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Something in the wrist/hand area is what I heard a while back. Has gotten at least one injection to try to help it but sounds like it won’t be something that fully goes away til the offseason. He has walked 8 in his last 7.1 innings so I was wondering on Saturday if it might be flaring up more than normal. Kid is a warrior though. The fact he is getting P5 hitters out with his stuff is a testament to knowing how to pitch.

Yep. Only 24 teams in the country currently have better than a 1.34 WHIP as a staff. Anything below 1.25ish is elite at the college level. Lucas Gordon had a 1.15 WHIP last year. Anything in the 1.30-1.35 area is pretty good for a starter.

It was posted in the NCAA Baseball thread but Kendall Rogers had a comment today about the overall state of pitching in college baseball. Said it's harder than ever to pitch with the smaller strike zones and ball that is being used that is geared towards offense. Plus ERA isn't always the best stat to use because of how shaky defense (and official scoring) can be at this level. It's why the guys who miss bats are so coveted. Coaches can live with the dude with a 4.7 ERA that strikes out over a batter per inning because if the ball isn't being put in play they feel like they can't get hurt as much.

Agreed. Will be interesting to see what ends up happening with him and Whitehead, both of whom have held their own this year and compete well but I worry about against better lineups. Obviously, starting to pitch in the portal is a bloodbath. I'm hopeful we get this lefty from San Jac to campus that we've had committed since the fall. Been up to 96 this year and has 100 strikeouts in 56 innings. Would be an immediate weekend guy. https://www.njcaa.org/sports/bsb/2023-24/div1/players/brandonarvidsonpt3d?view=profile

Neil has some doozy takes if one ever ventures into the hornet's nest known as the comment sections on OTF. His favorite thing to do is just reiterate what he heard on the YouTube show in his own words.

All bets are off in the postseason. You definitely do stuff you wouldn't do in a normal weekend series. You shrink your circle of trust to about 2-3 starters and 2-3 relievers and ride those guys hard. You will bring your closer in during the 4th inning after he threw 25 pitches the day before if the game calls for it. Maybe that ends up helping us because we will be using every last drop from Duplantier and Boehm instead of bringing in David Shaw in a 2 run game because Boehm threw the night before.

What do we think the realistic ceiling is for Max Grubbs? Is he a weekend guy in the SEC? He doesn't miss a ton of bats, but he gets a lot of groundballs and has looked pretty good this year for a true sophomore who we didn't expect to be a weekend starter heading into the year. Pitching Statistics Season ERA W L APP GS CG SHO SV IP H R ER BB SO 2B 3B HR BF BAVG WP HBP BK SFA SHA Total 4.43 5 4 23 9 0 0 0 67.0 77 44 33 15 45 12 2 7 302 .281 9 7 0 2 4 2023 9.35 1 0 8 0 0 0 0 8.2 13 11 9 3 6 5 0 1 45 .325 1 2 0 0 0 2024 3.70 4 4 15 9 0 0 0 58.1 64 33 24 12 39 7 2 6 257 .274 8 5 0 2 4

We would have a lot more heartburn in the 8th and 9th innings. I like Boehm in his current role. Allows him to pitch multiple times in a series, if needed.

Apparently, he just started pitching this year so he is pretty raw. Can't teach 99-102 though.

Hopefully Tech shows more fight against OSU than they did against OU. They are playing for their postseason lives now at 12-15 in the conference. Hard to believe Texas could finish something like 19-11 in the league and that would only be good enough for 3rd. I thought that record might win the league just a month ago. Just a weird year all around.

Just saw the stat that OU is 3-6 against the other 3 teams in the top 4 of the conference and 15-0 against everyone else.

Thought the offense would have to carry us to this sweep and they went into witness protection all afternoon. Then the dam eventually broke on the mound. Go take the series in Orlando.

Thought OU would be on the verge of a collapse after dropping the DH against us and losing a midweek game to Oral Roberts. Tech wasn’t competitive at any point this weekend.

There is a notable gap between the two defensively but Kennedy seems to boot a routine one every couple games anyway. It wouldn’t shock me if they trotted O’Dowd out there to see if there is any juice in the bat. Kennedy hasn’t had an extra base hit in 3 weeks.

Get ready for Jack O Dowd in the lineup next Friday

Of course it dried up as soon as the inning ended

Why are they still playing

Again, if Dre is available why are we using Lummus to start an inning?

Lummus has benefited from some luck this year. He is no better than Shaw or Harrison.

This is not about to end well

So Kennedy gets rung up on that and then Tumis gets the Coke can sized strike zone.

When Dre isn’t available and you can’t use Boehm yet, any option looks like a “don’t care about this one anymore’’ option

4 innings with 3 runs allowed seems about right for LBJ nowadays.

When you see a lineup multiple times you better be able to have more in your bag than straight knee high fastball and slider in the dirt. Doesn't matter if you throw 96.

Hell of a job there