At 4-8, Stanford baseball is tied for 14th place in the ACC with Clemson--15th seed since Clemson won 2 of 3 at Sunken Diamond last weekend. Up next is a visit to 5-7 Louisville starting Friday afternoon Pacific time. There are still six 3-game series remaining versus conference foes, but pitching and/or defense continue to hold the team back. In conference games Stanford is dead last in ERA (8.23!) and, correspondingly, 15th in opponents' batting average (.323). They are 11th in fielding percentage with 14 errors in 12 games.
On the bright side, Stanford is #2 in slugging percentage (.532), first in HRs/game and #8 in on-base percentage (.377). Teddy Tokheim is hitting .400 through 12 ACC games with an OPS of 1.374, which is 2nd in the conference.
As others have noted, Stanford lost two of our starting pitchers from last year to the transfer portal. A third pitcher, who was an all-star reliever in last summer's Cape Cod League, is still on the roster but hasn't played at all this season. I was hoping that the available pitchers would improve with time, but that hasn't been the case (yet).
On the bright side, Stanford is #2 in slugging percentage (.532), first in HRs/game and #8 in on-base percentage (.377). Teddy Tokheim is hitting .400 through 12 ACC games with an OPS of 1.374, which is 2nd in the conference.
As others have noted, Stanford lost two of our starting pitchers from last year to the transfer portal. A third pitcher, who was an all-star reliever in last summer's Cape Cod League, is still on the roster but hasn't played at all this season. I was hoping that the available pitchers would improve with time, but that hasn't been the case (yet).
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)