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What is success for the MS State baseball this 2024 season · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  College baseball is finally officially here. Of course, we got this past weekend
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  behind center, we're visiting with Mike Grace with the press box. Make sure
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  to find them on X check them out. You can hear them here tonight
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  eight to ten tonight on the Zone. But college baseball off and running a
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  small sample size. Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina. No problems in the
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  East with the sweep over the weekend. You know you got some two and
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  ones and you know an oh to one. Florida got one ball game in
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  Alburn, LSU, Texas A and M along with Alabama sweeps State and Old
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  Miss dropping well a game and or two if you're all Miss. We're early,
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  early, early, but this you look at the you know all the
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  rankings, and you know Baseball America and all of your baseball poles. Again
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  you talk about loaded friend to back. We talk a lot about football and
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  basketball, but man, baseball, this is this is going to be interesting
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  to see because we'll be in conference play before you know. It is going
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  to be a grind for all of these teams, and particularly State and Ole
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  Miss, who are a lot of people are watching to see what they do.
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  And now in the day and age of transfer portal and many namage like
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  Miss Jake, These rosters turn over so much so fast. Who really knows
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  what we've got just a week end of the season. I think there are
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  gosh, probably half a dozen or more of these SEC teams that are loaded
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  that could win it all if all the pieces fall in place. But it's
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  going to be a great season as always in SEC base all. You got
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  to help me, man, it's been a rough couple of seasons for I'm
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  a Maroon and white bulldog down deep. What what's it going to take to
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  turn around that Mississippi State program and get it back to what bulldog bands are
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  used to it being? Well, this will be cliche, right, and
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  you know you got to pitch it well and you got to hit it well.
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  And I know that sounds cliche, but that is that is where Mississippi
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  State is at. You know, they had some production at the plate over
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  the past weekend. They had some guys strikeout as well, but I think
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  a lot of that production, especially if it's big hits home runs, you
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  know, you're moving runners around the plate. They'll take that and you know,
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  I'll volley that question back to you and say, what is success this
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  year for Mississippi State, you know, talking to a lot of people in
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  Ole, miss and in that regard as well, is is it as simple
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  as hey, you've got to get back to postseason play. You've got to
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  be in the field of six. And oh, by the way, it
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  wouldn't hurt if you hosted a regional as well. Well. Certainly State and
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  old Mists are used to that, right, And I mean, that's that's
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  got to be what the goal is to get back there. I think the
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  key for State especially, and this is what was just their achilles heel the
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  last couple of seasons is the ability to throw strikes. Man, they walked
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  so many batters, hit so many batters, gave so many free bases up
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  last year. I don't care how great your offense is, you just can't
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  do that consistently and be winners. And I think that's the key for them.
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  Can they throw strikes this weekend against small sample, but certainly look better
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  than a year ago when they were walking ten and getting a couple, you
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  know, every nine innings. So I think that's the key for this state
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  of pitching staff. Can they throw strikes and not give up three bases and
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  three runs to people