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This is not a Top 25 baseball team....

FrogUltimate

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Everyone in LF or DH has terrible #'s. At least Brown has the track record to prove what he is capable of. Having to look over your shoulder after every ab puts a lot of unnecessary pressure on a hitter. Brown needs to be in the lineup every time a right hander takes the mound.
Honestly, if it were up to me, I'd likely go with your approach. Since everyone has failed at DH, he'd be my guy. That being said, I can't fault the staff too much, Brown hasn't done anything to help himself. I really think Petrie at catcher, Byrne at DH is where I'd like to go once Petrie is back
 

Spike

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Everyone in LF or DH has terrible #'s. At least Brown has the track record to prove what he is capable of. Having to look over your shoulder after every ab puts a lot of unnecessary pressure on a hitter. Brown needs to be in the lineup every time a right hander takes the mound.
He's also my GF's favorite player. Maybe because he had like 19 RBIs in the Conference Championship game that we went to in OKC last year. He has definitely shown that he has the ability to play at this level.
 

FrogBall09

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Everyone in LF or DH has terrible #'s. At least Brown has the track record to prove what he is capable of. Having to look over your shoulder after every ab puts a lot of unnecessary pressure on a hitter. Brown needs to be in the lineup every time a right hander takes the mound.
Again - he isn’t good enough defensively to beat out guys hitting sub.200 - what does that tell you about his defense?

He needs to hit his way into the line up and he has not
 

hometown frog

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Everyone in LF or DH has terrible #'s. At least Brown has the track record to prove what he is capable of. Having to look over your shoulder after every ab puts a lot of unnecessary pressure on a hitter. Brown needs to be in the lineup every time a right hander takes the mound.
Pressure!?! Look around the current state of D1 and JUCO ball. EVERYBODY has somebody breathing down their neck trying to take their spot right now. If all players aren’t feeling that pressure they are nuts. Undue pressure due to limited PT isn’t the reason for Browns hitting stats. He’s been in the program for along time now. So the staff knows who he is and what he provides day in and day out at this point.
 

OmniscienceFrog

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I guess we needed another thread on this topic but since the contention is made that TCU is not a Top 25 ball club, I’m wondering which 25 teams are based on the body of work this season to date. And would further be interested in knowing how much college baseball the OP has watched from coast-to-coast to support that contention. While it is beyond debate that TCU did not play good baseball this week, I wonder which 25 D1 baseball teams have dominant pitching, true power hitters who would be so playing more than half their games in Lupton Stadium, and have yet to display inconsistent pitching and hitting. Seems like a description of college baseball.

As for a relatively low scoring team…I guess that’s debatable based on what you want to relate it to. As of today, TCU has the 61st scoring offense in D1 at 7.3 runs per game with another 17 teams within .2 runs per game. No matter, TCU has a better scoring offense to date than Oklahoma State, Kansas State, Baylor, OU, DBU, Florida State, and of course, Kansas. Might I add that TCU is 45th in runs scored with only Texas and Texas Tech ahead of them in the Big 12 (which was completely expected).

What IS concerning to me is that the ERA and WHIP are both in the 80’s in ranking and that cannot happen with three pitching coaches on the staff and when pitching is supposed to be the core of your club. Where I totally agree with 09 is that this is not a “first-year” excusable or expected situation. The school chose “continuity” which I disagreed with at the time and still do. There is no “pass” for performance on offense, pitching, or defense. I can see little evidence of improving the lineup over last year and not sure we should expect different results as I believe last year’s team somewhat over-achieved. Finally, while less definitive than the OP, I also don’t think this is a Top 25 ball team but I can’t say that with certainty as I’ve seen a lot of baseball and every team I’ve seen has holes in it.

I do wonder if Byrne had held on to the ball in the 9th inning of Friday night‘s game and we take that series 2-1 if people would still have hold the same opinions. My opinion has not changed. Good but not great ball team.
I'm not sure the problem is the head coach.
 

SuperTFrog

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Sorry, (W)right over my head.
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hiphopfroggy

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Pressure!?! Look around the current state of D1 and JUCO ball. EVERYBODY has somebody breathing down their neck trying to take their spot right now. If all players aren’t feeling that pressure they are nuts. Undue pressure due to limited PT isn’t the reason for Browns hitting stats. He’s been in the program for along time now. So the staff knows who he is and what he provides day in and day out at this point.
Yes the staff was here last year so like the rest of us they know who he is- he is the reigning Big 12 tournament MVP. It is these other guys getting AB's ahead of him who nobody has any clue who they are.
 

Bob Sugar

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What's frustrating is that it shouldn't be hard to figure out. A good friend of mine used to say, "This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.
 

Froginbedford

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I'm not sure the problem is the head coach.
It has to be the head coach....The head coach caused the 5-7 and 6-6 football seasons...the head coach kept the basketball team out of the NCAA playoffs for the last several years and got the team into the lowly, insignificant, and laughable NIT...this is TCU where dreams die because of the head coach....Retire everyone now....
 
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