re: Feel bad for Matty Ott

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I've heard the same, and I expect he will be successful in this role. Hopefully rantards don't want him closing his entire career though. We will prob need him as a starter next year.

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I'd like to see an all Sophomore weekend rotation next year.

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some of you just don't get midweek games, yall shouldn't post

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I get midweek games, and I understand ott needs work. I just dont see why you force the issue when you have something working and you are down....

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ott was amazing not throwing hard, but you see what happens when he's off, he's BP. even if eades is off, it's possible he can still blow it by someone

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Agreed. Ott was so tough because he rarely left the ball up and batters would swing at that wicked slider. I don't know whether he's lost his control, lost the movement on his pitches or whether people have just figured him out, but he is throwing BP now. Talk about some fat pitches he's serving up.

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I just dont see why you force the issue when you have something working and you are down....

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I understand ott needs work

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Answered your own question, getting Ott more work was more important than keeping the game within 4.

i think hitters have learned to lay off his slider. he's having to eat up more of the zone and not getting as much movement and you essentially have an 85 mph meatball with little movement

if he's able to catch more of the zone and still have good movement, i think he'll be fine, but that just isnt the case right now

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Hope he can still come back into better form later in his career though.

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For sure. We need him. I don't know what the deal is but this is not a run of bad baseball fortune. He is absolutely getting hammered.

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getting Ott more work was more important than keeping the game within 4.

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I think the team as a whole needed a win more than anything tonight to get their heads right before the road trip. And now Ott still needs work, and we just lost to ulala. Just gonna keep throwing games away so matty can keep tossing up gopher balls so he can get some work in???

like I said, I understand Ott needs some work, I just think the W was more important tonight. I think that would have done a lot more for him and the entire team. (Not saying we definitely would have won had Dykstra stayed in)

But by all means, keep saying these midweek games dont mean anything. Thats gonna be a tough L for the team to look at...

And hey, at least matty got some work in...

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I beg to differ.

Ok? I said this season would determine alot for him, how is that incorrect?

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They are planning on redshirting Reed. Unless we have multiple pitchers go down with injuries, Reed will not pitch this year.


ahhh, thanks for clarification.


I heard this directly from one of the coaches. I guess things can change, but as of last week that is the deal.

Just curious, how did you hear this?

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A player's parent told me and I asked a coach last week and he confirmed it.