If we don’t find a closer ….
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Pre season predictions, I was worried about a Sunday starter, and a true closer.
I'm still there,
I think they were actually talking about our weekend starting rotation.
Line-up had a few guys getting reps in Game 2. Ark-Kansas played most of their starters, here is praying the guys we sat out for a bit are Golden for Game 3.
Unless Oak is a lying sumbitch that's not how he feels. Just read the article posted above with his comments from last night.
“My heart breaks for Maddox Miller. He earned that opportunity to pitch in that inning. Tie ball game, it’s tough to go to Ben Davis on the road when you know you’re staring at two games (Saturday) in a doubleheader. Maddox has done such a great job for us. He’ll pick himself back up and do a better job tomorrow.”
Well,he gave up 2 garbage homers in Arlington, two wild pitches in H’burg and then the walk off last night.
I am rooting for him, but he has been put in some huge situations and had some rough outcomes. Last night was a WTF, for sure.
I just worry about the kids psyche at this point. I don’t want him being the next Adam Larson. He’s a great kid from a great family.
To be fair, his wild pitches should have been blocked. That’s the area he was pitching to. Would have been SO’s had they been blocked.
I definitely agree, but that was a communication issue. For it to have happened on consecutive strikeouts was inexcusable, and on the coaches apparently.
Watched a little bit of uga tenner a little bit. The uga pitcher was more than a bit outside multiple times. He was 4 feet either side.
Miller is a freshman and we pitch him late in big games… but not the high MLB draft pick in JB… genious.
You clearly have not watched Bauer pitch this year. He has the worst ERA on the team
We’ve tried Baur 3 times. It was a disaster every time. I’m hoping he can contribute next year. Lot of hype. But nowhere near ready to pitch at this level. Miller is a much better pitcher right now.
He has only pitched 2 innings. If you give up a few runs your ERA gets high.
We have too many pitchers that are basically the same. 91-95 fastball with some okay secondary pitches. As I said JB is the only guy that has 2 nasty pitches. He ain't gonna do anything sitting on the bench. If we had some one that showed some ability to shutdown hitters then fine you can bring him along slowly. We don't have anyone. He needs to have a chance to figure it out.
I’m all for giving him a chance to figure it out but the OP was suggesting we should’ve put him in when it was tied in the 9th in Fayetteville.
Say what you want about Miller but he had earned that spot more than Bauer has. The last time we saw Bauer, he was getting rocked by Virginia Tech and gave up three runs without recording an out.
I’m sure they’ll try to pitch him Tuesday if they can. He’s an extraordinarily talented kid that hopefully has a bright future.
He’s also not remotely ready for SEC lineups yet.
Both of those kids just need to learn that there is a difference between throwing and pitching. If you don’t understand the difference then you don’t know baseball
Sometimes it’s just a bad outing, or 2, or 3. But if that’s all it was, I think we’d be seeing him more. I think as a FR he’s the most overhyped player we’ve ever signed. As a SO & JR who knows?
Greg Maddox pitched to 21,000 batters. Only 310 went to 3-0. And of those 177 were intentional walks. THAT is pitching.
I agree. Even if it's midweek or an inning here or there in mop up. Bauer has an elite slider at 3k RPM. Needs some reps at some point.
From what I saw it’s super shittty fielding and terrible catching. We should have won at least 2. And the same led to the loss to usm and ucla
Do we have a catcher that can throw out a runner at second base ? Maybe have try outs with students .This is awful .
Catching issues and blowing leads with bad bullpen performances... It feels like took a ride with Marty McFly back to 2023.
So you want to compare our freshmen and sophomore pitchers to arguably the greatest pitcher MLB ever. That seems fair.
We've tried Billingsley how many times now and with the exception of working one scoreless inning vs Tulane he's been lit up every time but BOC keeps trotting him out there.
Same here.
Except I've now added to that original list a catcher than can stop balls from going to the screen (especially w/ men on 3rd) AND at least occasionally throw someone out at 2nd trying to steal.
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Ben Davis should be the closer until someone else can prove they can do it. No, he isn't great for the role but we don't have any other trustworthy relief pitchers. That's why nobody could understand wasting him in a 7-0 ball game. BOC and Parker totally mishandled that and likely cost us game 3. Not only that, they could have used him in the first game in the 9th inning with a tie but chose not to. Why do that if you are going to use him up the next day with a 7 run lead? Even the TV announcers didn't understand why he was brought in for that game. Coaching staff has to do a MUCH better job handling the pitching situation going forward. Billingsley out there in a tight game in Game 3 is not who we want just because Davis was used up in a game that we already had in hand. I have generally been ok with the coaching moves this year but this past weekend was a train wreck with some of the decisions. Behind Davis, I would say Maddox Webb is our best candidate to be a closer but he wasn't put out in the Friday night 9th inning tie game either.
In 2 innings he's given up 6 hits and 5 runs and batters are hitting .500 against him, OUCH
Or block up a ball on a 3rd strike? Asking for a friend.
Had we brought in Davis we likley lose anyway because our offense went to **** and didn't score the last 7 innings of the game. We scored 14 freaking runs all weekend and seven of them were in one game. That **** ain't gonna cut
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There will be times in the SEC when you need to win games 4-3 or 3-2 and we have not really shown the ability to do that so far. But no doubt our offense sucked in 2 of the 3 games this past weekend.