Ole Miss starting Rabe
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Top 50 draft prospect, time to give him the Witherspoon treatment
5-3 3.71 ERA
will be the 5th lowest Era we’ve face this postseason. Edwards, Govel, Towers and Steitz were lower.
will be the 5th lowest Era we’ve face this postseason. Edwards, Govel, Towers and Steitz were lower.
A hard-throwing RHP. I mean…we’ve hit righties pretty well all season. Given the size of the park in Omaha and the righty on the mound, gotta believe that the doctor will be in the starting lineup.
Rabe has been on fire in his last 3 starts... 19 IP, 11 H, 3 R, 4 BB, 30 K. The opponents in those games were Alabama, Nebraska and Auburn.
3.71 in the SEC is not the same as the others
Good point, Runs saved on defense can be just as important as runs scored. Carter seems the best option in RF in the spacious outfield. Should be good to go with Hull and Howe
We're usually not kind to ace pitchers.
Watched his game against Auburn. He looked damn good. Tall big guy who has a very good fastball, but he’s good bc he can mix in some very good off speed stuff. Maybe throws 5 pitches I think. He’s been very good in the post season and we will have to work hard to get to him/ get him out earlier than the 7th. Even if we scratch for a couple runs, they’ll likely stick with him if they are spread out. Can easily be a Sunday vs. USC situation where he can just eat up innings and our pitchers have no room for error. Need to be more like Edwards USC on Friday and get a couple plus run that pitch count up. Here’s to him struggling with command like Edwards did!
Still kinda surprised they didn’t go with Elliot….
Still kinda surprised they didn’t go with Elliot….
I’m not scared of anyone. I’ll take our squad over anyone.
If he’s truly their best pitcher, which he is, they have to start him game one so he has more chances to pitch if they keep winning.
Stat wise, he's the best.
But he's been their Saturday night starter for most of the season with Elliott on Friday night. Elliott also has the experience of being in Omaha and pitching in the title game.
And he’ll have experience pitching in Omaha after tomorrow night. Gotta play to win.
I know a few Ole Miss fans... they seemed surprised by the Rebs choice to not go with Elliott.
But i agree with you. Gotta put your best arm on the mound to have a chance to start 1-0. Hopefully the Heels can be patient (unlike most of the game 3 vs USC) and work the pitch count to get to the bullpen.
I think Rabe is their best, as I suggested last week.
And better than his stats, as quoted above.
Rabe has even pitched quite a few weekend sunday games as their "3rd" starter... Not sure if he was injured and came back there, or what. Season High is 7 innings pitched, which was his last start. Seems to be limited honestly by his strikeout totals... His last 4 starts have been 14, 13, 9, and 8 K's. And his SEASON high in walks is 2! Not really sure what our approach will be - jump on certain first pitches hoping to get any chance for solid swings off, or try to work counts, even if it ends up in a huge K total for us... just to try and get into the pen. Feel like it's gonna be a low scoring tight one!
Last two postseason games (of recent memory) where we totally jumped on first pitches just did not seem to have much success doing that (Arizona G3 and USC G3).
Feels like we press a lot more when we go up swinging first pitch. Gotta work the count. Even if you get into 0-2 or 1-2 counts. The more pitches you see, the lot better the chances are of getting a pitch to hit (and seeing more pitches in theory should lead to more success later in the game)
He had an arm injury during the season and hasn’t been the same pitcher since. He’s also starting to slide down draft boards as a result.
He is very good and what makes him so good is his change up to left handed hitting . Let's go he is very good but no better than what the Tar Heels have faced in the tournament.
Only 11 BB all year.....Gonna have to grind AB and hit the ball....Don't wait on walks
Rabe's been elite.
But pitching is a dependent variable. One passed ball doesn't show in his line. It shows in extra pitches, stretched innings, and a bullpen that enters earlier than planned.
Clean defense – pitcher ahead – fewer three‑ball counts – shorter innings – fresh bullpen – UNC hitters free to work deep counts – more walks - tired arms late.
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Rabe’s ERA tonight was only 3.55.
Good thing we had DeCaro with his 2.31 ERA and Glauber with his 2.17 ERA tonight.
Rabe was freaking awesome . His stuff was just filthy tonight.
Rabe was very good tonight luckily as i told the fellow heels fan i was watching with we were running his pitch count up. Got to the BP and made them pay.
Rabe looked really good to me - color me impressed. But with hard throwers like that I always like to see them get worn down.
Was happy to see him get over 100 pitches and what pitch # was Hull’s homer? Something like #102
Was happy to see him get over 100 pitches and what pitch # was Hull’s homer? Something like #102
The dude was throwing a cutter that moved glove-side, a two-seamer that ran arm-side and a changeup that died all from basically the same arm slot that looked the same for -40 feet. Really hard to hit. We didn’t hit him but really made him work. 4 walks and if we take a couple 3-2 balls it would have been 6 after only having 11 all year.
He was fantastic tonight. Cooper's 9 pitch AB in the second after a couple of quick outs was a very underrated part of the game. Made him work and got his pitch count up
Combine it with the Howe single and Hynek long AB and it made him throw 20 pitches in that inning after there were 2 outs.