BB G2: Louisiana 5, South Alabama 6

[Dad04]

It’s not even the worst in the last 4 seasons. 2019 was worse.

It's not great, but it could be worse. We rung every drop out of the pitching and offense today.

[Big Buds]

It’s not even the worst in the last 4 seasons. 2019 was worse.

‘19 was bad but we can revisit after the season. Hopefully they prove me wrong.

[zeppelincajun]

I’m glad someone said this. He struggled early but settled in and did his job. He gave them a chance to win. And then his stat line looks like crap after runs scored against him while he was in the dugout.

Cant ask for much more when a kid who’s been your closer goes out and gives you 100+ pitches and gets you into the 6th in a 1-run game.

Going in to the 6th, he had a chance at only our second quality start of the season. The other of course being Wilson’s CG.

I think you and Big Buds’ conversation comparing pitching staff’s will be very interesting to have at the end of the year. Pitching that’s constantly subject to high stress innings because of lack luster offense tends to wear down as the season goes along. I like the grit we’re playing with this weekend, but this is bordering on trying to get blood from a stone talent wise.

[LifeTimeCajun]

I’m glad someone said this. He struggled early but settled in and did his job. He gave them a chance to win. And then his stat line looks like crap after runs scored against him while he was in the dugout.

Cant ask for much more when a kid who’s been your closer goes out and gives you 100+ pitches and gets you into the 6th in a 1-run game.

Wouldnt expect much from his next start. Last time we let a bullpen guy throw 100+ his next start wasnt terrific. We shall see. Its a whole diff level of recovery

[Dad04]

Schultz did an amazing job keeping th lid on an excellent offense. It is not easy to scatter 11 hits. Very few freebies helps.

[zeppelincajun]

The thing that makes this staff so unique is the extremely inconsistent roles and what is being asked of these guys. Our opening night starter’s most recent outing was a 4 inning outing for a midweek. Our Saturday opening weekend starter started that midweek. Our two most promising bullpen arms (Talley and Bonds) have been shuffled in and out of starting roles. Our best performing pitcher out of the pen from the first weekend (Ray) was put as a Friday night starter and is now back to the pen. Theut is another arm out of the pen who has been tried as a starter. Today we just had Schultz get his first start since 2019, and it was a 107 pitch outing.

We ask student athletes to be process rather than result oriented. That starts at the top. Managers can’t change a guy’s role every time he has a strong or poor outing. IMO roles need to be defined on this team sooner rather than later if we want these guys to develop any semblance of consistency. Im not sure Deggs agrees with that after him mentioning getting “creative” in his interview this week.

[Big Buds]

No doubt, Schultz did a really good job of minimizing the damage today. Really gutty performance.

This entire roster is musical chairs and at some point very soon it needs to be solidified. Same can be said for the pitching rotation but maybe I’m overthinking it.

Enough can’t be said about stress innings, but constantly getting behind in the count coupled with a stagnant offense will do that.

[Big Buds]

The thing that makes this staff so unique is the extremely inconsistent roles and what is being asked of these guys. Our opening night starter’s most recent outing was a 4 inning outing for a midweek. Our Saturday opening weekend starter started that midweek. Our two most promising bullpen arms (Talley and Bonds) have been shuffled in and out of starting roles. Our best performing pitcher out of the pen from the first weekend (Ray) was put as a Friday night starter and is now back to the pen. Theut is another arm out of the pen who has been tried as a starter. Today we just had Schultz get his first start since 2019, and it was a 107 pitch outing.

We ask student athletes to be process rather than result oriented. That starts at the top. Managers can’t change a guy’s role every time he has a strong or poor outing. IMO roles need to be defined on this team sooner rather than later if we want these guys to develop any semblance of consistency. Im not sure Deggs agrees with that after him mentioning getting “creative” in his interview this week.

We are basically typing the same post at the same time.

[zeppelincajun]

We are basically typing the same post at the same time.

I noticed that lol. You managed to say it a little more succinctly.

[CajunT]

The thing that makes this staff so unique is the extremely inconsistent roles and what is being asked of these guys. Our opening night starter’s most recent outing was a 4 inning outing for a midweek. Our Saturday opening weekend starter started that midweek. Our two most promising bullpen arms (Talley and Bonds) have been shuffled in and out of starting roles. Our best performing pitcher out of the pen from the first weekend (Ray) was put as a Friday night starter and is now back to the pen. Theut is another arm out of the pen who has been tried as a starter. Today we just had Schultz get his first start since 2019, and it was a 107 pitch outing.

We ask student athletes to be process rather than result oriented. That starts at the top. Managers can’t change a guy’s role every time he has a strong or poor outing. IMO roles need to be defined on this team sooner rather than later if we want these guys to develop any semblance of consistency. Im not sure Deggs agrees with that after him mentioning getting “creative” in his interview this week.

Ideally you are correct, finding roles at this point would have been advantages. The problem is you can't find consistent roles with so much inconsistencies, specifically in finding starting pitching. We've seen Bonds, Ray, Talley and now Schultz all swing in both roles with Bonds being the most consistent of the group. At some point you would hope they would begin to grab a specific roles for themselves. But, it's kind of hard to do so if you are asking your coaching staff to trust you in roles and you can't consistently throw strikes. If you can't do that, there is no other role outside of sitting the bench.