Oh ok. Didn't know that was his nickname. Course it's probably not a bad nickname considering his last name is Cijntje. Knew he had to be in the mix somewhere though.
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Cade will get the ball opening day. After that, who knows. If I had to guess it will be:
Sat- Gartman
Sun- KC
We have a few weeks to figure it out so it is safe to say this will change before SEC play starts.
We desperately need Cade to emerge as a true Friday night guy. Or someone. If we get that, everything else will fall into place.
I agree with that. And I think we have enough bullpen pieces to figure that out. I even think Dohm > Nixon right now.
But if we are only getting 4 innings from our weekend starters and having to use 4 pen arms on Fridays, it's going to be tough on our bullpen arms.
Well you can do that on a Sunday maybe, but you need your Friday and Saturday guys to go 6-7 innings. However, as we saw last year, it does not really matter if your starter goes even 8 if your bullpen just blows it in the end or you have to leave your starter out there too long because of no faith in the pen.
Yea, I think we're not likely going to have a true Friday night guy, but it's imperitive that we have a starter on Friday that eats innings and at least saves our bullpen.
Or alternatively, we need to figure out a way to utilize bullpen guys on Friday in a way that leaves them available on Sunday. Not sure if that's feasible if we are only getting four innings out of our starter.
I don't usually get into baseball until we actually start playing games and maybe my optimism is not justified but readying yall's comments on pitching, I am a little excited to see some of these guys. We could be a surprise team again this year for the right reasons. I feel like our pen is better pending no injuries. I know a lot can and will change pending how new/young guys do but seems like we got a lot of nice pieces.
Ready to get the Bulldog baseball confidence back after last year debacle. Bad luck and all, last year don't happen to top baseball programs but it did.
Anybody got any news on Cole Cheatham? I know out of necessity we started pitching him some down the stretch last year and he got roughed up but I thought he might develop into a good pitcher down the line. Kind of a lefty specialists role if nothing else. He had a pretty nasty breaking pitch. Just looked at his stats from last year and he K'ed 18 in 12 innings but also walked 12.