Siary Tuesday. Loftin to weekend.

[Leroy Jenkins]

I like it.

[Offshore Dawg]

Baseball as of late is like football before the Kang. win out of conference and loose in conference games, for the most part.

[Cooterpoot]

Had to be done. Hope it works.

[msstate7]

These 2 freshmen pitchers are all that can save lemonis imo

[KB21]

Don?t forget that Dohm and Holcombe are both sophomores. That?s our four best arms.

[ZedFedder]

Get someone competent who can coach and hold on to those guys, and we may be okay.

[Commercecomet24]

Might as well go for it we don't have really have anything to lose and at the very least they'll be seasoned for next year.

[BeardoMSU]

What happened to our older guys? Did Fox ruin them or what?

[parabrave]

What happened to our older guys? Did Fox ruin them or what?

Dam Beardo! You have asked the sixtyfour thousand question and a very valid one. Name me one pitcher who has gotten better under him/

[Todd4State]

What happened to our older guys? Did Fox ruin them or what?

Well...just going off of opening weekend guys...

Cade got sick.

KC Hunt is simply better out of the bullpen

Gartman is potentially losing his spot although we're not helping him by asking him to go through the lineup four times either.

[Todd4State]

Might as well go for it we don't have really have anything to lose and at the very least they'll be seasoned for next year.

Exactly. Give them SEC weekend experience.

If I were in their shoes I would start Loftin, Loo and Holcombe. Although if Holcombe is out there questioning Foxhall on the mound I kind of of doubt they'll start him.

That would allow us to use Dohm, Gartman, Hunt, and Nixon out of the bullpen.

If they decide to start Cade Smith then we could use Holcombe out of the bullpen but I think Holcombe is better as a starter based on what I've seen.

We have something to work with- we just leave them in the game too long.

[KB21]

My preference is still to start Dohm, Holcombe, and maybe piggyback Loo and Loftin.

[Leroy Jenkins]

I'd like to see Dohm, Cade, Lo in that order. Loftin until Cade gets back. Assuming Nixon can come in at ent end.

[Commercecomet24]

Exactly. Give them SEC weekend experience.

If I were in their shoes I would start Loftin, Loo and Holcombe. Although if Holcombe is out there questioning Foxhall on the mound I kind of of doubt they'll start him.

That would allow us to use Dohm, Gartman, Hunt, and Nixon out of the bullpen.

If they decide to start Cade Smith then we could use Holcombe out of the bullpen but I think Holcombe is better as a starter based on what I've seen.

We have something to work with- we just leave them in the game too long.

Outside of the walks my biggest complaint is how long we've left guys in. We've had some guys have some good outings but instead of pulling them we've left them in an inning to long and close games have become blowouts and also has to be deflating to a pitcher. Latest example, Gartman pitches 5 strong inning and its 3-1. I would've pulled him after 5 but i don't have a problem leaving him into to start the 6th. When the first guy reaches though you go get him and keep it close and he leaves feeling good. And most certainly you pull him after the hr when it's 5-1. Instead we leave him out there to give up 4 more hits and 3 more runs and it's pretty much game over and Gartman feels terrible. His velo was Down 4-5 mph that inning. That's just the latest example but there have been many this year. And I get that it's easy for me to be an armchair coach but still....

JMO

[Leroy Jenkins]

Outside of the walks my biggest complaint is how long we've left guys in. We've had some guys have some good outings but instead of pulling them we've left them in an inning to long and close games have become blowouts and also has to be deflating to a pitcher. Latest example, Gartman pitches 5 strong inning and its 3-1. I would've pulled him after 5 but i don't have a problem leaving him into to start the 6th. When the first guy reaches though you go get him and keep it close and he leaves feeling good. And most certainly you pull him after the hr when it's 5-1. Instead we leave him out there to give up 4 more hits and 3 more runs and it's pretty much game over and Gartman feels terrible. His velo was Down 4-5 mph that inning. That's just the latest example but there have been many this year. And I get that it's easy for me to be an armchair coach but still....

JMO

Lemonis said he's left guys in too long. He said the issue is that he believes the guy on the mound is still better than anyone he could bring in. Basically no confidence in the pen.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Dam Beardo! You have asked the sixtyfour thousand question and a very valid one. Name me one pitcher who has gotten better under him/

I really can only name one, Jared Liebelt.

I think the most interesting thing will be to see how our pitchers look next year with a different PC. If they look the same or only slightly better then it is obvious this staff could never recruit and it really was all the talent that Andy and John brought in that won the National Championship. If they look night and day then we truly know it was Foxhall and his lack of development

[StarkVegasSteve]

Lemonis said he's left guys in too long. He said the issue is that he believes the guy on the mound is still better than anyone he could bring in. Basically no confidence in the pen.

In his defense, the pen really has not given us anything to be confident about in the last 13 months.

[Commercecomet24]

Lemonis said he's left guys in too long. He said the issue is that he believes the guy on the mound is still better than anyone he could bring in. Basically no confidence in the pen.

Yeah but you still can't leave guys out there who are getting shelled, and that philosophy hasn't worked this year or last. You have to try something else. He left hunt in with Dohm ready the first game against uk and it cost us the game. Dohm>Hunt.

And that may have been true last year but we have some better arms in the pen this year. Hunt was ready to come in the 6th for Gartman and we didn't bring him in until it was to late.

We had Hunt, Loftin, Nixon, Holcombe and Tapper in the pen. Why let Landon meltdown?

[CrosscityDawg]

Well, if the guy on the mound is better than the guy he could bring in from the pen, then why are we moving guys from the pen to be starters?

[Leroy Jenkins]

Well, if the guy on the mound is better than the guy he could bring in from the pen, then why are we moving guys from the pen to be starters?


Paraphrasing.... he said it was to keep from trying to not lose the series at the cost of winning the game.

[Commercecomet24]

Paraphrasing.... he said it was to keep from trying to not lose the series at the cost of winning the game.

I understand doing it last year with all
the injuries we had to the pitching staff but this year there's no reason to leave a dime pitcher out there .

[Leroy Jenkins]

I understand doing it last year with all
the injuries we had to the pitching staff but this year there's no reason to leave a dime pitcher out there .

I think he's realizing that, judging from the shell-shocked look on his face in the post game interviews. ��

[confucius say]

We're on a short week so Dohm can't go as a starter until Saturday. And Gartman until Friday.
So that leaves Lo or Loftin Thursday.

[MaroonFlounder]

Still no word on Cade.

I don't need or want to know what's up, but there's no update or timeline for return.

[sandjunky]

Still no word on Cade.

I don't need or want to know what's up, but there's no update or timeline for return.

Base said he threw bullpen this past weekend

[basedog]

Still no word on Cade.

I don't need or want to know what's up, but there's no update or timeline for return.

Hopefully in a few weeks. That is the words I was given. Things are pretty tight lipped, if I knew more, I would say but I don't. Let me say this and this is just me saying and not any inside information, I'd consider redshirting.

[Commercecomet24]

Hopefully in a few weeks. That is the words I was given. Things are pretty tight lipped, if I knew more, I would say but I don't. Let me say this and this is just me saying and not any inside information, I'd consider redshirting.

Praying he's ok, Base! I've been through 2 injury plagued college seasons with my son and his shoulder just isn't coming back, so I know how you feel. Praying he's ok long term, and don't let him push it because that's what got my kid in a bind.

[Commercecomet24]

I think he's realizing that, judging from the shell-shocked look on his face in the post game interviews. ��

Lol I would hope so! And I really like Lem and I hope they somehow get this righted !

[basedog]

Praying he's ok, Base! I've been through 2 injury plagued college seasons with my son and his shoulder just isn't coming back, so I know how you feel. Praying he's ok long term, and don't let him push it because that's what got my kid in a bind.

I also know what injuries can do as well as playing on bad teams from past experiences. I'm gonna leave this here and maybe some will understand, I'm not as close to this situation as some may think or know.

[parabrave]

Hopefully in a few weeks. That is the words I was given. Things are pretty tight lipped, if I knew more, I would say but I don't. Let me say this and this is just me saying and not any inside information, I'd consider redshirting.

Ditto. This way he can't learn any bad habits from Foxhall.

[Commercecomet24]

I also know what injuries can do as well as playing on bad teams from past experiences. I'm gonna leave this here and maybe some will understand, I'm not as close to this situation as some may think or know.

Understand completely!