As baseball nears, projected rotation?

Evans has the inside track to be the Friday starter.

Saturday and Sunday will probably be two sets of piggybacks that include Cooper Williams, William Schmidt, Cooper Moore, and Zac Cowan.

I predict “Fire Yeskie” threads will be posted after the first BB is issued

Evans seems to have Friday on lock

Williams and Schmidt if he has it figured out are next best bets with Moore right up there too if Schmidt aint it still.

But we will go through winter practice leading up to the season and see how things shake out.

We honestly have a ton of options for starters. Cowan could very easily be a starter but they loved him in that long relief role last year. Moore and Cowan are pretty similar to me.

A good hope/guess

Friday: Evans
Saturday: Schmidt
Sunday: Cowan/Moore

I dont see jay getting away from using his best 5 arms Friday and Saturday so I could easily see Cowan staying in a long reliever roll, but if we don’t need him Saturday he could be a sunday starter

Hell he was throwing a pretty good looking slider in the CWS. if that keeps up and he has 3 pitches he could be the saturday guy.

I am interested in where Cooper Williams lands, if he’s a long reliever or our go to lefty throughout the weekend.

We know jay loves lefty pitchers, and if Williams is a beast he absolutely will start, but does he have a reliable third pitch?

I can’t remember.

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We honestly have a ton of options for starters. Cowan could very easily be a starter but they loved him in that long relief role last year.

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I think that's the reason we see a lot more 4 inning or 18 batter starts, on purpose. Schmidt starting on a Saturday and going 2x through the order and follow it up with Williams to go another 2x through. Then let the bullpen clean up whatever is left.

I don't know who (outside of Evans) will be asked to see a guy 3 times until maybe pretty late in the season if they need to tighten up the numbers and start extending a few guys.

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Paz

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I’m excited to see how he is used this season.

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Garcia

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He might be a stopper type role, supposedly his ground ball rate is insane

Yeah you’re not wrong.

I wouldn’t count Williams out
especially if some of the other lefties look reliable out the pen.

Not a terrible problem

Hope we see Schmidt make the jump.

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Noot isnt good enough to lock Sunday?

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I don't think he will be asked to. He had a few extended outings last year and did well. I think he's more likely to be a multi inning reliever less there are so many guys they want to work in that they limit him to 1 inning per (a real possibility).

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Noot isnt good enough to lock Sunday?

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He's one of like the 10 or so guys with legit starter capability on this team; I just dont think we need him to start.

When you have as much pitching depth as we do beyond Evans we dont really need to ask anyone to start and go 5-6 innings. Kind of like MLB and project mentioned Jay has really built a solid innings eating group of pitchers where we can use it to our advantage that multiple guys can go 2-3 innings and never even have to see the same guy in the lineup twice and we dont have much fall off in our pitchers one to the next. Everyone throws a little less innings than a typical starter would but maximize their talent without having to make them go for 90-100-110 pitches every week.