Dude is marginal at best. No reason to build a program around him. But damn do we suck.
That’s a pretty gimmicky skill he has, but he’s got good velocity that you can’t teach. You can, however, teach him to hit the broad side of a barn once every 10 pitches.
Lots of freshman making impact all over the SEC. Lots of freshman way more productive than he was and has been IN or OUT of conference.
So, we recruit players, put them on scholarship (+ NIL money) for 3 years for just 1 year of production? True freshman or not, an 11.31 conference ERA is nowhere near acceptable. You're right about one thing though. He should never have been put into an SEC game (or any other game for that matter).
How come other teams in this league recruit freshman that step in and play… and our freshman ”aren’t ready”
because we haven't recruited (gotten to campus) the quality arms that other teams seem to get to campus. and the ones that we DID get to campus, we didn't develop whatsoever. it's as simple as that
Agree with this.
Because we have a staff (outside of Gotro maybe) who has no concept of evaluation and development. We don't sign a lot of good pitchers. We sign guys with certain metrics instead. Too many bad Juco guys too. We don't have many SEC pitchers on this roster.
It’s an evaluation & recruiting issue. We’ve never had any problem getting talented players to Starkville & we never will.
That would suggest our coaches are either lazy or incompetent. We need to do a better job of evaluating coaching hires.
So close to half the league had a FR weekend starter. It’s not unusual at all. How many of those had double digit ERAs?
the coaches did recruit lazy, letting PG do all of the evaluating for them. That's letting a company that lets players pay for a higher rating do your evaluating. just stupid and lazy. couple that with the little league errors that have crept into our program, and the decision really shouldn't be difficult. but we will MSU it, and give him another year. and be right back here next year talking about the same issues. we'll set ourselves back a decade from where we should be expecting to be year in and year out.
This is the problem when you recruit rating stars with limited scholarships like in baseball. It works in football because Bama can recruit a bunch of them. You see how many 4- and 5-star guys in college football that don't pan out. In baseball you better evaluate with the limited scholarships no room for mistakes. In other words I agree with you. They have signed some good guys who can field and hit but it took them too long to get them into the right spots. Forsythe should have been replaced way earlier than he was. Look how good that Freshman is they put in his place. WTH!
