It’s a proprietary ranking system that’s supposed to be more accurate than RPI. Something like KenPom for basketball.
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Oh yeah, forgot about that. So far we have never made it that far in either baseball or softball.
Here’s something wild: I always assumed Ohio (and then later Kent) was the best the MAC ever did at the NCAA’s finishing 3rd, but my late night research shows both Western and EMU lost in the title game. Western was back in the 50’s and eMU in the 70s. Mac baseball has been good a long time.
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By my count, we have the fifth-highest chance of winning the regional out of the sixteen 4-seeds.
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From my archives… Maybe 1977 or 1979.
Coach Middaugh on the far left. We had a great run from 76-79. In 77, we beat Lamar and Baylor in our first two games in the NCAA Regionals.
I’m just not certain who the two players are. Danny Hall as a player? Maybe. Mark Naehring? Can’t believe I can’t remember.
Edit was very small. So don’t worry about it…Or your liver will attack your spleen.
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Tim. Not Mark.
Actually, Tim played later. He was a heck of a player too!
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Shit! You win! He played in the 80s.
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The MAC has had three Cy Young Award winners.
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Without researching it, Orel Hershizer comes to mind
Steve Stone
And a 3x MVP. Also probably the greatest manager of all time, Walter Alston, came from Miami
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And the late Bob Welch makes three: Hersheiser, Stone & Welch. Plus the legendary Yankees Captain - Catcher Thurman Munson.
The Mid-American Conference MLB All-Star Team - Hustle Belt Here’s a slightly outdated list
This list is incorrect in that Ohio never made the finals. Only EMU and WEstern have.
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I think Western hosted the very first CWS in its earlier format.
I believe I had heard that story before. That takes the concept of team bonding to the next level.
I think that there was an entire story about swapping wives along with the kids, that was in Sports Illustrated and was written by one of SI’s legendary writers.
A whole new meaning to “the player to be named later” in a trade.
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