Following the Texas Tech baseball team’s awful trip to Salt Lake City to face off against the Utah Utes, the Red Raiders have a pitching staff that is dead last in the Big 12 (by more than a full run). And for a team that leads the conference in batting average, hits, doubles, and so many more stats at the plate, this awful ERA helps explain why the Red Raiders are barely above .500 on the season.
I mean, Texas Tech should probably be competing for a conference title. Instead, the Red Raiders are among the worst teams in the conference with a 6-12 Big 12 record.
And the gap is enormous. Texas Tech has a 7.64 ERA. The 13th-placed Utes have a 6.48 ERA. Texas Tech isn’t just the worst in the conference, this team is an outlier. An anomaly. Nobody else is in the same sort of category of bad as the Red Raiders right now. Which is a little concerning. I don’t like that the Red Raiders are isolated at the bottom of the league.
Texas Tech’s pitching staff owns the Big 12’s worst ERA by an insanely wide margin and that explains so much about this awful season
- West Virginia Mountaineers - 3.91 ERA
- UCF Knights - 4.24 ERA
- Cincinnati Bearcats - 5.21 ERA
- Baylor Bears - 5.27 ERA
- Arizona Wildcats - 5.43 ERA
- Kansas Jayhawks - 5.56 ERA
- Arizona State Sun Devils - 5.60 ERA
- TCU Horned Frogs - 5.70 ERA
- Kansas State Wildcats - 5.91 ERA
- Houston Cougars - 6.17 ERA
- Oklahoma State Cowboys - 6.23 ERA
- BYU Cougars - 6.45 ERA
- Utah Utes - 6.48 ERA
- Texas Tech Red Raiders - 7.64 ERA
Texas Tech could be at the top of the conference in the Big 12 standings if the pitching staff weren’t struggling in such a uniquely horrifying way. If the Red Raiders had even a middle of the road sort of mediocre and unassuming ERA as a team, Texas Tech would be a legitimately terrifying foe to face. And yet, here we are.
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