(04-29-2019 09:46 AM)_x_ Wrote: (04-28-2019 10:39 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote: If the season ended today the seeding would go
1 Texas St
2 Ga Southern
3 UTA
4 Little Rock
5 Coastal Carolina
6 App St
Play in games
7 Troy vs 10 ULM
8 Ark St vs 9 South Alabama
Who'd have thought in the preseason the Cajuns would be at risk of not making the tournament?
The Cajuns were probably overvalued being picked to win the West. But no one expected this. And, a lot of things have contributed to it.
The Cajuns returned LF Bourgeois, RF Lahare, 3B Windham, SS Cantrelle and 2B Kasuls. Also anticipated the return of C Monica and LHP Leger.
Cajuns also recruited a weekend starter (Young) and a closer (Bradford.)
Bourgeois and Windham were lost for the year. Lahare missed the better part of a month. Leger has not been healthy all season. Bradford was shut down after two appearances for Tommy John surgery. Young wasn't healthy the first half of the year.
The Cajuns' pitching staff is struggling to throw strikes and that's the biggest problem. They walked 10 and hit three on Sunday and unfortunately, that's been the norm rather than the exception. Then when they get a good pitching performance (Burk on Saturday) they don't hit well enough.
Now, the Cajuns have Tony Robichaux. He'll get this fixed. Sooner rather than later. But there's just been too much to overcome this season.
Cajuns travel to Coastal, host Georgia State and go to ULM. They still have a chance to get back to Conway for the tournament. But it's far from a done deal.