Tennessee Softball 2025

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#2,578
ScreamingEagleVol said:
And the difference between a coach that preps a team for a playoff run and one that doesn’t. Karen Weekly never ceases to amaze. It’s difficult to understand how she would be worried about sweeping UCon because it is UCon while a coach like Gasso leaves a true freshman in that’s getting slightly beat up by South Carolina (a conference game, no doubt) in order to prepare another pitcher for the playoffs. OU may have been lucky to win that, and maybe because Landry wasn’t available, but the fact remains, Gasso was willing to take a conference loss to prepare for dividends later. It’s irksome to see Pickens having to throw more innings, especially against UCon. I could probably understand better if it were a conference game, but dadgum.
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Agree, need to play the freshmen or risk losing them to the portal. It just seems to me that if you don’t prepare for the future you won’t have one.
 
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Rickster said:
All of softball is filled with starters who can't hit. Bella is needed for her defense. She has shown flashes of being a hitter but agree that she needs to hit better.
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Antigua is a lock down SS on the baseball team, and has a much better batting avg than Faw, and yet he isn't the starter on the men's team because there's a better option when considering both offense and defense. Faw is a decent SS, but not nearly as good as Antigua imo, who is often inserted in late innings for his defensive play.

I personally think Mealer at SS and Des at 2B is the better option. It would seem that Vitello and Weekly perhaps view things differently.
 
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IBlvNTmWrk said:
Antigua is a lock down SS on the baseball team, and has a much better batting avg than Faw, and yet he isn't the starter on the men's team because there's a better option when considering both offense and defense. Faw is a decent SS, but not nearly as good as Antigua imo, who is often inserted in late innings for his defensive play.

I personally think Mealer at SS and Des at 2B is the better option. It would seem that Vitello and Weekly perhaps view things differently.
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Vitello understands the churn and competition for playing time a little better than Weekly. He has a much deeper vat of talent. Playing time also represents an investment, a resource, which must be administered judiciously.
 
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wpcadetdad said:
Agree, need to play the freshmen or risk losing them to the portal. It just seems to me that if you don’t prepare for the future you won’t have one.
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You don’t play the freshman just to play them out of fear of losing them. The freshman are getting prepared weekly in practice throwing intersquad. This is the SEC not dads coaching trying to keep everyone happy. It’s a viscous cycle but as fan you should expect the pitching room to be a revolving door.
 
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chuckiepoo said:
Vitello understands the churn and competition for playing time a little better than Weekly. He has a much deeper vat of talent. Playing time also represents an investment, a resource, which must be administered judiciously.
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Vitello also has the luxury of numbers. Had a large fall roster and was able to cut down to his roster now with kids RS. What Weekly starts with in the fall is what she has in the spring.
 
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IBlvNTmWrk said:
Antigua is a lock down SS on the baseball team, and has a much better batting avg than Faw, and yet he isn't the starter on the men's team because there's a better option when considering both offense and defense. Faw is a decent SS, but not nearly as good as Antigua imo, who is often inserted in late innings for his defensive play.

I personally think Mealer at SS and Des at 2B is the better option. It would seem that Vitello and Weekly perhaps view things differently.
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Fans are reaching with trying to make a stance. Antigua has 4 hits on the year a really nice player, not sure the much better batting avg. is an accurate assessment based on his limited time. Most softball fans will say Mealer/Des is a solid infield w/o zig zagging baseball into it.

Do you value batting avg. more than OB%?
She has 3 Ks so far all year with a .414 OB
 
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The stats represent that Mealer and Rodriguez would be the better combo. Both have higher OBP's than Faw and both have higher batting averages. If Faw was a better defensive shortstop you could argue her to play for defense, but she hasn't proven to be better than Mealer. Rogriguez has been solid at second on defense when she has played.
 
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If we’re constantly pinch hitting for our lead off hitter, when the games on the line, why are we putting her in that situation in the first place?
 
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chuckiepoo said:
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You’ve got someone on ignore! I’m focused on BB. Down 30-39 at the half. BaseVols down 4-1, B4. Gators taking an ounce of flesh at the moment…
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Ok makes sense. LV's rallying in bottom of 6 and no one commenting. Just wondering. I got the BB game on the tv and watching but not looking very good at this time. SB was more interesting. No one on ignore.
 
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chuckiepoo said:
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You’ve got someone on ignore! I’m focused on BB. Down 30-39 at the half. BaseVols down 4-1, B4. Gators taking an ounce of flesh at the moment…
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Tony's guys will make a comeback I say Gators will need more than 4. Right now Florida basketball looks like the best team in the country.
 
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