Yeah, I can’t even tell you how happy I am with soul is mindset/strategical thinking this year. We all know that several things have to go right for the fielder when a bunt is laid down. We saw our pitchers struggle with that last year and now we are reversing things. The fact that everyone in Line up is now not afraid to bunt changes things defensively for the other teams. Also shows selflessness and TEAM in my book. Very underrated part of the game and as we are watching can definitely help a team
It seems the top teams in the SEC so far might be Tennessee, Arkansas, Vanderbilt, Mississippi, Florida and maybe Georgia. ------------ The Vols are far and away the best team, not just in the SEC but in the country.
I guess pitching going forward for Sully is going to be crap shoot until somebody shows us something. After tonight Sully must be done with Manning as a starter and hopefully Sproat as well. I'm not sure how committed he is to Sproat's chances going forward. Certainly obvious Slater gets the start tomorrow but who knows what next week holds. I don't know could we see Nick Fic or Purnell get a start here soon. What about Milchin, that's scary. It seems to me Nesbitt isn't ready for more than 3 innings. Still no word on Coppola. Good night and see you are the ballpark tomorrow.
I went back to the OP and updated the pitchers. Now only Hunter Barco is listed as a starter. Everyone else is either a reliever or TBD.
Gotta hope Slater Is solid today. Let’s define solid…give me 5 innings w 3 runs or less and I’d take that all day. In 18 innings he’s been impressive so far Manning- maybe becomes a situational guy versus lefties. Nesbit- his lines so far are impressive. 4.2 IP. 1 hit 0 earned runs 6 k’s and opponents BA is 067!!!! Does have 4 walks. Gotta think he sees an increased role. Velocity no back yet but off speed stuff has been very good. Neely- will have to see an increased role. He has the talent.
@Matherly87 — I think that the part of your post that says “Still no word on Coppola” actually speaks volumes….
@shane4three — I agree that the overall picture of the pitching is a mess—and at this time of the season we should be settled into specific roles. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen the kind of talent we have struggle to throw strikes/command the zone the way our pitchers do. Very perplexing. I see mechanics that need to be cleaned up but at this point the bad habits are established and it takes work and concentrated efforts to duplicate good mechanics.
Great points for sure. At this point seems like some that we might not have counted on are going to have step in and up and help….or we are in trouble.
Most of the pitching staff have had good innings, but there have been too many poor innings from the same guys. Building consistency in just e few of them will be a big deal. Guys returning from injuries have shown promise, but I home they stretch those 2-3 inning outings.
My comments from this weekend.... I got nothing. I'll let the stats speak for themselves even though I'm sure they won't be very nice to look at. As Sully said 3 inning starts aren't going to work. Starters have to throw strikes going forward. That makes we wonder how far Sully will be willing to go to give some other guys a look. What I saw from Coppola today tells me he's is done for the year. Sitting by the players tunnel, it was clear he can barely stand straight for the national anthem, much less keep his arm behind his back at attention. Most games he has an awkward stance while the music plays. A few innings later I saw him limping along as he walked thru the tunnel. Even if he comes back it's going to be so late he won't be of much help during the season. I was thinking Milchin for Tuesday but if Sully has any chance to find another weekend starter, I wouldn't be surprised if Pogue starts again to see if he has improved. Now for some In-Conference stats.....
After 6 SEC games here's our batting numbers...... #- Player---------------- AVG OB% 24 Rivera, Josh--------- .375 .400 36 Langford, Wyatt---- .360 .407 26 Thompson, Sterlin-- .304 .407 6 Calilao, Kendrick----- .304 .360 34 Armstrong, Kris----- .300 .364 15 Riopelle, BT---------- .292 .346 23 Fabian, Deric-------- .263 .364 4 Fabian, Jud----------- .167 .310 5 Halter, Colby--------- .160 .300 2 Evans, Ty------------- .000 .000 16 Lastres, Rene------- .000 .000 43 Prevesk, Matt------- .000 .000 ----Totals--------------- .274 .353 It's very telling when your first two batter's aren't even batting .170 in SEC games. Everyone else is about right but the difference is how good the numbers looked after the first weekend to how badly we batted the last two days. Jud only got 2 hits over these six games, both of them homeruns. The scrubs only had 5 ABs so don't let the .000s persuade you. I just left them on the list because it factors into the totals. So the positive is, props to Rivera and Langford for leading the pack.
And now the pitchers..... Mind you, these are the stats for conference games only. 2022 Baseball Cumulative Statistics - Florida Gators #- Player--------------- ERA WHIP B/AVG 10 Nesbitt, Tyler------- 0.00-- .91 .000 12 Barco, Hunter------- 0.60-- .60 .118 3 Milchin, Garrett------ 4.50- 1.50 .375 41 Purnell, Blake------- 6.00- 1.67 .357 13 Slater, Ryan--------- 6.48- 1.36 .273 44 Manning, Timmy---- 8.10- 1.94 .231 46 Ficarrotta, Nick----- 8.31- 1.71 .316 22 Neely, Brandon---- 10.13- 1.57 .304 8 Sproat, Brandon---- 15.19- 2.75 .375 55 Abner, Philip------- 18.00- 1.50 .250 49 Finnvold, Carsten-- 27.00- 4.00 .500 28 Hartman, Karl------ 36.00- 4.00 .667 Totals-------------------- 7.26- 1.43 .263 I left the link if you want to look up all the other stats like HBP, Walks, Runs, etc. Just know many of these guys only have credit for pitching an inning or two before they came out. For instance, NesbitT, first name Tyler, went 2.2 innings but has yet to give up a hit and got 3 strikeouts with 2 walks. But don't forget Purnell appeared in all three games at Alabama and gave up his first two runs. So in 3 innings his SEC ERA is skewed, otherwise he has a 0.87 ERA overall. I suppose Shane is feeling this proves Nesbitt's ability. Maybe so, but Sully's comments that 3 inning starts aren't going to cut it leaves me wondering would Sully start Nesbitt in a conference game if he's not ready to go more than three innings. But then again, who else is he going to start in a conference game, Sproat with a 15.19 ERA???
Man, the Gators' SEC pitching stats make your head spin. And we've yet to face the elite teams in the conference. Who will step up and surprise on the bump? Frankly, unless you believe in miracles- it's looking a bit bleak folks.
Question for @EthanHughes .... With everyone speculating the morale issues and leadership problems or lack thereof, what are you seeing at practices or press conferences that would concern you or change the perception of those here on the boards?
In our 6 SEC games two glaring differences in the stat lines. Number one obviously is the total HBP. The Gator batters have been HBP 4 times in 6 games. The Gator pitchers have hit 17 opposing batters in the same 6 games. The other stat is stolen bases. Gator baserunners have stolen 7 out of 8 bases in conference play but we have only given up 1 stolen baes in 1 attempt. Most of the other stats are relatively close. If you must know the Gators have given up 47 runs in the 6 games and we have scored 39 runs. And if it makes anyone in particular happy the Gators have 1 triple and have not allowed any triples so far in SEC play, thanks to Sterlin.