Those two walks by Norris were huge and why did he bring in Reed after pitching so many innings on Saturday? He had a tired arm and it showed and just might have cost us a trip to the CWS.
So is Cohen second guessing his pitching decisions from yesterday?
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If he looked ok in the bullpen, I don't see why you don't bring him in to pitch there. Only thing is I might have let Norris walk the guy to load the bases. I remember Kevin Donovan coming in against ND and closing out the regional after pitching a lot that Friday. You just hope they have enough in the tank to finish it out. Other than Mitchell, I don't know who I would bring in his place.
Looking back, sure he shouldn't have brought Norris in and sure he should have walked the UF hitter with 1st base open. But the walk would have put the go-ahead run on base, which most managers don't like to ever do. Reed is really the only decision that I questioned on the front end.
have a single pitcher we could point to and expect him to come in and overpower a single one of Florida's hitters. Our pitchers were extremely wary of going right at their hitters for very good reason and tried to get by hitting the corners, changing speeds, or by getting the hitters to chase a bad breaking pitch. It is pretty difficult when you know you can't just blow it by hitters as an option and that just wasn't an option against that lineup that I could see. Very difficult group to pitch to.
I also think we could have given Mitchell a shot. His arm sure wasn't tired from Friday... Hindsight is 20-20..
...these college coaches overthink things. Regardless of the matchup, if a guy is doing well, leave him alone.
It was a a mistake to take Stark out. Stark has been a good bit better than Norris. Putting Norris in was a huge mistake.
Norris had that great day against Auburn, but since then against Georgia he gave up a hit, walk, and a run in 2/3 of an inning in a huge spot if I remember right. The next time out, he walked 3 in 1.1 against Florida, did ok at Arkansas in an inning (gave up a hit), but gave up 2 runs on 3 hits against SC in 1 inning, pitched .1 of an inning against Alabama with a hit and a walk, gave up 2 runs on 4 hits against LSU, and a run against Arkansas in an inning in the SEC tournament.
In short, he's been pretty damn bad. And he's a true freshman in the biggest spot of the year. Just a huge blunder. I don't care about the matchups. Graveman, Girodo, and leaving Stark out there were all better options.
Just a huge blunder on our coaches' part.
It was a a mistake to take Stark out. Stark has been a good bit better than Norris. Putting Norris in was a huge mistake.
Norris had that great day against Auburn, but since then against Georgia he gave up a hit, walk, and a run in 2/3 of an inning in a huge spot if I remember right. The next time out, he walked 3 in 1.1 against Florida, did ok at Arkansas in an inning (gave up a hit), but gave up 2 runs on 3 hits against SC in 1 inning, pitched .1 of an inning against Alabama with a hit and a walk, gave up 2 runs on 4 hits against LSU, and a run against Arkansas in an inning in the SEC tournament.
In short, he's been pretty damn bad. And he's a true freshman in the biggest spot of the year. Just a huge blunder. I don't care about the matchups. Graveman, Girodo, and leaving Stark out there were all better options.
Just a huge blunder on our coaches' part.
When he didn't bring Stark back and put in Norris, I was going nuts. And sure enough Norris puts two on with Zunino and Tucker coming up. Not sure why he didn't want Stark to face the top of the lineup. Oh, well. Our performance in the post season was awesome.
Didn't understand taking him out after 3 scoreless innings. Granted I wasn't able to watch the game too closely while he was in therebut he allowed what - 3 or 4 baserunners? Maybe Cohen felt he was on the verge of a 5-run inning. But with out lack of depth I thought we should have riden him as long as we could... at least 1-2 more innings.
We lost the game in the first 2 innings. Not meaning to bash Pollo or anything but he just didn't get the job done early on. Had he given us 4 or 5 or morequality innings the bullpen wouldn't have been as big a factor. He pitched a great game against USM in the Atlanta regional. Granted, UF is light years ahead of USM talent wise but Pollo did a good job of locating pitches and keeping USM off balance at the plate. He didn't do that against UF and they made him pay.
I'm no 10%er but inconsistency is the one word that 100% describes this past season. We've had guy play lights out stellar ball one game and look like they couldn't even play decent t-ball the next. Youth and inexperience is the probable cause of this. I hope Cohen makes all the returners for next years team get lots of practice in summer league play so they will play good on a consistent basis.
I'm no 10%er but inconsistency is the one word that 100% describes this past season. We've had guy play lights out stellar ball one game and look like they couldn't even play decent t-ball the next. Youth and inexperience is the probable cause of this. I hope Cohen makes all the returners for next years team get lots of practice in summer league play so they will play good on a consistent basis.
the problem was when it came time to makea quick decision to let a tired pitcher throw a 3 - 1 pitch to the SEC player of the year with first base open.....Cohen blew it. Not a nickel`s worth of difference to Mullen`s play calling against LSU on the goal line in his first year...he blew it....**** happens. Both coaches did wonderful jobs of putting infereior(to that day`s opponent) teams in a position to win but screwed up at a critical time in the contest themselves. Whatever pain any of us feel about these losseswould need tobe multiplied by 1000 to get close to what these coaches felt for their players. Mullen moved on so will Cohen.
The problem with Devin Jones, though- he has very rarely done well under pressure of any sort. I think that's why the coaches took him out. Personally, I would have let him start the inning and if the first guy had gotten on, I would have gone to someone else- probably Stark.