Hofstra, Baseball, 2023

[stuball888]

So I waited until the season was about a 1/3rd over
Now I know last year we were all giddy because we won the CAA conference championship
Well, I did give Coach Catalanato Credit for the championship. I did say that a lot of the players were from coach Russo‘s team the year before.
So, while a lot of players are still playing for us this year, we have almost a new pitching staff
I felt that last year, while the batting was great, the pitching staff was very underrated
So I’m comparing last year’s statistics for in conference only compared to this year this year we are in ninth place
With a record of 3-7
Last year we were third and conference, and hitting with a batting average of 274
So far this year we were seventh in hitting with the batting average of 263
That’s not much of a fall off
pitching last year was eighth in the conference with an ERA of 5.64
This year pitching with an ERA of 9.39.
That’s a big difference
Two years ago we had John Habian as a pitching coach
I think that made a big difference but again it was still John Russo‘s team
So while he won the CAA last year much of the credit has to be what John Russo left for coach Catalanato

[CTDutch]

"So, while a lot of players are still playing for us this year, we have almost a new pitching staff"

Stu, have to disagree with this. ALL of our key pitchers from last year are back and pitching. Of the 53 games last year, 50 were started by pitchers still here. And all our most used relivers from last year are also back.

[stuball888]

So now my question is how did our ERA go from 5.64 to 9.39.

[HUSID80]

Did we win 2 of 3 from SBU?

[stuball888]

We split the first two games
Rubber match today

[triplec2195]

We win the rubber game 4-0 behind a complete game shutout from Brad Camarda.

[HUSID80]

Not ONE Hofstra commit in Newsday's top 100 baseball list...how did we manage to Winn the CAA last year?

[stuball888]

Perfect storm everything that could’ve broke our way

[triplec2195]

Come from behind walk off wins if my memory serves me well. A HBP won us the championship of the CAA. Speaks volumes!

[Pride97]

Thought this was cool - Brad Camarda throws a no hitter for Hofstra

https://twitter.com/CAASports/status/16 ... 43875?s=20

[ProudofPride]

Well this isn’t a great look……
https://www.thehofstrachronicle.com/cat ... y-the-ncaa

Season is over so doesn’t matter now, but still isn’t good.

[triplec2195]

I'm not jumping to any conclusions lets see how this plays out. Innocent until proven otherwise.