Matty Ott?

I was thinking the same thing.... but hey what do I know

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I was thinking the same thing.... but hey what do I know

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Matty maybe pitched 20 pitches he sat every batter down himself in his second inning with very few fouls hit too. He was the most dominant pitcher I have seen this weekend besides Raunaldo. I just dont get it. Paul has been inconsistent this year. Sure he did good the other night but not better than Ott did today or the rest of the season. Good news is that we have one hell of a pitcher in this kid. Just dont think in that situation in the game you start gambling. PLUS when Paul was in there coach just stayed in the dugout! Not even a walk to the mound to slow things down. I do think he was outcoached this weekend. Everytime we got on a role thier coach was killing out momentum by taking a long walk. PM looked alot like Smoke out there today. Sad to say.

Come on, now. We go through this every year. The coaching decisions made in March are not the same ones that are going to be made at the CWS. It's all about experimentation right now, especially with pitching.

Personally, I've got high hopes for Ott and Matulis, but at this stage of the season, nobody knows who's going to be the best players come May and June, not even the players themselves.

I don't think it has to do with his pitch count because he only threw 29 total and like 21strikes but more with having him ready sooner and getting bert some work....but agree that gambling or changing things up at that time of the game with ott shutting them down was the wrong move

We won alot of games last year when most people would say what the hell is PM doing. Then it works out in his favor so I just shut my mouth.

Mainieri said after the game he really wanted the guys to learn what it's like to lose a game. He thought they were becoming complacent with winning so much.

That's great coaching, IMO!




ETA:

I think coach wanted to see how Bert performed pitching on back-to-back days b/c we will need him in that situation later on in the year.

Back when Skip would do the same thing early in the spring in non-conference games, the usual know-it-alls would invariably spout the same jibberish and acted like they knew way more than our NC coach! And who says things change! Not the Negatigers in Louisiana!