Every year D1 Baseball presents extensive reviews of all of the regionals in the tournament. One of the things they list is the probability of 1 to 10 of the favorite winning the regional. Of the ones they have previewed so far, the favorite is generally scored about a 6 to advance out of the regional. In the Fayetteville regional, Arkansas is rated a nine as far as probability to advance. They said they almost made it a 10. In the several years that I have been following D1 Baseball, I have never seen such a prohibitive favorite.
Arkansas is also listed as having the best hitter, pitcher, defense, offense, starting rotation, and bullpen.
Speaking of struggling…I could have gotten very large odds a month ago that Goodheart would finish the season with a better batting average than J. Battles.
But, as of today, they are tied. Still not sure it will finish that way, but that speaks both to Matt’s struggles and Jalen’s recently hot bat.
The Hogs are the national 1 seed, getting to host on their home. I wonder how the Hogs overall “9” rating compares to that of each of the 15 other regional 1’s?