PITCHING

aUTfan said:
Coach said he needed to look at Hamilton, Tumis and Navarre. He’s also trying to win games, trying to look at pitchers while being in tight games (whole series with Dartmouth) made it more difficult I’m sure. TBH, I didn’t know Ace was injured.

We likely won’t know a lot till Missouri, Georgia and Kentucky. LSU is going to present some significant challenges and will require unorthodox pitching management that we may not see the rest of the season and/or not until we face Arky in fayetnam. The miss st series we will be trying to establish our pitching identity.

That Tuesday game after LSU is going to be very interesting if all the games over the weekend are close. Coach is going to empty the gun that weekend.
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Kentucky and Tennessee are smokin’ so far. D1 isn’t the only ranking out there.
 
One thing about Harrison…

He has a tendency to dig a hole, but then he usually digs himself out of it. This puts a lot of drama in the game. It’s no harm no foul, but it drives his pitch count up.

Zane Morehouse (who by the way is doing very well in the Indians farm system) used to do the same thing. He’d put 2 on with no outs, then he’d mow the side down. I see Harrison doing that.
 
Chop said:
Kentucky and Tennessee are smokin’ so far. D1 isn’t the only ranking out there.
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I wasnt looking at any one ranking. We don’t play Tennessee, we do play Florida though who is supposed to be pretty good but LSU is on another level….I think. Guidry has been dealing with an injury so they can and will be stronger on the mound when he finally heals and I’m sure he will be by the time our series rolls around. We are going to learn a lot that weekend about ourselves but by no means will it be a season ender no matter what happens.
 
Chop said:
Our overall pitching this year is somewhere from good to excellent.

I’ll have to see some data on last year—as in team ERA and team WHIP. I don’t remember our pitching being awful. It was certainly top quarter of the conference. In fact, I think it was actually THE BEST in the Big 12–the #2 or #3 conference in college baseball. I think we’re even better on the mound this year overall, but I wouldn’t call last year’s pitching awful.
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Humm, I guess I remember several losses giving up tons of runs, but you're right. We were #17 in team ERA and #21 in team WHIP just behind Baylor in both. The Big 12 wasn't exactly an elite conference though. Not only did no one make it to Omaha, the Big 12 didn't even win one super regional game.
 
Grubbs looks completely back to his 2024 level, possibly even better. His pitch count has to be kept fairly low to moderate early in the season to ensure his recovery is complete.
 
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