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I don’t foresee Jay putting Sheerin in starting role. His role as a premier bullpen arm in high-leverage situations is just as important to the team’s success as whoever is starting over weekends. His approach is high-intensity which fits bullpen role. His entire mental and physical approach would have to be dialed back if converted to starter in middle of season.

He’s maddening to watch in batters box bc he should be a MUCH better bat-to-ball hitter. Teams now know not to throw him middle-in and yet when he does swing at those outside pitches, it’s almost always across body pull side dropped back shoulder with pop up tilt. With that said, his pitch recognition / selective eye is still an asset to the team.

He still just barely made it safe on that swinging bunt single early in game yesterday. If the pitcher didn’t drop ball on initial pick up attempt, Yorke would have been out on the slowest home to 1B time in recorded history.

This is good stuff. Appreciate the info! Nice to see positive pitching stats. Guess I shouldn’t be surprised the first response was lame hate since this is the Rant after all.

I’d be interested to see the same charting for Evans’ start last week and how last nights metrics compare (or more correctly stated, how they contrast :lol:).

Love how literally no one knows the difference between hail and freezing rain.

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You're already drunk for tomorrow night?

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Unfortunately for ell, we open conf play on the road. Poor fella gotta wait another week for SEC Friday night date with his favorite left field landing trash can to puke in.

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If all you have to worry about is someone's enunciation, you have a problem. Go to class and study, get a job, or try being a better person!

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So are you family to Chris or just a close friend?

Project is spot on. It’s not purely the number of games. Every team is cramming games early in the year. This number of games early in season also lightens the load come SEC play when we don’t have to play multiple Tuesday & Wednesday night games when our main focus is weekend series. In that sense, it’s smart. The main issue is the timing in between games to practice which is a very easy scheduling fix in future seasons.

With that said, Jay is still probably taking a bit too much of the blame here, given the flat nature we’ve played in basically every facet of the game these past 6 games in addition to the lacking quality of these opponents. Better teams would not be having these same multiple issues, at least not to this degree.

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Is it too much to ask that the voice of the Tigers pronounce the last name of one of your most prominent pitchers correctly? His job, quite literally, is to accurately put sports into words. Sports information creates a pronunciation guide every year. I’m sure it’s sitting next to him in the booth every game.

It’s not a complicated name. We’re now on year 2 of this inept linguistics. Listening to it is like watching John Pearson play first base. Get it together.

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I don’t know why we’re focusing on only revenue sharing.

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Jay’s point is only about rev share. He’s not taking issue with NIL.

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He is a good guy

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He only qualifies as a “good guy” if you’re a journalist looking for another super candid quote for your publication or if you’re one of the players he played favorite over other clearly more deserving options.

It goes much deeper than a glance at the man in front of a microphone. I appreciate him bringing LSU another CWS, but being a “good guy” matters next to nothing when you’re the head coach of a major college program. Results are 98% of the calculation, and, from an achievement standpoint, he underperformed in his lengthy tenure. I don’t care about regular season records or SECT championships. The time that matters in from regionals onward. There were teams full of talent that he couldn’t get out of a home regional or a home super regional, not withstanding the fact that #ThatsJustBeisbol, are are difficult to get over. You combine the maddening mismanagement of bullpens, favoritism of players, and specifically the constant throwing of players under the bus, you’ll find yourself disliked by many people who actually follow the team throughout the entirety of every season.

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Confirmed he was never knighted.

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Far from it.

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