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Diamond Deacs 2019 (Offseason) | 5 Deacs Drafted

I think they will turn it around, the team looks better on paper than record-wise which I think will even out.

Interesting that Jake Mueller seems to have found himself on the bench in favor of Turconi.
 
Hahaha okay so the Lanzilli kid was the one who had 10 RBI this weekend, earning player of the week honors nationally while hitting in the 3 hole all week. Yet tonight, he’s hitting in the 5 Hole.

Walter messes with the line ups way too much not allowing kids to establish their positions in the line up.
 
ETA: I recognized he was in the 5-hole for 2/3 games this weekend, gettiing his 10 RBIs in the 5-hole. So fuck me.

However, my point still stands that Walter messes with the line ups too much to the point that kids cannot settle in their spots.
 
Meh. 1) When you are batting, you are batting. It doesn't matter what spot you are in. 2) You only know who leads off the very first inning. After that, it's a crapshoot. If you are in the 5-hole but lead off the 2nd inning does that matter?

Mixing up the lineup based on matchups and resting players is the proven better strategy at the major league level.
 
Meh. 1) When you are batting, you are batting. It doesn't matter what spot you are in. 2) You only know who leads off the very first inning. After that, it's a crapshoot. If you are in the 5-hole but lead off the 2nd inning does that matter?

Mixing up the lineup based on matchups and resting players is the proven better strategy at the major league level.

1) Yeah it's not that easy. Where you hit determines what you are in the line up for and psychologically important to the hitter.
2) Then just hit Seymour as lead off, Mueller clean up, and Lanzilli 9th, who cares if its just a crapshoot after that. There's a reason "the top half of the line up is due up in the 9th" is an important factor.

Most MLB line ups have mainstays who know where they are going to hit most of the season (i.e. our Seymours, Fricks, and Lanzilli's). Match ups usually are for fringe players who are better against LHPs or RHPs. Also they have a bigger sample size thus able to manipulate line ups early in the season. We are appraching halfway thru
 
Kind of hard to stay with the same lineup when the team has underperformed. Not sure if mixing up the lineup has made any impact, but WF's last two games constituted our two best offensive games of the season
 
1) Yeah it's not that easy. Where you hit determines what you are in the line up for and psychologically important to the hitter.
2) Then just hit Seymour as lead off, Mueller clean up, and Lanzilli 9th, who cares if its just a crapshoot after that. There's a reason "the top half of the line up is due up in the 9th" is an important factor.

Most MLB line ups have mainstays who know where they are going to hit most of the season (i.e. our Seymours, Fricks, and Lanzilli's). Match ups usually are for fringe players who are better against LHPs or RHPs. Also they have a bigger sample size thus able to manipulate line ups early in the season. We are appraching halfway thru

I'm not saying that the batting order doesn't matter, because it does (although less than some think based on millions of data points from major league games). You obviously want your best hitters to get more at bats by hitting towards the top of the lineup, you'd ideally split the lineup by handedness to make relief specialists less effective, etc.

What I'm saying doesn't matter in consistency day-to-day because we know that playing matchups is a good thing; doesn't mean you should platoon every player of course, but you should alter your lineup to optimize for the day's matchup. And because the lineup doesn't restart at the top each inning, the actual spot in the batting order becomes fairly meaningless after the first inning, which we know from decades of major league data.

Bigger picture, our offense has been consistently good for several years, including this year (2nd in the ACC in runs scored), and part of that is by playing matchups, so it doesn't even seem there's anecdotal evidence here. Our biggest issues have been with pitching depth, particularly with midweek staters and the middle of the bullpen.
 
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We've also been inconsistent offensively this year, struggling with getting hits with runners on base. Sorenson just said it. I attribute that to maneuvering line ups too much.

We have scored 35 runs in the past two games, that helps. I attribute that to mainstays finally settling into their roles. Hopefully its not too little too late.
 
Deacs piling it on against UNCC. Up 11-0 with the bases loaded in the 3rd.
 
Deacs play at Duke this weekend. Duke got off to a hot start (8-1), but stumbled of late as L'ville swept Duke last weekend. They are 2-4 in the ACC and 12-9 overall.

FWIW, as frustrating as the ND series was, the Irish did take 2 of 3 at Clemson last week. So, maybe they aren't that bad. Despite the poor start, WF still is the ACC hunt. Here are the conference standings (no divisions any more):

SCHOOL ACC PCT. OVERALL PCT. HOME AWAY NEUTRAL
NC State 5-1 0.833 20-1 0.952 16-1 4-0 0-0
Louisville 5-1 0.833 17-4 0.810 13-4 4-0 0-0
Clemson 4-2 0.667 15-5 0.750 14-4 1-1 0-0
Notre Dame 4-2 0.667 7-10 0.412 3-4 4-6 0-0
Miami 3-3 0.500 15-5 0.750 12-1 3-4 0-0
Florida State 3-3 0.500 14-5 0.737 13-2 1-3 0-0
Virginia Tech 3-3 0.500 14-6 0.700 9-2 5-4 0-0
Georgia Tech 3-3 0.500 14-7 0.667 11-5 3-2 0-0
Wake Forest 3-3 0.500 13-9 0.591 11-6 2-3 0-0
North Carolina 2-4 0.333 16-6 0.727 15-2 1-4 0-0
Duke 2-4 0.333 12-8 0.600 10-7 2-1 0-0
Boston College 2-4 0.333 10-9 0.526 0-0 10-7 0-2
Virginia 2-4 0.333 9-10 0.474 8-7 1-3 0-0
Pitt 1-5 0.167 6-11 0.353 6-8 0-3 0-0
 
4 pm today - Deacs' Colin Peluse v. Devils' Ben Gross. Gross is a transfer from Princeton that has not gone more than 3 innings in any game this year. Didn't get an out against L'ville last weeks. Deacs need to win the opener.
 
Ben Gross has an era of 4.76, so that's not completely terrible. Ready to watch some baseball to take my mind off today's events.
 
Is there a reason Shane Muntz is not in the lineup so Mueller can play? Turconi should be in infield not dh if Muntz is available to dh.
 
Is there a reason Shane Muntz is not in the lineup so Mueller can play? Turconi should be in infield not dh if Muntz is available to dh.

Also surprised to see Muntz seeing as much time on the bench as he has, but do think you need to continue to play Mueller after two straight seasons with an OBP north of .400
 
Also surprised to see Muntz seeing as much time on the bench as he has, but do think you need to continue to play Mueller after two straight seasons with an OBP north of .400

Mueller’s average is .230 with a .330 on base. Muntz has an on base of 500 with a whole lot higher chance to hit it out of the infield.
 
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