2018 season thread

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Mon May 07, 2018 3:54 pm

Agreed on what Hater said. It comes down to these three series with teams right below each other in the standings. Win thse 3 and go 8-3 and we are in as a 3 or 4 seed I would think.

Pitching has been outstanding. Have to wonder where we go from here as after Rivas, Salazar, Deason an Flynn go (they were all recruited by Lopez but signed by JJ) we will then have a roster of all JJ recruits.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Mon May 07, 2018 8:26 pm

http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/bas ... acketology" target="_blank

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Mon May 07, 2018 8:35 pm

Irish27 wrote:http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/bas ... acketology

In NC vs 3 teams from NC.....nice.

Coop Cat · Post by **Coop Cat** » Tue May 08, 2018 12:28 pm

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Tue May 08, 2018 12:34 pm

I can't for the life of me understand Law's infatuation with our pitching.

prh · Post by **prh** » Tue May 08, 2018 2:12 pm

Coop Cat wrote:

And I regret to inform you that Keith Law is still a shitty sports reporter. Well espn fired him so he's not even that anymore.

But on a serious note, who fucking cares? These are college kids, they are getting 6 days of rest, and they most likely threw 120+ pitches a few times in HS anyways. Unless they are throwing 140 every single start then what the the fucking problem?

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Tue May 08, 2018 6:58 pm

That's literally the first time any pitcher on roster has gone over 110 pitches this year. The hard on he has for us is strange to say the least.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue May 08, 2018 7:01 pm

Keith Law has devolved into somewhat of a joke.

Jefe · Post by **Jefe** » Wed May 09, 2018 3:01 pm

ALASKACAT · Post by **ALASKACAT** » Fri May 11, 2018 10:48 pm

Cal 9 Ariz 3. final. Cats left 15 people on base. Check out the inning by inning play by play here: http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=203784" target="_blank Cats had loads of people in scoring position with less than two out thru out the contest but seemed to either strike out or ground into double plays continually.

RichardCranium · Post by **RichardCranium** » Sat May 12, 2018 12:31 am

Jefe wrote:

Wow, I remember when Hi Corbett had a 3 foot high chain link fence in the outfield. And the infield is looking about a million times better than I ever remembered.

That's looking sweet now-a-days.

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Sat May 12, 2018 6:24 am

ALASKACAT wrote:Cal 9 Ariz 3. final. Cats left 15 people on base. Check out the inning by inning play by play here: http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=203784" target="_blank Cats had loads of people in scoring position with less than two out thru out the contest but seemed to either strike out or ground into double plays continually.

Jesus.

We lose this series and it greatly jeopardizes our chances of getting into the tourney.

ALASKACAT · Post by **ALASKACAT** » Sat May 12, 2018 11:43 pm

Game two: Cal 16 Ariz 6. Offense very efficient; (Check out third inning 4 runs on 1 hit.) Pitching and defense let us down. http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=203785" target="_blank Let's face it: If this team makes a regional it will be a short stay....road record is abysmal.

prh · Post by **prh** » Sun May 13, 2018 6:33 am

Does this season feel like 2011 to anyone else? Have the talent to win a lot but just can’t do it consistently

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Sun May 13, 2018 2:01 pm

What sucks is Arizona has finally found a Sunday starter in Aguilera and it may all be for not.

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Sun May 13, 2018 3:29 pm

Welp they're going to be swept by Cal and in turn have likely eliminated themselves from making the tourney. The consistency or lack there of has just been awful.

RynoatSecond · Post by **RynoatSecond** » Sun May 13, 2018 10:19 pm

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...

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Mon May 14, 2018 2:33 pm

If they finished 16-14 and in 4th place I think they get in but I am not sure they can get that. Most teams do miss the tourney every other year but was hoping for more I guess from JJ's recruiting

RynoatSecond · Post by **RynoatSecond** » Thu May 17, 2018 9:44 am

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 biased against west coast schools. So what's better than RPI? ISR, which is Iterative Strength rating. It goes infinite levels deep looking at rather than just two. In fact, this is what the AIA uses for their rankings in all Arizona high school sports because it is so far superior mathematically, but the NCAA uses the archaic RPI. Wonderful.

In case you're wondering, Arizona is 35th by ISR, which would probably be comfortably in the tournament, as opposed to sitting on the fence at 44th in RPI. Look up almost every Pac-12 team on boydsworld.com and you see the same thing: RPI hates the west coast!

KillerKlown · Post by **KillerKlown** » Thu May 17, 2018 9:57 pm

RynoatSecond wrote: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 biased against west coast schools. So what's better than RPI? ISR, which is Iterative Strength rating. It goes infinite levels deep looking at rather than just two. In fact, this is what the AIA uses for their rankings in all Arizona high school sports because it is so far superior mathematically, but the NCAA uses the archaic RPI. Wonderful.

In case you're wondering, Arizona is 35th by ISR, which would probably be comfortably in the tournament, as opposed to sitting on the fence at 44th in RPI. Look up almost every Pac-12 team on boydsworld.com and you see the same thing: RPI hates the west coast!

Interesting. I'll definitely give it a look.
Thanks

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Fri May 18, 2018 4:59 am

Cats win game 1 6-4. If we win this series we win the Territorial Cup series for the first time in 5 years.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Fri May 18, 2018 10:11 pm

Bottom of the 8th, 8-5 Scummies.

Rally time

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat May 19, 2018 8:03 pm

9-9, bottom of the ninth.

Let's go!

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat May 19, 2018 8:13 pm

Extra innings

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat May 19, 2018 8:43 pm

Bottom of the 11th, still tied at 9.

FINISH THEM!

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat May 19, 2018 8:53 pm

Cats win! Cats win! Cats win!

Newportcat · Post by **Newportcat** » Sat May 19, 2018 8:53 pm

Nice win!

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat May 19, 2018 8:58 pm

The last three runs were all scored on ASU errors LOL

LF drops the ball:

RF boots the ball:

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Sat May 19, 2018 8:59 pm

Territorial cup series is ours

Newportcat · Post by **Newportcat** » Sat May 19, 2018 9:05 pm

scumdevils86 wrote:Territorial cup series is ours

One big positive of the start of the Heeke reign

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Sat May 19, 2018 9:41 pm

Lead the conference in attendance in basketball and football and probably softball. Another 6k crowd tonight?

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Sun May 20, 2018 6:01 am

So as of this moment we're 47th in the RPI and our final opponent, Oregon, is 88th. Basically we can't lose a single game in Eugene if we want any chance of getting into the tournament and even then our odds are blah at best.

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Sun May 20, 2018 7:25 am

JJ said out OOC RPI was 11th. That has to give us some hope if we only win two of three. Seems the PAC is arguably the second best conference in America yet so many of the team's have questionable RPI's

RynoatSecond · Post by **RynoatSecond** » Sun May 20, 2018 2:29 pm

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 get anybody like that sneaking in in the Pac-12 and with the RPI biased against the Pac-12, it's rough.

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Sun May 20, 2018 2:35 pm

Pac 12 baseball tournament is in the works. May just be the top 4-6 teams though and it'll be located in Sacramento.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Mon May 21, 2018 1:23 pm

First Five Out: Arizona, Troy, Louisiana Tech, Michigan, Louisiana

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Mon May 21, 2018 1:24 pm

Randy Labaut, who was our sunday starter prior to having surgery will be back for our Oregon series. If we can sneak into the tournament having him back will be absolutely huge.

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Mon May 21, 2018 1:27 pm

azgreg wrote:
First Five Out: Arizona, Troy, Louisiana Tech, Michigan, Louisiana

They have Washington in over us? We're #47 in the RPI and they're #71. They did sweep us this year, but wow that's a stretch.

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Mon May 21, 2018 1:57 pm

Illinois and UDub in with RPI's below us. I think both Cal and AZ should be in (assuming we sweep this week)

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Thu May 24, 2018 10:30 pm

Heading to the bottom of the 9th in Eugene.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Thu May 24, 2018 11:10 pm

Cats win game one 10-2

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Thu May 24, 2018 11:18 pm

Geeze there's literally like 12 people in that stadium

MrBug708 · Post by **MrBug708** » Fri May 25, 2018 6:33 am

Softball outdraws Baseball right now in Eugene. Most of the fans want Horton gone, but he's getting one more year before his contract is up/retired

prh · Post by **prh** » Fri May 25, 2018 6:42 am

This is an obvious reminder of how much of a front-running fanbase Oregon is. Remember that baseball was supposed to be the hot new thing up there. That stadium is new, I'm pretty sure they sell beer, it's next to Autzen so it's easy to get to and park, and yet they suddenly don't care.

Now softball has a new facility, but whenever they drop out of the top 25 for a bit, that will go back down too. Hell they had trouble filling Autzen the last couple years.

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Fri May 25, 2018 10:07 pm

Baseball team was down 2-1 with the bases jacked and no outs in the 9th. Take a guess how it ended? Yep we walked away with nothing. That will eliminate us from the tourney.

Newportcat · Post by **Newportcat** » Sat May 26, 2018 6:29 am

ChooChooCat wrote:Baseball team was down 2-1 with the bases jacked and no outs in the 9th. Take a guess how it ended? Yep we walked away with nothing. That will eliminate us from the tourney.

Bad coaching there I feel like

Disappointing year and feel like next year will be worse?

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Sat May 26, 2018 7:37 am

Newportcat wrote:
ChooChooCat wrote:Baseball team was down 2-1 with the bases jacked and no outs in the 9th. Take a guess how it ended? Yep we walked away with nothing. That will eliminate us from the tourney.
Bad coaching there I feel like

Disappointing year and feel like next year will be worse?

Outside of trying for the squeeze I'm not sure what else Jay could've done? His hottest hitter struck out, next guy struck out, and you can't get cute with your last out. Unless of course you're just talking about this season overall was bad coaching. We were in an insane amount of 1 run games and lost the vast majority of them.

We likely lose all our starting pitching, our catcher, our best hitter, and our lead off hitter. There are some good building blocks for the future leftover and a major power hitter in Quintana. Honestly have no idea if the team will be better or worse next year. It'll all depend on the pitching.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat May 26, 2018 9:03 pm

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sat May 26, 2018 9:12 pm

That 2-1 loss last night might make us literally the first team left out of the tournament

Newportcat · Post by **Newportcat** » Sun May 27, 2018 8:03 am

ChooChooCat wrote:
Newportcat wrote:
ChooChooCat wrote:Baseball team was down 2-1 with the bases jacked and no outs in the 9th. Take a guess how it ended? Yep we walked away with nothing. That will eliminate us from the tourney.
Bad coaching there I feel like

Disappointing year and feel like next year will be worse?
Outside of trying for the squeeze I'm not sure what else Jay could've done? His hottest hitter struck out, next guy struck out, and you can't get cute with your last out. Unless of course you're just talking about this season overall was bad coaching. We were in an insane amount of 1 run games and lost the vast majority of them.

We likely lose all our starting pitching, our catcher, our best hitter, and our lead off hitter. There are some good building blocks for the future leftover and a major power hitter in Quintana. Honestly have no idea if the team will be better or worse next year. It'll all depend on the pitching.

How do you not try a squeeze in that situation. Jay loves the squeeze too. Felt like that was poor coaching

We did lose a lot of 1 run games which sucks.

I like Jay a lot but I guess I have really high standards for Arizona baseball. Given all the built in advantages we have (Fantastic baseball weather, fantastic facilities, great high school talent within driving distance of our school, fantastic fan support, fantastic tradition), we should always make the tournament and be a very strong program.

Next year does not feel like we will be that strong

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