Our lineup is pretty weak after 1-4

[57stratdawg]

Just being honest. Gordon's K rate is over 60%, that's not a good sign. Blaylock is K'ing at a pretty high rate too.

 

[MSUDC11]

Correct. I'm scared how much this team is reminding me of the 2015 team already.

 

[8dog]

With stovall back thats 5 good hitters

we scored 8 runs today. The game was lost when cannizaro didnt put self in to relieve cyr.

 

[msstate7]

Lovelady has a career .533 ops (includes juco) and had 2 pass balls. He should not be playing for us.

When we get Stovall back, we should use this lineup...

Mangum
Stovall
Alexander
Rooker -- dh
Brown
Gridley
Poole
Skelton/marrero
Blaylock

 

[8dog]

Id let vansau and mcnamee have a chance to win the dh job and put rooker in rf

 

[Hoover Dawg]

Guy is probably trying to find out who he can and can't trust. Or, he made a rookie coach mistake. Either way, isn't it a little early to be demonizing him and calling out what you think, in hindsight, are horrendous decisions?

 

[engie]

It was dumb to not go with Self early. I'm surprised at the pass Canni is getting when Cohen would have a mob. Not that he doesn't deserve a pass -- but still.

 

[Todd4State]

Lovelady has a career .533 ops (includes juco) and had 2 pass balls. He should not be playing for us.

When we get Stovall back, we should use this lineup...

Mangum
Stovall
Alexander
Rooker -- dh
Brown
Gridley
Poole
Skelton/marrero
Blaylock

I disagree because Stovall at 9 and then Mangum and LA at 1&2 is working too well for me to want to mess with it.

Our problem this year for the most part has been pitching staff management and I have no idea why we didn't pitch Self earlier. He either needs to be in the Lindgren role or starting on the weekend one of the two. I understand that we have to see what guys can do but it seems to me that we are allowing some of them to stay in way too long when it's obvious that they shouldn't.

I hope that's because of the four game weekends which thin out our staff- especially this year. When we play Oregon this weekend I think we'll see a clearer picture of what our staff will look like.

We had to put Lovelady in with Stovall and Bragg out because that forced us to go with Skelton at third and then we had Marrero suspended for at least this weekend and possibly (likely) beyond we had no other option at catcher.

 

[messageboardsuperhero]

Our lineup is okay. We've got some young guys who swing and miss too much, but that's not really the problem with this team.

Our issue is that we have too many pitchers hurt. By my count, we lost four really good pitchers before the season started (Small, Padgett, Hughes, and James), and now it looks like our two most experienced bullpen guys are hurt as well. We also are getting nothing from Breaux, who was supposed to be as good as anyone from the 2015. He probably has arm trouble too. You don't lose seven really talented arms and have everything turn out fine.

 

[engie]

This is all true -- and why most of us told others to pump the brakes in the preseason -- but straight up bullpen mismanagement with the arms that we actually do have has lost us two games so far. We should be 8-1 right now.

 

[KurtRambis4]

Yeah, offense isn't

going to be our problem, or at least THE problem, this year. Pitching is. Our staff is so depleted with injuries. This is why I and a couple others told everyone that this year is going to be a wash. Hell I think Breaux and Smith will be done here shortly, only adding to the problems.