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Game 15: 3/7/25 UCONN 7-2 L (11-4)

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To me, Arteaga continues to manage the team in a way that reads like he read a book on baseball strategy and wants to make sure he does them all.

In the fall I said you can't play Torres because he can't hit. Not only is he playing, he's getting the most plate appearances on the team. It's really pretty incredible that the manager keeps doing that. You want your best players hitting as much as possible.

Torres is a defensive replacement. He's not ready to hit at this level and that's ok. Development is a different speed for everyone.

R/L matchups and lineup construction matters so much less in college baseball. Arteaga has a true affinity for trying to find them when it isn't impactful and seems to be detrimental to win expectancy for the club.

Michael Fernandez isn't ready. He's a mop-up guy because he can't throw strikes. I'm baffled at how they're evaluating him right now. The delta between performance and the perception of the coaching staff is vast.

I don't know anything inside information wise, but most likely there were promises made in recruiting etc. because it is clear they aren't better players than the guys they're playing over at the moment (raw tools is a different story).

Hitting wise, it's pretty clear we lack power and twitch/athleticism. Most of our lineup employ strength based swings rather than twitch/rotational athleticism swings. That lends itself to swings that are groove-based and hit mistakes, but swing-and-miss at a lot of well-thrown pitches. In my view it's why we see a lot of poor at-bats because of the inability to adjust the barrel and make mistakes on pitches not in our swings' groove.

There are still roles evolving for this club. I think it's a decent to solid club, but we knew pre-season it wasn't going to be an elite club because we don't have the talent.
 
Lance Roffers said:
To me, Arteaga continues to manage the team in a way that reads like he read a book on baseball strategy and wants to make sure he does them all.

In the fall I said you can't play Torres because he can't hit. Not only is he playing, he's getting the most plate appearances on the team. It's really pretty incredible that the manager keeps doing that. You want your best players hitting as much as possible.

Torres is a defensive replacement. He's not ready to hit at this level and that's ok. Development is a different speed for everyone.

R/L matchups and lineup construction matters so much less in college baseball. Arteaga has a true affinity for trying to find them when it isn't impactful and seems to be detrimental to win expectancy for the club.

Michael Fernandez isn't ready. He's a mop-up guy because he can't throw strikes. I'm baffled at how they're evaluating him right now. The delta between performance and the perception of the coaching staff is vast.

I don't know anything inside information wise, but most likely there were promises made in recruiting etc. because it is clear they aren't better players than the guys they're playing over at the moment (raw tools is a different story).

Hitting wise, it's pretty clear we lack power and twitch/athleticism. Most of our lineup employ strength based swings rather than twitch/rotational athleticism swings. That lends itself to swings that are groove-based and hit mistakes, but swing-and-miss at a lot of well-thrown pitches. In my view it's why we see a lot of poor at-bats because of the inability to adjust the barrel and make mistakes on pitches not in our swings' groove.

There are still roles evolving for this club. I think it's a decent to solid club, but we knew pre-season it wasn't going to be an elite club because we don't have the talent.
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Lance, with what you have seen, would you have Ogden lead off?
 
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clg003 said:
The confusing thing to me is always the bullpen selections and our Friday starter. He threw our best bullpen guys tonight while down 5 runs. Burned two of them for the series.
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I'm at a loss with the bullpen management. We have at times blindly followed the idea of only pitching to same side hitters. Ryan Ashford has been brought in three times and taken out after the first batter he faces because it isn't a lefty. These guys are at a level where they should be able to pitch to opposite side hitting, yet a guy like Ashford hasn't been given the chance to showcase that ability. Or like against Florida, where we brought in Rob Evans to have a lefty lefty matchup, when the said lefty was HITTING .700 against lefties on the year. I get the idea that wants to be executed, but at some point FEEL OF THE GAME needs to be a part of your identity. Each game we have lost this year you can pinpoint the exact moment where there was no feel for the game. Against uber-talented teams like Florida or scrappy teams like UCONN, feel is what can save you when you're being outplayed
 
Lance Roffers said:
To me, Arteaga continues to manage the team in a way that reads like he read a book on baseball strategy and wants to make sure he does them all.

In the fall I said you can't play Torres because he can't hit. Not only is he playing, he's getting the most plate appearances on the team. It's really pretty incredible that the manager keeps doing that. You want your best players hitting as much as possible.

Torres is a defensive replacement. He's not ready to hit at this level and that's ok. Development is a different speed for everyone.

R/L matchups and lineup construction matters so much less in college baseball. Arteaga has a true affinity for trying to find them when it isn't impactful and seems to be detrimental to win expectancy for the club.

Michael Fernandez isn't ready. He's a mop-up guy because he can't throw strikes. I'm baffled at how they're evaluating him right now. The delta between performance and the perception of the coaching staff is vast.

I don't know anything inside information wise, but most likely there were promises made in recruiting etc. because it is clear they aren't better players than the guys they're playing over at the moment (raw tools is a different story).

Hitting wise, it's pretty clear we lack power and twitch/athleticism. Most of our lineup employ strength based swings rather than twitch/rotational athleticism swings. That lends itself to swings that are groove-based and hit mistakes, but swing-and-miss at a lot of well-thrown pitches. In my view it's why we see a lot of poor at-bats because of the inability to adjust the barrel and make mistakes on pitches not in our swings' groove.

There are still roles evolving for this club. I think it's a decent to solid club, but we knew pre-season it wasn't going to be an elite club because we don't have the talent.
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Agree, but my greater fear re. the head-scratching lineup moves is that he feels he's been promised another year.
 
b caned said:
This is laughable. Mr 10% telling someone else to get educated and to think before they type.

Get JDs hotdog out of your mouth. The guy is trash. I’ll repeat - he’s the one constant that’s been around the program for the past two decades of the downturn to UM baseball.

I appreciate you keeping the baseball board alive with updates, but you should probably leave the educated baseball talk to the adults. You’re in the minority when it comes to JD. Anyone with a working brain and knowledge of UM baseball wants him gone before he was gift wrapped the job. Hes a bum!
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Again your hate towards JD is blinding you from your bias Guy is trash how? we are 11-3 two of our losses are from 1 inning collapses? I think you just follow what the trend is and that is to hate on JD, You can't give an explanation. They lose one game and you say He's trash.... Ill see you at the end of the year when were in a regional and maybe even hosting.... I wonder what you will say next? First he cant develop pitching? we have a top5 pitching staff in the country..........
 
CTCanes said:
Michigan took a hard run at him after Bakich left but he is a UConn lifer. Played there, his dad played there and his dad was a high school coaching legend in the area. He will be at UConn until he is done coaching.
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Yeah and we have zero chance of pulling Link away either, he's a Florida State alum.
 
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clg003 said:
The confusing thing to me is always the bullpen selections and our Friday starter. He threw our best bullpen guys tonight while down 5 runs. Burned two of them for the series. Derias was killing it, then two errors let dudes on first and second and then he brings in Fernandez who is avg and has trouble walking guys and guess what he does.. he walks the bases loaded. Then had to face their big dude who is hitting 400. I fully expected a grand slam. He did get out of it but why are you down grading pitchers and bringing in a guy who has walking problems in a situation where he already has runners on? Why are you burning your best bullpens guys on a Friday night when your team is flat as **** and down more than 4 runs?

Its clear to me and I'm not sure why its not to him that Roberts isn't who he thinks he is. He is a bullpen guy or a weekday starter who throws 92 straight had makes a ton of mistakes high. The only way that changes is if he gets a lot better command. Straight and 92 is bp. Not being able to control your breaking stuff makes it even worse. Deria or Collera needs to get looks as a weekend starter.

Torres is miserable. Right now he doesnt deserve to start every game on the weekend and its not helping him. Let him start against righties only and bring him in late for D if your up in the rest of them. Bunt him as much as possible. I just knew last night he was going to hit into a double play. At this point he looks like another Kulikowski mis eval.

A lot of the guys in the lineup are not even scrappy guys. There ABs are not great. They're not fouling balls off and fighting it's just bad pitch selection. We have two starters that strike out over 30% of the time and 5 that strike out in the 20s...

To me the lineup needs to be Ogden, Galvin, Cuvet, Dorian, Marsh and having to put Dorian in the 4 hole means once again our offense sucks.

The pitcher they threw at us was basic. I don't think he hit 90 and I saw so many 88 mph fastballs right down the middle of the plate. He hasn't made it 5 innings all year got knocked out of the game by FAU in 3 innings.
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Our best? He threw three freshman.... We didn't throw one veteran yesterday and the freshman showed they can continue to be relied on. Instead of saying they are the best. Flip that and say we threw three freshman and they showed they are as good as anyone in our bullpen. Again the way you say things has a negative tune when its the complete opposite. We threw our two best guys with potential sure, Did we throw our best bullpen arms? no brother
 
TaylorWalls said:
JD Arteaga is the head baseball coach. The baseball team lost to a 2-7 northern team. The baseball team will struggle to get into the postseason. Arteaga doesn’t get a pass just because the pitching wasn’t terrible last night. He is the head coach. That encompasses the entire program, which lost again.
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What are you talking about? We have three losses and lost to a team that has played top40 competition in all 11 of their games. Again its not that hard to do research. Once again your hate toward JD and your bias is affecting your thinking..... They are the #4 SOS for a reason. They haven't been up north like Niagara....

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canecountry3 said:
Sounds like this Marrero kid has a personal bias towards Arteaga.
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I can careless who the coach is. Just don't come in here after one loss and say he sucks? What did he do yesterday that makes you come in here and say he sucks? Again i think you need to flip that and say people in this chat have an hatred and bias toward JD.
 
ErickMarreroU said:
Again your hate towards JD is blinding you from your bias Guy is trash how? we are 11-3 two of our losses are from 1 inning collapses? I think you just follow what the trend is and that is to hate on JD, You can't give an explanation. They lose one game and you say He's trash.... Ill see you at the end of the year when were in a regional and maybe even hosting.... I wonder what you will say next? First he cant develop pitching? we have a top5 pitching staff in the country..........
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If you read Lance and Sebastian's posts in this thread, they are pretty damning, agreed with by Canesfreak. The three of them are just too nice or well balanced to call out JD more harshly -- but their concerns + examples = Miami needs a better head coach.
 
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Angry Ibis said:
If you read Lance and Sebastian's posts in this thread, they are pretty damning, agreed with by Canesfreak. The three of them are just too nice or well balanced to call out JD more harshly -- but their concerns + examples = Miami needs a better head coach.
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Brother we're not getting another coach.... We will be in a regional and maybe host? Why because we have elite pitching. Pitching will win us series, if we had bats we would be the one of the top teams in the nation. But unfortunately, all we have is pitching this season.
 
ErickMarreroU said:
Brother we're not getting another coach.... We will be in a regional and maybe host? Why because we have elite pitching. Pitching will win us series, if we had bats we would be the one of the top teams in the nation. But unfortunately, all we have is pitching this season.
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And that is on JD...

And not getting another coach is because Miami is not serious about college athletics. Unfortunately for die hard fans and alumni.
 
ErickMarreroU said:
Brother we're not getting another coach.... We will be in a regional and maybe host? Why because we have elite pitching. Pitching will win us series, if we had bats we would be the one of the top teams in the nation. But unfortunately, all we have is pitching this season.
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Erick, FSU fired Meat (whose father has a statue outside of FSU’s stadium), after he took them to 2 consecutive regionals because they knew they could get Link. Is simply making it to a regional enough? If that is the new standard, something is radically wrong.
 
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Canesfreak said:
Erick, FSU fired Meat (whose father has a statue outside of FSU’s stadium), after he took them to 2 consecutive regionals because they knew they could get Link. Is simply making it to a regional enough? If that is the new standard, something is radically wrong.
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It shouldn’t be. Sneaking in as a three seed would still our 4th worst season in decades and substantially worse than any of Gino’s season. Now if we make it in comfortably and are say 6th-8th place in the ACC, that would constitute reasonable progress.
 
ErickMarreroU said:
Our best? He threw three freshman.... We didn't throw one veteran yesterday and the freshman showed they can continue to be relied on. Instead of saying they are the best. Flip that and say we threw three freshman and they showed they are as good as anyone in our bullpen. Again the way you say things has a negative tune when its the complete opposite. We threw our two best guys with potential sure, Did we throw our best bullpen arms? no brother
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Clearly our best are the freshman. One should be given a shot at starting and one is prob the closer with Smith as the setup. Next is Ciscar another fresh. But your statement makes a lot of sense to me, Coach isn't making bullpen calls based on effectiveness or stuff, it's how many avg seasons you have under your belt that counts.
 
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