Ongoing UF Softball Commentary

If I knew how to do gifs here I’d do one from bill and teds excellent adventure because I’m super psyched also. 2024 baby! 10 year anniversary of first national championship. See how fate is lining up!

 

Someone has to put a stop to Oklahoma and that someone is the Florida Gator Ladies.

 

Bender aggravated an old injury in her hip. She had an MRI yesterday diagnosing a stress fracture. She's out for the season.

 

Would not surprise me in the least to see all six recruits be starters next year from day one.

 

They pretty much have to.

 

In some ways almost like the situation back in 2013.

 

With baseball doing analytics, I'd like to see stats on runs produced when the top of our order starts with no outs or one out. Both yesterday and today, every at bat for Skylar Wallace was with two outs. The exception yesterday was the first inning (we scored) and the seventh inning -- we all know how that turned out. Today, even with two outs today, we could load the bases, but just couldn't push through. I think we had the bases loaded three times today but nothing to show for it.

It's almost like we'd be better off to give up an out and let Skylar start the next inning with no outs.

 

Or find a way at points during the game to just manage to turn the lineup over just a bit more. I hear what you’re saying though but I doubt that will ever find purchase in a coach’s mind. For example bases loaded and a stud is up to bat. Probably better to walk in a run than give up a grand slam but I don’t think I’ve ever seen any coach make that call.

 

The timely hitting just wasn’t there today and as amazing as Skylar is she can’t do it all. Team sports and all, win together lose together.

 

I think we just needed Reagan Bush today.

 

The past is the past and what we have right now is what we have. Futuristically, we just need Walton and staff to ‘hit on’ more of their evaluations and recruitment of classes like the one that is coming in next than to ‘miss’ as they have the last few. Don’t need to get back in this situation again. Lots of ‘high quality’ young ladies, just not the talent that is needed to produce championship ball.

 

In the fwiw department, Ava Brown is now 73-0 for her pitching career … Rothrock is now 61-2

 

Well, I don’t know but I’ll be giving major positive manifestations towards them once on Hogtown soil

 

Ocala- The key word on the pitchers is lack of development. 8 pitchers in the last 4 years and not one has been developed. Tim did not just lose his ability to recruit great pitchers. As I have stated for 3 years, what has MB done? If he worked for me with this track record he would have been gone at the end of last season. Why do you think we can not get any real pitching talent out of the portal?

 

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Wallace + Falby + Walsh + Roe + Pollard + Wilke + Goelz + six fantastic freshman = one fantastic softball team

 

Just saw Julia Cottrell hit her 2nd 3 run bomb,what might have been.

 

She is thriving and seems to be happy. Glad to see it.