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RE: Stanford Baseball 2023 - GK3 - 05-14-2023

(05-14-2023, 04:29 PM)chrisk Wrote:  Final score Arizona 21-20

Pitching is truly a lost art.  It must be illegal.

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RE: Stanford Baseball 2023 - TonyLima - 05-14-2023

(05-14-2023, 03:03 PM)JJJ Wrote:  TonyLima gets a shoutout from Wes on the broadcast for this tweet. :)
[tweet]https://twitter.com/tonylimabsb/status/1657866801441808384?s=61&t=u1yJsNemMPmii4Tu_ztWqw[/tweet]

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Crazy game. 
Bowser launches this granny to bring us to within 3, B8!

[tweet]https://twitter.com/stanfordbsb/status/1657875911696584704?s=61&t=u1yJsNemMPmii4Tu_ztWqw[/tweet]

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RBruno on the mound T9.

Hey, thanks! Saw the tweet. Will look for the comment in the video. Downside: my remaining neuron only fires once a month. That’s it until June.

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(05-14-2023, 06:22 PM)GK3 Wrote:  

(05-14-2023, 04:29 PM)chrisk Wrote:  Final score Arizona 21-20

Pitching is truly a lost art.  It must be illegal.

I blame the umpires. ;)

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RE: Stanford Baseball 2023 - Sam Leopold - 05-14-2023

in 2007, we beat Arizona 21-20 in football.
in 2023, Arizona beats us 21-20 in baseball.

Now pardon me while I go around my apartment and pick up the pieces of my head that have been sent flying all over my living room.

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RE: Stanford Baseball 2023 - Maple Leaf - 05-15-2023

DI Baseball Rankings - D1Baseball.com Top 25 | NCAA.com

Stanford is ranked #3 
Oregon State is #10
Washington is #24

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RE: Stanford Baseball 2023 - CTcard - 05-15-2023

Weekend Roundup

Sunday's game was ... something. But I guess so was Tuesday's. 

On the week, Stanford scored 20 runs twice and 9 runs twice. One wouldn't think the loss would be in one of the 20 run games. 

On Sunday, Stanford seemed more interested in testing out the back half of the bullpen than necessarily winning. The loss itself is fairly meaningless - the struggles on the mound meaningful. 

This team now has the fifth most home runs in Stanford team history at 92. Currently hitting 1.92 HRs per game. Last year Stanford set the team record with 118 HRs at a pace of 1.82 HRs per game. Since HRs generally rise as the season goes on, this team would seem to be on pace for a new record but that will depend upon how many games they end up playing. Last year Stanford played 65 games including 14 in the postseason (4 Pac 12 tournament, 10 NCAA). Stanford will also play 51 regular season games this year, but 14 is a lot in a postseason. 

Can't quite see why Arizona is down as far as tied for 9th with Cal. They have a great offense (statistically #1 in the Pac in most categories) and their pitchers have live arms. While their pitching ranks just behind Stanford in ERA on the season, in conference only games they are last. 

Somehow, amongst the carnage, I did see a couple of hopeful signs in the pitching on Sunday. 
O'Haran pitched pretty well despite walking 3 in 2.2 innings. He could play a role in the post season. 
Uber was back in the lineup recovering from injury. He wasn't great but getting him back could be important. 
On Saturday, Dixon was really good. 

Stanford's more or less reliable pitchers are: Matthews, Dixon, Dowd, Pancer, Bruno.
Everyone else is a crapshoot. 

Just when I thought Sapien nailed down the DH spot, he went 0-8 vs UA. 

Cobb 2023 vs Crampton 2022 is an interesting comparison. 
Cobb is better offensively, Crampton was better defensively. 
Cobb 2023:    0.337 AVG; 0.503 SLG; 0.625 RBI/gm; 6 HR || 0.919 FLD; 14 errors (48 games - "leads" Pac 12)
Crampton 22: 0.316 AVG; 0.392 SLG; 0.615 RBI/gm; 1 HR || 0.980 FLD; 5 errors (65 games)
While I think the analytics guys' mantra was "defense doesn't matter", maybe it does for a shortstop. 

In the NCAA tournament, Stanford should get a favorable first game - at home. I'd probably advocate starting one of Scott, Dugan, O'Haran for that first game holding back Matthews and Dixon for the better teams. However, if you go with Matthews in game 1 and get him out soon enough you could probably bring him back if you have to play until Day 4 like last year.

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RE: Stanford Baseball 2023 - TonyLima - 05-15-2023

Rios!

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RE: Stanford Baseball 2023 - norcard10 - 05-15-2023

(05-15-2023, 06:03 PM)TonyLima Wrote:  Rios!

Pitching depth is non existent and that will be a real problem to get far since there have been stretches where the offense has disappeared this year.  Even Bruno got touched up in his second inning yesterday.

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RE: Stanford Baseball 2023 - StanfordMatt - 05-15-2023

(05-15-2023, 11:05 AM)CTcard Wrote:  In the NCAA tournament, Stanford should get a favorable first game - at home. I'd probably advocate starting one of Scott, Dugan, O'Haran for that first game holding back Matthews and Dixon for the better teams. However, if you go with Matthews in game 1 and get him out soon enough you could probably bring him back if you have to play until Day 4 like last year.

Personally, I'd start Dixon in game 1 and save Matthews for game 2. Hopefully, we start 2-0 and are in the driver's seat with two chances to win one more.

The thing that scares me about taking an even more aggressive approach and starting someone other than those two in game 1 is that this season's results have shown us that we're susceptible to any team in this scenario. If Santa Clara can put up 17 and 10, Sac State can put up 15, Bakersfield can put up 9, etc., any #4 seed will be capable of putting up 10+ against one of our B-list arms. That's a lot of pressure to put on our offense imo.

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RE: Stanford Baseball 2023 - cardfan77 - 05-15-2023

So let’s say, Dixon starts game 1, Mathews starts  game two and Stanford goes 2-0. Both Scott and Dugan pitch in game 3 and Stanford lose, who starts game 4?

Can Dixon pitch again with 2 days rest, even if it’s only for a couple of innings?

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RE: Stanford Baseball 2023 - StanfordMatt - 05-15-2023

(05-15-2023, 08:00 PM)cardfan77 Wrote:  So let’s say, Dixon starts game 1, Mathews starts  game two and Stanford goes 2-0. Both Scott and Dugan pitch in game 3 and Stanford lose, who starts game 4?

Can Dixon pitch again with 2 days rest, even if it’s only for a couple of innings?

One way of looking at it is what is our win probability of throwing Scott/Dugan vs. #4 seed's ace in game 1 versus the win probability of throwing Scott/Dugan vs. potential #2 seed's 4th starter in what would be our third game. I'd lean towards rolling the dice on the latter scenario. A lot of these smaller programs don't have the depth of the major programs but they may have one good Friday night arm. I'd also lean towards the latter because the consequences of losing game 1 are much more dire than losing the Sunday afternoon game. In both cases, we'd have to scramble to figure out who starts our 4th game and in the former scenario we'd also have to play a 5th game in order to advance.

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RE: Stanford Baseball 2023 - GK3 - 05-16-2023

(05-15-2023, 08:59 PM)StanfordMatt Wrote:  

(05-15-2023, 08:00 PM)cardfan77 Wrote:  So let’s say, Dixon starts game 1, Mathews starts  game two and Stanford goes 2-0. Both Scott and Dugan pitch in game 3 and Stanford lose, who starts game 4?

Can Dixon pitch again with 2 days rest, even if it’s only for a couple of innings?

One way of looking at it is what is our win probability of throwing Scott/Dugan vs. #4 seed's ace in game 1 versus the win probability of throwing Scott/Dugan vs. potential #2 seed's 4th starter in what would be our third game. I'd lean towards rolling the dice on the latter scenario. A lot of these smaller programs don't have the depth of the major programs but they may have one good Friday night arm. I'd also lean towards the latter because the consequences of losing game 1 are much more dire than losing the Sunday afternoon game. In both cases, we'd have to scramble to figure out who starts our 4th game and in the former scenario we'd also have to play a 5th game in order to advance.

I am inclined to agree with you.  I also think out pitching is pretty much a crapshoot after Mathews.  But as you say, our early opponents may be smaller schools with less difficult schedules over all so so how each of their pitchers performed against various level of competition over the year can be important when it comes to figuring out our rotation for the regionals.  Other teams are going to have trouble figuring out their rotations for the regionals if they are going to come up against us.  We have pretty much proven we can hit anyone anytime, and hit for power.  We have also shown that a decent team can pound out pitchers also.  So if we fall into the losers bracket who knows how many runs might be scored in total.  It should be entertaining, no matter what happens.

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RE: Stanford Baseball 2023 - CTcard - 05-18-2023

A little statistical roundup as we head into the final weekend series up in the Palouse. 

For the second week in a row, Alberto Rios won Pac-12 Player of the Week while a different Stanford player won a national player of the week nod. 
This week it was Carter Graham as D1 Baseball's National Player of the Week. Last week it was Tommy Troy as PerfectGame's National Player of the Week. 

Over the two week stretch Rios went 17-32, 0.532 AVG; 19 RBI; 4 2B, 7 HR, 1.313 SLG. 
Rios now leads the conference in SLG (0.760), second in BA (0.402), third in OBP (0.502), second in RBIs (60). 
This from a guy who didn't have a position to play at the beginning of the season. 

Matthews leads the Pac 12 in innings pitched by a lot (90.2 vs second place 73.1), which I don't like. 
Surprisingly, Dowd (who doesn't start) leads the conference in wins (8 vs second place 6). 

Stanford leads the Pac 12 in HRs, SLG, Runs/gm; second in AVG, OBP. 
Stanford is 9th in team ERA, runs allowed/gm (but 5th in both in conference only games).

WSU is 4th in BA, 6th SLG, 4th OBP, 10th HRs - 7th ERA, 6th runs/gm allowed.
The only category I could find that WSU leads the Pac is Hit by Pitch where they have a big lead: 91 vs second place 75. 
WSU is also 8th in the Pac 12 standings, 1/2 game ahead of both Cal and Arizona who are tied for ninth. Nine teams make the Pac 12 Tournament.

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RE: Stanford Baseball 2023 - JJJ - 05-18-2023

Pancer gets his first start of the season and is already at 52 pitches after 2IP (season high for him).
2-1 Cougs.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/stanfordbsb/status/1659371766748418048?s=61&t=u1yJsNemMPmii4Tu_ztWqw[/tweet]

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RE: Stanford Baseball 2023 - StanfordMatt - 05-18-2023

Saborn Campbell just pinch hit for Eddie Park in the 3rd inning according to game tracker. Anyone watching or listening to know if Eddie got hurt?

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RE: Stanford Baseball 2023 - JJJ - 05-18-2023

Roxy Bernstein said that according to some staffers, Eddie has been under the weather. But awaiting an update on what caused the change.

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RE: Stanford Baseball 2023 - JJJ - 05-18-2023

Tommy Troy ties it up!

[tweet]https://twitter.com/stanfordbsb/status/1659416611940597760?s=61&t=u1yJsNemMPmii4Tu_ztWqw[/tweet]

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RE: Stanford Baseball 2023 - chrisk - 05-18-2023

Stanford wins in 10, 7-5. Bruno with a shaky save.

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RE: Stanford Baseball 2023 - BigEasyCard - 05-18-2023

(05-18-2023, 10:57 PM)chrisk Wrote:  Stanford wins in 10, 7-5.  Bruno with a shaky save.

Correction: Final score was 7-6.  After Cougars scored 1, they had runners on first and third when final batter grounded into a double play to end the game. Very close play at first for final out.

Geaux Cardinal!

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RE: Stanford Baseball 2023 - PVTree - 05-18-2023

Stanford with the 7-6 win. Cougs had men on first and third with one out in the bottom of the tenth when they got into a double play.

I'm beginning to think shortstop is our weakest link. Not much hitting, which is ok if it was made up by a sterling glove, but that's not the case.

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RE: Stanford Baseball 2023 - Brickcity - 05-18-2023

(05-18-2023, 11:20 PM)PVTree Wrote:  Stanford with the 7-6 win. Cougs had men on first and third with one out in the bottom of the tenth when they got into a double play.

I'm beginning to think shortstop is our weakest link. Not much hitting, which is ok if it was made up by a sterling glove, but that's not the case.

Cobb is hitting .330 on the year. Yeah, he's a little shaky in the field but he's hit well for us.

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