Can tell ya part of the problem is simply recruiting when it comes to our pitching woes.
can't sign nothing but low floor, high ceiling guys and expect to win consistently. Most of those guys don't typically pan out in college. They need a lot of mound time and game experience.
You have to add some high floor/potentially lower ceiling guys to the roster that can come in and from day 1 will fill it up and pound the strike zone. Good, solid, college arms that might not develop Into top 3-5 round picks but will compete and give you a chance to win.
They have gotten too analytical in their approach and spend too much time looking at numbers on a computer whether it's spin rate or velocity, launch angle for hitters/bat speed. Etc.
it's ok to take several of those types of guys as you will have some that make big strides developmentally, but you have to balance the class out a little more and add a couple of arms each year that you know will throw strikes. Finding highschool arms that throw a ton of strikes and have elite stuff is exceptionally hard. Those kids are going early in the draft.
We need to be adding a couple of guys in each class in that 88-92 range that fill it up. Lefties, add some that are 84-88 bumping some 90s that fill it up. Thumbing lefties are still just as effective now as they were 20-30 years ago. I wouldn't care if we carried a couple of lefties In the 83-86 mph range with good sink on the fb and a good change up.
Could be completely off on that as I don't know what their recruiting strategy overall is. But just from what I've watched and heard from players at other big D1s and how state recruits that seems to be a part of the problem.
I was talking with one of Ole miss's pitchers I used to work with when he was younger and he basically said the simplest way to put it is that state recruits closer type stuff and tries to turn them into starters. He said they were so much more analytically driven than some of the other schools that were recruiting him. Just found it interesting.
