At what point is the Little experiment over?

Should have been over after his first 5 appearances, last year

That’s great and all but he’s been terrible in basically every other outing in his entire career

He didn't have it when facing us a couple years ago and still doesn't seem to have improved.
Wonder what the pitching staff saw that we didn't.

The experiments will not end until loosing a game or series sends you home packing.

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But he does this if he is ever in a pinch

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That’s typical Broski making a stupid, inaccurate comment and presenting it confidently enough that people agree at a glance. Little’s had 3 outings this year and had a 6.75 ERA in his first, one good inning pitched in his second, and his outing today.

Last year in SEC play he had 9 outings and an ERA over 5.00 in 7 of them, an ERA over 8.00 in 6 of them, and an ERA over 100.00 (!) in 3 of them.

He needs to see the bench, whatever they’re seeing in practice probably isn’t ever going to happen against good competition at this point. It’s hard to watch

He struck out 2 yesterday and nearly K’d the side.
They’re trying to see who can be trusted for multiple outings in a weekend.
He was probably only facing a couple of batters regardless of the outcome.
He hasn’t cost us a game this year and the coaches have stated that he has improved, what’s the problem with him eating innings in a blowout?

Why would we intentionally not allow him to pitch in a blowout? Yes he's been rough but Jay has to keep giving him chances because there's a chance he turns it around. There's no downside to putting him out there in a blowout

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Guy just doesn’t have it. Like ever

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Meh. He's been pretty good so far this year until today. Which could be chalked up to pitching on back-to-back days. His velocity was down a good bit today along with his command. Maybe he's just not a guy who can pitch on consecutive days. Which is not ideal, but it's fine. Better to learn that on February 25th than a March Saturday in Nashville.

Jay is figuring out how to best use arms in different roles. And since we have so many more this year, it's probably gonna take a little bit longer. Little may wind up not being a guy we can count on in close games at all. Or he may be a shut-down 1 inning a weekend guy. The "experiment" will likely continue. Much more important to figure those things out now than it is to run-rule Stony Brook in the 4th game of a 4 game series in February.

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The experiments will not end until loosing a game or series sends you home packing.

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It shouldn’t get that far. He needs to be as far down the depth chart as possible.