re: Baseball moved to 4pm tomorrow

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Would really like Moffet take that next step and be part of the weekend arms. The guy has worked very hard since last season to include summer ball.

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Me too. Not just for him--it does appear he's put in a ton of work over the past year. He was unplayable last year--but I think the pen really needs a power RH arm in the back end to round it out. It's one of the reasons I was open to moving Anderson to the Sunday spot and Hurd to pen. It wasn't giving up on Hurd--he appears to be getting better with each start, but he's gonna have to cut down on how many baserunners he gives up when facing SEC hitters--it was more about having that power RH arm in the back end.

I've said it since before the season started that the pen really needs 1 of Moffett or Little to develop into a guy to be trusted to get SEC hitters out in high leverage, late-inning spots by the end of SEC play. Maybe Noot comes back and becomes that, but I'm not sure we can really count on it.