Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
We have to manage our bullpen better. We should have used Davis on Friday in a tie game. Even if you disagree with that I don't think anyone can justify bringing him in up 7-0. That's when we should have used Miller or Rhodes maybe or Billingsley.

Then in theory we still would have had Webb, Pitzer, and Sweeney for game three along with Foster. We can get four innings out of that group and that can give us a a chance to win.

But again I will say this. I do not understand why some guys are allowed to fail time and time again like Billingsley and Miller and why some are automatically stashed in the lab for weeks at a time when they're performing better than the others like Pitzer and Jackson Logar.

The first thing I would do is figure out what we have with Logar. The second thing I would do is use Parker Rhodes more.

And guys like Billingsley and Miller have a place but high leverage situations are NOT their place. If he has brought in Billingsley or Miller in game two assuming we had used Davis on Friday and they had not pitched I would have been fine with that.
O’Conner does not give up on pitchers. He will not do it. I have seen Billingsley in enough high leverage situations this year to tell you that he is going to continue to pitch in those situations.

Our bigger problem right now is catching. James is not an elite catcher. He is Ross Highfill with a little better bat. But he is a UVA guy. And like it or not, O’Conner is favoring those UVA guys right now. Personally, I think it is because he watched them all struggle last year and then heat up as the year went on. I think it is also why we continue to see Nunnallee. But for this team to reach its potential, James cannot be the catcher moving forward. It needs to be Milewski or Raymond.