Pharm Frog
Full Member
I agree with you 100%, but Schloss still won the conference tournament in spite of his starting pitching selections. He's clearly got a good enough pulse on the team and the opponent to still pull most of the right levers.
I’m having difficulty reconciling this. If the Frogs won the tournament “in spite of” the starting pitcher choice, is this still having a good enough pulse on the team and justification of the $1.5M salary?
I’d suggest that in the last six games where starting pitcher selection was actually a consideration, we’ve blown it 50% of the time:
Saturday v KSU (Ray...enough said)
Wednesday v KSU (Meador...thank you Drew Hill)
Friday v Tech (Smith...no brainer)
Saturday v KSU (King...oops)
Saturday v KSU (Krob...elimination game no brainer)
Sunday v Okie Lite (Ridings....good choice among the pen day)
I don’t dislike Krob against McNeese as much as some of you apparently though. It’s not as if our starters are destined to go more than 5.1 or so. In Krob’s last three starts he’s gone 4.2, 1.0, and 4.0. Anything more than that is likely gravy and I’m not sure that we have any more confidence in anyone not named Smith than we do Wright, Hill, King, Perez, Ridings, and Savage. If Krob can go 7 or 8....we’ve got comparable arms after Smith.