Drew Beam

[WallyBalls]

So what you guys are saying is... Johnny Wholestaff lost his scholarship?

Beautiful problem to have.

 

[GOBO-Baseball02]

I don't see Blade coming back this season as a starter. 3 reasons: 1) the injury, 2) jeopardizing his draft stock if you rush him, and 3) if we get thru the next 2 weeks with wins using CCD (Chase/Chase/Drew), then you don't mess with success. Quite honestly, I see Joyce being a starter before Blade. He's way ahead of Blade in recovery.

 

[Bigorangefan79]

I don't see Blade coming back this season as a starter. 3 reasons: 1) the injury, 2) jeopardizing his draft stock if you rush him, and 3) if we get thru the next 2 weeks with wins using CCD (Chase/Chase/Drew), then you don't mess with success. Quite honestly, I see Joyce being a starter before Blade. He's way ahead of Blade in recovery.

I don't disagree with this theory. However, CBD does sound a little more soothing than CCD.

 

[GOBO-Baseball02]

I don't disagree with this theory. However, CBD does sound a little more soothing than CCD.

...or CDB for The Charlie Daniels Band would work better. Chase/Dollanger/Beam....

 

[MAD]

 

[vol66]

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Well deserved!

 

[arkyvol]

All 3 starters are doing a bang up job right now. Heck, we were one great catch away from a perfect game this afternoon. Kids are fun to watch. Getting 2 big guys back only makes things tougher - for others. And to think we were pre-season ranked 9th in the SEC.

The idiots who ranked them must think we rehired Todd Raleigh.

 

[Ttucke11]

I don't see Blade coming back this season as a starter. 3 reasons: 1) the injury, 2) jeopardizing his draft stock if you rush him, and 3) if we get thru the next 2 weeks with wins using CCD (Chase/Chase/Drew), then you don't mess with success. Quite honestly, I see Joyce being a starter before Blade. He's way ahead of Blade in recovery.

Doubt Joyce can hold anywhere near that MPH being stretched out. He’s a future high end MLB reliever. I do agree that Blade could be used as a Swiss Army knife in the bullpen though. Then whatever else we get from Halvorsen would just be icing.

 

[Volsbaseballfan]

Back end relief of Tiddy, Halverson , Joyce , Mabry , Kirby , Evans , Sewell , Mark and Redmond. 9 guys to get you 9-12 outs!!! Geez!!! The more i look at this, the better!!!!

If the starters give us 5-6 innings....... the fat lady won't be singing but it might not be to far off.....

Sewell , Mabry and Tiddy give you some long relief options too when the starters get in early trouble.

I like Kirby and Mabry to come in after our starters to get 3-6 outs in any game.

Joyce & Halverson are the 7 & 8th inning guys.

Tidwell comes in and slams the door. Redmond too in situations.

Mark , Wyatt and even Kirby might be the most under appreciated on the staff. kind of the un sung hero's of the staff.... Just logging innings..... Super pumped about these ARMS!!!!

 

[Ttucke11]

Back end relief of Tiddy, Halverson , Joyce , Mabry , Kirby , Evans , Sewell , Mark and Redmond. 9 guys to get you 9-12 outs!!! Geez!!! The more i look at this, the better!!!!

If the starters give us 5-6 innings....... the fat lady won't be singing but it might not be to far off.....

Sewell , Mabry and Tiddy give you some long relief options too when the starters get in early trouble.

I like Kirby and Mabry to come in after our starters to get 3-6 outs in any game.

Joyce & Halverson are the 7 & 8th inning guys.

Tidwell comes in and slams the door. Redmond too in situations.

Mark , Wyatt and even Kirby might be the most under appreciated on the staff. kind of the un sung hero's of the staff.... Just logging innings..... Super pumped about these ARMS!!!!

What happened with Smith? Also come tournament time Zander can come into the mix as well.

 

[Volsbaseballfan]

i think Ethan Smith moves into mid week and Zander stays there. I agree both could help as well... Hollis Fanning , mid week as well. I think you will continue to see all of these guys to get some mid week action , due to needing work to stay sharp.

 

[td23]

Wow. This kid is really good. I hadn’t even heard of him until just before the season. I hoped he’d be a nice stop-gap until Tidwell returned. But this kid is our 2nd best pitcher right now. And just a freshman. He pitched a 1-hitter in 7 2/3 in his first game against SEC competition. And the 1 hit could’ve been caught.

I don’t think he’s coming out of the weekend rotation, even when/if Tidwell returns 100%. In that scenario, I think Burns remains the Friday starter, and you just replace Dollander with Tidwell on Saturday, then leave Beam in the Sunday spot. That’s a helluva weekend rotation.

The other benefit of that is, you can make Dollander a midweek guy and have him work on improving his slide step to hold runners on against the mid majors so you’re not experimenting with his delivery in SEC games. Maybe he can get it figured out by the postseason.

They teach throwing strikes over slide steps!

 

[NighthawkVol]

Well, @preacherman20 was right. We had reason to worry about Dollander. His stuff was just electric last night. I guess we’ll just have to make do with 4 guys who are dominant weekend starters and let the coaches figure it out.