With no game today and nothing else to do, I reviewed the game results and stats from the UT series.
After munching breakfast while crunching numbers it’s clear what the biggest contribution to our big series win was:
Vandy’s 6-9 batters bested their 2-5 batters and out bullpen bested their bullpen.
70% of UT’s offense was generated by 4 guys — Fischer, Ensley, Bargo, and Curley. Fischer is only included because he hit 3 HRs; other than that he was offensively repugnant (0-9 with 3 Ks, perfectly matching his personality.)
Vandy’s 6-9 batters scored 10 of our 19 runs and drove in 6. This was especially telling in game 3; 5 runs, 5 RBI. Drop out Rose, and they batted .387, 140 points higher than the team as a whole.
Other key stats:
1. They made 7 errors, we made 1, giving us 2 unearned runs.
2. Vandy batted .450 with RISP; UT only .280
3. Vandy’s bullpen out-performed UT’s. Vandy bullpen ERA 3.95, UT’s 7.55
4. Vandy stole 11 bases; UT none.
5, Vandy outhomered them 6-5.
Another key difference was pitching coaches and head coaches.
Vandy’s pitching coach is a well-respected, highly-successful pitching guru who is, when necessary, a tell-it-like-it-is coach when yelling at the pitcher on the mound, but also a jokester who makes them smile when that is needed. He also has a very good left-handed pitching son, star of the Nolensville Little League, who may someday be a top-notch VandyBoy pitcher who goes on to a long career in the big leagues. When necessary and called for he can also bark at the HP ump when he is egregiously bad, as is too often the case, but is a loving father who plays catch with his kids long after the sun has gone down despite being tired from a long day working with 18-22 young men.
UT’s pitching coach is a washed-up, senile geezer who is incapable of teaching his pitchers how to hold runners on and prevent stolen bases. This is a skill that even a two-bit deaf high school coach can teach to a 15 year-old while blindfolded with two hands tied behind his back. Apparently Tony won’t tell him but I will — pack up your bags old man, it’s time to go home and slowly die away in your front porch rocking chair reliving your few days of past glory.
Vandy’s head coach is a venerated Hall-of-Famer with an illustrious coaching record. He’s a man with 19 straight NCAAT appearances, he’s won 2 national championship, 2 runner-ups, and a 3rd place finish in 5 trips to Omaha in the last 13 years who’s overall record in Omaha is 21-10, a .677 winning percentage, so far above any other active coach that he’ll never be caught. He is a teacher of men, a developer of boys. Anyone would love to have him as a father to either themselves or their own son.
He is GOAT personified.
Tennessee’s head coach is a foul-mouthed snake oil salesman who makes crooked used car dealers look like angels. He’s quite simply the very definition of a POS, worse than any politician who’s ever inhabited Washington D.C. He is so worthless than no right-minded person wants him any where near their son. In 3 trips to Omaha his record is a paltry 6-5 (.545 winning percentage) with 1 championship only made possible by:
1) a blind 3rd base umpire who wouldn’t know a check swing from a whole in the ground or his own arse, whose dubious “no swing” call caused everyone to wonder if he was on the take; without that, UT would likely have gone 2-and-Q, just like they did the first time Tony V took them to Omaha.
2) a sneaky, unethical opposing coach who had already negotiated his move to another school BEFORE Omaha and lied through his f’in teeth about it right up to the moment he left. Can you say, sleazebag?
The only kind of kid Vitello develops is an undisciplined bully who likes to make everyone around them miserable, especially his parents. No one wants him as a father, not even his own children,
So there you have it — clutch-hitting, 1-9 lineup contributors, stolen bases, solid fielding, solid relief pitching, good coaching, disciplined players.
Going forward this bodes well for Vanderbilt. OTOH, the Vols are so riddled with holes and dependent on so few guys to win (4, if you throw in Doyle) that they will be fortunate to get out of a NCAA Regional, much less a Super Regional.
And then it’s back to the drawing board and portal meat market for Tony V. He would have thrived in the early 1800’s as a slave buyer.
After munching breakfast while crunching numbers it’s clear what the biggest contribution to our big series win was:
Vandy’s 6-9 batters bested their 2-5 batters and out bullpen bested their bullpen.
70% of UT’s offense was generated by 4 guys — Fischer, Ensley, Bargo, and Curley. Fischer is only included because he hit 3 HRs; other than that he was offensively repugnant (0-9 with 3 Ks, perfectly matching his personality.)
Vandy’s 6-9 batters scored 10 of our 19 runs and drove in 6. This was especially telling in game 3; 5 runs, 5 RBI. Drop out Rose, and they batted .387, 140 points higher than the team as a whole.
Other key stats:
1. They made 7 errors, we made 1, giving us 2 unearned runs.
2. Vandy batted .450 with RISP; UT only .280
3. Vandy’s bullpen out-performed UT’s. Vandy bullpen ERA 3.95, UT’s 7.55
4. Vandy stole 11 bases; UT none.
5, Vandy outhomered them 6-5.
Another key difference was pitching coaches and head coaches.
Vandy’s pitching coach is a well-respected, highly-successful pitching guru who is, when necessary, a tell-it-like-it-is coach when yelling at the pitcher on the mound, but also a jokester who makes them smile when that is needed. He also has a very good left-handed pitching son, star of the Nolensville Little League, who may someday be a top-notch VandyBoy pitcher who goes on to a long career in the big leagues. When necessary and called for he can also bark at the HP ump when he is egregiously bad, as is too often the case, but is a loving father who plays catch with his kids long after the sun has gone down despite being tired from a long day working with 18-22 young men.
UT’s pitching coach is a washed-up, senile geezer who is incapable of teaching his pitchers how to hold runners on and prevent stolen bases. This is a skill that even a two-bit deaf high school coach can teach to a 15 year-old while blindfolded with two hands tied behind his back. Apparently Tony won’t tell him but I will — pack up your bags old man, it’s time to go home and slowly die away in your front porch rocking chair reliving your few days of past glory.
Vandy’s head coach is a venerated Hall-of-Famer with an illustrious coaching record. He’s a man with 19 straight NCAAT appearances, he’s won 2 national championship, 2 runner-ups, and a 3rd place finish in 5 trips to Omaha in the last 13 years who’s overall record in Omaha is 21-10, a .677 winning percentage, so far above any other active coach that he’ll never be caught. He is a teacher of men, a developer of boys. Anyone would love to have him as a father to either themselves or their own son.
He is GOAT personified.
Tennessee’s head coach is a foul-mouthed snake oil salesman who makes crooked used car dealers look like angels. He’s quite simply the very definition of a POS, worse than any politician who’s ever inhabited Washington D.C. He is so worthless than no right-minded person wants him any where near their son. In 3 trips to Omaha his record is a paltry 6-5 (.545 winning percentage) with 1 championship only made possible by:
1) a blind 3rd base umpire who wouldn’t know a check swing from a whole in the ground or his own arse, whose dubious “no swing” call caused everyone to wonder if he was on the take; without that, UT would likely have gone 2-and-Q, just like they did the first time Tony V took them to Omaha.
2) a sneaky, unethical opposing coach who had already negotiated his move to another school BEFORE Omaha and lied through his f’in teeth about it right up to the moment he left. Can you say, sleazebag?
The only kind of kid Vitello develops is an undisciplined bully who likes to make everyone around them miserable, especially his parents. No one wants him as a father, not even his own children,
So there you have it — clutch-hitting, 1-9 lineup contributors, stolen bases, solid fielding, solid relief pitching, good coaching, disciplined players.
Going forward this bodes well for Vanderbilt. OTOH, the Vols are so riddled with holes and dependent on so few guys to win (4, if you throw in Doyle) that they will be fortunate to get out of a NCAA Regional, much less a Super Regional.
And then it’s back to the drawing board and portal meat market for Tony V. He would have thrived in the early 1800’s as a slave buyer.
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