re: Does Yeskie return next season?

He will leave only if he is looking for something different. Jay Johnson loves the man and has had a professional relationship with him for a long time.

Biggest thing tis offseason is they need to look at guys that throw strikes FIRST in the portal and not just go after everyone with stuff whether they throw strikes or not. IT really burned us this season only Cowan and Eyanson are the only arms out all the arms we got in the portal who can throw strikes and pitch effectively for us.

It's hard to try and "fix" so many guys and clearly not a strongsuit of yeskie so stop trying to grab so many guys we hope to "fix" and grab more guys like Cowan and Eyanson who are proven effective strike throwers.

Instead of getting 2/7 transfers who throw strikes maybe look at taking 5-6 out of 7 and maybe 1-2 project guys.

Most of our transfers were not what you’d consider “project” guys.

Mayers was but his upside is obvious
Benge was a little but he had 22 walks in 33 innings.

But Conor Ware had 3 BB last year.
Sheerin what 109 SOs to 32 Walks last year.
Dorsey had 16 walks in 30 innings.

Obviously Eyanson and Cowan were good last year and are pretty good this year.

now go to the SEC.

have people actually watch you pitch
Have way less of a margin for error missing in the zone and all of a sudden some guys can’t replicate that.

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Most of our transfers were not what you’d consider “project” guys.

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All the transfer pitchers but Cowan and Eyanson had control issues.

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But Conor Ware had 3 BB last year.

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Not a transfer, JUCO guy.

Sheerin had 42 free passes in 70 IP
Dorsey had 23 free passes in 30 IP
Mayers had 81 free passes in 70.2 IP
Benge had 33 free passes in 33 IP
Fontenot had 12 free passes in 11 IP

None of those are good, all especially bad outside of Sheerin who also clearly had some control issues walking a guy every 5 outs or so. All these guys continue to not throw strikes here with Sheerin just being unavailable.

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HBP isnt great but it isn’t the same as a walk.

But even then Sheerin had 109 strike outs.

thats about 2.6 Ks for every BB+HBP

you take that all day.

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Sheerin was going to be pretty big for this staff imo. I guess we will see when he gets back.

yeah at least it isn’t an arm injury and at least he has 2 years

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He's publicly stated multiple times that he thinks Yeskie is the best pitching coach in CBB. Why he believes that, I have no idea. We have about 4 pitchers on the entire roster with more command of their pitches than Nuke LaLoosh.

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So he’s gonna hire a guy and then say he sucks publicly? That’d be an interesting work environment lol.

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He’s been a huge letdown.

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By what metric?

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I think he is doing a pretty good job.

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In two seasons it is hard to see his value. I do not think his strong suit it fixing mechanics. His results have been pretty chalk (already good pitchers pitching well).

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a HBP isnt great but it isn’t the same as a walk

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It's the exact same result and pitchers fault, it counts as a free pass. I didn't even include WP since that can be a bit situational, but some of them racked those up too. Point was every transfer pitcher had some notable or major control issues before coming here except Eyanson and Cowan and now those are our only of (of the 7) who we can rely on at all.

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But even then Sheerin had 109 strike outs.

thats about 2.6 Ks for every BB+HBP

you take that all day.

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Hes the least questionable compared to the others I mentioned with control issues, but control issues were still present there. Obviously TBD since he's out the season (probably), but not guarantee he would have been a big part to the staff if he had some control issues still. In the end if someone can't throw strikes they can't pitch much here and that's of no value to us.