Baseball 2017

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865670836/BYU-baseball-outlook-looks-good-for-2017-season.html



Team sounds good for this year. Question mark on our starting pitching.

NCAA tournament this year. Let's do it!

I expect to make the top 4 in league and go to the playoff. Good chance to make NCAAs if we have good starting pitching. Our 1-2 starters were awesome last year. We lost Rucker and Buffo is coming off of an injury. Fingers are crossed.



I like our coach.

http://www.vanquishthefoe.com/2017/2/14/14588234/2017-byu-cougars-baseball-season-preview-mike-littlewood-colton-shaver-maverik-buffo-schedule



should be another good team. I hope we win a few and get ranked.

Does anyone know Brock Hale's status? How bad is his injury?

Started off a little slow but playing great now.

We smoked SF last night. Is that against the WOW? I think it was like 19-3. We are in the top 4 of the league and won 2 of 3 from SD who is ranked.

I may have shared this before but I had a friend who knew coach littlewood really well, actually played for him at Dixie when they won their national championship. He said Coach Littlewood would change baseball at BYU. Of course, that's a pretty biased statement, but a strong endorsement from a former player. I think he's done a great job so far at BYU.

I think he was a great hire. He got Kyle Dean to come and play. He will get drafted next year and probably pretty high. He just signed the #95 prospect from LP for next year. The team has improved and he is building a program. We were ranked last year until injuries hit the team.

BYU now in first place in the WCC with 3 teams left to play. Two of them are not very good (Santa Clara and Portland). Gonzaga on on the road is the last series of the season, but the way the Cougars are playing they may have first place wrapped up even before that series.

I think GU is now ranked so watch out for them.

scott715 wrote:
I think GU is now ranked so watch out for them.

Gonzaga was 19th last week, but dropped out this week, making way for BYU to go from unranked to #22.

http://baseballnews.com/collegiate-baseball-div-1-poll-5-1-17/

Wow, we're ranked!!! Keep winning and no one get hurt.

This bracket has us in the tournament. http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/baseball/bracketology going to Oregon St. as the 1 seed.

scott715 wrote:
This bracket has us in the tournament. http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/baseball/bracketology going to Oregon St. as the 1 seed.

This is an autobid given no other WCC teams in the bracket. I think with the #59 rpi this week we're not quite there yet for an at-large. Although if we keep winning I think the rpi can still move up into at-large range.

http://baseballnews.com/collegiate-baseball-div-1-poll-5-8-17/



We've moved up to #18 in the poll.

AND then BYU loses to the u. Pitiful.

BroncoBot wrote:
AND then BYU loses to the u. Pitiful.

Typical BYU.

hawkwing wrote:

AND then BYU loses to the u. Pitiful.

Typical BYU.

except of course for the other time we played the U this year and won.

BroncoBot wrote:
AND then BYU loses to the u. Pitiful.

In the 13th inning. Not exactly an ass-kicking. It did snap a 9-game winning streak though.