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Can someone explain how UCA has better starters than we do?

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dawgphd

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Actually I have come to realize most everyone has better starters.

But why?

Okay Woodruff got hurt and Wild Thing has who know what issues.

Lindgren hasn't been right since he fielded the line drive with his leg.

We have a midweek middle reliever starting Fridays. A midweek starter on Saturday and potluck on Sunday.

All that aside, how does an SEC club with a 600k coach in his 5th year have no starting pitching? We may have the best middle reliever in the history of college baseball. We probably have the best closer in the country. Just no quality starters.

In pure retrospect, if we are admittedly just looking for 4 innings out of starters to get to the pen why didn't we throw the young guys out there during the year to get game experience. Fitts and Cox looked fine tonight.

In the unlikely event the baseball gods smile on us tomorrow and the next Sandy Koufax doesn't trot to the mound for UPIG Directional, I'd revamp the whole damn thing next weekend.

Go balls to the wall with my best three in game one or two to make sure there is a third game. Lots of thing can happen if you get to a third game.
 
thatsbaseball

thatsbaseball

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I`d be curious to know the baseball budgets of MSU and UCA...it would probably be a little embarrassing
 
Shmuley

Shmuley

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Under the budget item, "nutsacks" they are outspending us so far.
 
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Buford T. Justice

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You answered your own question

3 of our best starting arms are Woodruff, Evan Mitchell, and Lindgren. One is hurt, one can't find the plate, and the other is struggling. If those 3 are on point, our starting pitching is really good and deep. Without them, things change. Nobody has a staff that is so deep that they can lose 3 potential weekend starting pitchers, and still brag about the starting pitching that remains.
 
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msstate7

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Nov 27, 2008
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Could have something to do with mindset too. Uca pitchers know they aren't gonna get snatched at the first sign of trouble so they don't press as much. Our pitchers know if they walk a man in the 1st, they might get snatched.
 
coach66

coach66

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UCA seems to want it a lot more than we do and are going to win this thing if

we don't get our head out of our *** and play ball. They are a team of
pesky grinders that are not going to give it away we will have to kick their ***
or we will lose. And yes the "Whistler" is relentless.
 
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drt7891

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I believe there are a few SEC teams that would call us a bunch of pesky grinders, too.

Play confident ball and control the game. Don't let them play their game, and they don't have a chance.
 
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patdog

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May 28, 2007
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Or maybe it has more to do with the fact our starters haven't earned the chance to stay in games longer. It's pretty simple really. Our top 2 starters are (1) hurt and (2) completely flaked out on us. So we're down to our Sunday starter and a couple of midweek guys for an SEC rotation. Couple that with one of the best and deepest bullpens in the nation, and Cohen would be an idiot to let the starters go any longer.
 
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msstate7

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patdog said:
Or maybe it has more to do with the fact our starters haven't earned the chance to stay in games longer. It's pretty simple really. Our top 2 starters are (1) hurt and (2) completely flaked out on us. So we're down to our Sunday starter and a couple of midweek guys for an SEC rotation. Couple that with one of the best and deepest bullpens in the nation, and Cohen would be an idiot to let the starters go any longer.
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I'm not disagreeing with taking out starters at first sign of trouble, but it has to affect our starters mindset. I'd use a quick hook also with our bullpen.
 
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patdog

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Cohen should have definitely had a quicker hook with Gentry last night. Those 2 singles right before the double were both ripped. If batters are making good contact on Gentry, you'd better get him the hell out of there quick because that's means he's lost it. And when he's lost it, it's like batting practice.
 
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Kojak.sixpack

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Lindgren...

dawgphd said:
Lindgren hasn't been right since he fielded the line drive with his leg.
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I was thinking about this during the South Carolina series. Everyone goes back to the line drive. Maybe Lindgren is a primetime guy. Has Lindgren thrown a Friday night game since his injury or has it only been on Sundays? Is there any possiblity that if we would have re-asserted him back on Friday night that he would have refound the magic and that his flatness is because he has lost some confidence after his being replaced and pushed down to Sunday?

I am hopeful that Lindgren just finds his focus more under the lights and that he gets right tonight.
 
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