Bear Down Wildcats

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I've been checking out the other Pac-12 scores and as a league the Pac-12 is not doing well, too many games lost to teams that have no business beating a Pac-12 school. This part of the year is critical, because once you start playing league games, you just start beating each other up, and the leagu...

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Hopefully they can still pull this one out tonight, but even if they do they still won't have beaten a quality team this season, just beaten up some cupcakes. I don't see this team getting better, more going the other way...

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The pitching can only get better(one would hope), but I think we're underestimating the offense hit of losing guys like Cannon and Quintana, for sure, and possibly Dyer and Fraizer. It is good that other guys got in there and contributed this year, like Dooney and Boissiere. Holgate should be better...

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TCU got in because of their record against Top 50 opponents, which was pretty good. That means they lost to several lousy teams, but the committee doesn't care about that... Duke got in, well.....because they're Duke. Florida State getting in was a gift to Mike Martin, no doubt. Here is a comparison...

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I didn't realize the tournament winners got auto bids. Yeah, we are screwed. Another thing Larry Scott is late to the part on... Exactly right. The Pac-12 should have a tournament this week in Vegas at the Las Vegas Aviators new park. You negotiate a deal to use it for a week while the Aviators are...

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Yeah, I hope I'm wrong but I don't see the Cats getting in. According to Boydsworld this morning, they are 46 RPI, 35 ISR. The ISR is a much more mathematically correct ranking system than RPI, but don't tell the committee that. Yes, the Cats have been red-hot lately (albeit against lousy teams), th...

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Getting that Vainer kid from Alabama for next year may be quite the pickup! In 30 innings this year, he struck out 43 while giving up only 18 hits (that's a NASTY index of 2.39(k's divided by hits)) and a 3.34 ERA, in the SEC no less! Now on the negative, he did walk 21 in those 30 innings, but this...

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The only chance Arizona has to make the tournament is if the NCAA puts a lot of stock in the last 10 games record, provided Arizona can win out. Even if they do that, their ISR/RPI just isn't good enough. The general ranking cut off point each year for making it as an at large team is around 42-44 w...

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Wow, I didn't realize Oregon has lost 10 of their last 11. I looked at a field projection 2-3 weeks ago and they were in, but definitely not now! Sorry I was so off on that.......

Yeah, Cal looks to be in, and maybe Washington has an outside chance.

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Does anyone know why ASU is only coming to Hi Corbett once this year? The "rule" had always been one official 3 game series and then two Tuesday single games over the course of the season at the other park. Not sure what happened this year... This team's offense may be the best I've seen in all the ...

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Here's the link to story on the Oregon series: https://tucson.com/sports/arizonawildcats/baseball/vince-vannelle-s-multisport-background-unique-windup-make-him-ua/article_509c6575-6b86-585f-bd33-81879d46f559.html" target="_blank I thought there was one interesting tidbit about Oregon in there. They ...

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I'd say an under .500 season is a lock at this point. Here's the game story for last night's NMSU game: https://tucson.com/sports/arizonawildcats/baseball/arizona-wildcats-drop-third-straight-falling-to-new-mexico-state/article_62dcf516-6bd1-11e9-ad64-9332c741e50b.html" target="_blank Two points fro...

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I was at tonight's GCU game, another loss....ok, I've had season tickets since 1986 and while I don't make it to all the games, I haven't missed a season opener in that time. Anyway, I have never seen as ineffective a pitching staff as this year's Cats team. The GCU lineup was just teeing off from t...

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Well, I was hoping they could win one game and maybe be competitive in a 2nd, but they got their butt kicked in all three. On the believe it or not good news side of things......their RPI continues to go lower, now 87, while ISR is 68. Goes to show strength of schedule is often more important than g...

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Well, the Cats are now going up to Corvallis to play three against OSU. A very tough task, indeed. What could be considered a good weekend? I would say one win, and keep it close and competitive in one other game. I think it's a virtual lock that at least one will be a OSU blowout win.

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These midweek games will always be dicey for this team because Jay has about 5 pitchers he can trust: Labaut, Nardi, Weems, Flanagan, and Vannelle. Those guys will get the heavy work on the weekends, but Tuesday games are scary.

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This team has been hitting just about all season, they really have an awesome lineup. If they had just had average, or slightly below average, defense and pitching the first half of the season they would be kicking some serious behind. Defense looked really good today on a number of plays and Quinn ...

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It is just one game, but that was the best the Wildcats have looked all season against a quality opponent.

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Interesting tidbits from Boyd's World... Despite Arizona's current 0-7 slide, their RPI has improved! Due to the tough opponents, they are now at 107 when previously they were languishing in the 130's. Just think if they'd won some games... Their ISR (iterative strength rating, which is a much more ...

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The Terry Francona hitting center seems to be working pretty well. Now we need a Scott Erickson pitching center and maybe a Kenny Lofton/Trevor Hoffman fielding center...........something, jeepers.... What did they give up, 14, 15 walks to ASU today? Unbelievable! Here's the problem. Nobody on the s...

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It will be interesting to me to see the attendance at Hi Corbett this coming weekend. UofA baseball is the only game in town, but this is extremely discouraging. Washington is coming in and while they are not part of the big 4 (OSU,ASU,UCLA,Stanford), they are still pretty good. Doubt we'll get more...

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Sure sounded like there were a lot of UA fans at Jackie Robinson Stadium Friday night. Unfortunately, after the nice start in the first, not much to get too happy about.

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Great job by Flanagan, needed so much given the bullpen collapse the night before. I was just hoping Jay wouldn't go to the bullpen up 8-0, and he didn't thankfully. Give Quinn six days of rest and run him back out there next Saturday. Cannon is unbelievable right now, Williams doing a great job in ...

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Well, to cite an example, in previous years teams, there is no way a young man like George Arias Jr. would be pitching right now. Andy Lopez did recruit local talent as good as, or better than, him and those kids found out quickly they needed to transfer because they weren't going to pitch a lick, t...

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It's pretty clear that Arizona has people pitching right now who have no business pitching on a Division 1 team. I don't know what happened with recruiting and signing JUCO guys, but a lot of the guys they are running out there right now would not have been considered Arizona Pac-12 quality in the p...

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I love the Cats lineup, even though Quintana is really struggling, the rest of the lineup is really dangerous. Problem is clearly the pitching. Interesting contrast between how Jay Johnson runs his staff vs Andy Lopez. Before the season started, Andy would typically identify his #1, 2, and 3 starter...

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It was a nice win for the Cats, lots of good hitting and pitching by Weems and Collins.

I like Cannon, nice player, can swing the stick, but hopefully Jay has seen the light and will no longer play him at short. 3 more errors there tonight, ouch!

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According to boydsworld.com the Cats current RPI is 193! Terrible! About the only chance they have of making the tournament is to win the Pac-12, because they've been losing a bunch of games to teams they should be crushing.

BTW, Umass-Lowell is 0-10 and ranked 222. Oh boy...

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Sumlin's defense of his 2-point attempts was ridiculous. "The 'statistics' said go for it, we had to get to an even number".....uhh, what? I AM a statistician, have been for my entire career, and that is one of the most moronic things I've ever heard with "statistics". There are two time-tested trui...

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Tanner said that having a sub .500 record in conference was an important factor. Amazing how different the basketball committee is compared to the baseball committee in this regard. That's exactly what I was thinking! Arizona State gets in the NCAA men's basketball tournament despite a horrible sho...

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You can finally watch it, it's on now 5:31PM....espn3 website or app

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I'm trying to watch the game right now and it doesn't appear to be on anywhere, including espn3....what gives?!?

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What the Pac-12 needs is a conference tournament for baseball. Every other major conference has one. Why is it important? If somebody can get hot for a week and win the tournament, that's another possible tourney bid that might not be there otherwise, just like the basketball tournament. We don't ge...

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Hearing Jay Johnson's interview yesterday on tucson.com, he realizes all too well how much on the fence they are in regards to the NCAA tournament. The committee loves the RPI, which never favors the west coast teams. In fact, I saw a paper someone wrote a year or two ago, explaining how the RPI is ...

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As awesome as taking 2 of 3 from Oregon State and sweeping UCLA was, these road performances have been equally bad on the other end of the spectrum: swept at Washington, lost 2 of 3 to Utah, swept at Cal. Ouch! 7 games left. I'm not sure that winning all 7 of them even gets the Cats in at this point...

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Awesome win, great series! Really positive coverage on the Pac-12 network for Jay and the boys! They still have a lot of work to do, but this series shows they are more than capable of doing it. Go Cats!

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Huge series for Arizona coming up this week. They play at New Mexico Monday, a mediocre team, but then they host the Oregon State Beavers for 3 at Hi Corbett. I think they need to take 3 of 4 this week to keep post-season hopes alive. The Cats took care of business against Nicholls this week, but no...

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Nice to see Quintana break out today with a homerun and other hits, he really struggled Saturday night, coming up empty with RISP. 2-4 in conference, ideally would have been at least 4-2, considering the tough part of the schedule is coming up: Oregon State, UCLA, and Stanford all look very tough th...

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Just reading that link about Randy Labaut, had no idea what Compartment Syndrome was. Scary serious. Pray and hope for the best for a quick recovery for the young man.

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They exploded for 14 runs tonight against New Mexico State, but the Aggies RPI is not very good so that probably didn't help much. Hopefully, they keep swinging it against Wazzu this weekend. They need a sweep.

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Boyd's World estimates that Arizona needs to win 27-29 of their last 37 games to make the top 45 in RPI, a common cut off point for an at-large selection.

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Hate to say it, but I think Arizona's chances of making the NCAA tournament this year are just about nil, and it's only March 20th. They are 111th in RPI and 92nd in ISR (Boyd's world). They basically have to win the Pac-12 to have a chance, and they are already 0-3. Not good! Does anyone know why t...

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I was lucky enough to have missed the Ben Lindsey year, but unfortunately, it may be pretty darn ugly later this year. McKale Center 1/2 to 2/3 full...... the dynasty is dead. Anybody have any potential coaching prospects who can get us back on track quickly?

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Countdown begins on Miller's resignation announcement.... what's the over/under?

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