Why is everyone so down on pitching?

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Why is everyone so down on pitching?

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Not everyone. People who just started watching baseball. The veterans know it's a constant battle. Pitchers like Skeenes don't fall from the trees.

I think everyone just wants more consistency. They’ve all shown flashes of being good relievers, then they’ll have appearances where they can’t find the plate or can’t get anyone out. Our offense is good enough to match anyone. The bullpen guys just need to give them a chance by not allowing huge innings. I’m not ready to put the fork in them because I’ve seen major improvement throughout the season as recent as two years ago.

People forget the pitching in 2023 was similar to this before postseason play. Still a lot more baseball left, we will be fine

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a Sunday guy who is showing flashes and looked really good in the first inning last night.

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Flashes and looked good in one inning?

I’m not super down on pitching, but it’s inconsistent at best and bad at worst (re: the pen). It’s also incredibly frustrating when it seems like there are times when we can’t find anybody to literally pitch a strike.

We’re now more than three weeks into conference play, so things should be mostly “figured out” by now. It’s baseball. You shouldn’t have to wait all season for “flashes” and “getting things together.” And I’m not even really disagreeing with you, but it seems like a tale as old as time with the old “he’ll figure it out by the end of the season” schtick.

But I’m not sure anybody thinks our pitching legit sucks though. I assume they’re just more frustrated at the lack of consistency I guess. Which is reasonable.

Everyone thought we had 15 or so all Americans coming out of fall ball. But as always, true competition against actual opponents will begin to tell the real story. We still have quite a few studs..more than most.

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Flashes and looked good in one inning?

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So why didn’t you list the teams with a better and deeper staff? Who has a better Sunday guy?

This should be easy for you.


Don’t forget to report how many runs their team has scored.

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Who has a better Sunday guy?

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Currently? Tennessee, arkansas, texas am, unc, nc st, florida st, kansas st, and oregon st all have better 3rd starters

Ours has better upside than about half of those

I think last night was frustrating because we had a huge lead all game and nobody was consistently throwing strikes. It wasn't a high pressure situation, just throw the ball over the plate, and let them put it in play. Instead our bullpen was getting behind in the count and making it harder than it needed to be.

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Yea and I want 3 Skenes and 9 Dylan crews.

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Skenes may be a better catcher and could make sense at 1B so I'll take 5 Skenes and 7 Crews

So… you wake up this morning see the score then skim over posts made during the last 1/2 of the game (being played well after midnight, mind you) and you come to the conclusion that everyone is down in the entire pitching staff???

What the overwhelming majority (after drinking quite a bit, it’s well after midnight, mind you) were bitching about is how comical it is after Evans and Cowan have been used that we parade pitcher, after pitcher, who are beyond inconsistent. One pitch they are throwing a 98 mph heater over the corner of the plate then they are hitting a batter, then throwing 4 pitches in a row that aren’t anywhere close to the plate,

It’s the wild, not even competitive pitches that a lot of our relievers throw over and over again that frustrates people.

Btw, it was awesome to see Noot come in and pitch like he did. We may have found one more reliever after Cowan and Evans that looks like he can hold the rope.