This baseball team

[State82]

Most great teams have a lock down closer and we simply don't have that. You feel comfortable with Cole Gordon and his era of almost 6? Colby White's is 4. We're giving up runs late. We've been fortunate to have some large leads but you know as well as I that if you continually give up runs late in games in the post season that you're going to make a quick exit.

I agree. It's going to bite us in the ass before it's all over. You could just about order the rings if Holder was on this team.

[basedog]

About the only thing the vast majority of ED posters can agree on is in that situation, Mac should have been given the bunt sign yesterday. Maybe it wouldn't have made a difference in us being able to score that inning, who knows, but all I can say is that if there were EVER a time to bunt, that was it. If you don't believe in bunting there you just don't believe in ever bunting given you had a guy at the plate who was batting .037 in his last 27 ABs.

For the record I would have called for a bunt. I think Mc had a hit earlier.

[maroonmania]

For the record I would have called for a bunt. I think Mc had a hit earlier.

Mac finally got one hit for the weekend but it was in Game 3.

[Todd4State]

I would have to beg to differ. If Colby White was truly considered our closer then our staff would have put him in yesterday in the 7th to save that final game. Pretty obvious right now that when the chips are down the guy the staff is going to turn to is Liebelt and only Liebelt. You really don't know for sure what you are going to get out of anyone else when they come in.

That wasn't a save situation with a 4-0 lead. If it had stayed 2-0 we probably bring in Colby for the ninth.

[Todd4State]

IMO ERAs for relievers are virtually useless because one bad outing can alter them so much due to the lack of total innings that they pitch.

White has thrown 20.2 innings, struck out 36, has given up 15 hits, & walked 5. That is virtual domination & plenty good enough to be considered a reliable closer

Gordon hasn't been quite as good as White. He's thrown 23.1 innings, given up 22 hits, 15 BBs, & 36 Ks. The 15 BBs by Gordon is bad while also giving up a hit per inning

IMO the biggest thing we need to do with our bullpen is throw White more. White is not throwing enough

This. Colby era was fine until the final
game against uga and he gave up a few in a non save situation. Colby has dominate stuff and I have complete faith in him as a closer. He needs to throw more.

I think we have a lot of guys that are very effective in one inning stints but when they get extended they get hit. That's why I think our bullpen is better than the stats indicate. To me, Colby is a one inning guy. But we can use him twice a weekend. Leibelt and maybe Gordon are multiple inning guys. Barlow is good in one inning stints. Brandon Smith is good in one inning stints. I think we need to be pitching Eagan more and when he comes back from his injury- Self as well. But again with both of them just one inning at a time.

The good news is with the emergence of Plumlee we now have three starters that can consistently go six innings a game. That leaves 7-9 for our bullpen and two of those innings are to White, and probably four to Leibelt. That only leaves a couple of innings for a guy like Barlow.

[SmokeyDawg]

This team still has a resiliency that they had to embraced early last year when it became a do or die situation. I don't think we have felt backed in a corner yet this season. It's a long season and it's hard to stay hot all year but the second season is coming up. I hope we see that focus and fight again

[Jarius]

I would like to save Keegan for the OM series in a reliever role. A series win in Oxford all but locks up a national seed and we need all hands on deck. I would like for us to get Keegan back into the groove of that reliever role before postseason starts. I think he is good for 2/3 innings at most and I think we can beat Memphis with Johnny Wholestaff. I suppose we could pitch him against Memphis and Ole Miss as long as we have him on a pitch count.