Loftin?s arm was in a sling in the dugout
What is the story on that?
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I'm talking generically. I don't know these players personally up close. What we are talking is "buy or sell ". I say definitely keep. But if it's a question of money, you have to compare production to price. That's all.
Even in pre-NIL time, I think MSU had to "renegotiate" Graham Ascrafts slice of the 11.7 and he transferred as a result. If Ascraft was BJ Wallace in production, he gets 1 of 11.7, but he wasn't. Nor did he show promise of being that productive. I think he was a 97/98 mph pitcher.
This is one of the issues. The whole post talks about velocity. It talks about our freshman who throws 97 and 95. It talks about replacing him with someone who throw 97. It never mentions ?can our player, or the replacement, actually pitch and get people out?. Folks would rather have a guy who throw 98 with an ERA of 9.00, over one that throws 89 with an ERA of 2.25. It?s all about velocity today.
It's not ALL about velo, but velo is very important when it comes to how good a pitcher can be. Like a offensive tackle needs to be tall with quick feet, or a Power Forward needs to be taller than the point guard. You still need to know how to block a DE or make a move in the paint, but without the measurable you can't be elite
For pitchers, obviously I'd rather have the 89 guy with the low ERA. But not many 89 guys have a low era. Take Skenes- lower that velo 8 mph and he wouldn't be the stud he is
Extremely fair point. But I wouldn’t want Greg Maddux if he raised his velocity by 4 mph by overthrowing, resulting in an injury or total lack of control which results in 5 walks per inning. The name of the game on the mound is not velocity. It’s getting people out and preventing them from scoring.
Loo just tweeted out Hail State. I don?t think he?s leaving? not yet anyway.
I don't disagree, but it's math. For every 1 slow throwing Maddox, there's 99 slow throwers that get shelled. For every 1 hard thrower with good numbers there's 4 hard throwers that never figured out how to pitch, and 5 hard throwers that got injured. Therefore, the MLB drafts 10 hard throwers to get 1 to pan out vs 100 slow throwers to get 1 to pan out.
It's like a short slow WR. Yeah he might have great hands or clean routes or block pretty good, but his ceiling is capped. His taller faster teammate still needs to catch the ball, run good routes, and block, but we all know which guy out of HS we'd rather sign. I understand baseball has the smaller roster limits and that makes taking "developmental" players more of a risk, but fundamentally it's the same concept to taking a raw athlete in football and coaching them up