re: Baseball - Pre-Season Assumptions vs Reality

I think you are pretty spot on from a on the field perspective. I think a lot of these on the field issues can be attributed to lack of leadership and mental toughness. For all these kids the talent is there, they just can’t put it together to win a tight game. This team has no backbone, no one to fall on when the game is close. Part of this is that every game we play right now is do or die so everyone is pressing, but we played ourselves into that. I can think of 4-5 games that we should have won and lost because of little errors/dumb mistakes. Assuming you win those, we beat Fla, Vandy, Bama in series’ with our series losses coming at State, Arky, and Tenn. we would be hosting and could play our way into a Nat’l seed with that resume based on this weekend and Hoover. Just a weak, soft team.

Meant to respond to OP.

Edit: The softness can really be seen on the amount of Sundays we have been 10 runned. That’s just inexcusable.