Pitt Baseball #14

[TheSpecialSauce]

College Baseball Top 25 Rankings — College Baseball, MLB Draft, Prospects - Baseball America

Texas A&M remains No. 1 in our College Baseball Top 25 rankings, plus two new teams enter the list following strong weekends.

www.baseballamerica.com

 

[CMUandPitt]

Top 5 is all SEC. Is that typical?

 

[mike412]

Top 5 is all SEC. Is that typical?

Miami was in the top 5, but FSU swept them over the weekend, and all three games were one-sided. Meanwhile, 8 ACC teams in the Top 25.

I think the rankings are skewed against the West Coast teams. Lots of good pitching out here, not just in the PAC-12 but teams like Fullerton, Long Beach State, San Diego State, etc. The best teams tend to have more losses because they will run into a potential top draft choice on the mound once a week.

 

[Ronnyp91]

Top 5 is all SEC. Is that typical?

FWIW, looks like 10 SEC teams made the 2019 tournament and 4 of them advanced to Omaha with Vandy winning it all.

 

[ThePanthers]

SEC is a strong baseball conference.

 

[pittchagg]

Franks!

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

SEC is a strong baseball conference.

It's easily the best baseball conference in the country. Whomever is in second isn't even close.

 

[ThePanthers]

It's easily the best baseball conference in the country. Whomever is in second isn't even close.

Yep. Acc is pretty damn good but sec is at the top.

 

[JD1976]

Baseball America put out an NCAA projection today and they have Pitt hosting one of the 16 regionals. It’s behind a paywall or I would link it.

 

[ButtPilgrim2]

Baseball America put out an NCAA projection today and they have Pitt hosting one of the 16 regionals. It’s behind a paywall or I would link it.

Geeze oh man. Could you imagine? Hopefully they can maintain this.

 

[TJFAIRLIE]

That would be awesome, and makes sense.

The field is gorgeous, and the broadcast quality from Cost field is really, really good.

Great camera work with multiple angles, and replay with zoom that we haven’t seen from the ACC broadcasts when they were on the road.

Baseball America put out an NCAA projection today and they have Pitt hosting one of the 16 regionals. It’s behind a paywall or I would link it.

 

[ThePanthers]

Pitt up 10-6 in the 6th. The new field pops nicely.

 

[ThePanthers]

Up 14-6 in the 7th.

 

[mike412]

14-6 now. I’m amazed they can track distance and exit velocity on home runs. They said Yanni’s grand slam went 409 feet with an Exit velocity of 96 mph. I’m assuming that is something Pitt installed.

 

[TheSpecialSauce]

17-9 Pitt
Yanni - 7 RBI
Top of 9

 

[mike412]

Btw, this weekend they didn’t use the away uniforms with the Panther-head logo on them. (The one I don’t like.) So, they obviously have at least 4 different road uniforms. There could be more combinations if they mix and match the blue and grey.

I assume they have at least that many home uniforms. Hopefully, we will see them all soon. I do like the home unis today.

 

[mike412]

17-9 final.

 

[pittchagg]

Btw, this weekend they didn’t use the away uniforms with the Panther-head logo on them. (The one I don’t like.) So, they obviously have at least 4 different road uniforms. There could be more combinations if they mix and match the blue and grey.

I assume they have at least that many home uniforms. Hopefully, we will see them all soon. I do like the home unis today.

I think they wore the same ones they normally do. Game 1 is the gray “Panthers” script with the gray hat, game 2 is the gray “P” with the blue and yellow hat, and game 3 is the blue Pitt script with the blue and yellow hat. Everything was just pushed back a day.

I’d guess for home games it’d be the white “P” they wore today, the white “Panthers” script with the white hats, and then the blue Pitt script just with white pants.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

I’m amazed they can track distance and exit velocity on home runs. They said Yanni’s grand slam went 409 feet with an Exit velocity of 96 mph. I’m assuming that is something Pitt installed.

I would be amazed if there was a program in one of the higher level conferences that doesn't have that ability.

If they don't, they are falling way behind the times.

 

[CMUandPitt]

17-9 final.

Might have preferred 13-9.

 

[TheSpecialSauce]

Might have preferred 13-9.

We’ll reserve that score for when we play WV.

 

[HOF Coach]

 

[pittchagg]

Nitpicking here, but I think they should switch the Friday and Sunday hats. The white crown/blue bill would look sharp with the blue jerseys, while the all-blue would give the otherwise all-white Fridays some color. Same for the road Friday/Sundays.

 

[gary2]

Not talking about today’s game, but for those of you that watch a lot of Pitt baseball, how well do you think Pitt runs the. Bases?

 

[ThePanthers]

Lost to vt today 5-1. Need to win at least one in this series.

 

[Black Panther]

Why is the centerfield camera panned so far back?It needs to be zoomed in a bit.

 

[Black Panther]

Why is there such a shortage on announcers for these games as well? None for volleyball either.Kinda sad really.

 

[TheSpecialSauce]

Why is there such a shortage on announcers for these games as well? None for volleyball either.Kinda sad really.

Agreed - poor production.

 

[Black Panther]

Agreed - poor production.

And it’s not that this is new.They have had a couple years to get the bugs worked out.

 

[Black Panther]

Are you hearing what sounds like air leaking out of a hot air ballon? I’m not on my best tv to watch today.

 

[ThePanthers]

I didn't notice the announcer thing until this year. Wasn't sure if it was a covid thing or not. I thought there were announcers at every game regardless last year. I could definitely be wrong. I'm watching the softball game right now. It's on the main acc network so everything is good.

 

[Black Panther]

Baseball is down 4-1 to vt mid 6th.I know what your saying but they have been streaming games long before accx.And yes they had no announcers then but maybe you’re right it’s a coved thing.

 

[ThePanthers]

Yeah baseball struggling against the hokies this weekend.

 

[ThePanthers]

The second softball game only on accnx is pooh. Don't know if they are shortstaffed with the baseball game and having to do the fsu and unc volleyball game, but I don't remember the production being this simplistic over the past 2 or 3 years.

 

[ThePanthers]

Also the baseball team better win tomorrow. Losing 4 in a row after getting highest ranking in program history would suck and the schedule gets no easier.

 

[Black Panther]

8-1 vt bottom 9th.

 

[ThePanthers]

Lost 8-4. Have to pick up a win tomorrow

 

[Black Panther]

Lost 8-4. Have to pick up a win tomorrow

They made a little game of it.I had to read the base runners to see if we hit the hr or not.How hard would it have been to switch to high home camera when the ball was put into play?

 

[bwh05]

Haven’t hit in this series.

 

[OH Pete]

I would be amazed if there was a program in one of the higher level conferences that doesn't have that ability.

If they don't, they are falling way behind the times.

True. My sons club has Hittrax which tracks exit velocity and launch angle and estimates the distance. If youth clubs have that, D1 ACC programs certainly have it.