re: Does anyone know why Bouman was pulled?

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Bouman hasn't gone 7 all year

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yeah, but he threw 64 last night. He threw 90 in his last outing against Arkansas. Threw 75 against Auburn, 73 against Vandy, 83 against Yale...and those are just the high pitch counts when he got the decision. I didn't go did through every game he started.

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Putting in McCune. Cune has cost us several games this year. He should not have been the first reliever off the bench.

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How was this a mistake? McCune pitched fine in the 7th inning. Faced the minimum number of hitters.

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Throwing Broussard in the 9th of a tie game.

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This was the right decision.

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He had a terrible start to the 7th

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He walked ONE hitter and then had to throw about 5 or 6 pitches to get out of the inning

You would do SO much better managing a baseball team. You know it and I know it.

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How was this a mistake? McCune pitched fine in the 7th inning. Faced the minimum number of hitters.

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McCune did not pitch fine in the 7th. He got lucky. It was painfully obvious.

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1. Pulling Bouman during a 2 hitter with only 64 pitches thrown. He's had games this year where he threw 83, 73, 75, and 90 pitches. It is absolutely inexcusable for him to get yanked dominating like he was.

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see response to 2

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2. Putting in McCune. Cune has cost us several games this year. He should not have been the first reliever off the bench.

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McCune has also won us some games.

Extras in Ole Miss
SEC champ vs Florida

may be a couple others but he has been good as of late, the only bad outings I remember were earlier in the season. CPM trusted that McCune would have given him a good inning and after he only threw 10 pitches he thought give him the 8th to he is pitching well.

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3. Leaving in McCune. He had a terrible start to the 7th and got bailed out on a terrible bunt/double play. Coach should have taken a deep breath and thanked God and then taken McCune's jersey, hat, and glove away. Sending him out in the 8th was terrible. At worst, should've been pulled after the first batter.

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he didn't have terrible start to the 7th he walked a guy than with good defense got out of it. 10 pitch inning facing the minimum is a good start no matter how those outs come.

I think there is a good reason CPM did what he did, whir it didn't work and I think he should have done something different I think he had a good reason to do what he did.

McCune with the bases loaded 0 outs there was a lefty in the hole.

Fury and Person are warming up in the pen.

He could bring in Fury to face two straight righties than bring in person to face the left, but the problem is if we don't get three straight outs you have person facing a righty who he isn't good against. Broussard may not be warm in time to come in.

I believe McCune stayed in because of match ups.

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4. Throwing Broussard in the 9th of a tie game. Coach just used his closer for 3 innings in a game we lost. I can't imagine that Broussard will be available today. Don't be shocked when we end up having to use someone else as a closer because Paul decided to use his closer when we weren't winning.

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I strongly disagree with this. If LSU scores one run you don't have to play today. It was very clear that Broussard should have pitched last night.

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He just had a really, really, really crappy day as a coach last night. And, if he left it all up to Dunn. Then, Dunn had a really, really, really crappy day as a pitching coach last night.

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CPM made maybe one mistake by staying with McCune to long, but other than that he made the right decisions. Many of you people over react to one bad decision.

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The best available arms we had were his and Broussards. Broussard wasn't coming in in the 7th. So the best available arm was the one still in the game. Let him pitch the 7th then you absolutely couldve let Broussard pitch the final two and we'd be looking to see who we play next week instead of worrying abiut tonight.

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not just that, but Bouman was done for the weekend the minute you pull him. he still had another 20 or so pitches left in him. And, you could've had McCune in the pen ready if that's what you wanted to do. But, you pulled a guy with a low pitch count and a 2-hitter and can't get those 20-25 pitches back.

and now, we've thrown Broussard 3 innings in a losing effort and he won't be available tonight.

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I don't think CPM knew that McCune would collapse in the 8th.

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he walked the first batter he faced in the 7th. He should've never had the chance in the 8th.

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he walked the first batter he faced in the 7th. He should've never had the chance in the 8th.

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he threw 10 pitches in the 7th.

and got them in order that is enough to deserve the 8th.

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he threw 10 pitches in the 7th.

and got them in order

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he did not get them in order. did you even watch the 7th? the 2nd batter was out at first base, then the 1st batter was tagged out at second base. that's not in order. And, you must be the only person on the planet to watch that and not realize how lucky we were to have the end result we got from that.

Putting in your closer in the 9th with a tie game shows me you are willing to let him throw 3 innings. I can't fathom why we didn't just put Broussard in for the 8th if Paul was willing to let him go more than one inning.


I'm done arguing. We'll have to agree to disagree. I think that Paul screwed up by pulling Bouman and the rest of the mistakes just piled up. You disagree and think that Paul is infallible. I get it.

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Honestly, if CPM didn't have it in his head to start the game that Bouman would go 5-6 then I think he stays in the game

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But you want your players to make adjustments? I disagree with the way CPM has handled his third starters all year. He has had plenty of time to extend those guys, I'm talking both Bouman and Cartwright, and has refused to do it. This isn't the first time that one of those two has gotten a quick hook after 4,5, or 6 when he was cruising. There is no reason that a college starter shouldn't be able to go at least 90 pitches at this point in the season other than injury.