When someone has the opportunity to face off against a Big 12 baseball team, they tend to do better at the plate when they’re given the chance to face the Texas Tech Red Raiders as opposed to literally any other Big 12 pitching staff.
That’s because the Red Raiders are allowing opponents to put up a .302 batting average, which is the worst such mark of any Big 12 pitching staff. Right now, that is the highest opposing batting average in the Big 12.
If that isn’t concerning, you need to consider that, essentially, Texas Tech is functionally facing an entire lineup of .300 hitters in every game that they’re playing in. When you combine that with the fact that Texas Tech’s offense is leading the Big 12 with a .358 batting average, every single game is basically turning into a shootout.
That’s a dangerous sort of space to try to live in.
Texas Tech’s pitching staff is allowing opponents to rack up a .302 batting average and that needs to improve sooner rather than later
Here’s what the Big 12 looks like when looking at the opposing batting averages each team is permitting:
- Texas Tech Red Raiders - .302 batting average
- TCU Horned Frogs - .296 batting average
- Utah Utes - .290 batting average
- Arizona Wildcats - .282 batting average
- BYU Cougars - .281 batting average
- Kansas State Wildcats - .275 batting average
- Baylor Bears - .274 batting average
- Kansas Jayhawks - .269 batting average
- Oklahoma State Cowboys - .264 batting average
- Arizona State Sun Devils - .256 batting average
- Houston Cougars - .256 batting average
- Cincinnati Bearcats - .246 batting average
- UCF Knights - .221 batting average
- West Virginia Mountaineers - .219 batting average
Averages are interesting. Right now, there are just six teams in the conference that, for the entire season up to this point, are managing to hit with a batting average that is better than .302. The TCU Horned Frogs, the team that just managed to take three games away from the Red Raiders, have a .262 batting average on the season.
But when a team plays the Red Raiders, those pitching woes become a huge problem and put the Texas Tech baseball team in an awful position.