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Previous Posts Monday – Departing Players Tuesday – Returning Players Wednesday – Incoming Players We’ve talked enough about the players themselves, so it’s time to look at who they’ll be playing. Louisiana Out-of-Conference Opponents Now, you know I couldn’t go a full week without making a chart: Louisiana-Lafayette The first thing that probably jumps out […]

Previous Posts Monday – Departing Players Tuesday – Returning Players — ♫ Should I stay or should I go? ♫ The Clash probably weren’t thinking about Louisiana Tech’s baseball roster construction when writing that song. Because if they were, they forgot one important part of the process: the players that decided to come to Tech.

Previous Posts Monday – Departing Players Yesterday, we talked about the players from 2019 that won’t be in a Tech jersey in 2020. And there were quite a few. But Tech brings back a roster full of talent including most of last year’s starting position players and some key pieces out of the bullpen that

In the 2020 season, Tech baseball faces one of the biggest challenges it has ever encountered. Without a ballpark to truly call home, a daunting schedule, and key pieces lost to graduation, the Diamond Dogs will attempt to live up to the standard that Greg Goff set in 2016: make an NCAA Regional. Over the

315 to left. 370 to left-center. 385 to straightaway. 340 to the scoreboard in right-center. 325 to the foul pole in right. The tornado that ripped through Ruston in the early hours of April 25th destroyed J.C. Love Field beyond repair. The roof crumbled, the scoreboard fell, and the structure was eventually condemned. But what

If the 2018-19 basketball season had a theme, it would be road losses. The Dunkin’ Dawgs lost ten of their fourteen games away from the Thomas Assembly Center. And only one of those victories came when it counted the most: conference play. It’s fortunate that curse didn’t rub off on the baseball program, because 12

A Hit By Pitch (HBP) is about as ordinary of a baseball stat as you can get. It’s often listed in the box score alongside other classics like the Walk, Batting Average, or my favorite, the Blown Save (mostly because of its abbreviation, BS). A HBP works exactly how it sounds: if a pitch makes

How Tech Lost to Rice There were a lot of (warranted) complaints about the umpire for Tech’s first game of the 2018 tournament. I don’t fault the up as much as I fault Tech’s response to his strike zone. The umpire today/yesterday was calling a “tight” zone. Which means that if a pitch is a

In these short posts, we’ll go into a little detail about each of Tech’s Biloxi opponents. The thought is to give you an idea of how Tech matches up against each squad. We’ll start with the oppening round match-up: Rice.

After taking two of three from Southern Miss last weekend, Tech has aligned itself well to get an at-large bid into the NCAA Regionals. This is hardly guaranteed, though. Tech still needs two or three wins this weekend and a couple more in Biloxi next weekend to have a real shot. This thin margin for