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11 SEC teams projected in the field as of now- including Mississippi
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11 SEC teams projected in the field as of now- including Mississippi
Need to finish strong. Maybe PIco is about well and can provide a needed missing piece for the second half of season. Maybe Cupp can be back and a positive contributor also. Dohm????
OM RPI is 28. Ours 57 after Alcorn win. Alcorn is #302 of 305 in RPI. OM cancelled their game with AR State. Playing Alcorn dropped us 8 spots. As you have pointed out, we must finish strong in last SEC games .500 or maybe even better. Hail State!Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
Dohm is done. It may not be reported but he is done for the year. Our season....and Lemonis' future.....comes down to one thing. CAN WE FIND A CLOSER.Quote:
Originally Posted by Goldendawg
I think you are correct about Dohm and I hate it for him and the team.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
We haven?t found a Closer in three years and with two pitching coaches, so the odds are not in our favor. I do think Parker is a good coach and the pitching is better, but we haven?t had a closer since Landon.
Well and that's the thing. I think we are still trying to find the next Landon instead of just finding a guy with good velocity and a good breaking ball and conditioning him to close. Landon Sims type players come along once in a generation. Even Holder and Papelbon, who were both great, blew saves for us. If the ball got into Landon's hands, the game was over.Quote:
Originally Posted by DAWG1903
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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
Pico looked damned good last night. We could certainly use a reliable left for in the bullpens for the weekends.Quote:
Originally Posted by Goldendawg
Remember back in ‘18 when we had pitching woes and Cole Gordon came out of nowhere and filled the bill of closer? May need to try that idea again.
Seems like that?s pretty common with many.Quote:
Originally Posted by SaintDawg
Hell, seems like Bednar wasn?t anything special until mid year. OM seemed to be like that in 2022
Cole really wasn't our closer in 18. He was more middle relief who could close. People forget Cole was actually terrible for a lot of that 18 season. Blew a bunch of games and got SHELLED against Oklahoma in the Friday game of that regional. Then we had to use him for middle relief against Oklahoma on the Sunday game of the regional because Denver got hit in the palm of his throwing hand and then put out a big fire against Vandy in Game 3. He didn't become closer until 19.Quote:
Originally Posted by SaintDawg
Bednar was up and down. He would look really good for two or three starts and then look awful for a start. Was just average in the tournament until the CWS.Quote:
Originally Posted by SPMT
Gonna have to be 15-15 to get in with our RPI. Might could sneak in with 14-16.
Gotta find 8 wins. Getting 3 of them this weekend would be huge, but this team isn't consistent enough to do that
So did Holcomb, it was a two win team from the SWACQuote:
Originally Posted by MStateDawg
Yeah but it was the way he had command and located. Holcombe was ok but didn’t have the crispness Pico showed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
That's a 3 seed bro
This^^^...unfortunately. it was Alcorn, fellas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
I'm a fan of Pico, and definitely think he's got the potential, tho.
Don't forget the Elephant in the Dugout!🐘🐘🦣🦣
Until Lunardi's bracket is released, we won't really know***
Yup. Which would be fine, but should not bring Lemonis back.Quote:
Originally Posted by msudawg1200
Are you saying he knew alcorn sucked which allowed him to be more confident and in turn command the zone at 93-95 with good offspeed? Otherwise, I'm not sure what the opponent had to do with his stuff and command.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
I'm saying I buy into Pico's performance much more than Colby's, and i think it can translate to him being an important player for us going forward...but...it was still Alcorn.Quote:
Originally Posted by confucius say
I'm not speaking in tongues here, lol.
We have Auburn and Missouri weekends to help us with wins, if we can get them.
Then we have Vandy, Alabama, Arkansas.
Assuming we need at least 8 wins out of these 15 games, and maybe an SEC opening round win also?
There?s one thing I know for sure. If that?s the predicted outcome for this season this team will fall well short of it. That seems to be there thing. Aim low.
Sweep one of Auburn and mizzou/2 from other, and get 1 from the others equals 8. That's a realistic goal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Santiago
It's not out of the realm of possibility to get 7-8 wins between Auburn, Missouri, and Bama. There is 1 SEC road win between that group and it was by Missouri over Georgia. 8 would put us at no worse than .500 in league play even if we get swept at Vandy and at Arkansas.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Other than UPig- I like our chances every Friday. Candy has had some pitching issues. Gave up 19 runs to LSU and 36 to A&M last 2 weekendsQuote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
I've never heard of that site so I have no idea how reliable they are.
I think we can get in probably as a three seed. Because for us to become a 2 seed we're going to have to get hot and probably will have to win the Arkansas series on the road. That's probably best case scenario.
If you asked me to project what happens I think we probably finish around 14-16 to 15-15 with a RPI in the high 30's or 40's and end up on the bubble. I think it could go either way for us if that happens. This team keeps putting itself in a position to make a run and then they screw it up. Maybe the laws average out and we go on a run but I just don't have a lot of confidence in that happening with this group. It's constant mismanagement, injuries, weirdness, and a lack of focus. The only good news is we have two OOC games left so that minimizes our chances of screwing up. I'm assuming we won't play North Alabama as we have had them on the schedule and cancelled them several years in a row now.
Why not use Pico as a starting pitcher? We do have Tyler Davis who is usually good.Quote:
Originally Posted by MStateDawg
I think the staff was relying on Stone Simmons to come back too much and didn't take the precaution to get another Aaron Nixon out of the portal.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
The thing is though- you have Tyson Hardin right there and he still hasn't gotten an opportunity. And why has Nolan Stevens been allowed to fail multiple times but Auger blows a save against South Alabama where he didn't have his slider and now he's middle relief?
This staff does things to themselves that don't make sense and our fanbase is too knowledgeable to let stuff like that slide.
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Originally Posted by MStateDawg
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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
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Originally Posted by confucius say
He was crisp. And I think he can help in SEC play. But to me- since it was Alcorn why not just let Pico start against Memphis and see how he looks? Memphis is clearly better and it will be on the road but there will be a decent crowd there if I had to guess. so it seems like a good test. Plus we might be able to stretch him out to 4 maybe even 5 innings.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
I hope we can take a game or two from Vandy, but they did just beat Floriday Thursday night, scoring 10 runs themselves.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
As much as we might be hoping a couple of pitchers work out for us for Sunday and closers, I think Vandy actually has the talented arms to quickly figure out things too.
Ky is 7-0 at home against Sec teams, 2-7 on road Sec games.Quote:
Originally Posted by Santiago
a 7-8 record or worse in the remaining conference games and we are coach searching anyways.
ok. I was posting about Vandy.Quote:
Originally Posted by basedog
Or, was your stat for Vandy?
My bad, it was for Vandy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Santiago
Brain fart, you're getting old, Dog! lol!Quote:
Originally Posted by basedog
No doubt, 73 years old but try to stay active. Btw, I haven't forgot about you and a game. I just hope we keep winning, I don't think you want to hear me talk about......LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Commercecomet24
Btw, i read time after time 'Youngsters" complain and blame blue hairs for everything from not attending games but buying tickets, sitting and not standing and cheering, blaming nothing to do in Small Town Starkvegas as well as everything else regarding Msu. One day many will be old and understand better. LOL.
Amen to that, my friend!Quote:
Originally Posted by basedog