Re: Amazing that the game last night

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May 6, 2018, 11:39 AM [ in reply to Re: Amazing that the game last night ]

My how quickly we forget.

Just a few short years ago the fans and administration ran Coach Leggett off because his "small ball" approach to the game was just not working any more. Why would you bunt men over and settle for 1 run innings when you could have big, strong players swinging for the fences and putting up crooked numbers? We saw what the coots were doing and wanted a coach to build a team that looked similar.

Now you have a coach taking that approach (which most of the major league teams have also adopted) and you want to go back to the small ball approach we had? With more power numbers and more homers comes more strikeouts and lower batting averages.

You cannot have the "contact hitter approach" and the "long ball approach" at the same time. Not in todays game with the bats and balls being used. In the early 2000's it was possible to do both. This is why games usually ended up looking more like football scores than baseball games.

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It amazes me what game people watch when they watch Clemson play baseball. We were a small ball team under Jack. However, we made the change and hired Monte. Does anyone know where Monte came from and who he models his coaching after? Ray Tanner, whose approach to the game is be patient at the plate to draw walks and when your pitch comes swing for the fences. Maybe I’m not as polished on my baseball knowledge but did that approach work for Ray Tanner. Seems he struggled to win regionals and advance. This team very rarely plays small ball and it works. When our pitching is on we can have off nights with the bats. When pitching is off we can homerun our way to victories. This team complements itself well and if we can get hot we can absolutely make a deep run. Monte will keep recruiting his style of players and we will continue to get better but to complain about not hitting singles and bunting more shows how little you know about Monte Lee.

Amazing that the game last night