re: Good point by Doug Thompson on Culotta earlier...

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We have a 9 run lead and Little is walking guys on 4 pitches

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With that big of a lead, you virtually groove the fricking thing. There’s a 3 in 4 chance it’s hit at somebody.

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What’s the approach for the first time through the order?

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Use your second best pitch most.

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What’s the approach for the second and third time through the order?

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Use your best/out pitch most.

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Maybe our roster isn't that talented. It's mostly leftovers from Pawl's era.

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Collins
Skenes
Little
Hurd
Guidry
Ack
Shores
Herring
Cooper

Johnson

Miss anyone?

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The 2 Johnsons have attempted to create a staff of robots who know that the hook is coming sooner than later. Just my honest opinion.

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D-1 Athletes

Make an adjustment & get better

Some of those were temp band-aids last year where JJ had to put together patchwork bullpen. Skenes is prob best ace in the country right now. Little and Hurd are whiffs but Hurd was coming off an injury and knew it probably would take him awhile to get to old form. He has shown flashes. Little just doesn't have control and never did at Vandy. That's a miss, imo.

Guidry's future is not on the mound at LSU. Ack was good before his injury. Not sure what's going on there. Ack was actually one of your more reliable relief before he got hurt. Shores looked like he was going to be big time until he got hurt. Bad luck. Herring will likely push for a starting spot at some point maybe next year.

Just going to have to wait until next season before I think anyone can fairly criticize JJ on the bullpen. He had literally nothing to work with last year and some of that carried over to this year. They tried to get better than Little in the portal but we got beat out and he's starting at Florida now. Hurd was definitely worth taking a risk on since he has 1st round ability. Nobody could've predicted the injuries that hit basically the entire top of their bullpen. Not a single person on here was bitching about that pull from the transfer portal but everyone knew it was risky due to his injury.

They snagged an amazing freshman class for pitchers to make it to LSU. Unfortunately, the majority of it is hurt. Again, bad luck. I'm sure JJ will hit the portal even harder this year since he likely won't see some of those guys next season.

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Just going to have to wait until next season before I think anyone can fairly criticize JJ on the bullpen.

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No need to be reasonable on here. Most people just use this board as a place to vent their frustration.

I think it is possible that all these guys are trying to be Skenes. Trying to strike everyone out. It’s not that they can’t throw strikes. They just throw too many balls. You gotta hive the other team a chance to het themselves out. But in the pressure cooker situations it’s hard to throw something up there that WILL get hit.

I agree. I think Hurd is going to be special next season for LSU. He has the stuff he just needs consistency to regain his old form. Maybe he starts to find it near the end of this season. Wouldn't shock me to see him on the mound next season as LSU's ace. Has he shown anyone the confidence in that yet? No but if he gets there he definitely has ace stuff.

That’s the problem! I’d like to see the percentage of hits when behind compared to when ahead. I know statistically it’s going to be higher when behind but I bet ours shows that it’s way higher.

The big difference yesterday between them hitting and LSU not hitting was they weren’t swinging at bad pitches and we were absolutely taking bad swings at bad pitches. We should have had at least 5-6 more walks or waited for good pitches. These pitchers are NOT giving us anything good to swing at and we are still swinging. I mean even when they were in bad counts their pitchers were pitching on the edges, low and inside to induce ground ball, swings or pop ups. Our guys were allowing it by being too aggressive.

When they change their approach, we need to change it with them. 13-4 should have been a win for us. When they walked our two best hitters to load the bases, we have to make them pay for that. I realize that it was our catcher but you have to pinch hit him and put another catcher in IF he doesn’t get the hit. Even if you have to let Jones catch, then you do it. Putting Pearson in at that moment could have won the game and while I realize you should allow guys to come through, you just have to make them pay for doing that. Malazzo

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Even if Ben McDonald was the pitching coach the bullpen would still suck. You can't make gravy out of molasses.

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That's because Ben Mcdonald isn't a pitching coach