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It's still snowing across most of the country, but in spite of this snowy bleakness, IT'S TIME FOR BASEBALL. Not MLB, of course. No one gives a poo poo about pitchers and catchers reporting. I'm talking about college baseball, home of Billy Beane's first market inefficiency, bunts galore, unconventional pitching, and competent (yet hilarious) defense. First things first, there's a new college baseball site in town: http://www.d1baseball.com/ Aaron Fitt & Co. broke off from Baseball America, and gathered some of the best college baseball writers out there to cover all of D1 Baseball, unconstrained by other duties for amateur scouting. The site is great, but we'll see how BA and Perfect Game recover from this loss. I will have a better FAQ written later this week, but if someone wants to write cool things explaining how this game is different from the pros beyond pingbats and 3-pitcher rotations, I'll put it in the OP! WHEN DOES THIS START? Opening day is tomorrow, Friday, February 13th, with most eastern teams out West or down South for tournaments, and most Western/Southern teams enjoying reasonable weather and laughing at the snowbirds. [PLACEHOLDER FOR STREAMING INFO AND SUCH]
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if i pay attention to this thread does it mean ill get to watch sarah hudek own nerds
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Feb 13, 2015 04:02
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The SDSU Aztecs will be retiring Tony Gywnn's #19 tomorrow before their first game Gonna miss you, Tony
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Feb 13, 2015 04:26
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Monicro posted:if i pay attention to this thread does it mean ill get to watch sarah hudek own nerds These are exciting times, Luke.
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Feb 13, 2015 04:35
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Junior colleges have been playing two weeks now. Junior colleges are fun because every team has a long-haired masher who hits .165 with 10 homers, lots and lots of wild pitches and no one has a closer. I can't remember the exact score, but a couple of years ago, I saw one game end something like 27-16.
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Feb 13, 2015 05:19
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A&M starts with Holy Cross this weekend. I haven't been able to follow them the last few years so this will be fun now that I have the time; I get the impression the SEC has not been super kind to us.
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Feb 13, 2015 07:20
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Every single preseason poll likes Vandy to repeat. The composite is below. Virginia will take a little while to get going since they've got lineup stuff to figure out and their best hitter will be out till the end of April after back surgery.
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Feb 13, 2015 13:58
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Thanks for making the thread! I'm excited about this season, even though last year was one of the more disappointing ones we've experienced in a while. Our opening series is against College of Charleston, which was a surprise team in the tournament last year and is decidedly not a cupcake anymore. I'm a little nervous that we're not blasting off against some poor Northeastern team like usual, but this will be a pretty good measuring stick right out the gate. e: Well we're getting outhit 14-2 and gonna lose the opener so I'd like to humbly request not scheduling a team like CofC again until we've got a tune-up series or two under our belts. Yeesh. RumbleFish fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Feb 14, 2015 |
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Feb 13, 2015 17:02
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I like going to Indiana baseball games to sit in the sun for a bit and yell at the opposing outfielders. Plus, they're free. Too bad it'll be twenty degrees in Bloomington for another month or so.
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Feb 13, 2015 20:03
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 Went to the UC Riverside home opener, which they won 3-1 against Portland. Defensive errors and misplays abounded. Troy Percival is our head coach. I wore sandals because the weather was so nice. Baseball's back! Xenophon fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Feb 14, 2015 |
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Feb 14, 2015 05:39
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Lots of Sunday games getting preemptively cancelled or moved up to today. Vandy dropped today's first to Santa Clara, rubber game still to come.
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Feb 14, 2015 23:06
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Go Huskies! Woo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSxxM40Qq88 LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROY JENKINS is looking pretty wild. Two wild pitches in this AB alone.
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Feb 14, 2015 23:30
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The Gamecocks bounced back from yesterday's opening loss to Charleston and swept the doubleheader today, 7-1 and 8-3 respectively. Wil Crowe was dominant with 10 strikeouts, and the usual contributors who were MIA on Friday showed up big at the plate today. We got a two-run homer from a freshman, Alex Destino, who looks like he might be The Next Big Thing and Taylor Widener was shutdown as usual out of the bullpen. All things you want to see at this time of year, especially against a quality opponent. This is a pretty dang solid series win; Charleston could be one of the best teams in the state again this year.
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Feb 15, 2015 03:04
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would you say it is his...Destino....
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Feb 15, 2015 04:25
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New week, new poll. Vandy keeps top spot in most polls, as they should—it's overreacting to drop a team down for taking 2 of 3 on a given weekend, unless they drop a dumb midweek game as well.
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Feb 17, 2015 18:03
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elentar posted:New week, new poll. Vandy keeps top spot in most polls, as they should—it's overreacting to drop a team down for taking 2 of 3 on a given weekend, unless they drop a dumb midweek game as well. It's funny how, even in college baseball, losing one game isn't necessarily indicative of anything. Losing one game in any major college sport is like the most devastating thing in the world if you're a top 5 team. Maybe the college baseball voters are just smarter than in other sports. I dunno.
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Feb 17, 2015 18:11
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Meanwhile noted powerhouse UCR went 4-0 against Portland and Joe Chavez (6 for 11 with a double and a triple) was named Big West player of the week, so, watch out everybody else
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Feb 17, 2015 18:41
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Lots of games today got moved south to deal with weather. UVA's field is still iced over, with another coating expected tomorrow, so instead they're playing today at some random high school in Charleston SC. Many other teams making similar arrangements.
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Feb 20, 2015 17:33
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NC State is a modern university with many state-of-the-art programs, in no way deserving of nicknames such as Cow College or Moo U. Furthermore,
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Feb 21, 2015 17:15
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Beavers need to find two more legitimate weekend guys to have a chance in the Pac12. Hopefully the frosh Rasmussen can be one of those guys. We scored a lot in the Surprise tourney last week, but the current lineup needs to improve, won’t last vs conference pitching.
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Feb 23, 2015 19:44
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Tennessee's home opener against Lipscomb today has been cancelled due to snow. I'm stoked for the season to start. Shine bright like a diamond, Dave Serrano.
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Feb 24, 2015 19:46
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UCI's bullpen is a dumpster fire and that's why we're 1-6. God drat it. Sir Thats Gross posted:Tennessee's home opener against Lipscomb today has been cancelled due to snow. I'm stoked for the season to start. Shine bright like a diamond, Dave Serrano. Y'all are going to annhilate the Anteaters this weekend. It's going to be brutal.
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Feb 24, 2015 20:42
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Another week, another poll. Bit of chaos as UVA takes over the composite lead on the barest of margins. I find this stupid, as Vandy despite their struggles hasn't dropped a series yet. If anyone was to take over #1, it should be Florida, who took 2 of 3 from a good Miami team in a fantastic series, or UCLA, for taking 2 of 3 off UNC, or even TCU, for taking 2 of 3 at Arizona State; UVA needed 18 innings to finish off a sweep of Marist. Anyway, it'll all sort out before long.
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Feb 25, 2015 00:53
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A&M is 9-0 heading into a weekend series with Dartmouth, but we haven't really played anyone of note, so I have nothing really to add other than that the offense looks passable which is a big improvement over last year
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Feb 26, 2015 22:51
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Georgia isn't terrible so far! (gently caress you David Perno wherever your lovely rear end is)
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Feb 27, 2015 07:52
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Big drat series this weekend. Beat Clemson.
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Feb 27, 2015 17:55
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A&M hits two two-run homers in the 8th to beat Dartmouth 4-3. Olsen Magic y'all.
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Feb 28, 2015 06:56
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Auburn took down #10 Okie Lite 9-2 today at home in a game hastily scheduled after weather scuttled the visitors' planned series for the weekend. Just one game in weird circumstances but easily the biggest victory since Golloway took over and burned a lot of goodwill in a disappointing, contentious first year.
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SporkOfTruth posted:Y'all are going to annhilate the Anteaters this weekend. It's going to be brutal. Hahah, turns out I'm an idiot. So, this weekend has been kind of bizarre for UCI & UT. First, the rains out here preemptively forced the Friday-Saturday-Sunday series to turn into a Friday day/night DH-Saturday series. This actually worried me more, because I figured a tough doubleheader wouldn't sit well with a slumping UCI. The Friday doubleheader: The real story in both of these games is Tennessee making terrible fielding mistakes at the worst time. Elliot Surrey "With The Fringey Stuff" started game 1 and pitched pretty drat well despite giving up 2 runs early, but the game was sealed by UT's centerfielder biffing a reasonably easy catch that cleared the bases for Irvine. G1: UCI 5-2. Former UT pitcher Matt Esparza started game 2 for the 'Eaters, gave up a solo dinger in the first, and then pitched 8 shutout innings. UT's fielding mistake here was their SS overthrowing 2B on a double play ball that loaded the bases; John Brontsema took advantage two batters later and walked it off with a liner up the middle. G2: UCI 2-1 So, not too much offense on Friday. Saturday, on the other hand, was a hot mess. 22 combined runs. 34 combined hits. 7 pitchers for UCI. 5 errors by Tennessee. Three of those on one play that allowed a run to score. Serrano and one of his assistants tossed for arguing a call from a previous inning while his team was up 2 in the 9th. Je-sus christ. G3: UT 12-10. Fun fact: this is only the second time ever that both teams have scored more than 10 runs at Anteater Ballpark. The takeaways for me:
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Mar 1, 2015 21:54
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Vandy was down 10-0 today, came back to win 16-10.
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Walk off today to take a chippy series with Crieghton 2-1. There was signal stealing, spiking, trash talking, and bench clearing. No hand shake afterwards. Tulane is now 10-2 overall. Breaking into the top 25 in the polls tomorrow is a real possibility. Three weeks until what is shaping up to be an awesome LSU game. EDIT Tulane is #25 in D1Baseball, #30 in NCBWA and reciving votes in others. First time Tulane has been nationally ranked since 2011. 
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Mar 2, 2015 03:50
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Awesome walk-off squeeze with a huge standing collision at the plate for USC over TCU.
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Mar 8, 2015 03:57
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A&M beats Nebraska, Houston and Baylor at Minute Maid Park to go to 16-0 on the year; conference play starts with Auburn in College Station this weekend
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Grayly Squirrel posted:Walk off today to take a chippy series with Crieghton 2-1. There was signal stealing, spiking, trash talking, and bench clearing. No hand shake afterwards. As mentioned before, I don't really follow college baseball closely. Is the "EAU" at the bottom of some of those polls Wisconson-Eau Claire?
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Mar 10, 2015 17:56
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tadashi posted:As mentioned before, I don't really follow college baseball closely. Is the "EAU" at the bottom of some of those polls Wisconson-Eau Claire? Pretty sure that's Florida Atlantic
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Mar 10, 2015 19:54
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TheFlyingLlama posted:Pretty sure that's Florida Atlantic That makes a lot more sense.
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Mar 10, 2015 20:55
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Beavs are leading in HRs, #13 in batting average, #20 in OBP, #5 in runs scored, #1 in slugging pct. Nice to see the young offense doing some good things early on. Need to figure out the 3rd starter spot and bullpen to compete in the conference.
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Mar 11, 2015 17:50
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UVA's lack of offense burned them big time this week; they went 0-4 with a sweep to VT. Honestly it'll be an uphill battle from this point to get back into the hosting slots by the time Joe McCarthy comes back from injury. Meanwhile, Texas A&M is 21-0, which is absurd.
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elentar posted:UVA's lack of offense burned them big time this week; they went 0-4 with a sweep to VT. Honestly it'll be an uphill battle from this point to get back into the hosting slots by the time Joe McCarthy comes back from injury. Yes, A&M just finished a sweep of Auburn to open conference play. Saturday's win was the 1,000th at Olsen Field.
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South Carolina has bounced back quite well after losing its first series to Clemson in five years -- we've won 10 straight, including a sweep of Kentucky to open SEC play, and it looks like we've finally found our Sunday starter in Clarke Schmidt. The bats still need to come around for me to feel more comfortable, but we've at least started to get some timely hits. Also: 
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