Ongoing UF Baseball Commentary

Arky-
No dominant starting pitcher
No Fabians or McCallisters
OOC schedule much weaker
We go as Barco goes. If he’s on Thursday night and we win I can see us taking 2/3. Slater or Neely gotta start on Saturday.

 

Neely is our pitcher that to me has begun to embrace the challenge. If Barco and Sproat can both be solid in their starts Neely has shown the competitiveness that I would hand the ball to him.

 

Agree 100% liked his presence big time - as you say, the game don't scare him (and if you didn't say that, you should have). Still need to find someone on the backend of that bullpen and unfortunately the guys who looked promising aren't looking so good lately.

 

Just read on GC/Game Day that Brandon Neely will be our SP tonight.

 

If Neely and Sproat can continue to pitch well, the bullpen becomes Purnell, Abner, Slater, and ???? given Fic hasn’t had a good outing in a couple weeks it feels like.

 

Maybe short work and get the Saturday start if he looks sharp??? I really thought they would start Manning and try to get him going.

 

IMHO if Manning doesn’t make changes in his mechanics and move away from his habit of flying open early, twisting his upper torso with his back upright and shotgunning his release point pitch to pitch—and start driving down through his pitches leveraging his back and legs for power and control then his command/control will continue as it has been seen to this point.

But that’s just me.

 

A couple of stats through 9 SEC games

Batting avg SEC games only

1. Georgia . 2 9 7
2. Texas A&M . 2 9 4
3. Auburn . 2 8 7
4. Tennessee . 2 7 4
5. LSU . 2 7 4
6. Alabama . 2 7 1
7. Florida . 2 6 0
8. Kentucky . 2 5 2
9. Vanderbilt . 2 5 2
10. Mississippi State . 2 4 6
11. Arkansas . 2 4 3
Missouri . 2 4 3
13. Ole Miss . 2 3 9
14. South Carolina . 2 0 2

ERA SEC games only

1. Tennessee 1 . 3 3
2. Arkansas 3 . 3 6
3. Vanderbilt 3 . 9 9
4. Kentucky 4 . 1 5
5. LSU 4 . 7 2
6. Texas A&M 5 . 6 7
Alabama 5 . 6 7
8. Missouri 6 . 1 2
9. Auburn 6 . 2 1
10. South Carolina 6 . 5 7
11. Ole Miss 6 . 8 4
12. Mississippi State 6 . 9 7
13. Georgia 7 . 5 2
14. Florida 8 . 0 8

 

21 MLB Pitchers With Great Pitching Mechanics (in GIFs)

 

OUCH! My how the mighty have fallen.

 

Here's a shocking stat about @gatorsbb. Through 9 games of SEC play, ace Hunter Barco has an ERA of 1.80. The remainder of Florida's pitching staff? A combined 10.24 ERA. An unimaginable figure to see associated with the Florida Gator uniform.

 

Yes, but at least the WHIP (including hbp) of the other pitchers is trending in the right direction!

Last week through 6 games: 2.14 WHIP (non-Barco pitchers in SEC play)
This week through 9 games: 2.10 WHIP

Another fun one is that the Opp. BA of non-Barco pitchers in SEC play is .323 (up from .309 last week). We have one batter that is hitting better than that, and he has 12 at-bats in SEC play.

Also, the IP percentage of non-Barco pitchers has increased from 71.9% to 74.4%, so we're getting to see a greater impact.

Go GATORS!
,WESGATORS

 

Do they have anybody from Ocala?

 

I have a really good view of the strike zone from where I sit.

Barco was like Florida orange juice: freshly squeezed.

He had a lot to yell at the home plate blue walking off the mound after that inning was over.

 

Just an awful game. Barco outpitched for the 2nd time in 3 weeks. To only go 5 is beyond disappointing.

Fic struggled

Nesbitt gave us a very good inning and actually kept us in it.

Hitting was the worst it’s been all year. All of a sudden we do not know what a bunt is. This team doesn’t start scrapping and clawing and fighting every at bat and this year will be worse than last.
Our lack of toughness at the plate is really bothersome. Can’t think of one at bat in which we battled.
Shocked Noland out pitched Barco.