Cooper Moore’s injury was huge

Nah, we still have enough horses if we coach better and tighten up the sloppiness.

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definitely weakened us, but pitching hasn't been our problem this season.

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Pitching has been a huge problem. Too many free passes.
Last night we gave up 2 runs in 1 inning, with no hits.

Hitting has been lackluster and fielding has been atrocious.

We fricking know. And we knew when you made this exact same post 13 days ago.

I’ve come to the conclusion that LSU is going to lose at least one major arm at some point every season. Every year there is a key piece in our pitching staff that gets hurts and misses the rest or the entire season. That’s why you can’t ever have too many quality pitchers.

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pitching hasn't been our problem this season.

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There's a whole lot of Mandela effect going on with Cooper Moore.

He wasn't an ace when healthy.

We'd roughly still be in the same position we are in now.

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He pitched 6 games:

6.0, 5.2, 7.2, 4.2, 4.0, 4.0 innings each outing.
3.38 era

Only one pitcher on the entire team has a better ERA than that. 4 innings of 3.4 era pitching every weekend is probably worth 1 win per weekend. The trickle down affect could be even greater than that.

We've literally had to pitch worse pitchers in 2/3 of our weekend games, plus every weekday game since he's been hurt. That equals real wins instead of losses.

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Cool, now look at his last couple of starts right before and in SEC play when the competition jumped up.

Of course he has the lowest ERA on the staff when he hasn't pitched through a full SEC schedule.

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I did include that. He pitched 4 innings in each sec game. That isn't nothing. That's 4 innings of pitching that is better than nearly everyone else on our whole team.

No one is on here saying he's Skenes. But, 4 innings of pitching from Moore is better than 4 innings of over half the guys who are pitching every weekend. Remove our 4 worst innings pitched every weekend and replace it with even "middle of the road" (how you're acting Moore pitches) and we have more wins overall.

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We're still in a similar position that we are now if he's only averaging 4-5 innings every Saturday. That's still a shite ton of innings that need to be covered by the pen.

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except we're not. 4 innings of shitty pitching replaced by reliable pitching results in multiple wins. Guys that have had to pitch and try to hold onto wins wouldn't have even pitched some weekends at all.

Moore doesn't have to be an SEC ace to have made a difference. Just pitch 4 reliable innings every week instead of 4 innings pitched by much worse pitchers.

You can't really be so fricking stupid to think that having Moore pitch 4 innings in a weekend rather than those innings being pitched by guys with 8.00+ era makes no difference.

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You're overvaluing the shite out of Cooper Moore, but alright bawski, you're clearly getting angry with that last little quip, so let's just leave it at that.

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you're attributing 0 value to a guy who was one of our most reliable arms. I'm not overvaluing him. I'm saying that even if you put his value at the middle of our pitchers (he's not that bad, he easily top 3-5), him throwing 4 innings every weekend results in us winning more games.

You've stated he would make 0 difference. That's stupid.