-6-1 record is very good, considering the uneven play of this team so far.
-Road sweep to begin season, avoid bad loss at home to Morehead, and then go 2-1 against a middling field in Round rock is a good outcome.
-Our Friday pitching worries me, but Saturday and Sunday starters are rock solid. Relief has been decent. Byers and Nove seem much improved this year. Hummel is a find. Robinson has been mostly good. Having Frieda as a closer is worrisome.
-Our defense has been ATROCIOUS. 3rd base has been an error machine, regardless of who is playing. Even normally reliable Smith and Petre have been mistake prone. Have to clean this up.
-Offense has been mostly bad. Hitting has been awful, tons of strikeouts. The positive is that the team manufactures runs and seems to punish the other team whenever they are given an mistake. Today, UK had a 6 run fourth, all b/c of a 2 out error. cats followed up the error with walks, HBP, a triple and a homer.
-Players who seem better: Nove, Byers, Nolan, Church
-Players who seem the same or worse: McCoy (will this guy ever live up to potential??), Burkes (not playing terribly, but would have hoped for more at the plate), Petre (slow start, but seems to be heating up with today's homer and another hit too)
-Notable newcomers: Daley had a DAY yesterday. Herrerra had the key triple today. Crittenberger and Schram have had some clutch hits.
I am less confident in this team than I was in last year's team at this point; however, it's still very early. Hopefully the bats come alive and the defense gets cleaned up before SEC play.
-Road sweep to begin season, avoid bad loss at home to Morehead, and then go 2-1 against a middling field in Round rock is a good outcome.
-Our Friday pitching worries me, but Saturday and Sunday starters are rock solid. Relief has been decent. Byers and Nove seem much improved this year. Hummel is a find. Robinson has been mostly good. Having Frieda as a closer is worrisome.
-Our defense has been ATROCIOUS. 3rd base has been an error machine, regardless of who is playing. Even normally reliable Smith and Petre have been mistake prone. Have to clean this up.
-Offense has been mostly bad. Hitting has been awful, tons of strikeouts. The positive is that the team manufactures runs and seems to punish the other team whenever they are given an mistake. Today, UK had a 6 run fourth, all b/c of a 2 out error. cats followed up the error with walks, HBP, a triple and a homer.
-Players who seem better: Nove, Byers, Nolan, Church
-Players who seem the same or worse: McCoy (will this guy ever live up to potential??), Burkes (not playing terribly, but would have hoped for more at the plate), Petre (slow start, but seems to be heating up with today's homer and another hit too)
-Notable newcomers: Daley had a DAY yesterday. Herrerra had the key triple today. Crittenberger and Schram have had some clutch hits.
I am less confident in this team than I was in last year's team at this point; however, it's still very early. Hopefully the bats come alive and the defense gets cleaned up before SEC play.