Staying with Fontenot

Fontenot was dealing...even up until The game winning hit...

No problem with Fontenot in that situation.

Fontenot wasn't the issue, he was dealing and he was the logical choice to finish the inniny

Just not sure who else you turn to, we had used up a lot a pitching the night before. Peterson was done. Hess threw almost 30 pitches and looked bad the night before. I guess the argument is Hess, but Fontenot was cruising pretty well. He even had the guy in a 1-2 and 2-2 count before the game winning hit.

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One of the criticisms heard most often is he stays with pitchers too long

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Except on Saturday when he was changing pitchers for no reason.

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Fontenot was gasssed

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FIFY

Fontenot was throwing 92-93. If our top hitters don’t pop up and take strikes we could have won maybe. Timely hitting was not there.

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I’m just like many of you...I get very frustrated with PM. One of the criticisms heard most often is he stays with pitchers too long. Last night many said he stayed with Fontenot too long.
I think he stays with them because he doesn’t trust his staff and rightfully so. Now, I know the answer is to fix the problems with the staff but last night, A tired Fontenot who is battling was his best choice.

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Fontenot was awesome.

Mainieri wanted to go to Hess. Hess told him no. So, Mainieri was forced to make a decision between staying with an exhausted Fontenot (who was still dealing) or going to a guy in the pen who he didn't have confidence in (Veitmeyer or Hilliard.)

One thing that was strange was it really looked like he told Fontenot he was done, and Fontenot talked him into letting him stay. That's a pretty weak move. But, it shows how weak his confidence in the staff was. In the end, Fontenot, at 90+ pitches, was still probably our best available option.

I thought he made a mistake earlier in the game when he pulled Marceaux in a 3 run game with nobody on. We needed to get more out of Marceaux. He wasn't pitching great. But, getting 3-6 more outs out of him could have been a big deal (and in hindsight it probably was).

One thing nobody is talking about is the decision to pitch Henry for 80+ last weekend after him only throwing 38ish pitches the week before. I thought it was too big of a jump at the time. Nobody seemed to want to acknowledge it. But, I think it played a part in him not bouncing back for this weekend.

Also, last night, Hess was at 17 pitches when we lost the lead. A lot of people recognized at the time that we needed to preserve Hess for the rest of the weekend having already burned Peterson. Even the TV announcers said it. But, Mainieri let him up his count to 30 for no good reason.

Last weekend, he pitched Marceaux for another inning in a 13 run game, when you might have needed him later.

I think his inability to manage his staff overall is bigger than his in game decisions.

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BS - you don't pitch to that guy, with an open base, in the bottom of the 12th. Absolutely mind boggling. My 10 year old knew that...

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Ok but PM said in his news conf that the guy behind him was just as good. The guy he pitched too led FSU in strike-outs

Fontenot should have been in Saturday.