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Where Miami Baseball sits 3 weeks away from Selection Monday

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The Miami Hurricanes are on their final stretch of the 2025-26 season.

The Hurricanes have two series remaining; Louisville this upcoming weekend at home and Florida State to finish the season out.

Miami is coming off a 2-1 series loss at NC State, which snapped a six-series winning streak, the longest since 2014.

That leads to the question.

Where do the Hurricanes sit just three weeks from Selection Monday?

According to Baseball America, the Hurricanes sit comfortably as the No. 2 seed...

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canesstevealum08 said:
Gino was really intense and JD has actually won a regional. So JD not being intense isn’t the answer. It’s all about pitching recruiting philosophy
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Gino excelled in regular season. Failed miserably in post season

JD struggles in regular season. Showed last year his team could win a regional.

We will see what happens this year.

But the fact that miami isn’t even in contention for hosting a regional 3 years in a row with JD at the helm is unacceptable.

Obviously winning in post season is what matters the most but at Miami we should be doing both
 
canesstevealum08 said:
Gino was really intense and JD has actually won a regional. So JD not being intense isn’t the answer. It’s all about pitching recruiting philosophy
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It’s not about intensity…You obviously never played ball. That’s Baseball talk by saying the guy SUCKS ( dead, clueless, etc)as a head coach. I know all about the pitching and recruiting blunders. But on top of that JD is a horrible head coach…. A good coach gets more out of this team. He can’t.
 
Being that I’ve been disabled my whole life no never played but worked in mlb for three years. Yes, he lacks feel and his recruiting profile for pitchers is awful
 
canesstevealum08 said:
Being that I’ve been disabled my whole life no never played but worked in mlb for three years. Yes, he lacks feel and his recruiting profile for pitchers is awful
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A *PRIME* example of his lack of Feel was on display at the game in Raleigh this past Saturday night.

Top 8, down 8-7. We load the bases with 2 out. Striding to the plate, Alex Sosa. Former NC State Wolfpuppy, coming into that AB with 3 K's and a walk. He's your DH, mind you. Didn't really look that great in any of the AB's. Crowd was rowdy every time he came to bat.

At some point - a guy is feeling the pressure. You've got to feel that for him as a manager (I know I did just sitting in the stands). 3 K's, he's pressing, wanting a big moment versus his former team.

As the leader and manager, sometimes you've got to look at a kid and say - hey, let's give someone else a shot, today's just not your day. You're important for us, but time to let someone else take some cuts and hopefully come through for us.

Dubovik is sitting *RIGHT THERE*. You need a big hit, he's probably the best stick you have on the bench. Right-handed DH, same for same. You lose *nothing* at all making that switch, and who knows...Dubovik might strike out, he might get out some other way. But if you read the ******* room...someone else not named Alex Sosa needs to take that AB. It was late, the game was tight, and that AB was super important. Yes - you're trusting it to a Freshman, but given the context, I trust him more at that point than Sosa.

JD did not feel that...or if he did, he didn't act on that, or let one of his assistants or Sosa talk him out of it. Any of that is damning in and of itself in my eyes. If I can feel it, and the whole stadium can feel it, and you can't act on it...woof.

Sosa promptly grounds out to 2nd on the first pitch he sees. Then NC State hits a Grand Slam in the bottom of the 8th and puts us out of our misery and make it all acadmic anyways...so it may not have mattered.

But these small moments add up, and are indicative of why JD just doesn't have it...that is, if you're paying attention and not busy shining his shoes up.
 
That ab had a bunch of anxiety so I get it. I don’t think Duvic comes through either. I just think the defense is also horrible. By the way we don’t talk about that enough.
 
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canesstevealum08 said:
That ab had a bunch of anxiety so I get it. I don’t think Duvic comes through either. I just think the defense is also horrible. By the way we don’t talk about that enough.
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That is JD's job as the manager though - manage the game. Manage the anxiety. Put your guys in the best position to succeed. I'd have much rather him pushed *that* button to try to make an impact on the game than the 50 ineffective relievers he threw out there (of note there, he left Glidewell and Robert off the field in favor of some of those guys which is asinine to me).

The defense is indeed horrible...I told my friend that this current infield minus Cuvet might be the worst defensive infield we've had in 20 years or more. You've got a 1B with more concrete in his shoes than a goverment witness against the mob, and 3 guys who are 2B's playing the other 3 spots. Alvarez I give a little bit of a pass to as a Freshman, but still. West/Ogden/Sheahan/Milano were *ROUGH* out there.
 
canesstevealum08 said:
I think defensively on the infield we lack a lot of Mobility even the middle infield
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Moving Ogden to 2b has been a disaster. Everyone knew it would be prior to the year.

There’s just so much bad decision making with JD and staff it feels like they are throwing games sometimes….. the really sad part of it all is it’s just gross incompetence from a guy who is in so far over his head.

Jd sucks. But my real anger is geared towards the idiots who put him in there in the 1st place.
 
canesstevealum08 said:
And Duvic has too long of a swing for me right now, even though he’s advanced for a freshman
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Agreed. But *just in the context* of the situation I outlined...you can't let Sosa take that AB. It's gotta be someone else. I would have chosen Dubovik, but it could have literally been whoever you trusted to get at least a single out of that situation.

The overarching point from that situation isn't Dubovik > Sosa...far from it. No need to get down in the weeds about if Dubovik's swing is too long or not...that's not the point.
 
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