Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
Let's just hope for the best. If you want to try to find a silver lining- obviously we're going to redshirt all of these pitchers except for Blake Smith. When they're healthy they will get a chance to pitch in a summer league some and then hopefully the 80% success rate of recovery holds true for us and we get to keep some quality pitchers a little bit longer and we might be able to get some good seasons out of them by their junior year. Which wasn't really any different than Butch when you think about as we had so many guys that struggled for two years and then all of a sudden were dominant their junior year.
The problem is that it takes a good 2 years to come back full strength from TJ surgery (if you do) and by that time a pitcher has, for the most part, used up his college career time. If you get a guy back for 1 season or part of a season that shows the pros he is draftable then that guy is on the next train out of Starkville if he gets a chance before any more arm issues pop up.