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MikeDeTiger

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Re: SEC baseball 2025
« Reply #238 on: May 27, 2025, 09:54:29 AM »
So, imagine you're LSU's coach and you have a pretty favorable draw Friday to start the regional.  You only have two aces.  Do you throw a bullpen type arm on Friday because you can probably get away with it, and save your aces for the money games?  Or do you not take that gamble, pitch your best guy regardless, knowing that you really don't want to deal with the loser's bracket?  Also, saving an arm for later could reduce the number of days rest for the Super, should you make it, and you know you definitely want your ace ready for game 1 in the Super. 

How do you play it?
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Re: SEC baseball 2025
« Reply #239 on: May 27, 2025, 10:10:55 AM »
Depends on then 4-seed, how well they hit, what type of hitting they do, etc. How do they match up against your various potential pitchers? 

But, if you think at all that you can get away with using Johnny All-staff in Game1, then I say save your aces for later in the weekend.  Assuming all goes to chalk, I'd rather face a 2-seed twice with my best arms, than use one of my best on the 4-seed.

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Re: SEC baseball 2025
« Reply #240 on: May 27, 2025, 10:25:18 AM »
Horns' super would match up with UCLA should both win.  Gotta get through the regional first, though.  And of course the committee put one of our purple nemeses in our regional...
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MikeDeTiger

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Re: SEC baseball 2025
« Reply #241 on: May 27, 2025, 10:46:50 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on May 27, 2025, 10:25:18 AM
Horns' super would match up with UCLA should both win.  Gotta get through the regional first, though.  And of course the committee put one of our purple nemeses in our regional...

Why are you whispering?
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MikeDeTiger

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Re: SEC baseball 2025
« Reply #242 on: May 27, 2025, 10:48:23 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on May 27, 2025, 10:10:55 AM
Depends on then 4-seed, how well they hit, what type of hitting they do, etc. How do they match up against your various potential pitchers?

But, if you think at all that you can get away with using Johnny All-staff in Game1, then I say save your aces for later in the weekend.  Assuming all goes to chalk, I'd rather face a 2-seed twice with my best arms, than use one of my best on the 4-seed.


"Before worrying about DBU, LSU (43-14) will have to give its undivided attention to Little Rock (24-32), who the Tigers will face Friday at 2 p.m. CT to open the double-elimination regional. Little Rock’s record would suggest that they are one of the worst teams in the tournament, but they are on a bit of a roll. The Trojans earned the final spot in the OVC Tournament as an 8-seed, then proceeded to win five games in four days to win the whole thing and earn the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament."

I don't know anything else about that which would answer your other questions.  
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Re: SEC baseball 2025
« Reply #243 on: May 27, 2025, 10:55:46 AM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on May 27, 2025, 10:46:50 AM
Why are you whispering?
Copy/paste from the B1G forum and that's how it pasted.  I don't make the rules.

And of course the other school of thought with respect to pitching in tournaments, is that it's critical to stay in the winner's bracket, so you should pitch your best early.  If you can win and stay in the winner's bracket, then the team you're facing on Sunday will be coming out of the loser's bracket and will be burning more pitching than you, so even your weakest pitchers might be enough to get it done on Sunday.  And if not, you've got a second chance and against a team that's burned even more pitching.
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Re: SEC baseball 2025
« Reply #244 on: May 27, 2025, 11:11:03 AM »
I see the advantages of both, which is why I'm not sure what I'd do.  Just curious what anyone else thinks.  No word from our coach yet on what he plans to do. 
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Re: SEC baseball 2025
« Reply #245 on: May 27, 2025, 11:32:06 AM »
I still think I'd try to pitch the staff against the 4-seed and save the ace(s) for later in the weekend.

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Re: SEC baseball 2025
« Reply #246 on: May 27, 2025, 11:50:07 AM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on May 27, 2025, 11:11:03 AM
I see the advantages of both, which is why I'm not sure what I'd do.  Just curious what anyone else thinks.  No word from our coach yet on what he plans to do. 

Really tough call.

Probably bullpen platoon in your first game, and save your arms.  

That goes against my conservative nature, however, and I usually lean to "putting money in the bank" when the opportunity presents itself.

Good thing I'm not making the calls.
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Re: SEC baseball 2025
« Reply #247 on: May 27, 2025, 12:15:45 PM »
I think I lean toward yall's bent on this as well.  My main reservation is more limited rest for the aces in the Super (should they make it).  It's a given that we want #1 and #2 next Friday/Saturday in the Super, and our preferred approach to the regional stands to put them on less than a week's rest.  Still not sure what I'd do.....which......I think.....if I'm being logically consistent......I've lost my right to complain about whatever CJJ does if it doesn't work out. 

Dang, I gotta make a choice soon, because I really like to complain about stuff that doesn't work out.  
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Re: SEC baseball 2025
« Reply #248 on: May 27, 2025, 01:56:26 PM »
We only have one real weekend starting pitcher left.  I suspect we'll save him for Saturday.
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Re: SEC baseball 2025
« Reply #249 on: May 27, 2025, 02:50:54 PM »
We only ever had two to start with.  Very fortunate for us that neither of them were injured during the year.  
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Re: SEC baseball 2025
« Reply #250 on: May 27, 2025, 02:53:13 PM »
Yeah we had two.  We lost one around 5 weeks ago, right about the time the winning turned to losing.  Now we have one.
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Re: SEC baseball 2025
« Reply #251 on: May 27, 2025, 04:02:22 PM »
We also have only 2 front line "starters".  One of them is wildly erratic, and the other is the SEC Pitcher of the Year that has been sucking of late.  
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