PITCHING

aUTfan said:
Coach said he needed to look at Hamilton, Tumis and Navarre. He’s also trying to win games, trying to look at pitchers while being in tight games (whole series with Dartmouth) made it more difficult I’m sure. TBH, I didn’t know Ace was injured.

We likely won’t know a lot till Missouri, Georgia and Kentucky. LSU is going to present some significant challenges and will require unorthodox pitching management that we may not see the rest of the season and/or not until we face Arky in fayetnam. The miss st series we will be trying to establish our pitching identity.

That Tuesday game after LSU is going to be very interesting if all the games over the weekend are close. Coach is going to empty the gun that weekend.
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Kentucky and Tennessee are smokin’ so far. D1 isn’t the only ranking out there.
 
One thing about Harrison…

He has a tendency to dig a hole, but then he usually digs himself out of it. This puts a lot of drama in the game. It’s no harm no foul, but it drives his pitch count up.

Zane Morehouse (who by the way is doing very well in the Indians farm system) used to do the same thing. He’d put 2 on with no outs, then he’d mow the side down. I see Harrison doing that.
 
Chop said:
Kentucky and Tennessee are smokin’ so far. D1 isn’t the only ranking out there.
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I wasnt looking at any one ranking. We don’t play Tennessee, we do play Florida though who is supposed to be pretty good but LSU is on another level….I think. Guidry has been dealing with an injury so they can and will be stronger on the mound when he finally heals and I’m sure he will be by the time our series rolls around. We are going to learn a lot that weekend about ourselves but by no means will it be a season ender no matter what happens.
 
Chop said:
Our overall pitching this year is somewhere from good to excellent.

I’ll have to see some data on last year—as in team ERA and team WHIP. I don’t remember our pitching being awful. It was certainly top quarter of the conference. In fact, I think it was actually THE BEST in the Big 12–the #2 or #3 conference in college baseball. I think we’re even better on the mound this year overall, but I wouldn’t call last year’s pitching awful.
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Humm, I guess I remember several losses giving up tons of runs, but you're right. We were #17 in team ERA and #21 in team WHIP just behind Baylor in both. The Big 12 wasn't exactly an elite conference though. Not only did no one make it to Omaha, the Big 12 didn't even win one super regional game.
 
Grubbs looks completely back to his 2024 level, possibly even better. His pitch count has to be kept fairly low to moderate early in the season to ensure his recovery is complete.
 
Flores and Navarre are going to figure into our season toward the end, they are developing nicely.

I would really like to see Moffett get his control issues fixed and Mercer to get his stuff together.

Both these guys are capable of shutting ANY team down.

Hamilton and Tumis should get more time on Tuesday? These guys are capable of helping this team.

This team has the potential to be really deep.
 
aUTfan said:
Flores and Navarre are going to figure into our season toward the end, they are developing nicely.

I would really like to see Moffett get his control issues fixed and Mercer to get his stuff together.

Both these guys are capable of shutting ANY team down.

Hamilton and Tumis should get more time on Tuesday? These guys are capable of helping this team.

This team has the potential to be really deep.
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Right.

Mercer (post-injury) has been called the best pitcher on the team in the off season. He had some early season jinxes, but I think we need to see more of him.

Moffett.....I have no idea how good he is...?

Tumis--did he auction off his command and control in the offseason to the highest bidder, did he show up to practice drunk, or did he do anything else to piss off the coaches? His breaking stuff last year was unequalled--I'm talking nasty. His control wasn't bad either, maybe his control could use some work......?

Howard--I'm all for giving people plenty of chances, but for now, we only want this guy entering mid-week games where we have a 7 point lead or something...
 
Chop said:
Right.

Mercer (post-injury) has been called the best pitcher on the team in the off season. He had some early season jinxes, but I think we need to see more of him.

Moffett.....I have no idea how good he is...?

Tumis--did he auction off his command and control in the offseason to the highest bidder, did he show up to practice drunk, or did he do anything else to piss off the coaches? His breaking stuff last year was unequalled--I'm talking nasty. His control wasn't bad either, maybe his control could use some work......?

Howard--I'm all for giving people plenty of chances, but for now, we only want this guy entering mid-week games where we have a 7 point lead or something...
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Moffet's fb tops out at 100mph but it might be "just a little outside" (In Bob Uecker's voice)

And as for Howard, I would be scared to pitch him unless we had a 2 touchdown lead.
 
aUTfan said:
Moffet's fb tops out at 100mph but it might be "just a little outside" (In Bob Uecker's voice)

And as for Howard, I would be scared to pitch him unless we had a 2 touchdown lead.
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Did LSU “suggest” to Moffat that he might want to look around in the portal? Or maybe he just wasn’t satisfied with his playing time? If he can hit 100mph, then he’s surely worth working with on his control. He’s got to have at least one other pitch—even just a circle-C change up. Lucas Gordon made All American throwing changeups and spotting a low 90s fastball on the corners.
 
This appears to be the list of pitchers that are currently highly trusted by our coaches:

Spencer
Grubbs
Harrison
Volantis
Riojas
Burns
DuPlantier
Flores
Navarre
(Maybe) Bing

We need two more to join that illustrious band. The above work for weekend series. In the Regionals and Omaha, you need a few more trustworthy arms.
 
Chop said:
This appears to be the list of pitchers that are currently highly trusted by our coaches:

Spencer
Grubbs
Harrison
Volantis
Riojas
Burns
DuPlantier
Flores
Navarre
(Maybe) Bing

We need two more to join that illustrious band. The above work for weekend series. In the Regionals and Omaha, you need a few more trustworthy arms.
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I think Hudson Hamilton might join that group. He needs lots of Tuesday night innings for now. I don’t know what Tumis did to fall out of favor, or if he’s injured.

McCreary and Rerick—Big corn fed heat-throwing fastballers who need to work on their command and control and develop more reliable breaking stuff and/or changeups.

Howard……………….start giving his innings to Hudson Hamilton.
 
Chop said:
Max Grubbs -- living dangerously today, but no damage. Beaned a man, then didn't do anything else wrong. He gave up a really weird infield hit that would have been an impossible play for the pitcher to make -- effectively, it was a bunt. Then Grubbs turned in a great fielding play scooping up a very short grounder and flipping it to Galvan at the plate for an out. Grubbs gave up zero runs, so all's well that ends well. Grubbs preserved his 0.00 ERA. Grubbs isn't the 2nd coming of Roger Clemens, but what Grubbs is (for this year at least) is a guy who can come in, throw strikes, and get a bunch of ground outs. I think this year he'll be one of our most valuable middle relievers, and will likely be used about like Burke is being used now. Long-term, Grubbs has starter written all over him. As Geno Gordon put it in his interview today: Grubbs is "a strike-thrower who gets A LOT of ground outs." Gordon then favorably compared Grubbs to Tristan Stevens.
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Quoted above from 2023. Grubbs has turned out pretty much as projected. He's one of our best pitchers, very reliable, and he gets LOTS of ground ball outs. Wish we could clone him a couple of times. We had high expectations of Grubbs, and he has delivered.

He also appears very intense on the mound, yet he never seems to be shaken when things go South on him. He's got a good pitcher's brain.
 
Da' Bows learned to pitch sometime in the recent past. They're #5 in the Nation at a 1.15 WHIP. With pitching like that, they could be a very dangerous 3 or 4 seed to land in your Regional.
 
Sam Houston game -- Bing and Jason Flores each put in another good outing.

Moffett showed both velocity and some interesting movement on the ball in limited action. I think command and control may have been holding him back....?
 
Tennessee schedule is much easier than ours. ERA is something to look at but it's not everything. Tennessee is still good, they still have Frank Anderson.
 
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