Todd do we need a new pitching coach or is Thompson serviceable?

[goldenwavedawg]

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[Todd4State]

I want to see how these freshmen do over the next couple of years. So, it's still a little too soon for me to make a call one way or the other.

On the plus side, the pitching overall has improved statistically, and that's the main thing I want to see. Houston, Devin Jones, and Caleb Reed have all improved under him, Whitney is about the same, and Routt got worse/hurt under him. I think when Routt comes back, I'm pretty sure that they are going to leave him be, and the fact that Butch will do that is a good thing.

The pitching has been up and down this year, but I think that's mainly because of the freshmen being freshmen.

The main thing that Thompson is known for is recruiting.

If the freshmen regress in general, then I would say replace him.

 

[goldenwavedawg]

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[Rebels7]

Your pitching didn't lose this game. It wasn't great, but y'all lit up a really good pitcher. When y'all have defensive miscues, you have them back-to-back-to-back. ****, we shot ourselves in the foot too, but we were lucky enough to spread the brain farts out.

That game was two or three plays from being totally different.

 

[War Machine Dawg]

And this team is as sick as you can get. Every time they put themselves in position to win, they find a way to 17 it up. And as you point out, it's never just one mistake here then one mistake there. It's one mistake, followed by another mistake, followed by another and suddenly we've given up 5 runs in the inning and completely taken ourselves out of the ballgame. And it's always the same 4 or 5 guys doing it - Jet, Vickerson, Duffy, Ogden. Freeman's 17 up last night was a bit of a surprise, but not completely. But we never seem to have a crucial mistake from Connor, Adkins, or Shepherd. It's frustrating, but what makes it worse is knowing we really don't have any other viable options right now if we want to be able to score runs. Of the 4 guys that screw up consistently, 3 - Jet, Vick, and Duffy - are 3 of our best hitters. Hell, Vickerson & Duffy are both legitimate DH candidates if it weren't for injury. Butler looked decent in LF, but Frost forced our hand in putting him back at 2B. Hopefully it'll be better next year with some new guys in place.

 

[Todd4State]

We never have a weekend where we put it all together.

We've had times where we have pitched pretty well- like this weekend so far, we've had weekends where we hit well, and we've even had weekends where we played pretty good defense, but it always seems like one of those three goes completely out the window, and no one seems to know which one of those three it is going to be on any given weekend. Even the series we've won, we've done one of those three phases really poorly.

Like last weekend, we couldn't pitch. Against Florida, we couldn't hit.

Actually, we've had very few if any really solid games where we put it all together this year period.