re: Casan Evans should have been the first reliever for Eyanson on Saturday

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He can't simply burn Cowan and Evans everytime we have a lead and pull a starter.

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So what you’re really saying is if you have a car show to win with 2 contestants you’re bringing your 2006 Chevy Impala instead of your Ferrari 250 GTO?

What’s wrong with bringing in your best on Friday and Saturday, winning, and then playing Sunday loose in a game with no real negative but serious upside if you win??

it’s really frustrating

We had multiple opportunities to put him in with the lead

and I sorta excuses the first time being a situation where we needed to fill innings, his longest out was 2.1 so we knew we’d need a few other guys to give us something first.


but sunday we let him go 3.2

I mean out him in in the 5th and you make it almost to the end of the game.

1 run that’s a 7-4 game with 4 outs to get?

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You're treating an SEC weekend like a playoff matchup.

He can't simply burn Cowan and Evans everytime we have a lead and pull a starter.

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To be fair, that’s exactly what he did with Cowan on Friday. He used him up in a situation he didn’t need to.

JJ knows he needs to develop the pen. If the pen looks like this at the end of the year, I think he will start being more picky with where he uses Cowan and Evans.

Are you freaking slow????? It is about winning games. That's how you get there. What in the holy cr@p did you just spew. Stop talking, it's poisoning the non-ret@rds.

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I think Texas showed they had no trouble scoring 6 runs on the rest of our bullpen. They scored 9 runs in 4 innings on our bullpen Saturday. I had no issue with Cowan coming in and preventing any stress from happening on Friday. We left Friday with everyone but Cowan and Anderson available. That was a win.

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I think Cowan showed he “had no trouble holding Texas to a smaller lead” and could have come in later if needed.

You are measuring decisions based on hindsight. I’m not. You can make correct decisions that don’t work out.

Pitching Cowan with a 6 run lead was a mistake IMO on paper. Now maybe he was already warmed up and his options were limited.

In the same way, not pitching Evans in the 5th was reasonable. Those complaining are simply using hindsight. And the same logic of “Texas showed they were going to hit anyone but Cowan and Evans on the bullpen” could be used to point out why he wanted to get into a position to let Evans end the game.

In one case I’m disagreeing with JJ. In another, I’m defending him. So clearly I’m not a hater or a sunshine pumper.

But in general, if you have a short list of trusted bullpen arms…you better optimize their use. He didn’t do that with Cowan. He tried to do it with Evans but ran into a situation that he had to throw him out there with a 4 run deficit.

Yes pitching Cowan Friday with a 6 run lead was retarded. Who cares if he was warmed up pitch him one inning so he can come back Saturday or Sunday. Throwing him 3 innings with 6 run lead was just dumb.

I expect CJJ wasn't pleased with the series and he learned some things from the weekend.

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Are you freaking slow????? It is about winning games. That's how you get there. What in the holy cr@p did you just spew. Stop talking, it's poisoning the non-ret@rds.

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You are dead wrong, and Yeti has it right. Skip Bertman and Paul Mainieri made moves in March and April to improve their team. They balanced that with trying to win games. CJJ has a thoroughbred team this year. He needs to focus on improving that team and don’t worry about wins and losses. This team is good enough to host a Regional, and probably a Super, regardless if they lose a half dozen games from experimenting.