Way too soon to panic...
My excitement has been crushed and we aren't even 2 weeks in. I don't know why I thought we'd be better than last year after losing Frick, Peluse, Steel, Mueller, and McSweeney. Our pitching sucked ass last year and we were losing those guys. Looks like this season will be another disaster filled with wild pitches, passed balls, wild fielding throws and errors, and high volume strikeouts.
In bad need of a $6 million hitting lab....
Just lost at home 11-9 to 1-5 App State....
Disappointing start to the season, but WF has FORTY-SEVEN games left, including all THIRTY of its ACC games, plus the conference tourney. So, let's just see how the season plays out before firing people, giving up and declaring the season an abject failure. The "let's surrender immediately" attitude here when any WF team faces adversity is so lame. FWIW, the 2017 Diamond Deacs, who went 43-20, and pushed eventual national champion Florida to the brink in the Super-regional started that season 1-3 and 3-4.
Nine runs scored isn't too shabby. That should be enough runs to win most games.
Its giving up 11 runs. Midweek pitching and defense obviously need more improvement.
But if you watch us at bat, it's a lot of details we aren't doing well. Too many to list but one seems to stand out: swinging for the fences too often. Simply contact can make the difference in an inning score and an ultimate win. It's like when we have runners on 2nd and or 3rd and batter swings for his 3rd strike like he's going over the wall. Just meeting the ball led to 2 decisive runs by LBS where the batter dropped it over the infield.