Pitching realities

[State82]

The all world staff we thought we had appears right now to be smoke and mirrors

[Todd4State]

The all world staff we thought we had appears right now to be smoke and mirrors

There was a reason why I made my thread on here about how our pitchers that throw hard are also really young a few weeks ago after Lemonis made his comment about all of the hard throwing pitchers that we had.

The problem is MacLeoud has become a Konnor Pilkington his junior year clone. That's unexpected. We knew Cerentola could go either way. Of course, with us being MSU it looks like wild thing Cerentola so far. Bednar will be fine. We'll see what Jackson Fristoe gives us tomorrow. He's apparently the next man up. And if worse comes to worse Brandon Smith has looked good so far too.

It's more than just the pitching staff though- this weekend the defense has been a little sloppy- moreso in game one. Hitting with RISP has been inconsistent.

The good news is we have two easy series the next two weekends where we should go no worse than 4-2 and should go 6-0. That's going to give our pitching staff a chance to work through some things before SEC play. Among other things that we need to work on.

Ultimately we'll be fine. Our two losses have been to respectable teams. But we have to have some guys perform better on the pitching staff and at SS.

[ShotgunDawg]

The all world staff we thought we had appears right now to be smoke and mirrors

It's most certainly not smoke & mirrors. Once we get healthy, guys will be in the right rolls

[Todd4State]

It's most certainly not smoke & mirrors. Once we get healthy, guys will be in the right rolls

I don't know about that. Foxhall hasn't shown me that he is willing to go with Colby White over Riley Self and Trysten Barlow because of experience. At least not yet.

[Homedawg]

I don't know about that. Foxhall hasn't shown me that he is willing to go with Colby White over Riley Self and Trysten Barlow because of experience. At least not yet.

Maybe this will be true, but for this year it hasn't been. Riley has had 2 mop up appearances. While he's gone w younger, more talented guys in the tighter games. Sat, case and point.