Baseball 2016

Yeah, BYU whooped up on Utah! 14-3 final score! My boss is taking notice of BYU baseball and even watched part of the game last night! I like this from our coach:

"We don't understate the fact that Utah is a big game for us," Littlewood said. "We're not afraid to say this is a huge game, maybe the biggest one on the schedule, and we have to win this game because that's the way we feel. Maybe if we shy away from it, then we don't have as much emotion."

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Just lost our #2 starter. Big loss for the team.

So who do you all think will get drafted off this team?



I think for sure

Rucker

Shaver

Lund



Anyone else?

Who is eligible? Do they have to be a junior or a certain age? I don't remember the rules. The coach said that he think Rucker will be gone.

BYU's bats have abandoned them. Their pitching was never that strong and now the bats aren't compensating. BYU baseball is returning to the lowly level at which they usually perform.

SpiffCoug wrote:
BYU's bats have abandoned them. Their pitching was never that strong and now the bats aren't compensating. BYU baseball is returning to the lowly level at which they usually perform.

This post may have been a bit premature. I was watching the game and something told me not to give up on them, even after they fell behind 4-0 in the 9th inning. Watching the 5-run 9th was the most fun I've had watching Cougar Sports in a while. Never say die!

Big win. We have the tie breaker on them now and are in first place in the standings?

scott715 wrote:
Who is eligible? Do they have to be a junior or a certain age? I don't remember the rules. The coach said that he think Rucker will be gone.

Players can be drafted right out of HS. For players who choose to go to college the MLB then has to wait two years before they are again eligible to be drafted. So basically, anyone who just finished their sophomore year or older can be drafted. A lot of times sophomores will choose to stay in school. Juniors usually go because they lose a lot of leverage in their contract negotiations if they wait until they're a senior.

I thought it was three years in college if you were drafted out of HS but decided to go to college.

SpiffCoug wrote:
I thought it was three years in college if you were drafted out of HS but decided to go to college.

I believe that rule is only for the NFL.

Ok, I just checked the MLB website. The rule for college players is either 21 years old or completed jr. year. Sophomores at BYU tend to be older than 21. However, this may disqualify Colton Shaver since he didn't go on a mission. So good news for BYU there.

Tonight was a nice exciting come from behind win in the 9th. We will be in the WCC 4 team playoff. Fighting GU for 1st place. Tomorrow is the last regular season game.

We won again last night though I did not see the game. The ESPN3 would not let me login. I have had a lot of issues with that. We are currently tied with GU for first and we have the tie breaker on them. SM plays today. They need to lose so that we keep the 1 seed. Next up is a 4 team playoff.

GU RPI 29, BYU 47, SM 71.

Good job Cougars! First regular season conference championship since 2001. I like having Gonzaga first instead of St. Mary's so we don't have to face that pitcher from SMC projected to go in the first or second round of the draft next month.

Gonzaga has the best RPI in the WCC.



Who will print our Co-Co-Champions shirts!?

Mars wrote:
Gonzaga has the best RPI in the WCC.



Who will print our Co-Co-Champions shirts!?

Sure, as a team the zags have a higher RPI. but as BlueK pointed out, SMC's pitcher is incredible. Also glad to be facing the zags.

Season over! They were pretty bad against Gonzaga tonight. Strikeout after strikeout (17, to be exact). There's no way after that performance that they get an at-large bid. Okay, they still have a chance in the losers bracket, but not really. Remember, they lost two out of three to both the other teams.

SkystheLimit wrote:
Season over! They were pretty bad against Gonzaga tonight. Strikeout after strikeout. There's no way after that performance and that early an exit that they get an at-large bid.

Agreed, ugly way to end the year.

This has been BYU's story this year, pretty good and exciting at times but ultimately too flashy and too little substance.

Same old, same old for BYU athletics this season...*sigh*