(03-19-2014 11:25 AM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(03-19-2014 06:47 AM)CajunExpress Wrote:  

(03-18-2014 08:06 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(03-18-2014 07:59 PM)Ole Sleepy Wrote:  

(03-18-2014 07:55 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  29?

We have 4 homeruns all season...and three of them came this week, in the same game, by the same player.

I can't wait to get you guys in Tomlinson and let you experience the Spring Winds. Try hitting one out then.

That's Charles Barkley terrible right there.

Please elaborate on this Spring Wind phenomenon.

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In Arkansas, every Spring the winds shift to come out of the South, bringing in all the Warm Moist air out of the Gulf Of Mexico. It brings in warm temperatures (and Severe Thunderstorms...but that's another story).

Our park is built out in a clearing, with no wind protection. That means, every spring during baseball season, opposition comes into our park and finds a steady wind at 15-20 mph blowing straight in from Center Field.

It renders us unable to recruit a power hitter. You play here, you better know how to play small ball... because odds are, you're going to deal with the wind at least once or twice in a 3 game set.

Well perhaps, but one would think pitchers would love to pitch there.

Our last three Friday Night starters were drafted in the top 11 rounds. It's very easy to recruit pitching. Unfortunately, there are only two major league pitchers from Arkansas. One of whom has a nephew pitching for us now...both went to Fayetteville.

That's where the talent coming out of Arkansas gets us. We end up recruiting out of state a lot. And with baseball, that can get costly for the player unless they earn a scholarship.

Disagree completely with this statement. If good pitchers were easy to recruit, ASU would have more championships under its belt! Pitchers that have power arms with secondary pitches don't sign out of high school with Sun Belt programs. You can sign good pitchers and develop them, but they usually aren't throwng in the 90's plus. Most of the time Sun Belt programs get power arms from the JC's are transfers, but you don't have those arms in your program longer then a year or two. Good pitchers don't grow on vines.