Seems a little bit better from the stretch.
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Seems a little bit better from the stretch.
Well, what with all the hits and walks he has given up, he's had a lot of practice throwing from the stretch!
Nuke Laloosh
His curveball is by far his best pitch if he can throw it for a strike. He may throw 97 on his fastball but its just too straight. He would be much more effective at 93 with additional movement.
I hate playing LSU, especially when they aren't good. We will go 1/2 if we show.
As I said earlier- he's a relief pitcher. Today's three up three down first inning followed by his implosion didn't change my opinion on that.
Plate ump was straight trash.
I've seen enough from the Eric Cerantola experiment. He'll have a pro career just because his stuff is the electric, but he's not going to show control while he's here. 3 years is a large enough sample size. Put him in the bullpen, and maybe we can find a role for him there. This pitching staff is too talented for us to keep trotting a guy out there that walks the bases loaded every two innings.
He's not a relief pitcher. He has 3 legit pitches he just can't harness them all. . His implosion didn't change mine either. He's a professional baseball pitcher. In that, they can wait on him to develop and not care about winning games. We can't. Or shouldn't. I'm not saying he'd never step on the mound for us again. But wo some major performances in mid week, his days of weekend time are over.
No way is he a relief pitcher but I'm thinking he needs to only relief in mop up situations when we are either way ahead or behind by many runs. Right now he has "snakes" in his head, I wouldn't give up on him just yet but I would take the pressure off him and hopefully he will relax and find a way to have some success.