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ErickMarreroU said:
What is delusional? He flipped in 2022; Tennessee is coming off hosting its first regional. Instead of typing, actually go out on the street and talk to people in the game..... That goes for all of you
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Lol; there is NO competition this kid ran off from. Who in TF goes from a middling team to a perennial contender? Idgaf what ppl tell themselves to feel good about a kid flipping.

U acting like Miami was hella loaded in 2023, coming off a deep run in the NCAA tourney. U sound goofy AF, respectfully of course.
 
Morningstar with a 3.42, 3.18, 3.49 SIERA each of the last three years.

He's been nearly the same guy each year, but variance on Balls in Play have really hurt him. He tends to give up a lot of pulled fly balls and those go for HR's often. His HR/FB% was absurd two of the three years and you'd expect that to regress, but the batted ball profile will always lend itself to HR's being an issue.

He also gives up too many line drives (line drives go for hits more than any batted ball type).

This is the type of pitcher who has a bit of a batted ball profile issue and will be at the mercy of a variance a bit. If you get expected regression in contact outcomes, you've got a good weekend starter. If he gets continued hard contact and pulled fly balls, it will sink the overall package.

Big talent. Big tools and great stuff. This is a guy you take all day and find a role for.

Morningstar and Mendez are two major arms that need development in different ways but can change the ceiling of the program in a significant way.
 
Maddox Macdougal is a good relief arm who can go multiple innings. He is a spin and backspin type who gets a lot of swing and miss on a ride fastball. The spin is excellent and he really performed in a very good conference. If he committed he'd be our best reliever immediately.

To be fair, I really liked the Bilka addition and expected a lot more, but that was a lower level of competition and I didn't realize he'd have the issue with pressure situations that he ended up having when he couldn't induce the same level of chase at the ACC level.
 
Lance Roffers said:
Morningstar with a 3.42, 3.18, 3.49 SIERA each of the last three years.

He's been nearly the same guy each year, but variance on Balls in Play have really hurt him. He tends to give up a lot of pulled fly balls and those go for HR's often. His HR/FB% was absurd two of the three years and you'd expect that to regress, but the batted ball profile will always lend itself to HR's being an issue.

He also gives up too many line drives (line drives go for hits more than any batted ball type).

This is the type of pitcher who has a bit of a batted ball profile issue and will be at the mercy of a variance a bit. If you get expected regression in contact outcomes, you've got a good weekend starter. If he gets continued hard contact and pulled fly balls, it will sink the overall package.

Big talent. Big tools and great stuff. This is a guy you take all day and find a role for.

Morningstar and Mendez are two major arms that need development in different ways but can change the ceiling of the program in a significant way.
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I was looking into that earlier too. His HR rate went through the roof and I wonder if he became too fastball dependent. If you speed up bats then you get a higher contact rate.

This might be something where the change could benefit him.
 
Lance Roffers said:
Morningstar with a 3.42, 3.18, 3.49 SIERA each of the last three years.

He's been nearly the same guy each year, but variance on Balls in Play have really hurt him. He tends to give up a lot of pulled fly balls and those go for HR's often. His HR/FB% was absurd two of the three years and you'd expect that to regress, but the batted ball profile will always lend itself to HR's being an issue.

He also gives up too many line drives (line drives go for hits more than any batted ball type).

This is the type of pitcher who has a bit of a batted ball profile issue and will be at the mercy of a variance a bit. If you get expected regression in contact outcomes, you've got a good weekend starter. If he gets continued hard contact and pulled fly balls, it will sink the overall package.

Big talent. Big tools and great stuff. This is a guy you take all day and find a role for.

Morningstar and Mendez are two major arms that need development in different ways but can change the ceiling of the program in a significant way.
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How are you able to calculate Morningstar's SIERA? The formula requires you know how many ground balls, fly balls and pop-ups the pitcher allows and this information is not on the Wake Forest stat sheet.
 
SWEaglesFan said:
How are you able to calculate Morningstar's SIERA? The formula requires you know how many ground balls, fly balls and pop-ups the pitcher allows and this information is not on the Wake Forest stat sheet.
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It comes from Syneegy data. You can get on D1Baseball.com

(All of that data is there). If you can get Trackman data, you can also get exit velocity, angles, extension, velo, shape etc. as well and create a Stuff+ model.

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Lance Roffers said:
Morningstar with a 3.42, 3.18, 3.49 SIERA each of the last three years.

He's been nearly the same guy each year, but variance on Balls in Play have really hurt him. He tends to give up a lot of pulled fly balls and those go for HR's often. His HR/FB% was absurd two of the three years and you'd expect that to regress, but the batted ball profile will always lend itself to HR's being an issue.

He also gives up too many line drives (line drives go for hits more than any batted ball type).

This is the type of pitcher who has a bit of a batted ball profile issue and will be at the mercy of a variance a bit. If you get expected regression in contact outcomes, you've got a good weekend starter. If he gets continued hard contact and pulled fly balls, it will sink the overall package.

Big talent. Big tools and great stuff. This is a guy you take all day and find a role for.

Morningstar and Mendez are two major arms that need development in different ways but can change the ceiling of the program in a significant way.
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Wake Forest is a Cracker Jack box stadium. Bad place to play most of your games there if that’s your M.O.

Curious of his road/home splits.
 
Obviously they have to do this and need a bunch of arms. However, it’s pretty disappointing going into Y4 with our pitching coach of 20 years (who brought in another pitching coach to help) that we need this many portal arms. We’ve gotten virtually nothing out of the HS recruits from JD and Laz.

I never thought much of JD as a pitching coach, but his recruiting/development out of HS has actually gotten worse since he took over as HC. Ciscar/Collera look to be the only HS recruits that will impact his fourth year team at all on the mound.
 
DieHardCane27 said:
Most of the hits it looks like came when he was a starter. He was decent albight far from elite out of the bullpen. Although even if he had great numbers he pitched in the Big Ten which is terrible.
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Year 3 was better than his first 2 but still is pretty mid. Guess when you need bodies this is what happens
 
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