re: UGA Baseball Season Long Thread (43-17, 17-13) Good Season Dawgs

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Kinda like Basketball, can we compete when we get to SEC play? Love the scoring but aren't we woefully lacking in pitching? Any pitchers coming around and looking better with innings or is this team what it seems to be?

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Yeah, we’re not going to dominate anyone from the mound and it’s going to cost us some league games. How much we can mitigate with our lineup is hard to say for certain given our level of competition to this point but we at least have a mentality for sticking with it and competing.

Right now, we don’t have solid Saturday and Sunday starters and that’s obviously an issue. Mracna had a good start last night but… we just pitched the guy who has been starting our Saturday games on a Wednesday this week. Obviously, we aren’t settled there yet. Too, Finley has a lot of what you want in a big arm but he can’t seem to find his confidence or control and isn’t making it very deep into his Sunday outings.

Bullpen has been a mix of good and meh. Most stable arms out of the pen so far seem to be Kolten Smith and Brian Zeldin. Everyone else has flashed a good inning or two along with some rough sequences.

Biggest issue as we get into league play is that we only have two healthy lefty arms - Goldstein and Evans, both of whom are our Friday and midweek starters, respectively. So, no lefty relief out of the pen.

On the bright side, Goldstein has looked at least pretty reliable as our Friday arm. He’s not going to dazzle or blow opposing batters away, but his stuff is pretty solid and he has experience/confidence on his side. He reminds me a lot of Chase Adkins from the 2018 host team. Too, Evans is making a case for himself to maybe start a weekend series soon. He’s going to walk guys as a result but he’s got a lot of strikeout potential and has shown so over the past few weeks.