After a horrible season the question is always asked who is to blame, is it the coach or the players?
For this season’s Cerritos College baseball team the answer is simple it’s the players.
The coach doesn’t hit the ball, field, or pitch.
It is not even that the team can’t hit it just doesn’t hit in clutch situations.
It seems every time the Falcons have runners on base the batter strikes out or pops up.
And of course that will happen but good teams have productive outs meaning moving guys over from second to third by hitting the ball to the right side or hitting a sacrifice fly to score a run. This rarely happens for this season’s Falcons.
Another major problem the Falcons have faced this season is fielding. Its not even the fielding has been that horrible but again it is times the errors are made.
It seems the errors the Falcons have made have come at the inopportune times. When runners on base in a close game they seem to forget how to catch and throw the ball.
Errors at any time can kill any team at any level it’s the biggest rule of baseball never give the other team an extra out.
Coaches can teach the fundamentals of fielding a ground ball or an easy popup, and I am sure Brooks teaches that, the execution comes down to the players and this year’s Falcons have not been executing in the field.
Catching has been another problem for the Falcons this season. Pass balls with runners on base have been happening way to frequently. Pass balls or wild pitches do not mean much when there are no runners on base however, if there are runners on base it will and has killed a teams hope for a win.
Again coaches can show a catcher how to block a ball, they can show how get front of a wild pitch but, execution goes down to the with the mask on.
The lone bright spot has been the starting pitching, led by Freshman Nick Quesada and Sophomore Chris Villalobos these two guys have provided a tremendous one-two punch for the Falcons and have kept the team in most of the games they have started.
But, on the other side of the coin is the bullpen. When the Falcons have been in a spot to win game the bullpen seems to its best to blow it.
The back end of the bullpen has been horrendous and the coaching staff needs to find some arms to fill the spots in the bullpen before next season or the Falcons will be looking at another sub par season.
With all this being said the answer to why the Falcons have done so horribly this can be as simple as playing to hard or should I say worrying about making a mistake.
It happens to the best players in the world , one mistake can start to snowball and next thing you know you can’t stop making mistakes.
But, whatever the case is it is you cannot blame Brooks for one bad season, now if the Falcons have another bad season net year maybe you can start looking at coach but for blame the guys on the field not the guy in the dugout.
