Baseball at Vandy, Sat 4/20, 3:00 pm

Are you really serious about playing first base does not require physical exertion and is not a strenuous position shane??? Have you seen the stretches, spilts, jumps, bend-twists and tags that Cags has made for our defense? It takes one helluva athlete to play that position the way he does. He is able to do those things because he’s fresh……His play at first base exemplifies that.

If he’s moved up in the start rotation in post season so be it. But we’ve got to get there first.

 

This non stop babble all season long is mind numbing.
How the hell would we miss out on the ncaa tournament "waiting to pitch cags"?? He has been in the rotation all season and hasn't missed a start. He has exactly the same number of starts as if he were the Fri starter. If Cags is available and it's a must win single game he will throw...we all seem to understand that except for you.
Here's another newsflash, if he started on Fri and our offense struggles against the opponents #1, then cags loses AND we don't have a quality Sunday starter, that spells sweep. Pitching backward makes all the sense in the world given the way the team is playing AND the fact Cags is a crucial defender and hitter

 

Sully even mentioned that re his legs.....everyone seems to get it with the lone exception

 

May have been discussed in here, but why are there no severe penalties for cheating in baseball? I've seen multiple pitchers ejected this year. Is it, "oh well, that's baseball" mentality?

 

He can play first base on Sunday if he starts Friday, hence why I said he can only play first base one game a weekend if he starts Friday or Saturday. The different scenarios would be:

Fri P, Sat DH, Sun 1B
Fri 1B, Sat P, Sun DH
Fri 1B, Sat 1B, Sun P

If he moves up in the rotation during the regular season my guess is we pitch him on one Saturday followed by a Friday the next week that way his rest cycle isn’t messed up too much too fast. I know Sully was toying with that idea earlier in the year. For the SEC tournament he definitely should be the game 1 starter since we won’t be getting that first round bye. It’s win or go home. For regionals however I still would rather have Cags on the bump in game 2 probably facing a top seed host or with our backs against the wall trying to survive elimination. Then again that might be highly dependent on who we face. If we draw a tough 2 or 3 seed as our opponent then we might have to pitch Cags game 1.

 

I’ll worry about the regionals when and if we actually make a regional.