UH baseball team picked to finish 7th in Big West
STAR-ADVERTISER / APRIL 2012
UH’s Trevor Podratz was tagged out attempting to reach home plate by Fresno catcher Austin Wynns at Les Murakami Stadium.
The Hawaii baseball team was picked to finish seventh out of nine teams in the Big West Conference today in the annual preseason poll voted on by coaches.
The Rainbow Warriors placed fifth in the conference last season at 12-12, marking their best finish in the conference since joining the BWC in 2013.
Hawaii returns seven starters on offense but has to replace nearly its entire pitching staff, including All-BWC first team selection Tyler Brashears and second-team honoree Quintin Torres-Costa from last season.
Both pitchers were selected in last June’s MLB draft and gave up their remaining college eligibility.
Cal State Fullerton was tabbed to repeat as conference champion, earning four of the nine first-place votes.
UC Irvine followed behind in second with Long Beach State third and UC Santa Barbara fourth. All three of those teams received at least one first-place vote with the Dirtbags garnering three.
Cal State Northridge and Cal Poly were fifth and sixth, followed by UH, UC Riverside and UC Davis.
Hawaii begins the 2016 season at UH-Hilo on Feb. 13.
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Coach Trap seems to be a nice guy and decent coach. Why is he never under the same scrutiny as other UH coaches, I don’t know. His teams are usually mediocre in performance and standings, but his job security is always automatic year after year. I know many good players leave to go pro and that alone is frustrating for a coach, but he seems to have an exemption from losing his job due to repeated lackluster seasons.
Exactly. He talks a good game but is not a winner. Does a poor job of recruiting good local players. Why do his good pitchers always have arm problems? Hitting has been a problem. Time to go.
agree
He hoodwinked Ben Jay to give him a new contract, which wasn’t hard to do. The sad part is he’s been hoodwinking Hawaii fans for 15 years.
The King of Rhetoric, ugh, this guy and his stale whitebread brand of baseball needed to be gone years ago
Terrible results and boring brand of baseball, must be a good brown-nose?
Hawaii fans deserve better
His top recruits all go pro.
Doesn’t know how to recruit then.
Are you saying that if his recruits get offered to play pros, that a good coach will keep them from fulfilling their dreams?
Oxtail, you have no clue what you are talking about. Baseball is the hardest sport to recruit because you want good players but once they get drafted they are gone.
What I’m saying is ALL programs lose top players to pros, it’s not unique to Hawaii. Top program coaches learn how to build their programs around players they know they will retain. Get it, stupid one?