Weekend Rotation announced…thoughts….

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Friday Night: Lights out Landon

KC Hunt: no clue what we have here?
anybody got the scoop?

Cade Smith: I got no problem here

 

[Bucksnort_Dawg]

I expected 2 out of the 3. KC Hunt surprised me. I think there are 5 or 6 guys who could take a weekend spot. Hard to go wrong with any of them.

 

[PooPopsBaldHead]

If those 2 are better than Brandon Smith, Preston Johnson, Jackson Fristoe, and Andrew Walling in starting roles... We may have more pitching depth than the 98' Braves.
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[PartTimeGenius]

I believe the knock on Fristoe and Walling is lingering control issues.

 

[Rebeldude]

I had heard this yesterday.
Everybody knew Sims was the Friday guy.
KC Hunt has had some very good innings in the scrimmages.
Smith was very probable for at least one of the weekend spots.
Also heard Preston Johnson first guy out of the pen, and not out of the mix for a starting spot if one of the others falter.

 

[messageboardsuperhero]

The three rotation starters on opening weekend are rarely the same three come May/June. But KC Hunt earned the opportunity. He has been phenomenal and will be a factor for us either as a starter or closer this year.

I don’t think you’re going to see us ask for more than 5-6 innings out of starters very much at all this year. With Johnson, Stinnett, Fristoe, Smith, Walling, Kohn, Tepper, Tuller, Auger, Jack Walker, Cheatham, etc. in the pen, we would rather get five good ones than have someone wear down in the seventh inning.

 

[Bucksnort_Dawg]

The three rotation starters on opening weekend are rarely the same three come May/June. But KC Hunt earned the opportunity. He has been phenomenal and will be a factor for us either as a starter or closer this year.

I don’t think you’re going to see us ask for more than 5-6 innings out of starters very much at all this year. With Johnson, Stinnett, Fristoe, Smith, Walling, Kohn, Tepper, Tuller, Auger, Jack Walker, Cheatham, etc. in the pen, we would rather get five good ones than have someone wear down in the seventh inning.

I could see Fox using each game as 2 “starts” to try out a couple of guys.

 

[MSUDC11]

Hunt is a fairly safe bet to be our most improved pitcher this year. I've heard since the fall that he would be one of our top arms this year, it's just a matter of whether or not he would be starting or closing for us.

It really is absurd how much pitching talent we've amassed the last few years. Not every guy has or will pan out like we hoped, but the talent on our staff in recent years is unlike anything we've ever had. We have guys that will be on midweek duty who probably could have been a weekend starter for us in other years. Heck, we're not 5 years removed from Jake Mangum being our Sunday starter.

 

[johnson86-1]

The three rotation starters on opening weekend are rarely the same three come May/June. But KC Hunt earned the opportunity. He has been phenomenal and will be a factor for us either as a starter or closer this year.

I don’t think you’re going to see us ask for more than 5-6 innings out of starters very much at all this year. With Johnson, Stinnett, Fristoe, Smith, Walling, Kohn, Tepper, Tuller, Auger, Jack Walker, Cheatham, etc. in the pen, we would rather get five good ones than have someone wear down in the seventh inning.

Even aside from protecting starters arms and keeping them fresh, we're going to have to keep them limited so we can figure out which of our other arms can be trusted in games.

 

[HumpDawgy]

I like their ERAs.***

 

[57stratdawg]

If I set the number of weekend starters used throughout the 2022 season at 5.5 - which way would you go?

 

[wsjmsu75]

If I set the number of weekend starters used throughout the 2022 season at 5.5 - which way would you go?

Which one is the .5?

 

[wsjmsu75]

Any guesses on the starting lineup tomorrow?

 

[MagnoliaHunter]

We had a 6'5" lefty who throws in the 90s leave this off-season cause he couldn't get in the lineup. That's strong.

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

C - Tanner
1b - Hancock
2b - Yeager
SS - Forsythe
3b - James
LF - Cumbest
CF - Davis
RF - Clark
DH - Alford

I would bat James leadoff. It won’t be how it is, but I would go
James
Hancock
Tanner
Clark
Yeagar
Cumbest
Davis
Forsythe
Alford

 

[She Mate Me]

C - Tanner
1b - Hancock
2b - Yeager
SS - Forsythe
3b - James
LF - Cumbest
CF - Davis
RF - Clark
DH - Alford

I would bat James leadoff. It won’t be how it is, but I would go
James
Hancock
Tanner
Clark
Yeagar
Cumbest
Davis
Forsythe
Alford

That's gotta be among, if not the, tallest outfields in the country. 6'6", 6'4" and 6'2"

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

Don’t tell Yancy.
Wait…how 17ing tall is Davis? The hail state app decides to keep that info private for whatever reason

 

[Mr. Cook]

Hey...I'm just excited the season is here. Gonna be fun to be the hunted instead of the hunter. Now we'll see what we're really made of

 

[gwadSIG]

Lemonis said in a recent interview that the rotation might not be set until almost SEC play and we would have a lot of games where a SP throws 3-4 innings and then they bring another SP out of the pen for 3-4 innings.

 

[She Mate Me]

Don’t tell Yancy.
Wait…how 17ing tall is Davis? The hail state app decides to keep that info private for whatever reason

Roster lists him as 6'2"

 

[columbiadawg2]

Well they all have 0.00 ERA's so clearly they have good stuff