Wanna hear a frustrating part? Ole Miss leads the SEC in batting average in conference play. We are, however, 2nd to last in HR's. This team is a bunch of smaller guys that aren't power hitters. 

I wonder where Ole Miss is ranked at leaving men on base.

After doing some searching, I could not find college baseball stats for LOB, but I did find this about LOB:

LOB can be a very circumstantial statistic on a game-by-game basis.  But the best
teams are usually good at finding a way to get runners home once they've reached base.

M.D. Still wrote:

How many times this year have we loaded the bases and gotten one or none out of it?   A lot I know because I've witnessed it.  We were pretty good at one time in regards to scoring with two outs.  Now, we can get men on with no outs and come up empty.

That about sums it up. So many times we've had a golden opportunity to put a game away, and then these kids see a breaking ball and it's almost like it's the first time in their entire life. Next thing you know, a couple of K's and a ground out, and the opportunity is over. 

Watching this team, we strike out an absurd amount of times. Last night, Little Rock had some kid take the mound with an astronomical ERA and he ended up striking out the side by just throwing curve balls. What ever happened to teaching situational hitting? You got 2 strikes on ya - choke up on the bat, widen your stance, and put the ball in play. It's frustrating to see these kids not being taught basics like that. 

Our bullpen continues to be a nightmare. I understand that Bianco was a catcher, but maybe - just maybe - hire a pitching coach that wasn't a catcher with someone that was actually a pitcher. Wes Burton is infuriating to see pitch. He gets up there on the mound, acts like he's demon possessed, has the worst mechanics I have seen, and can hardly throw any strikes. Why hasn't the pitching coach sat him down and worked on those mechanics and gotten him to calm the hell down on the mound? 

Bianco needs to shake up his staff, badly, after this season. 

MeridianOMRebel wrote:

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Bianco needs to shake up his staff, badly, after this season. 

Most likely Bianco will do nothing with his staff.  He generally hires "yes" men who will jump when he says jump and micromanages ever aspect of his staff.  It is just frustrating to have a high ranking, have high expectations, start the seasons strong, only to have the bubble burst as the team enters SEC play showing they just cannot consistently compete with good competition.