re: Would like to know why Anderson started over Herring

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I’m going to refute this. We didn’t “have” to use Anderson. We got the last 24 outs using guys not named Anderson and gave up 2 runs.

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Fair enough, but it's more semantics. I should have said "we were always going to use Anderson," and left out the "have to" part. But your sentence about us getting the last 24 outs only giving up 2 runs seems to suggest your issue more that Anderson pitched at all more so than the order. Which is fair, I guess. But Herring could have started and goes 5 perfect innings, and I don't think 5 runs was winning this game.

This team is just not very good. It sucks, but it is what it is. Blame Jay for the construction of the team, but all these in-season and in-game criticisms are a bit ridiculous. For us to win games, he has to not only push all the right buttons, he has to press them all in exactly the right order. Just too much of an ask in a game as unpredictable as baseball.

We're just not that good. 5 runs in a Game 3 against the worst team in the SEC the last weekend of April AT THE BOX? We're just not that good, and Jay's gonna have to take some gambles along the way. Starting Anderson was one of those gambles. Didn't work out. But starting Herring would have been a gamble on the back end, too.