Ongoing UF Baseball Commentary

Between Barco, Milchin, Sully and staff he should be fine. Handling the same lineup three days in a row is a tall order for even a veteran guy.
He’s gonna be fine IMHO.

 

Sully needs to recruit more quality pitchers. Our hitter to pitcher talent ratio this year is very skewed. We have Fabian, Thompson, Langford, BT, Rivera, Calilao, Armstrong, Halter, D. Fabian, Guscette. Only Barco, Blake and Coppola for pitcher.

 

Roster is littered with highly rated pitching recruits. Just need them to perform or get healthy.

 

Every fanbase in the country could say this.

We’ve become spoiled and entitled with Sully. Hope he doesn’t decide to move on anytime soon.

 

Analysis
Good win against a scrappy team.

The Good……

A night when guys that don’t get much recognition made the big difference beyond Jud of course….

Jud- wow, talk about a difference maker this kid is having a year!!!


Guscette- on base 4 times and laugh all you want or say all you want but his sacrifice bunt may have been the turning point in the game. Venice kids so fundamentally sound!!! Have a night kid!!!


Rivera- As Nick Belmonte said he takes a backseat to nobody at shortstop. The kid flat out is solid all day long and love to see him bunting now. His ability to bunt will be worth 7-8 extra hits this year.


Nesbit- the forgotten guy for some reason. 13 innings spread out over 2 years and no earned runs. Another shut down inning tonight in which he struck out the side. This came at a crucial time. Can’t deny his talent. Kid needs chances/innings. Hopefully we will see him this weekend.


Fic- Fic being Fic. Kid is solid and never wavers. Great job!!!!


Abner- nice work tonight!! If he can harness his talent look out!!! Big time help tonight and deserves a lot of credit for his mental toughness.

Sterlin- starting to swing it again!!!!

 

And what I really liked about watching him was he seemed to be moving around without any noticeable hamstring issues.

 

Glass half full, we closed out a ninth without multiple runs.

 

Great thought on Jud making himself some money. Man he sure is seeing it well.

 

Defense could be the difference.

Maybe just my perception that we walk a lot of guys, but interesting that we are only 7th. Must be more guys throwing strikes than I think. Still, better than last year.

 

The National leader, Elon, issues 2.10 walks per 9IP. UF is 50th at 3.51. To put 50th in perspective, there are 293 teams so 50th is around 83rd percentile. Similar to 23rd-ish in football.

 

Love that breakdown and it shows how good Sproat has been on avoiding walks until last weekend. Only had 6 on year prior to last Saturday where I think he had 3 in just a couple innings.

 

I like Barco on Friday, but if he does not win we are in a bad place.

Sproat has great stuff, but he is not always up to it.

 

Lurk—

Just goes to show how important the Saturday SP’s are—1) Your Friday guy wins you’re set up to win the series. 2) Your Friday guy loses it’s on your back to right the ship and set up winning the series on Sunday.

It could be considered the crucial start of the weekend—maybe…

 

And even more what it can mean for a regional or the first games in a CWS. Having FOUR good starters is huge.

 

Four? Right now I'd settle for three.