Vanderbilt Baseball Mail Bag #8: Answers to Your Questions

Photo by Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty ImagesQuestion from VU1970:

Is there something about the nature of baseball that isn’t widely understood? Even the MLB playoff teams get swept once or twice in the course of a season. And losing 17-1 isn’t more meaningful than getting beat 2-1 or 4-3. Our winning percentage right now in SEC conference play is .722, as opposed to UT’s .444 record in conference.

The short answer is: emotions. The long answer is: emooooooooooooooooooootions.

You’re also right that many view baseball like it’s football, and... well, it’s not. It’s a high variance sport. 4 seeds have won the CWS. Teams from Mississippi have won the CWS and then fallen into that…