Az St series - pitching rotation announced
- Thread starter NukeDogg
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I would not have guessed Yntema. I figured he was written off after giving up 5 hits in 1.1 innings on opening day.
At least he hasn’t walked a bunch of guys, I guess.
2 or 3 of those hits were bunt singles though. but I agree that I wouldn’t have expected him to be the first one with a shot in the weekend rotation. And I’m a little surprised that it wasn’t the Sunday role, with Gartman slid up to Saturday.
Kind of looks like Lemonis is thinking win the Friday night game with your ace on the mound, try to steal one on Saturday, then have the number 2 starter on Sunday against the opponents number 3 guy. Only thing I can see with this rotation. Also looks like next Tuesday’s game in Pearl is an important one that he wants to get using Jurrangelo and Loftin to get a win against USM midweek guy.
Takes a couple weeks to rearrange starters once you've started. I'm just glad to see KC is out of the weekend.
I'm hoping our staters eventually ends up (in no particular order)
Cade smith
Gartman
Lo/Loftin
Yntema is a possibility but I haven't actually seen him so no opinion on whether he can start or not.
I'd love to see loftin and lo on different days but I've spent enough years laughing at other teams who depended on FR all year. They never make it past half way through SEC season.
I suspect these pitchers will determine our outcome. There might be a surprise one way or the other but I feel confident these will be our horses, let's hope they are winners.
I'm hoping our staters eventually ends up (in no particular order)
Cade smith
Gartman
Lo/Loftin
Yntema is a possibility but I haven't actually seen him so no opinion on whether he can start or not.
I'd love to see loftin and lo on different days but I've spent enough years laughing at other teams who depended on FR all year. They never make it past half way through SEC season.
I suspect these pitchers will determine our outcome. There might be a surprise one way or the other but I feel confident these will be our horses, let's hope they are winners.
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I have it on good authority there is a very structured process for early season pitcher rotations in the coaches office
Cade is good pitcher. Unless he's a lot better than last year, he'd be a really good, reliable Game 2 or Game 3 guy. Poor recruiting has made him our ace. It looks like he's gonna have to face the best guys from SEC teams with more pitching talent. Preston was that guy last year and he finished 3-4 with an unimpressive ERA. But, Lemonis kept him in a inning or so too long because the bullpen was so bad. It's still early and we have too many errors, but we'll find out soon if pitching is any better than last year.
One thing I can never fault Lemonis for is having too long of a leash when guys aren’t throwing strikes. That guy does NOT play around with pitchers that can’t find the zone
If smith goes 3-4 I think you’d take that at this point, right?
There’s 13 weekends left, he’s given you a chance in 9 of them. Obviously those aren’t aspirational numbers and you expect to have a Friday guy who puts up way better. But this year we don’t have that. Hopefully Loo or Loftin grows into that by season’s end.
Edit: I see now they gave smith the win last week, even though he didn’t qualify for it. That changes the equation a little bit.
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I'd like to see at least 5 innings and an overall ERA under 4. Love to see ERA under 3. I want pitchers to give the team a chance and pitchers to not have to worry about errors.
Friday lineup
Larry 2B
Ledbetter CF
Chance RF
Hancock 1B
Alford 3B
Hines DH
Jordan LF
Highfill C
Forsythe SS
