Question

[The Federalist Engineer]

It's very difficult to manage a staff in the SEC with only two starters. Auger is really an opener basically. I think having Pico in the rotation will help us out a lot the last two weeks.

There's a chance we get Dohm back- but if he doesn't pitch against North Alabama I'm pretty sure he won't be back at all. Speaking of Dohm- Parker has done all of this without a guy who was supposed to be our ace. When the same thing happened in 2022 we saw what happened to the team.

I am not trying to be joker about this, but wasn't Holcombe supposed to be the ace? I think MSU lost the Ace and Closer this year. Holcombe and Dohm.

[Todd4State]

I am not trying to be joker about this, but wasn't Holcombe supposed to be the ace? I think MSU lost the Ace and Closer this year. Holcombe and Dohm.

Yes, but Holcombe actually began to struggle at the end of the last spring practice or two before the season started which is why he didn't make the rotation in the first place.

I'm pretty sure we promised Dohm a chance to start. Had it worked out like it was thought in January we might have Loo or Stephen starting midweek games.

[tcdog70]

They could've made the move to get Auger and Cheatham out quicker without burning up arms in the pen. I believe Parker has earned the benefit of the doubt though. He may have felt Auger could get through it. Sometimes coaches don't get pitchers out soon enough. You won't find any coaches who favor burning arms warming up in the pen

I'll agree, but I'm just talking about THIS game. Not as standard operating procedure . This game was huge and we had plenty of pitching. we had several pitchers that went the weekend sitting on their ass.

[Tbonewannabe]

Oh yeah I 100% agree on that. Auger was way off today from the get go.

I didn't get to watch it. So he didn't have it from the first? That is where a good bullpen is important. Bullpen coach should have seen him warming up for the game and put up a red flag.

If a guy just doesn't have it that day, coaches should be ready with the hook early.

[Brobi-wan]

3rd game pitching wasn?t great, but run ruling then DID save a lot of their pitching. There was a point where they stopped playing to catch up. You throw some nobodies and save your good arms. On the other hand, we?re winning. You don?t pull your good pitcher and throw a nobody when you?re trying to get out in 7. I fully believe we saved more of their best pitching with the 7 inning win than we did ours.

[Coach34]

I thought we messed up bringing in Davis on Saturday. To me that was the perfect spot for Stevens- up 6-1. Not a high pressure situation and he could get in there and just pitch.