re: Baseball Spring Scrimmage #6 2/5/23

This was my first scrimmage to see live this spring. Watched a lot of them in the fall.

First four pitchers to go today looked good (Little, Shores, Edwards, Collins)

This pitching staff is so deep.

It has become pretty clear that these are the guys in contention to start- Skenes, Taylor, Floyd, Hurd, Little, Shores.

Cooper, Ackenhausen, and Herring are likely the 3 primary lefties out of the pen. Primeaux may get some innings here and there. Don't see Bronzini getting meaningful action this year.

As for righties in relief you have Edwards, Hellmers, Money, Moffett, Dutton, and Bucknam.

Collins is going to be a high leverage guy, as will at least one of the potential starters (maybe Taylor).

Stock up- Jared Jones (looks more comfortable at the plate this spring)

Stock down- Zeb Ruddell (he was hot as a firecracker parts of the fall but cooled off late and has really struggled so far this spring).

So our All Americans went 0-11 w 6ks
Baseball lol

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DH Ruddell 0-3 2K

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Ruddell’s last two scrimmages: 0-7 6Ks

I think you’ll still use one of those guys in the midweek. We’re going to need to keep the true bullpen guys fresh too not to mention developing them.


I think it’ll look more like

Skenes/Taylor Friday
Hurd/Shores Saturday
Floyd/bullpen Sunday

Little/bullpen midweek.

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Shores seems like a good candidate for a few midweek starts. Being a freshmen and all. Get that confidence up

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Either works. I’m not so much stuck on the names as I am the philosophy.

I think we’ll only need 4-5 of those names some weekends, with starters getting deeper and/or using other guys bc of the game flow (for example, Skenes goes 7 and comes out with a 6 run lead so you throw Edwards 2 innings to keep others available for the next day). This will leave you heading into a Tuesday game with, for example, Shores and/or Little needing work. That’s when I think you’ll see him use them as a true starter and let them go as long as they can. You have enough good arms now to not be overly concerned with good, extendable arms available again by the weekend.

Will be more fluid for sure. And will likely morph into a bullpen with more traditional roles I would think

Looking forward to seeing how he is going to utilize Jones, Jobert, and Beloso and that battle at DH. I am also wondering how much rope he is gonna give Pearson. He is not hitting yet like he did last year.

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You know what Skenes brings to the table as a hitter.

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We know what Crews brings to the table too but he still needs preseason swings and Skenes just isn’t getting them. If Jay planned on relying on him then he would be getting swings.