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Post by skyrider on Apr 2, 2018 8:17:37 GMT -8
I follow the baseball team fairly closely but not to the degree that many of you expert Beaver baseball fans do.
My question for the group follows. Is this year's pitching staff underachieving based on the talent that we have compared to other years, or do we just not have the quality/quantity of pitchers we have had in the past?
Thank you!
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Post by Judge Smails on Apr 2, 2018 11:31:38 GMT -8
I follow the baseball team fairly closely but not to the degree that many of you expert Beaver baseball fans do. My question for the group follows. Is this year's pitching staff underachieving based on the talent that we have compared to other years, or do we just not have the quality/quantity of pitchers we have had in the past? Thank you! There is some pitching talent, but they are having some issues with control at this point. Too many walks and HBP's and when they are throwing strikes, they catching too much of the plate and their strikes are up in the zone. We have a few guys that are "throwers" right now and not pitchers.
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Post by beavaristotle on Apr 2, 2018 11:50:16 GMT -8
I follow the baseball team fairly closely but not to the degree that many of you expert Beaver baseball fans do. My question for the group follows. Is this year's pitching staff underachieving based on the talent that we have compared to other years, or do we just not have the quality/quantity of pitchers we have had in the past? Thank you! simple math, this years in our starting staff we have a #1 and a bunch of #3, #4 and #5. last year we had two #1 and a #3 on the weekends. the innings ate up by our weekend rotation kept our bullpen from being overexposed. I think we have the (dirty word) potential and the quality of arms, but missing perhaps what Coach Spencer used to call " having a little bulldog in them" |
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Post by zeroposter on Apr 2, 2018 11:52:49 GMT -8
Smails nails it, except I would push the potential up a notch. Lack of command kills potential, obviously. I definitely have zero expertise, but when Coach Casey says he is tearing his hair out over the command problem, I tear my hair out as well.
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Post by ricke71 on Apr 2, 2018 12:04:35 GMT -8
"simple math" is right on. No Jake T. or Drew R. this season. Then Verburg currently has the injury problem. He likely would have stepped up this year to an increased role in the BP...and given both Eisert and Mulholland some rest (or even possibly enabling one of them to become a starter). The primary additions this season (Chamberlain, Pearce and Abel) have all shown some promise...but not to the level to make up for what was/is lost re: Thompson, Rasmussen and (hopefully temporarily) Verburg.
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