPiggler]

As a Braves fan, I'm glad they didn't have it when Glavine pitched.

On the other hand, the Braves are likely the 1997 World Series champs if there had been ABS challenges in the Eric Gregg/Livan Hernandez game.

[Ray Zorback]

On the other hand, the Braves are likely the 1997 World Series champs if there had been ABS challenges in the Eric Gregg/Livan Hernandez game.

true

[Son of Spam]

This.

...and I've seen games changed on correcting a bad call. For example, instead of an inning ending strikeout on a bad call, the inning gets extended when the call gets reversed. I'm a big fan of new system. It doesn't slow the game down while correcting human errors.

As a Braves fan, I'm glad they didn't have it when Glavine pitched.

At first, I thought it would be like a close call where the umps had to go into the den of confusion to decide how to fuck us. However, it doesn't slow the game down at all.

[DirkPiggler]

At first, I thought it would be like a close call where the umps had to go into the den of confusion to decide how to fuck us. However, it doesn't slow the game down at all.

Same.  It's practically instantaneous.  Also adds another level of strategy...which batters/catchers do you let challenge, in what counts/situations do you use them even if the call is bad, etc. 

For those who will say the umpires get almost all of them right, remember that in the first game in Hoover 7 of the first 8 challenges were successful.  If nothing else that should identify at least one umpire who might be better suited to a different occupation.