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Message: [QUOTE="MarkyMark, post: 4875428, member: 12210"] Game over with run rule. I'll give my HONEST thoughts: 1) Offense - Not going to strike fear in any opposing pitching that is halfway decent. On the plus side, Hastings is REALLY good and Grace Jenkins can have an impact. Other than that the lineup is VERY vanilla unless Sanden can make a step change in production from last year. Losing James really hurts and she hasn't been backfilled. Against any type of good pitching, they are going to have to scratch for runs. Need to recruit a bat or two that has pop. Can't have ~7 bats in the lineup that are ZERO power threats. 2) Defense - 3 or 4 errors I believe however 1B was a major issue. Early Garcia made a great play at 3rd only to have the 1B come off the bag when it wasn't needed. The kicker is Garcia gets the error. Then 1B boots the ball, goes behind the bag to pick it up holds it too long and the runner scores. There was also a bang-bang play at the plate where she was late with the throw. Later on others started throwing the ball around. Got sloppy late. 3) Coaching - Still a bad taste in my mouth from BE tourney last year but seems she is very tactical (pitch calling) with big-picture issues flying over her head. This was a 1-0 in the fourth and once again let it get out of hand BEFORE making the pitching change. To be clear I am not someone who calls out and criticizes coaches, however, this is clear as day. 4) Will follow the scores and if they are better in April I'll start to watch games. Don't mean to be harsh but areas of improvement are obvious and need to be fixed to compete against semi-good competition. [/QUOTE]

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