Quote Originally Posted by msstate7 View Post
Plumlee is the one that makes no sense to me.

Plumlee...
4.01 era 1.38 whip 8.64 h/9 3.77 bb/9 6.57 k/9

France...
3.84 era 1.35 whip 9.38 h/9 2.81 bb/9 6.84 k/9

Their stats are basically the same and plumlee did it vs better competition while adjusting from juco.
I don't think Plumlee was let go to make room for France. At any rate, France was statistically Tulane's best starter and had an ERA of 5 something at one point during the season when Tulane was struggling and got it down to the three's. France had more quality starts than Plumlee and I'm pretty sure France allowed fewer grand slams without looking than Plumlee. Relief pitchers tend to have lower ERA's and higher K rates than starting pitchers. That's why no one compares Mariano Rivera to Randy Johnson. And yet Plumlee has worse stats across the board than France.

France has a good chance to start for us and probably will. Plumlee does not. Tulane's pitching staff ERA's look like ours when Russ McNickle was the pitching coach- and France had the best stats on the team. Someone like Gary Henderson will get him back on track.

France was also offered money to sign out of high school. I don't believe Plumlee was.

And who knows? Maybe Cann told Plumlee that he would have to be a bullpen guy because he was better there and Plumlee wanted to start and left because of that.