re: 2021 Baseball and Softball Thread:

AU took the series from UGA this weekend after losing game 1

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Bullpen still looks like the 1988 Braves.

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The Braves didn’t play baseball in 1988.

Just like AU didn’t play football in 2012.

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As terrible as we have been. We have a legit chance at the SEC tournament.

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If AU could get hot and take the rest of the series they have (LSU, aTm, Mizzou) we should be in the SEC tourney. If we could mix in a sweep or two, and win 2-3 games in the SEC tourney AU could possibly make a NCAA regional.

If AU goes 7-2 in the SEC, they're 12-18. Win 3 more in the SEC Tourney and AU is 15-20 overall in it's SEC record. Overall AU would be around 32-25. Long odds but possible, IMO. Mizzou and aTm are garbage.

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If AU goes 7-2 in the SEC

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That’s not happening

We need to pull a Rays and start our bullpen guys, then put starters in late.

Bullpen blows another game... 3 run triple in the 8th

It just messed up our 1 run loss syndrome.

Relief pitching simply can't hold anyone, and it's someone different every game it seems.

Just look at their eras to see...

What a mess this season has been.

We had to move our best starter back to the bullpen. Fantastic.

I want to try a different strategy seeing how the one we use each week doesn't work

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Thompson said he was trying different things already since he kept thinking they would turn the corner but never did.

So he is pulling guys quicker, at least he said that and it showed in the series win against GA.

But he didn't do that against LSU last night, as our reliever walked 3 guys in a row, before Butch replaced him with SKipper, and he is the one that allowed the triple that broke a close game open...

It doesn't matter seems to be the results. Relief pitchers are just not doing the job, and it doesn't matter where you pitch them...

...But I do understand where you are coming from...since it is continually frustrating...

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I don't remember who said it, but the person on this board said we have a lot of pitchers that are the same. Same arm slot, same speed, same pitches and same stuff. I agree. However, what just absolutely kills AU this year is the walks. Its absurd how many we walk, especially out of the pen.

I didn't like Todd Walker as a player, but he's a really good color guy. He mentioned this a few times during the UGA broadcast. Something to the effect of, if there's no one on base, a pitcher can slot a fastball over the plate and if its hit there's a 75% chance its hit at someone for an out. When you start walking people and do it as much as AU does it only takes one hit in that inning to put up a crooked number, and we seem to have this scenario often in games.