Y'all have covered all I wanted to talk about with the hitters, so can I bitch about the pitching? I don't thin Henderson is a good pitching coach. I just don't. Go look at the team ERAs and draft picks off his Kentucky teams- he never finished in the top 5 in team ERA, and never really developed many stars. Now look at his years here.

last year he gets a pass; too many injuries as we all know.

But this year... Let's go through it: Pilk looks no better than he did at the start of last season, and worse than at the end of the year. Billingsley shows no improvement. Gordon shows no improvement, even though you'd think he'd make the biggest strides. Leibelt and Neff either A) are not improved from JuCo last year, or B) have regressed (there's no way we take them if they were this bad last year, right?). McQuary looks the exact same as last year. Small, James, Smith, etc can't be put on Henderson good or bad as how a player returns from an injury is always up in the air. I will say that non of them look good though. JP France we haven't seen much of, and supposedly he's hurt so we'll ignore him.

But we have had ZERO pitchers make notable jumps under Henderson. 0. And nobody really even looks good, even the newcomers. I wasn't sold on him when we hired him but figured I'd wait and see. Well, I've seen his pitchers last year, I've seen them this year, and none of the returners look improved in the slightest despite a whole offseason. Rant complete