Baseball Guys

Oh and I want to add this. We have several pitchers who struggled badly that are suddenly performing much better now that they are in the pros- Eric Cerentola has turned heads in the Arizona Fall League. And Andrew Walling and Jackson Fristoe are coming around too. KC Hunt dominated the Cape Cod League after our season was over before going pro.

I don't think any of this is a coincidence.

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

I'm sure we were run ruled a few times. And I'm sure the analytics probably say we were "lucky".

But the reality is this is a completely different team we have now. With a completely different pitching coach. If we get our team ERA in the 5's it is going to make a big difference.

I don't think you can really use stats to compare or predict the future of this team because our pitching was such an outlier.

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Not to mention we threw a bunch of true freshman out there to get innings and experience. Should be some quality growth as Sophs

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

Oh and I want to add this. We have several pitchers who struggled badly that are suddenly performing much better now that they are in the pros- Eric Cerentola has turned heads in the Arizona Fall League. And Andrew Walling and Jackson Fristoe are coming around too. KC Hunt dominated the Cape Cod League after our season was over before going pro.

I don't think any of this is a coincidence.

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I'm not surprised. In my opinion, our pitching development started declining after Butch left. Henderson was blessed with a bevy of top notch arms that didn't need much coaching, and that carried thru to Foxhall. Foxhall did zero development. And while having 20+ pitchers in '22 helped give us fresh arms in the CWS, it killed the ability of young guys to advance. And someday I'd love ask Fox wtf he was thinking last year, because it didn't look like he was thinking about winning baseball games.

Better do something this year. We lose a ton next year!