2026 Baseball Mega Thread

[BambooRdApp]

One series at a time.
With that said, our remaining schedule is against teams currently at the bottom of SBC. On paper, we have a chance to win more series and hopefully lock up at least 3rd in SBC.
Let's keep rolling.

[Bootsy]

Now, how will the JMU Comms department top that masterpiece of an IG post they shared yesterday?

[AppDub]

Now, how will the JMU Comms department top that masterpiece of an IG post they shared yesterday?

Not sure, but their message board doesn't even mention their baseball team. Spoiled fair weather fans those purple pansies are.

[AppSt94]

Should South Alabama take 2 from Southern Miss this weekend and we sweep the Stink, the Diamond Apps are in sole possession of 2nd place.

[BUTCH1991]

Should South Alabama take 2 from Southern Miss this weekend and we sweep the Stink, the Diamond Apps are in sole possession of 2nd place.

You're asking a lot. I hope you get it.

[AppSt94]

Should South Alabama take 2 from Southern Miss this weekend and we sweep the Stink, the Diamond Apps are in sole possession of 2nd place.

You're asking a lot. I hope you get it.

Just a little taste of Monday morning Hopium.

[AppGrad78]

One series at a time.
With that said, our remaining schedule is against teams currently at the bottom of SBC. On paper, we have a chance to win more series and hopefully lock up at least 3rd in SBC.
Let's keep rolling.

We travel to Troy on May 1-3. Troy is ranked No. 60 in RPI and one of the teams we’re currently tied with.

[BambooRdApp]

One series at a time.
With that said, our remaining schedule is against teams currently at the bottom of SBC. On paper, we have a chance to win more series and hopefully lock up at least 3rd in SBC.
Let's keep rolling.

We travel to Troy on May 1-3. Troy is ranked No. 60 in RPI and one of the teams we’re currently tied with.

That is correct. I forgot about that when typing the response.. their rpi will be lower after we beat them...

[ncman071]

great win tonight! 3-1 over ETSU!

[311neers]

Absolute gem from the pitching staff.
We can win high scoring games and low scoring!

[T-Dog]

10-3 in our last 13 since the Southern Miss series.

Gotta take care of business this weekend. 2 out of 3 is a minimum. Sweep would be excellent.

[AppSt94]

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[JTApps1]

10-3 in our last 13 since the Southern Miss series.

Gotta take care of business this weekend. 2 out of 3 is a minimum. Sweep would be excellent.

And we should have won that series!

[T-Dog]

A month ago I was off the Kermit bandwagon. So many close losses and the team seemed snakebit and error prone in tight games. Now it's a total 180. Errors are slowing down, team is getting healthy and hitting the bajezus out of the ball (top team average in the Sun Belt).

[BambooRdApp]

That's okay. It is a common theme with us on the YC and can be an affliction related to any sport we cheer for at App..St. It is commonly referred to as the "App cannot have nice things" syndrome. Heck, if we won all of our remaining SBC series and then lost to Western Carolina for a 3rd time, people would still be jumping off cliffs about the team. .

(Yes, I realize we do not play Western again.)

[Bigdaddyg1]

I wonder who leads YC in fire the coach posts- counting every sport. Expectations are truly unreal.

[spacemonkey]

Serious question....On the RPI/Net rankings in baseball, does it hurt more to lose to a 200 net team or help more to win against a 100 net team? I am 100% sure in my mind all of our efforts should be placed on winning against Sunbelt teams.....but.....but...sometimes my mind leans to do we really want a news story locally that we lost to Queens or WCU or whatever small college vs a non local news story of we lost to Louisiana. I guess the question is where would you throw your best pitcher?

[JTApps1]

A month ago I was off the Kermit bandwagon. So many close losses and the team seemed snakebit and error prone in tight games. Now it's a total 180. Errors are slowing down, team is getting healthy and hitting the bajezus out of the ball (top team average in the Sun Belt).

The errors were/are very frustrating, but I don't think that was a coaching issue given how good we typically are. I think the lack of indoor facility this winter made a bigger impact on baseball than most realize.

[311neers]

A month ago I was off the Kermit bandwagon. So many close losses and the team seemed snakebit and error prone in tight games. Now it's a total 180. Errors are slowing down, team is getting healthy and hitting the bajezus out of the ball (top team average in the Sun Belt).

Same boat for me. We are on a roll in conference play.
But it's hard to overlook getting swept by GWebb and destroyed by Western twice.

He's the right man, person, and coach for the job- won't find a better person. Just needs some more help on the funding side of things.
Tweak the OOC schedule (harder) and we're grooving. Give us a chance to get an ALB if we don't win the SBC.
If we're going to lose in OOC- lose to Clemson, or Georgia, Or UVA.

[311neers]

Serious question....On the RPI/Net rankings in baseball, does it hurt more to lose to a 200 net team or help more to win against a 100 net team? I am 100% sure in my mind all of our efforts should be placed on winning against Sunbelt teams.....but.....but...sometimes my mind leans to do we really want a news story locally that we lost to Queens or WCU or whatever small college vs a non local news story of we lost to Louisiana. I guess the question is where would you throw your best pitcher?

Hurts more to lose to 200 net. (Gwebb, Queens, A&T, any of the St. teams from the NE). Most of our OOC is made up of Q4 teams minus midweeks.

A win always helps.
Away wins/losses are weighted the most.
If you're going to lose, lose to a top 100 team and do it away.

https://www.warrennolan.com/baseball/20 ... hian-State
3 Quad 4 games this week end vs the Stink.

We sit at 101 RPI today- pretty solid!!! (We were 191 in after week 6)
This is a must win series at home for a lot of reasons (rival-screw Stink, SBC standings, RPI metrics) against a 200+ ranked team.