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2024 Wake Baseball Thread: What Did We Do To Deserve This?

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Honestly, it was worse than the scoreboard could show.

He dropped some cut-off exchanges & simple lobs back into the infield that were just tough to watch.

It was a good sports moment to see his teammates picking him up after the game.


Eta: just for the curious, Michael Eze had 18 errors last year. Which.... isn't ideal. Marek led WF with 9, and appeared in 8 more games. (65 vs 58)
 
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Woof. Ugly. Glad to win. There were some good things. We’re gonna need Josh Chase and Massey to be on point this weekend.

Would very much like to see some better ABs across the board with not surrendering the first pitch or every 3-1 pitch automatically. Don’t mind patience but damn we don’t seem to have a philosophy at the plate. Impressed with Winnay and Johnston. Nick still not there but looked much better in the box.
 
Falco might need to be more of a mid reliever than closer as seems to struggle in that role.

Also wonder why we don’t switch up Seaver and Kurtz. Seaver seems to be struggling at 4 spot and Kurtz at 3 and king clearly has more speed which would be nice to get on the pads before Kurtz and follow up marek and tellier. have we tried that order at all?
 
saltydeac said:
Falco might need to be more of a mid reliever than closer as seems to struggle in that role.

Also wonder why we don’t switch up Seaver and Kurtz. Seaver seems to be struggling at 4 spot and Kurtz at 3 and king clearly has more speed which would be nice to get on the pads before Kurtz and follow up marek and tellier. have we tried that order at all?
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I think they are counting on Roland being the closer when he comes back. Right now they are trying to piece together the bullpen. Who do you recommend to take Falco place?

The Kurtz and King combo is trying to force teams to pitch to Kurtz. King hitting will increase those odds. It’s looking like Winnay may be the one that needs to be moved up.
 
Mt. Olive said:
I think they are counting on Roland being the closer when he comes back. Right now they are trying to piece together the bullpen. Who do you recommend to take Falco place?

The Kurtz and King combo is trying to force teams to pitch to Kurtz. King hitting will increase those odds. It’s looking like Winnay may be the one that needs to be moved up.
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This. Time to put Winnay in the 4 hole.


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travis bazzana was the only player with a higher OPS in the cape cod league than seaver king (1.021)

the caveat is that king only had 71 PAs in the cape bc he was called away to play for USA baseball. but that's still more PAs than he's had this season (57)
 
Lots of hand wringing here about being 11-1 and #1 in the country. Are we the same team as last year? No. Are we still an elite team? Yes. Do we still have 4-5 first round picks and three of the best starting pitchers in the country? Yes. Will we lose another game this year? I hate to say it but yes. Even the ‘27 Yankees lost 3 out of every 10 games they played, and that’s the high water mark. We will lose some but win more than we lose and it’s all going to be fine.

I appreciate everyone living and dying on each pitch…but just because we allowed 6 runs to Georgetown through the 3rd inning on a Tuesday in early March doesn’t mean we’re not a top 10 team or we should just pack it in and call it a day like some have said.

Let’s enjoy the ride, realize that baseball is weird and fluky things happen, and come back in mid-May and decide if we want to agonize over where the season stands at that point.
 
For Deac's Sake said:
Lots of hand wringing here about being 11-1 and #1 in the country. Are we the same team as last year? No. Are we still an elite team? Yes. Do we still have 4-5 first round picks and three of the best starting pitchers in the country? Yes. Will we lose another game this year? I hate to say it but yes. Even the ‘27 Yankees lost 3 out of every 10 games they played, and that’s the high water mark. We will lose some but win more than we lose and it’s all going to be fine.

I appreciate everyone living and dying on each pitch…but just because we allowed 6 runs to Georgetown through the 3rd inning on a Tuesday in early March doesn’t mean we’re not a top 10 team or we should just pack it in and call it a day like some have said.

Let’s enjoy the ride, realize that baseball is weird and fluky things happen, and come back in mid-May and decide if we want to agonize over where the season stands at that point.
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Great post. Would only add that even with some shaky moments through the first twelve, no college baseball team has a weekend rotation to match Hartle, Burns, Massey. In fact, no one is even close. So, yes, there are concerns about some spots in the lineup and even the bullpen, but WF's starters make WF the favorite in every weekend series that the Deacs' play. That is just a huge advantage and why WF remains the consensus number one despite some warts popping up so far.
 
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