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Sebastian Font said:
In your opinion what constitutes a friday arm?
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A guy that has leadership, stamina that can go 9 innings, and the capability to go toe-to-toe with the other team’s No. 1 arm.

A guy with a High strike out rate with electric stuff. I don’t want the other team to put the ball in play and have to rely on my defense to make plays. A guy that doesn’t walk very many batters either. A guy that is an innings eater as well, that won’t burn up your bullpen for the weekend

A reliable guy that every Friday night you know you can win even if you don’t score any runs
 
CANESCANES said:
Stack arms and figure it out later

But zero in on a Friday night starter atleast
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There is currently one legit first round draft pick Friday night starter available now in Joey Volchko. He will be getting paid probably from an SEC school. I’d be surprised if he comes here and not a big school with a proven pitching track record, we all know JD ain’t it. Getting the Friday night starter you want is not happening. This is not football with a Cam or Beck or equivalent available, those guys are rarely out there.

Our gameplan right now should be to accumulate quality pitchers and build depth. When you get into the tournament, it’s usually your #3-#4 starter and your bullpen pitching for your season. I’d want someone halfway decent there and the Holy Cross guy is in that direction
 
CANESCANES said:
A guy that has leadership, stamina that can go 9 innings, and the capability to go toe-to-toe with the other team’s No. 1 arm.

A guy with a High strike out rate with electric stuff. I don’t want the other team to put the ball in play and have to rely on my defense to make plays. A guy that doesn’t walk very many batters either. A guy that is an innings eater as well, that won’t burn up your bullpen for the weekend

A reliable guy that every Friday night you know you can win even if you don’t score any runs
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I agree with both yours and @Cane44 points.

With that being said, I don’t think that there’s truly a guy out there who we can pull from an LSU/ TENN/ ARK. That’s the state of college baseball at the moment. Another successful year and I think we can start entering those conversations.

What I like about this years team is that we should have the offense to survive having “high end 2’s”. I think Hugus last year was a great example of that, dude was a bulldog but if he gave up more than 3 that friday game was over (Ex- UNC vs Knapp). If either Marks, Ciscar or whoever can have that similar grit through the order multiple times like a Hugus did, the offense should do enough to back them up.

It’s not a perfect situation, but a huge step up from last year in my opinion
 
Sebastian Font said:
I agree with both yours and @Cane44 points.

With that being said, I don’t think that there’s truly a guy out there who we can pull from an LSU/ TENN/ ARK. That’s the state of college baseball at the moment. Another successful year and I think we can start entering those conversations.

What I like about this years team is that we should have the offense to survive having “high end 2’s”. I think Hugus last year was a great example of that, dude was a bulldog but if he gave up more than 3 that friday game was over (Ex- UNC vs Knapp). If either Marks, Ciscar or whoever can have that similar grit through the order multiple times like a Hugus did, the offense should do enough to back them up.

It’s not a perfect situation, but a huge step up from last year in my opinion
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I agree, the Friday starter usually comes from the high school ranks, have to recruit elite arms there and develop them in to it

Recruit some guys that turn down big money to go to college types, like that Oregon State freshman would be nice
 
CANESCANES said:
A guy that has leadership, stamina that can go 9 innings, and the capability to go toe-to-toe with the other team’s No. 1 arm.

A guy with a High strike out rate with electric stuff. I don’t want the other team to put the ball in play and have to rely on my defense to make plays. A guy that doesn’t walk very many batters either. A guy that is an innings eater as well, that won’t burn up your bullpen for the weekend

A reliable guy that every Friday night you know you can win even if you don’t score any runs
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I’ll tell you this. You got some parts right. But 9 innings? Man, majority of Friday guys give you 5-6 1/3. But it’s gritty. That’s a friday guy. Not 96-100 and sprays it but can strikeout 10 while walking 7, you need a guy who will just go and give you a realistic chance to win a ball game. The high strike out rate thing doesn’t make sense to me. I watched SEC Friday guys be high contact guys but it’s weak contact. And that’s the difference. Strikeouts run up pitch count, weak quick outs, don’t.
 
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njsbshzvshsn said:
I’ll tell you this. You got some parts right. But 9 innings? Man, majority of Friday guys give you 5-6 1/3. But it’s gritty. That’s a friday guy. Not 96-100 and sprays it but can strikeout 10 while walking 7, you need a guy who will just go and give you a realistic chance to win a ball game. The high strike out rate thing doesn’t make sense to me. I watched SEC Friday guys be high contact guys but it’s weak contact. And that’s the difference. Strikeouts run up pitch count, weak quick outs, don’t.
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different ways to skin a deer… either way you want a dude you can hang your hat on to get a Dub going into the weekend series and come tourney time gives you that same chance to get you in the winners bracket.
 
njsbshzvshsn said:
I’ll tell you this. You got some parts right. But 9 innings? Man, majority of Friday guys give you 5-6 1/3. But it’s gritty. That’s a friday guy. Not 96-100 and sprays it but can strikeout 10 while walking 7, you need a guy who will just go and give you a realistic chance to win a ball game. The high strike out rate thing doesn’t make sense to me. I watched SEC Friday guys be high contact guys but it’s weak contact. And that’s the difference. Strikeouts run up pitch count, weak quick outs, don’t.
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Some parts right? 🤣🤣🤣

9 innings is mostly for post season baseball when it really counts.

I know what a dominant Friday night starter is supposed to look like, and you need that in the post season

You don’t want a Kade Anderson that had 180 strikeouts in 119 innings while only walking 35 batters while going 9 innings in the CWS against Coastal and striking out 10 and being disappointed in only striking out 10? That’s what a dominant Friday night starter is, being able to carry the team on his back, and doing it all himself
 
njsbshzvshsn said:
Bear with me but if you can get Evans to 93-95 T96/97, do you try and experiment with that? He’s shown he can throw multiple games in a weekend too. 👀
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I think this where he could carve out a real nice niche and with a big season he could be a top 10 round guy and due to being “older” some major league team might fast track him as a high leverage lefty.

Velo up, that tightens up his off speed just a tick. Could be an outstanding college closer.
 
njsbshzvshsn said:
Bare with me but if you can get Evans to 93-95 T96/97, do you try and experiment with that? He’s shown he can throw multiple games in a weekend too. 👀
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Thats what my 13yr old said, but i thought you said he wanted to establish himself as a starter this season?
 
Cane44 said:
Thats what my 13yr old said, but i thought you said he wanted to establish himself as a starter this season?
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I think yes, he’s got starter stuff and profile. But, a high velocity lefty, he could so easily become the closer and pitch in 2/3 games a weekend in conference. Kid would be **** good.
 
I really think that Derias can be the Friday guy.

Has the velo and stuff. Southern Miss wasn’t mental. He wasn’t scared. I think he wore down a bit and when you wear down mechanics go. Here is a good piece on him. The jump he made. If he goes 94-97/hard slider and his change that’s frontline stuff.

Glad he is on campus working out. I think he knows just going out and throwing more wasn’t going to help him.

Derias
 
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Cane44 said:
Who are we thinking is our closer??
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Currently we have five possible starters: Marks, Ciscar, DeRias, Evans, Macchiarola

That means there's going to be one odd-man out.

Marks is going to start, Ciscar and Macchiarola are quick out starters; which imo leaves it between either DeRias and Evans becoming the closer since we don't have a "true" closer on the team at the moment.

I'd be fine with either because:

DeRias has already demonstrated the 96 velo and hopefully with another offseason that ticks up to 98 and can be paired with a really nice sweeper.

And for Evans as some of you have already mentioned, a high velocity lefty can be deadly out of the pen
 
HurricanePhilly said:
I really think that Derias can be the Friday guy.

Has the velo and stuff. Southern Miss wasn’t mental. He wasn’t scared. I think he wore down a bit and when you wear down mechanics go. Here is a good piece on him. The jump he made. If he goes 94-97/hard slider and his change that’s frontline stuff.

Glad he is on campus working out. I think he knows just going out and throwing more wasn’t going to help him.

Derias
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And this is why I think DeRias will prove alot of people wrong next season, Southern Miss left a bad taste for alot of the fans but it ultimately wasn't all him (ex- terrible call at first which sparked the inning and Southern Miss just not missing a single fastball no matter where it was).

Wether he's a starter or closer he has the stuff, and he's been in the lab all summer rather than out at summer ball.
 
Sebastian Font said:
And this is why I think DeRias will prove alot of people wrong next season, Southern Miss left a bad taste for alot of the fans but it ultimately wasn't all him (ex- terrible call at first which sparked the inning and Southern Miss just not missing a single fastball no matter where it was).

Wether he's a starter or closer he has the stuff, and he's been in the lab all summer rather than out at summer ball.
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He obviously has God given talent....he will help us in a big way next season. I'm not sure if his role to begin the season, but he will have a big impact on next year's team
 
Sebastian Font said:
And this is why I think DeRias will prove alot of people wrong next season, Southern Miss left a bad taste for alot of the fans but it ultimately wasn't all him (ex- terrible call at first which sparked the inning and Southern Miss just not missing a single fastball no matter where it was).

Wether he's a starter or closer he has the stuff, and he's been in the lab all summer rather than out at summer ball.
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I hope he’s working on his mental side this summer, If he can get that worked out he can be really good.
 
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