The Official Ole Miss @ Tennessee Series Thread (Fri. March 22 6:30PM EST) (Sat. March 23 6PM EST) (Sun. March 24 1PM EST) (ALL GAMES ON SEC NET+)

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SGMVols said:
Probably means we have to make Snead the third starter now. And that means we need a new closer too. Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
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We can’t. We have to get our starters pitching well. Russell will come around, but having to use Causey as a starter has really hurt the bullpen.

Really need the 2 big freshmen to step up. I had high hopes that Dallas would lock down the Sunday role, Russell and Beam would be studs on Friday-Saturday, then Causey, Stamos, Snead, Phillips, Combs, Kirby, Behnke, and Shaeffer would make up a strong bullpen. Hasn’t materialized. Some have done their parts, many have not. But the 3 I hoped would be starters have really struggled, which has had a trickle down effect.
 
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NighthawkVol said:
We can’t. We have to get our starters pitching well. Russell will come around, but having to use Causey as a starter has really hurt the bullpen.

Really need the 2 big freshmen to step up. I had high hopes that Dallas would lock down the Sunday role, Russell and Beam would be studs on Friday-Saturday, then Causey, Stamos, Snead, Phillips, Combs, Kirby, Behnke, and Shaeffer would make up a strong bullpen. Hasn’t materialized. Some have done their parts, many have not. But the 3 I hoped would be starters have really struggled, which has had a trickle down effect.
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As I mentioned in an earlier post, one of the things I notice that UT does differently than other teams is focus on a smaller group of pitchers in the midweek. Following all the SEC teams and prospects as closely as I do, many seem to really get their young guys involved in midweeks to see what they have. That means they may drop a midweek game or two here and there, but in the long run they know what they have and the young guys get plenty of reps. Seems to help them down the stretch. UT approaches it a little differently. UT tends to use fewer pitchers in the midweeks, stacks up wins, and has a senior gobbling up many of the midweek innings, which is very unusual. Many of the young guys get few opportunities. For example, last Tuesday UT had two seniors pitch 7 of the 9 innings in a midweek. Just an observation on what seems to be a difference in philosophy from team to team.
 
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6-4-3 said:
As I mentioned in an earlier post, one of the things I notice that UT does differently than other teams is focus on a smaller group of pitchers in the midweek. Following all the SEC teams and prospects as closely as I do, many seem to really get their young guys involved in midweeks to see what they have. That means they may drop a midweek game or two here and there, but in the long run they know what they have and the young guys get plenty of reps. Seems to help them down the stretch. UT approaches it a little differently. UT tends to use fewer pitchers in the midweeks, stacks up wins, and has a senior gobbling up many of the midweek innings, which is very unusual. Many of the young guys get few opportunities. For example, last Tuesday UT had two seniors pitch 7 of the 9 innings in a midweek. Just an observation on what seems to be a difference in philosophy from team to team.
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It didn't look good how Russell left the game last night. I agree with you, let's pitch and develop our young talent during midweek games and keep Zander, Connell ready for SEC games.
 
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In my post, I never said pitchers didn’t get a chance. I said they aren’t getting as many game reps.
 
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preacherman20 said:
Many of you keep talking about the pictures that have not gotten a chance and I just wonder who you think has not gotten a chance to prove themselves either in practice or games. We have 18 guys who have thrown at this point.
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I'm saying I'd like to see the young guys midweek and let the chips fall where they may. Zander and your son should be counted on in SEC games.
 
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volsagain said:
The way AJR was shaking is arm it doesn't look good at all. Hate to be negative just letting you know what I seen. GBO
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You're not being negative, you're being observant. That's what was going on and we've all seen it through the years. Hopefully it's not worst case scenario, but it's certainly on the table until we're told differently.
 
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Well I’ll admit I wasn’t thrilled bringing in Russell from the pen but it looked like a good decision til the top of the 9th when things went south , I’d like to see one of the guys take ownership of the closers roll , I hope Russell isn’t done for the season , gut check time today
 
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preacherman20 said:
Many of you keep talking about the pictures that have not gotten a chance and I just wonder who you think has not gotten a chance to prove themselves either in practice or games. We have 18 guys who have thrown at this point.
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So many guys got an opportunity in the non conference season and not a one of them took that chance and ran with it. Some of these freshmen are extremely highly rated prospects that, for whatever reason, can't consistently throw strikes. Tony doesn't trust any of them and they've given him reason not to. That being said, I think his hand will be forced now and hopefully a couple of these kids respond.
 
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still early in the season but hated giving up a series to the gumps who we should have whipped and now we're tied up with ole piss... Gotta step up today and win the series.
Didn't think we'd be taking this much of a step back from last season, but again, it's still early and hopefully our pitching will improve and start to find it's rhythm moving foward. Need more consistency from the bats. It's like we have one game in us in the series where we're lights out and then struggle to find it after that...
 
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NighthawkVol said:
Don’t look now, but Georgia has taken the first 2 from Alabama this weekend. Sweeping Georgia will be a tall task. That team can hit.
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We can’t afford to come out of the first 3 series with a losing record. We still have to go to Auburn, Kentucky, Florida, and Vandy, and we also have to host LSU this year.
 
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SGMVols said:
We can’t afford to come out of the first 3 series with a losing record. We still have to go to Auburn, Kentucky, Florida, and Vandy, and we also have to host LSU this year.
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Agree. But win today and take 2 from Georgia, and we’re 5-4. We don’t have to sweep Georgia to avoid a losing record.
 
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NighthawkVol said:
Don’t look now, but Georgia has taken the first 2 from Alabama this weekend. Sweeping Georgia will be a tall task. That team can hit.
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It’s at home. If the home teams in 1-1 series all win today that’ll make the series through the first 2 weekends 14-0 in favor of home teams. UGA was absolute trash last weekend in Lexington and then they go home and take the Bama series. Winning on the road is proving extremely difficult in this early season.
 
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turbovol said:
All this supposed pitching depth and we have pitching issues.
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I think the only issue we have is a definitive closer. That being said I believe we have the man for the job on the roster and if we get everybody healthy and in their proper place we will be fine. I would like to note that every single team that won a game yesterday in the Sec scored more than our 5 runs we put on the board. Guys can slam pitching all they want but base running errors on fly balls when you are standing on 2nd base…not getting a guy in from 3rd when two of your best hitters are up at the plate will get you beat as well. Get one of those runs in for insurance and see if we do not hold the line. That was a team loss all the way around. Pitching wasn’t even half the problem. Go Vols and let’s win our first Sec series today!
 
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turbovol said:
All this supposed pitching depth and we have pitching issues.
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Doesn’t help that the pitching coach keeps getting himself thrown out of games. Frank needs to control himself better. Every time he gets tossed he is auto-suspended for the next game by rule.
 
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SGMVols said:
Doesn’t help that the pitching coach keeps getting himself thrown out of games. Frank needs to control himself better. Every time he gets tossed he is auto-suspended for the next game by rule.
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Frank felt like the pitch before the home run should have been called strike three. I wonder if the coaches have access to the Trackman reports. If not, they should.
 
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I’ve never thought we had the “proven” pitching depth that many did. But I also don’t think you lose a midweek allowing guys to work it out. Highly touted is like highly ranked. If you throw 95 you are highly touted whether you can pitch or just throw. But I think we will figure it out. Because ultimately no team uses more than 8-12 pitchers.
 
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preacherman20 said:
I’ve never thought we had the “proven” pitching depth that many did. But I also don’t think you lose a midweek allowing guys to work it out. Highly touted is like highly ranked. If you throw 95 you are highly touted whether you can pitch or just throw. But I think we will figure it out. Because ultimately no team uses more than 8-12 pitchers.
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Do you believe we lose mid-week games throwing the young guys?
 
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I think we have had to use some of the older guys to get out of messes. We aren’t throwing the older guys just to throw them. Zander starts to give stability. Kirby comes in for oh no situations. Some of the older guys have saved the younger guys stat line which is how it should be. I just do not agree with someone on here who continually say good or bad you have to leave guys out there and let them work through it even if you take a loss. I don’t think you do that to hitters fielders or pitchers It is a team sport and no one ot two players should cost the team a loss while they figure it out. I thought Ole Miss did that to their pitcher Friday night.
 
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