OSU’s current batting lineup of Tyler Smith, Michael Conforto, and Dylan Davis have done quite well at the plate as measured by OPS (On base plus slugging). OPS is a sabremetric statistic that is calculated as the sum of a batter’s on-base percentage and slugging percentage. Conforto currently leads the team with an OPS of 1.158, followed by Smith’s 1.101, and Davis at an OPS of 0.870.
Michael Conforto at 1st base (click to enlarge)
OSU head baseball coach Pat Casey is on track to become the school’s all-time wins leader for Beaver baseball this season. As of today, Casey’s OSU record is 589-361-4 (0.620) in his 18th season as head coach for the Beavers. Casey needs 25 more wins this season to overtake Jack Riley, the current leader. Riley was 613-411-5 (0.598) in his 22 seasons as OSU’s head coach. After Riley and Casey, the venerable Ralph Coleman checks in with 561 wins in his career than spanned 35 seasons.
Pat Casey’s tenure as head coach accounts for 29% of OSU’s all-time wins since the inception of the baseball program in the 1907 season. With 40 more games on the regular season schedule, reaching the milestone of all-time wins leader before the season is concluded is not unreasonable.
Jake Rodriguez consults with Coach Pat Casey (click to enlarge)
Each season a new crop of pitchers take the mound for OSU. The table below shows some of the statistics for OSU’s baseball frosh over the past decade.
Some pitchers have been stellar from the very first while others needed some experience and instruction to bring out their talents. Most recently, this cultivation of talent by the coaching staff has been observed with the development of current pre-season All-American Tony Bryant.
Who will be the next pitcher to join the players on this list in 2012?
Performance of Recent OSU Freshman Pitchers
| Pitcher | ERA | W-L | G/GS | SV | IP |
|
Kunz |
1.54 | 2-0 | 13/0 | 0 | 11.2 |
|
Starr |
1.61 | 3-1 | 16/0 | 0 | 22.1 |
|
Boyd |
1.90 | 7-1 | 20/2 | 0 | 42.2 |
|
Gorton |
1.97 | 2-0 | 12/1 | 0 | 32.0 |
|
Rhoderick |
2.39 | 0-1 | 20/0 | 12 | 26.1 |
|
Gaviglio |
2.73 | 10-1 | 18/6 | 1 | 62.2 |
|
Gunderson |
2.90 | 6-2 | 22/0 | 3 | 49.2 |
|
Reyes |
3.10 | 7-3 | 24/11 | 0 | 81.1 |
|
Turpen |
4.40 | 1-0 | 5/3 | 0 | 14.1 |
|
Bryant |
4.64 | 0-0 | 14/1 | 0 | 21.1 |
|
Wetzler |
4.66 | 6-3 | 17/12 | 1 | 67.2 |
|
Peavey |
4.96 | 2-3 | 15/5 | 1 | 49.0 |
|
Buck |
5.06 | 3-6 | 21/9 | 6 | 69.1 |
|
Nygren |
5.55 | 1-1 | 15/6 | 0 | 35.2 |
|
Nickerson |
5.67 | 4-3 | 14/8 | 0 | 46.0 |
|
Robles |
6.31 | 3-2 | 10/8 | 0 | 35.2 |
Here’s the ten official criteria considered by the NCAA baseball post-season tournament selection committee used for selection and seeding of the tournament field and OSU’s performance to date:
1. Overall record 38-14, 0.731
2. Division 1 record 38-14, 0.731
3. Overall RPI Ranking 27 – Boyd Nation, 21 – Warren Nolan (second to last official RPI will be released on May 25)
4. Non-conference record and RPI ranking of opponents 21-7 (0.750), 141
5. Conference regular-season record 17-7, 0.708
6. Road record and RPI ranking of opponents 12-6 (0.687), 86
7. Last 15 games’ record 6-6, 0.500
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Here’s the ten official criteria considered by the NCAA baseball post-season tournament selection committee used for selection and seeding of the tournament field and OSU’s performance to date:
1. Overall record 37-12, 0.755
2. Division 1 record 37-12, 0.755
3. Overall RPI Ranking 20 – Boyd Nation, 16 – Warren Nolan (official RPI will be released on May 18)
4. Non-conference record and RPI ranking of opponents 21-7 (0.750), 119
5. Conference regular-season record 16-5, 0.762
6. Road record and RPI ranking of opponents 12-6 (0.687), 102
7. Last 15 games’ record 5-4, 0.556
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Here’s the ten criteria considered by the NCAA baseball post-season tournament selection committee and OSU’s performance to date (May 10):
1. Overall record 34-11, 0.756
2. Division 1 record 34-11, 0.756
3. Overall RPI Ranking 11
4. Non-conference record and RPI ranking of opponents 20-7 (0.741), 139
5. Conference regular-season record 14-4, 0.779
6. Road record and RPI ranking of opponents 11-5 (0.688), 76
7. Last 15 games’ record 2-3, 0.400
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