Monday Morning Manager: March 25th, 2013, "Forget It"

NOTES

- Andrew Cashner is the in-camp favorite to join the Padres rotation, likely in the #5 slot, but his current innings/pitch limit appears to be in the way. Cashner pitched well on the 20th, but only lasted three innings. He will make the team for opening day, where he pitches is TBD.

- Jake Arrieta is still in the running to be the #5 starter in Baltimore, along side Brian Matusz, Jake Arrieta, T.J. McFarland, Steve Johnson, and Jair Jurrjens. Jurrjens still has an option and will likely be optioned to AAA in the coming days. There is a school of thought in Baltimore that the Orioles would like to have another lefty in their initial rotation, which rules Arrieta out, but I don't know how much credence to put in that. Arrieta has been great this spring, I think he will make the ML team we just don't yet know what his role will be. Is there an echo in here?

- Matt Carpenter's fate is also undecided, but his bat will be in the lineup this year, no doubt about it. The Cardinals like him so much, they have recently tried him out in the leadoff spot with success.

SERIES REVIEW

Record: 9-14 (1-5 Conference)
RPI: 100
SOS: 21

Player	era	w-l	app-gs	cg	sho	sv	ip	h	r	er	bb	so	2b	3b	hr	ab	b/avg	wp	hbp	bk	sfa	sha
Morrison, Preston	1.18	3-1	6-6	0	0/1	0	45.2	31	9	6	8	29	4	0	0	162	.191	1	3	0	0	1
Finnegan, Brandon	2.72	0-4	6-6	1	0/0	0	36.1	32	15	11	16	35	3	1	2	130	.246	2	1	0	0	4
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Evans, Travis	0.00	1-0	6-0	0	0/1	0	7.0	4	0	0	3	6	2	0	0	26	.154	0	0	0	0	0
Teakell, Trey	1.64	0-0	5-1	0	0/1	0	11.0	12	3	2	2	9	3	0	0	44	.273	2	1	0	0	1
Frey, Nick	2.18	0-1	6-0	0	0/0	0	20.2	11	6	5	1	15	1	0	0	69	.159	1	2	0	1	2
Young, Alex	2.87	3-2	9-2	0	0/1	1	15.2	14	6	5	5	11	2	1	0	58	.241	2	2	0	1	1
Mitchell, Andrew	2.87	0-1	10-1	0	0/1	1	15.2	15	8	5	7	22	0	0	0	57	.263	4	2	0	0	3
Seidenberger, Trevor	3.74	1-1	7-4	0	0/0	0	21.2	18	10	9	4	22	4	1	2	84	.214	3	2	0	0	0
Ferrell, Riley	4.50	0-1	8-0	0	0/1	0	14.0	12	7	7	5	15	0	1	1	51	.235	4	1	0	0	2
Scharf, Justin	4.70	0-2	10-0	0	0/1	0	7.2	6	4	4	2	4	2	0	0	26	.231	2	4	0	0	0
Antone, Tejay	6.75	0-0	3-0	0	0/1	0	2.2	4	3	2	3	1	1	0	0	10	.400	1	0	0	1	0
Crichton, Stefan	10.45	1-1	5-3	0	0/0	0	10.1	20	13	12	3	8	2	1	1	52	.385	1	1	0	0	0
Totals	2.94	9-14	23-23	1	2/2	2	208.1	179	84	68	59	177	24	5	6	769	.233	23	19	0	3	14
Opponents	3.68	14-9	23-23	1	3/3	6	210.1	191	97	86	82	148	32	5	5	780	.245	8	21	3	10	18

Player	avg	gp-gs	ab	r	h	2b	3b	hr	rbi	tb	slg%	bb	hbp	so	gdp	ob%	sf	sh	sb-att	po	a	e	fld%
White, Boomer	.333	19-16	60	7	20	5	0	1	7	28	.467	0	2	4	1	.349	1	1	1-1	11	1	0	1.000
Witte, Jantzen	.325	23-23	83	13	27	7	1	3	17	45	.542	13	1	9	3	.406	4	0	0-1	14	59	1	.986
Fitzgerald, Dylan	.321	19-13	53	8	17	4	2	0	5	25	.472	8	1	13	0	.419	0	2	1-1	30	3	0	1.000
Jones, Cody	.253	23-23	83	14	21	4	2	1	11	32	.386	15	2	21	0	.380	0	3	3-5	47	1	0	1.000
Jones, Keaton	.247	23-23	73	13	18	1	0	0	11	19	.260	12	3	16	1	.371	1	2	1-2	30	66	4	.960
Bacak, Kyle	.213	23-20	47	8	10	0	0	0	3	10	.213	6	2	4	2	.327	0	5	0-0	145	17	2	.988
Cron, Kevin	.191	23-22	94	5	18	5	0	0	10	23	.245	2	2	17	4	.222	1	0	0-0	233	17	2	.992
Odell, Derek	.178	20-19	73	2	13	0	0	0	11	13	.178	9	0	14	0	.262	2	0	0-0	34	64	6	.942
Suiter, Jerrick	.172	19-16	58	5	10	1	0	0	6	11	.190	3	2	19	2	.238	0	2	1-1	25	3	1	.966
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Hendrix, Paul	.298	16-11	47	8	14	4	0	0	2	18	.383	4	0	7	2	.353	0	0	0-3	5	12	2	.895
Johnson, Brett	.255	17-12	47	6	12	0	0	0	2	12	.255	3	2	12	0	.327	0	1	0-0	13	0	0	1.000
Hennessey, Travis	.250	8-2	12	0	3	0	0	0	0	3	.250	1	1	4	0	.357	0	0	0-1	2	0	0	1.000
Wright, Davy	.235	10-4	17	3	4	0	0	0	0	4	.235	3	2	4	0	.409	0	2	0-0	4	8	1	.923
Gonzales, Josh	.167	10-2	12	4	2	1	0	0	1	3	.250	1	1	1	1	.267	1	0	0-1	1	3	0	1.000
Johnson, Axel	.143	6-0	7	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	.143	1	0	2	0	.250	0	0	0-0	0	0	0	.000
Daniels, Kevin	.091	11-1	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.091	1	0	1	1	.167	0	0	0-0	3	0	0	1.000
O'Brien, Paddy	.000	4-0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0	0	0	1	.000	0	0	0-0	10	0	0	1.000
Totals	.245	23-23	780	97	191	32	5	5	87	248	.318	82	21	148	18	.329	10	18	7-16	625	299	25	.974
Opponents	.233	23-23	769	84	179	24	5	6	71	231	.300	59	19	177	11	.302	3	14	23-34	631	264	26	.972

TCU took the best team in the Big 12 to the wire three straight games.

And lost.

They matched pitching performances against two likely first round picks this summer.

And lost.

Andrew Mitchell was everything we thought he could be in his return to the rotation.

And lost.

TCU beat UTA last week, a team that beat OU easily earlier this season.

Swept by that same team this weekend.

So, with all this understood, I issue the following edict: Stop talking about the postseason, stop talking about winning the Big 12, stop talking about anything related to Omaha Right now, we are not there. We aren't even close.

The coaches have to decide on their lineup. They have to decide on their guys. Cron has to decide he wants to be great again, and then he needs to be great. Boomer White needs to play everyday in left field, and Dylan Fitzgerald needs to play everyday in right. Derek Odell hasn't earned the right to play everyday, Hendrix needs to play vs. lefties for the foreseeable future. Maybe even righties.

I'm not specifically angry about any specific thing that happened this weekend, no new problems emerged as far as I'm concerned. The lineup still needs to settle, the team still needs to learn how to execute, the coaches need to stop out thinking themselves and believe in what they have.

I saw growth on the field this weekend, I saw TCU get better in every way. But, as was true about my maturity as a young adult, every time we take two steps forward, we inevitably take a step back at the same time.

We started executing, we found our lineup. But, we couldn't find a way to win, the final step.

You can't win a game if you can't do all the little things along the way to getting that W. To start the year, we did none of these things. Now, we are doing all of them OK. We have to learn to do all these things, all the time, without fail, then we will win.

Against lesser opponents, such as DBU this week, TCU can get away with not executing as well. Against teams like OU, who have future MLB starters in their rotation, you must execute or you will never win.

To paraphrase Tom Hanks in Apollo 13, "There are 1000 things that have to happen, in order... We are on number 704. You are worried about #999."

Forget about all those things in the future. Our only goal now is to do all the 1000 things you have to do to win a game, in order, to our best ability. If we do that, we will win. If we can start to do it consistently, we will continue to win. When we continue to win, we can talk about the future.

For now, just forget it. Our future, is Dallas Baptist University this Tuesday at Lupton Stadium.

TCU BASEBALL RECRUITING CLASSES

Here are the commits I have for TCU Baseball, classes of 2013 and 2014.

2014 Class
Noah McGowan, OF
Justin Twine, IF/RHP
Austen Wade, OF

Drew Gooch, LHP
Tyler Kolek, RHP

2013 Class
Connor Beck, OF
Garrett Crain, IF
Will Foreman, OF/C
Will Fox, OF
Eric Garza, MIF
Billy McKinney, OF/1B
Walker Pennington, IF/OF
TJ Scott, OF
Ty Slanina, OF

Tyler Alexander, LHP
Ryan Burnett, LHP
Brandon Gilson, LHP
Brian Howard, RHP
Jordan Kipper, RHP
Alex Mata, RHP
Robby Medel, RHP

PROFESSIONAL FROGS

(Name, Team, Separated by Final 2012 Level)

Major Leagues
Andrew Cashner (Padres)
Matt Carpenter (Cardinals)
Scott Atchison (Mets)
Bryan Holaday (Tigers)

Triple AAA
Jake Arrieta (Orioles)
Sam Demel (Astros)
Chad Huffman (Indians)
Matt Curry (Pirates)

Double AA
(none)

High A
Greg Holle (Brewers)
Jerome Pena (Orioles)
Kyle Winkler (Diamondbacks)

Low A
Taylor Featherston (Rockies)
Tyler Lockwood (Red Sox)

Low A Short Season
Kyle Von Tungeln (Rockies)

Rookie League
Josh Elander (Braves)
Kevin Allen (Royals)
Erik Miller (Reds)
Kaleb Merck (Twins)
Matt Purke (Nationals)

Independent League
Joseph Weik
Brad Furnish