Armchair Decision Maker: Who is your middle wheel?

I would go with Eisert it felt like we were stretching him out there for a little bit, but he has been under utilized as of late.  


Mulholland clearly is going through a dead arm period (not unusual at this time of year for highly used freshman arms) so he needs to stick to short outings or maybe even get a week off.  

Ras is all the way up to pitching .2 of an inning at a time He should assume the closer role any minute (already has?).  

Verburg would be intriguing, but I don't fully trust him yet

Really Tweedt should be next in line, but Casey doesn't seem to trust him much either.

And of course staying the course with Fehmel is probably what they will go with anyways, although I am ready to see someone new.

To get to a Super Regional you need to win a regional, meaning you need to win 3 games out of 4, right? So....won't Fehmel be pitching at some point during that anyways? And if we're so sure the other 3 guys are locks to win, it shouldn't really matter.

To get out of a Super Regional, you need to win 2 out of 3, which we've done every weekend since last season....so again, I think you can pitch Fehmel and keep your pitchers in the situations you think they're best suited for.

Now you're in Omaha. Again, you've gotta win 3 of 4 to get to the finals, and then you play a best 2 of 3 in the championship.  This all seems doable with one starter being slightly worse....and by slightly worse,  I mean 4-2 with a 3.92 ERA, which isn't awful. I would think that (with the team being 34-4 and our coach being one of the best college baseball coaches of all time) there's a reason Fehmel is the Saturday starter and not someone else. If Eisert isn't starting Saturdays, there's probably a reason for that, right? I mean, we are talking about a 2nd Team All American from last season (1st team Freshman) who went 10-1 with 2 saves last season.  If he's starting, there's a reason he's starting. Casey's earned the benefit of the doubt in my mind when it comes to setting a lineup or rotation.

Great points... as I posted earlier we're really pretty inexperienced with the losses if the midweek games.

As for Drew it depends on their plans for him. If they see him as a closer type he needs to get into the flow of midgame warming up/ preparation, hence no reason to start him. If the do actually plan on him as a starter by the last NC series then he should start. But, if it were me ous be very leery of ramping up his innings to make starts worth while.

I guess all things considered starting him for 4-5 innings (would not go over 60 pitches this year) is getting right back to where we are now. I'd love to see Drew as the guy who not only closes, but can shut the door from 7th inning on if need be.

I say wild card, and Razzy is a part of this, but not as a starter. This season thus far, we've seen the fair share of southpaws come through in reliable situations late in games, or mess around (not really) and vulture their way to wins. However, I'm sure there is a right handed hitting bench player who will pinch hit, and the scouting report says he has an eye who can read southpaw pitches a mile away (or just a batting average near .400 against LHP but sub-Mendoza against RHP). There needs to be a reliable right handed pitcher out of the pen. Whether that should be Verb, Gamby, Hickey, Tweedt, or Razzy if Fehmel regains that Arizona/Utah/Washington form, there needs to be one or better yet two.