Feb 20 vs Towson 1pm ACCNX

[WanderFranco]

Toral tearing it up for FSU lmao can’t make it up

It’s JMU. Toral saw better pitching in high school. No exaggeration.

 

[halocanex]

Gators lose 5-3. Drop series to Liberty.

 

[JohnnyYoung]

Gates listed at 6'2", 230 and looks it, built strong... therefore ain't no chance Garland's listed numbers yesterday are accurate.

 

[scane]

That’s my favorite thing from this weekend. Good to see JP back on the mound

 

[Allabouttheu95]

Tough to beat any team 4 games in a row. Great start to year. McFarlane as our mid week may be a weapon

 

[BP Joe]

Solid day for McFarlane. I’d probably give him the slight edge this weekend over Garland.

62% strikes - good to see. ABs definitely better after game 1. Just hard to gauge how good they were w Towson pitching staff's dreadful control.

 

[TheRichtShow]

Toral tearing it up for FSU lmao can’t make it up

Not surprised, outside of his frosh year here he crushed weaker OOC pitching too. In 2019 he hit like what, 7 HR the 1st 2 weeks?

His issue, outside of being a terrible 1B, has been hitting ACC/SEC level pitching

 

[BP Joe]

Anyone know what injury carlos perez is dealing with? I've seen him come out of the dugout and celebrate HRs. Doesn't look to be anything noticeable

Let's hope it's nothing serious. The best ACC teams appear to have some tough LH starters from the little research I have done.

 

[stoopid311]

Can’t ask for any more than 4-0. Let’s keep it rolling vs FAU on Wednesday. I want to be 8-0 when the Gators come to town

 

[Hurracanes]

Good start to season. Other our ace getting embarrassed, can’t ask for more.

 

[jkdood]

Nice sweep! also nice:
Excluding ranked teams playing each other opening weekend, some of the top 25 had some losses that should very well see us move up from nbr 25:

Fri: nbr 12 E. Carolina loses to Bryant 10-2. nbr 2 Arkansas to Illinois St 3-2. nbr 23 Duke to VMI 10-5 nbr 22 DallasB to SE Mo. 7-6.

Sat: E. Carolina again loses to Bryant 5-4. DallasB again to SE Mo. 6-5. nbr 20 UC-Irvine to Louisiana 7-4. nbr 17 TCU to Calif. 7-6. nbr 9 Florida to Liberty 6-4!

…nbr 14 TexasTech to Aub 2-1. Nbr 6 Stanford to Fullerton 11-0.

Sun (so far) nbr 13 NotreDame to Delaware 5-4. Florida to Liberty again 5-3! UC-Irvine to Louisiana again 5-3. E.Carolina to Bryant again 5-3.

 

[Ajcane8]

Nice sweep! also nice:
Excluding ranked teams playing each other opening weekend, some of the top 25 had some losses that should very well see us move up from nbr 25:

Fri: nbr 12 E. Carolina loses to Bryant 10-2. nbr 2 Arkansas to Illinois St 3-2. nbr 23 Duke to VMI 10-5 nbr 22 DallasB to SE Mo. 7-6.

Sat: E. Carolina again loses to Bryant 5-4. DallasB again to SE Mo. 6-5. nbr 20 UC-Irvine to Louisiana 7-4. nbr 17 TCU to Calif. 7-6. nbr 9 Florida to Liberty 6-4!

…nbr 14 TexasTech to Aub 2-1. Nbr 6 Stanford to Fullerton 11-0.

Sun (so far) nbr 13 NotreDame to Delaware 5-4. Florida to Liberty again 5-3! UC-Irvine to Louisiana again 5-3. E.Carolina to Bryant again 5-3.

Always a good weekend when we sweep and Floriduh drops two.

Gotta love College baseball. The only sport where a “top 15” team (preseason rankings are generally useless, but ECU has been good for a while) can wear the collar against 9 guys from Rhode Island who probably haven’t had an outdoor practice since Halloween.

 

[jkdood]

The sordid history of anti-CANES bias seems to continue...

Florida loses 2 of 3 and drops from 9 to 15 while our 4-0 sweep moves us from 25 to 24. Geesh.

The new D1(ESPN) rankings (bottom-half) selection pasted below (at least they put us ahead of 0-3 E. Carolina!!)

 

[BP Joe]

The sordid history of anti-CANES bias seems to continue...

Florida loses 2 of 3 and drops from 9 to 15 while our 4-0 sweep moves us from 25 to 24. Geesh.

The new D1(ESPN) rankings (bottom-half) selection pasted below (at least they put us ahead of 0-3 E. Carolina!!)

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Agree, but an even bigger SEC bias than anti-Miami IMO. But then, the SEC has won or finished 2nd in 12 of the last 13 CWS.

I follow RPI much closer than these rankings and, of course, those don't start to normalize until well into the season's conference play. Just keep winning and, please, win the UF series at home and take care of business w mid-week games again this year.

 

[rok]

Hopefully the plan is to somehow get Carlos Perez and JP Gates into the everyday lineup in place of Jacoby Long and Mike Rosario. Perhaps stick Gates at 1B and replace Long with Kayfus in the OF, with Burke shifting to CF.

 

[WanderFranco]

The sordid history of anti-CANES bias seems to continue...

Florida loses 2 of 3 and drops from 9 to 15 while our 4-0 sweep moves us from 25 to 24. Geesh.

The new D1(ESPN) rankings (bottom-half) selection pasted below (at least they put us ahead of 0-3 E. Carolina!!)

This one doesn't bother me. Going 4-0 against Towson just means we're not terrible. Not much info to gather from that series. And Liberty was a 40-win regional final team last year.

 

[scane]

The one that was amusing to me was Notre Dame in the BA poll. I get not dropping teams for losing single weekend games, but maybe don’t move the team that dropped a game to Delaware up to 2nd. Not that any of it matters to begin with.