The Tennessee Volunteers have been absolute menaces on the diamond over the past couple of seasons. 

On the mound and in the batter's box, they've been dominant. This season, it's been a different tale of the tape in Knoxville. 

The pitching has been inconsistent, but their top-end talent is clear there. The Vols' hitting prowess has really been the storyline, though. 

The Vols are at the bottom of the SEC when it comes to offense. 

That's not something anybody thought would be the case entering this season. Tennessee owns the third-lowest batting average (.282) in the league right now, and they're batting just .240 in conference play so far. 

The losses to the MLB Draft of key players is showing up in a big way, and only a few Vols are seeing sustained success at the plate right now. 

The Vols have also struck out a whopping 323 times. That's the second-most in the SEC so far. 

There hasn't been consistency, and it is showing up during conference play every weekend. 

Tennessee just got swept by Arkansas this weekend, scoring just 7 total runs. 

The Razorbacks are arguably a top five team in the country right now, but more is expected from the Vols regardless. 

Their offense struggled in their series with LSU and Missouri as well. They got swept by Mizzou and lost two of three to LSU. 

Right now, they sit in sixth in the SEC East with a 5-10 league record through fifteen matchups.

Up next, they'll face a scorching-hot Vanderbilt team that could be ranked number one in the country by the start of next weekend's series with the Vols. 

The Commodores are pitching the ball as well as anyone in the conference at the moment, and opponents are batting an Sec-low .199 against them. 

The conference schedule has been a bear already for Tennessee, but that isn't slowing down anytime soon in the SEC. 

Tennessee will face South Carolina and Kentucky in the final two weekends of conference play. Both teams are currently ranked in the top fifteen nationally.

The Vols' bats will need to wake up and find consistency if they want to see the postseason and have any chance of making a run to Omaha.