I go Fitts Friday. Ideally, Fitts would give you 6-7
FITTS will not go 6-7 innings. FITTS almost NEVER goes 6-7 innings. Hell, Bob C. could count on one hand (with fingers left over) the amount of games Trevor has pitched beyond the 4th inning. He is not an effective starting pitcher unless you give him an EARLY LEAD....which this team cannot do 9 times out of every 10 games.
LASTER, MITCHELL, LINDGREN, HOLDER.
everyone else is a shot in the dark.
If we knew that we could get a few runs early, hell yeah, throw Fitts against whomever. But we don't know..and odds are, bats will be cold as ice...as usual. Fitts comes unglued at first sign of trouble in close games...LSU being the exception. LSU was still stinging from being swept at Florida.
I don't think it would be a great idea to throw Mitchell (Mr. pitch-to-contact) against SDSU OR ULL (sporting a .315+ team batting average.) Why can't we go Laster/Lindgren for Game 1 and 2? Especially Lindgren against ULL. Stats don't lie, he is one of the best swing and miss pitchers in all of college baseball. My point being, he would give us our best shot at a win against ULL in their own corndog infested backyard. Sounds like our best bet to me. My thoughts:
Game 1) Laster
Game 2) Lindgren
Game 3) Fitts/Mitchell
I think Lindgren has proven that he can't start under any circumstances.
He was even terrible when he came out to start the 7th inning of the rain delayed game against Texas A&M. He got one out (on a sac bunt) and put three runners on base. Holder had to come in and bail him out of that jam. Lindgren is awesome, but we don't want him starting at all.I think Lindgren has proven that he can't start under any circumstances.
You must not understand baseball. Pitch to contact guys tend to be more consistent than K guys. You also don't understand how truly hard it is to square up against Mitchell because his speeds are sick. He can also go deeper into games. I don't know why'd you'd want to move our ace to te pen.
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