to this season, but I think this series was critical to steadying things out, and ideally getting on track. This team has pitching talent, and it's been really surprising to me how poorly we have pitched until very recently. Renfrow's era is over 7, Crowl 7.50, Clement hasn't pitched, Robertson has been frankly unpitchable, which is shocking. Not sure if it's mental, and yes it is a big jump from juco to ACC. Offensively Cooke is likely the worst hitter in the ACC to this point, probably by a wide margin. Hughes has an ops of .580 which often gets guys benched at this stage. Grady hasn't played. These are our top 3 returning guys. We've been outscored for the season by almost 2 runs/game. Simply staggering numbers and yet we are in position to play our way into an NCAA bid with reasonable improvement. Reasons for optimism include the obvious potential improvement of the guys above, and guys like Eisenreich and Craytor have thrown strikes and are improving - both have potential, as does Grim. Yagesh and Roe look good, and Stieg looks healthy. Several of the transfer on offense may be starting to adjust - Gates and Daniel in particular, so there is at least hope that this offense could improve. Grube and Ball have carried the offense, with some help from Lutterman. We have played very tough competition which the computer models (rpi) love, so we sit well there, but will drop just by who we play in upcoming weeks (Stanford is last in ACC in rpi, Duke was near bottom). There is a lot of baseball to play, let's see if these guys can get it rolling. To this point, season has been borderline disastrous, so to be 4-5 in league play is crazy, team does not pass the. eye test on the field, don't see many solid ACC hitters in that lineup and pitching has talent but not much to show for it. ** Edited by vtfin91 at 3/24/2026, 6:53:45 PM