There’s a few interesting wrinkles to this Texas Tech baseball team. We’re still relatively early in the season, we’re not into April just yet, but we keep finding out more and more about the way that this team functions and operates as it goes along. And there’s a few quirks.
Like the fact that the pitching staff is existing, technically speaking. The Red Raiders have arguably the least successful pitching staff in the Big 12 and that might end up being the limiting factor for what this Texas Tech baseball team is capable of.
On the flip side of that, the Red Raiders are better than just about anyone else in the conference when it comes to getting hits. And they’re quick as well. The Red Raiders are also leading the Big 12 in doubles right now right alongside the Kansas State Wildcats in a tie.
But when it comes to home runs? Well, the Red Raiders aren’t that exceptional there. They’re also not bad. They’re just kind of average.
Texas Tech ranks at No. 7 among the Big 12’s 14 college baseball teams when it comes to home run hitting after being swept by TCU
Right now, the Red Raiders are right in the middle of the conference:
- Arizona State Sun Devils - 56 home runs
- Oklahoma State Cowboys - 48 home runs
- Kansas State Wildcats - 47 home runs
- Cincinnati Bearcats - 45 home runs
- BYU Cougars - 44 home runs
- Kansas Jayhawks - 43 home runs
- Texas Tech Red Raiders - 40 home runs
- TCU Horned Frogs - 33 home runs
- Houston Cougars - 32 home runs
- Utah Utes - 23 home runs
- Baylor Bears - 23 home runs
- Arizona Wildcats - 23 home runs
- UCF Knights - 20 home runs
- West Virginia Mountaineers - 19 home runs
This Texas Tech team really relies on consistent contact as opposed to just hitting home runs on a regular basis. Now, the Red Raiders are good at getting extra base hits (and they’re still respectable at getting home runs, 40 on the season so far isn’t a bad thing at all), but they’re just not exceptional in this space. Not bad, not great, and this also isn’t the biggest problem for Texas Tech.