Second game of the year. Some of y'all are unbelievable.
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Second game of the year. Some of y'all are unbelievable.
Jeff Brantley threw it about 85 but could pitch. We need pitchers not throwers. With our hitting we don’t need to shut people out. Stop errors and walks and we will win many games.
The one yesterday was pretty much a mirror image of last year. One bad game doesn't start a trend just as the first game this year didn't break last year's trend. Until we put together a string of games where we're not giving free passes in double digits, last year's trend will not be broken.
I know a little bit about baseball. Enough to make comments. And observations.
I can almost guarantee you, that if you keep runners off the bases, they cannot steal bases or score runs.
And since in baseball 3 in 10 is considered successful at hitting, I?d rather take chances on the 7 negative at bats than walk the bases full. But that?s just me. Y?all may feel different.
Sure you can. You can fire Foxall right now and get exactly the same production as we are seeing last season and this weekend.
No one on our staff has proven they can throw strikes. No one has an out pitch. Gartman is showing me something though.
Big time strike outs there. Gartman keeps battling. He should tell the other pitchers, if you throw strikes you get to keep them guessing.
100%, I would even add that Tepper was a big recruit and that Tullar was a high-end draft risk when he came to MSU -
Butch, on the on the other hand, successfully turned Girodo and Lindy into unhittable monsters. Even Butch's challenge guys like Evan Mitchell did not freak-out like we have kids now.
Gary Henderson, turned Cole Gordon into an MSU legend, in-Season! No fall ball. He whispered Gordon, Plumlee, Price, and Mangum to Performance. 17 SEC wins and Supers with Cannizarro. Then Omaha in 2018 as the combo-PC and HC.
We did not used to have so many headcase and wasted talent. MSU pitching used to be warriors that greatly exceeded their recruiting pedigree. Now the opposite.
Jeff consistently threw his fastball between 90-92. In the pros, he got it up to 93-94 on occasion, but mostly operated about the same in college. His big strikeout pitch was a couple changeup speeds. He would drop one down to about 87 and another to around 84-85. And you could not tell what was coming. The heater or the off speed pitch. He was outstanding at disguising all of them.