Oh, well **** me then, lol. Oops.
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Uh, he shut our asses down in the 2019 CWS and was the CWS MVP. He may have had arm trouble somewhere during the season but he was dang sure there in the post season. Threw a no, no in the supers.
That’s a good many pitches to be throwing your studs on back to back games in college...BUT these guys have the body to support it. Check out the lower half on rocker and leiter. That’s how a power guy is supposed to be built. Now they may blow out at some point, and over use may be the culprit, but these guys have big league builds right now
I had to google it because I didn’t remember - he had some early season soreness that kept lingering. Looks like he may have skipped at start or two but threw 90+ pitches a lot all year. By mid April we has throwing 6-7 innings most starts, then threw the no-hitter against Duke in the Super and was CWS MVP. 12-5 with 4 post season wins doesn’t seem like breaking down.
What I hope for is they keep throwing 100+ pitches every start and are tired at the end of the year. The previous 2 years, Rocker has gotten a sore arm and shut it down for a couple of weeks in the middle of the season. It may or may not have helped him to be fresh at the end of the year, but it didn’t hurt.
This entire thing of people throwing there arms out has me thinking of Gary rath throwing 170 pitches in a game. Was that smart? Probably not. But he pitched deep in every game his jr year and never had any arm trouble and I can assure you he didn't go less than 100 once that year. He was a bulldog!! And he threw a very heavy ball. Hitters didn't like him. Trust me
I think I might take our staff over vandy anyway.