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Absolute pleasure watching Cowan pitch
Posted on 3/27/25 at 10:24 pm
Posted on 3/27/25 at 10:24 pm
A true pitcher that doesn’t rely on just speed
This post was edited on 3/27/25 at 10:25 pm
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Posted on 3/27/25 at 10:26 pm to Double Oh
Great pitcher
Posted on 3/27/25 at 10:30 pm to Double Oh
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He throws strikes
And he throws balls that look like strikes, fooling batters.
Posted on 3/27/25 at 10:31 pm to saturncube21
Huge get out of the portal
Posted on 3/27/25 at 10:34 pm to Relham10
We need more guys who know how to pitch like him and less guys that throw 96 mph fastballs with no movement and can't command breaking pitches.
Posted on 3/27/25 at 11:18 pm to saturncube21
He’s got a filthy changeup. A pitch like that is one of the deadliest to throw.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 12:00 am to saturncube21
His mom was going through it at the ballpark tonight. She probably doesn’t have any fingernails left, ??
Posted on 3/28/25 at 6:32 am to FriscoTiger
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We need more guys who know how to pitch like him and less guys that throw 96 mph fastballs with no movement and can't command breaking pitches.
So less guys like Ty Floyd and Thatcher Hurd? Because that’s what they were until they weren’t, and we won a National Championship.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 8:49 am to Double Oh
Honestly, he “throws strikes” doesn’t even begin to describe his best attributes. He COMMANDS the zone. Up down left right, mixes his speeds well, blows 90-91 mph fastballs past everyone because they HAVE NO CLUE what’s coming. Just imagine if shores can figure this out, he’d be unworldly.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 8:59 am to saturncube21
command!
Posted on 3/28/25 at 10:09 am to saturncube21
Roger Clemens said yesterday that location is far more important to a pitcher than speed. He thinks speed is ruining many college pitchers trying to throw hard and sacrifice location. His comment to be a good pitcher, location, location and location.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 10:16 am to Double Oh
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He throws strikes
…And changes speeds…and locates.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 10:22 am to moneyg
Greg Maddux...nothing more needs to be said.
This post was edited on 3/28/25 at 10:25 am
Posted on 3/28/25 at 11:49 am to TSS4LSU
Sorry brudda, no pitcher deserves a Maddux comp. I'll give you Aaron Nola.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 11:52 am to Double Oh
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He throws strikes
*Quality strikes
A lot of swing and misses on the changeup which looks like a strike till they are committed with a swing and drops off and goes under their bat.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 12:25 pm to Bourre
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His mom was going through it at the ballpark tonight. She probably doesn’t have any fingernails left
Not many can handle the stress of being given the game in the 6th with a 1 run lead and asked to finish the last 4 innings. Cowan is different.
That’s the debate with how to best use him. What he did last night and versus Texas was spectacular. However, we are only getting ~60 pitches a week out of what in many ways is our best pitcher.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 12:50 pm to Penrod
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Thatcher Hurd
I get your point here; he was great during that post season run. Couldn't have won it without him, but the vast majority of Hurd's sample size was him not commanding off speed pitches and throwing 96mph. Thatcher was that, then he wasn't that for 3 weeks, then he was that again in 2024.
Floyd took off in 2023 because he developed a secondary pitch. He finished the year 7-0. Comparing the two is a huge insult to Floyd imo
Posted on 3/28/25 at 2:00 pm to MikeTheTiger11
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Floyd took off in 2023 because he developed a secondary pitch. He finished the year 7-0.
He did, but he had a lot of luck getting there, iirc. He was shaky much of the season and then caught fire - not to the extent Hurd did, you’re right. The point is that they are working on these guys all season, and sometimes it starts to flow at the end of the season.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 8:57 pm to Penrod
Floyd's fastball had plenty of movement and i would take Cowan over Hurd.
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