Why not pitch Stratton on Sat and Graveman on Sunday?

Hump4Hoops

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It seems like it should be. Constantly change who you pitch what day in an attempt to snag an otherwise impossible advantage if both teams go Ace, 2, 3 on Fri/Sat/Sun. Say you play a superior team, and each of their pitchers, in order, is better than your own, but if your 1 is better than their 2, and your 2 is better than their 3, why not try to get that to line up?
 

engie

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Is breaking up the rotation stylistically. What I mean is... If your taking Stratton off Friday night, you need to throw him Sunday. You keep the change-of-pace guy, Graveman, on Saturday. This way, your not throwing two similar pitchers at a team on back to back days...
 

GerryBertier

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Arkansas did that last week and lost the series. Meyers is pitching better than Wahl at the moment. Unless you move Stratton to Sunday, your probably at better odds throwing in Friday.
 

Coach34

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when you do that, you take a chance of going deep in your bullpen on Friday night and wearing them out in Game 1.

I like throwing your #1 guy on Friday because you know he is going to give you 7 quality innings more than likely. The longer you can save your Pen, the better.
Having a Friday night starter go only 4 innings, and then getting into your pen, and even then possibly face extra innings in Game 1 doesnt bode well for a successful weekend.

Think about how fresh our pen was in Game 3 vs Tennessee, and how crucial that was in getting the sweep.
 

chew1095

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Wahl has not exactly been on in his last two starts and with this being in Starkville, I give us the edge pitching wise Friday night with Stratton for no other reason other than Wahl last two outings. Wahl is a bad *** and is very very good when he is on. Mayers will in all likelohood start for them Saturday and he and Graveman appear to have very similar numbers. I have not seen Mayers pitch, but we know what we get with Graveman (who mind you has been the biggest surprise for us this year in my opinion). We will get a pitcher that has thrown strikes this year and has averaged 6+ innings in his SEC starts. I believe Hivley, Ole Miss old Saturday starter, is going to coming out of the pen since Huber is injured. That means Ole Miss is probably left throwing a freshman on Sunday. The guy they trotted out there last Sunday (and who started the Guv Cup) got absolutely shelled. It will be interesting to see if they hold Buchanan to start Sunday. He is not starting tonight when they play Memphis and we could not hit anything that dude threw up in the Guv Cup. I guess we would have the benefit of seeing him a second time though. So, to answer your question, I am not sure we want to blow the bullpen by pitching by committee Friday. We could end up being screwed the rest of the weekend. Plus, I think the mitching match ups, for the most part, are pretty even. Ole Miss has some guys that can flat out hit and we do not. Rea and others are starting to come around, but we do not have a Yarborough or a Snyder on our roster right now. Should be a great match up this weekend. We really need to win this series and it all starts with Stratton. Any Rebel lurkers care to correct anything I may have gotten wrong, please feel free.
 

GerryBertier

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Meyers has been absolutely dominant in SEC play. After Wahl shut out Florida, he sort of slipped the next couple of weeks but had a great outing last Friday before the rain came. He still has the lowest ERA of any SEC starter.

But if you are Cohen, you HAVE to win Friday. Lose Friday and your going to see the two headed monster of Meyers and Hively Saturday. Win Friday and Bianco will likely have to save Hively for Sunday. Friday decides this series
 

DAWG61

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go about the whole pitching strategy completely different than anyone. I would have teams of 3 pitchers (all separate from the bullpen) set for each day. The 3 would be set to go for each day. Each of the 3 has a closer if they get in trouble before their 3 innings is up. The next week they flip with their closer. Everyone pitches and everyone throws strikes. The change in speeds and location is what gets the batters out. If you can't throw strikes and you can't change speeds then you can't pitch. Only guys that can pitch would be on my staff and everyone will be pitching. I will be bringing a small army of pitchers at your team every game.
 

chew1095

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but I hardly consider a pitcher with a 2-1 record in 6 SEC starts and an ERA closer to 4 than 3 as being absolutely dominant.

Otherwise I agree with you. We must win Friday.
 

tcdog

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Not just this weekend. I am all about match-ups.I want our pitcher to be better than their pitcher. If you lose a game what difference does it make if it is Friday or Sunday? Win at least 2. When your offense is weak why waste ace vs ace. We will win because of our pitching , so I want our best against their 2nd best and our 2nd best against their 3td best. Just makes sense to me.
 

patdog

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Few, if any, teams have the 12 quality pitchers it would take to do that.

Your ace pitcher would only throw 3 innings per weekend (opposingcoaches would love you for that).

Even if you did have 12 quality pitchers, all it would take would be for 1 of the 3-4 you threw in each game to be off and you'd be screwed.
 

RonnyAtmosphere

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..and considering this pitching staff is coming off not only a sweep, but it's best collective performance in years, I don't think this is the time to discuss tinkering with the pitching rotation.
 

DAWG61

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patdog said:
Few, if any, teams have the 12 quality pitchers it would take to do that.

Your ace pitcher would only throw 3 innings per weekend (opposingcoaches would love you for that).

Even if you did have 12 quality pitchers, all it would take would be for 1 of the 3-4 you threw in each game to be off and you'd be screwed.


per strength and use but basically to sum it up I would have a 12 man bullpen and no "starters" as you traditionally think of them. If my ace goes 3 on Friday, he can go 3 on Sunday. You have roughly 27 innings to get 12 pitchers through.
 

DAWG61

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DrKennethNoisewater said:
or other apple product? This happened to me the other day as well.


to me every time I post on iPad. Nice structured paragraph only shows up as a bunched together one.
 

tcdog

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I am talking about our best chance to win 2 out of 3. And Meat Loaf says that ain't bad.