We all know about our pitching woes due to injuries but what about our hitting woes in Tracy's seventh season at ASU..??
These are PAC team hitting stats starting with RBI totals to date, followed by slugging percentage, followed by team hitting averages...
1) AU = 223 team RBI, .499 slugging percentage, and .321 team batting average
2) OSU = 164 team RBI, .450 slugging percentage, and .297 team batting average
3) Wazzu = 151 + .434 + .290
4) UCLA = 149 + .411 + .275
5) Stanford = 148 + .476 + .288
6) Oregon = 120 + .423 + .268
7) ASU = 118 + .414 + .281
We should note that teams have played different amount of games to a small degree and some have played more challenging games, than other teams, to date but I think there is enough data in so far to say that these trends will most probably hold throughout the rest of the season...
I wonder why with all the talent the Devils supposedly have they are not more offensively proficient in Tracy's seventh year at ASU, compared especially to Jay Johnson's sixth year at AU...
There will be the "Yeah But" replies from some of the board members and they will be justified to one degree or another but the hard reality for me, since we are destined to finish in the bottom half to bottom third of the conference, without enough wins to make the playoffs, that this all comes down to program leadership...
All teams go through cycles, both good and bad, but the Sun Devil cycles under Tracy, so far, seem to be pretty poor, especially this being his seventh season, compared to say the Cats and other teams in the PAC...
I'll leave it at that...Go Devils!!!
These are PAC team hitting stats starting with RBI totals to date, followed by slugging percentage, followed by team hitting averages...
1) AU = 223 team RBI, .499 slugging percentage, and .321 team batting average
2) OSU = 164 team RBI, .450 slugging percentage, and .297 team batting average
3) Wazzu = 151 + .434 + .290
4) UCLA = 149 + .411 + .275
5) Stanford = 148 + .476 + .288
6) Oregon = 120 + .423 + .268
7) ASU = 118 + .414 + .281
We should note that teams have played different amount of games to a small degree and some have played more challenging games, than other teams, to date but I think there is enough data in so far to say that these trends will most probably hold throughout the rest of the season...
I wonder why with all the talent the Devils supposedly have they are not more offensively proficient in Tracy's seventh year at ASU, compared especially to Jay Johnson's sixth year at AU...
There will be the "Yeah But" replies from some of the board members and they will be justified to one degree or another but the hard reality for me, since we are destined to finish in the bottom half to bottom third of the conference, without enough wins to make the playoffs, that this all comes down to program leadership...
All teams go through cycles, both good and bad, but the Sun Devil cycles under Tracy, so far, seem to be pretty poor, especially this being his seventh season, compared to say the Cats and other teams in the PAC...
I'll leave it at that...Go Devils!!!
