Baseball 2023

[Quann]

Is dropping to D2 a legitimate option? Not ideal but not sure what else to do besides drop it completely.

UMass Lowell is 5-20, 0-6 in conference. They stink too. D1 baseball is hard to compete up here.

[rsox1221]

D2 is not an option for UMass. They're a D1 program, can't sponsor a varsity sport at a lower level. Dropping it entirely is the only way they could do it

Lowell is having a tough year but at least their program is fully scholarshipped or probably close to it. UMass' is going to be operating with zero pretty soon

[dennisdent]

UMass Lowell bought the former Lowell Spinners field last year and are supposed to be updating it.

http://umlconnector.com/2022/09/lelache ... n-dollars/

[InnervisionsUMASS]

Lowell sorta has to keep Baseball an important sport with their MLB connection, which I assume is still an active partnership.

[tdmass]

Baseball finished with a win vs Dayton, number 14 on the year where they started the season at 2-0 for a final record of 14-34!
Softball (which has full scholarship) finished 1 full game better at 16-34 with second year Coach Henderson.

My point, a one gam difference between a team with FULL scholarship vs a team with 1, doesn't make sense!

[dennisdent]

^Baseball plays other teams with low scholarship numbers, as more than half of their wins were out of conference against weaker teams. Softball plays a much harder schedule.

[tdmass]

^ Danielle has got two years in now and I haven't noticed any up notch in talent, so this is disturbing. I know baseball plays a weaker sked and that's why they had 14 wins, but to say the A10 is that much stronger is a stretch in a one bid league!

[dennisdent]

^I agree that there has been little, to any improvement. Softball's out of conference schedule is much harder than the baseball teams: FSU, UGA, UCF, OSU. All A-10 softball teams have full scholarships; baseball teams don't.

[umassbaseball]

The baseball program has been announcing their incoming class over the last few weeks. Looks like they have 9 transfers, including a couple from Power 5 conferences (Pittsburgh and Wake Forest) along with Navy, East Tennessee State, and Bucknell. They also have 10 freshmen. Looks like a huge incoming class, so should be a new look team this year

[SignMan]

^ Huge good, or Mo Vaughan, Boog Powell, Jim Gentile & Cecil Fielder size?

[PreecherJenkins]

The baseball program has been announcing their incoming class over the last few weeks. Looks like they have 9 transfers, including a couple from Power 5 conferences (Pittsburgh and Wake Forest) along with Navy, East Tennessee State, and Bucknell. They also have 10 freshmen. Looks like a huge incoming class, so should be a new look team this year

try not to suck this year!

[umassbaseball]

UMass Baseball falls at #13 Virginia today in extra innings 4-3.