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As soon as I saw Auburn there, I knew it was a bad setup. Such close proximity to Atlanta with lots of alumni in the city to negate the home field advantage. Plus, they had the emotional lift of being the first games of any sport since their broadcaster died. Hard to quantify that, but I sure...

It's hard to overstate the fact they lost 2 of their top 3 starters in April. That was such a blow to depth this weekend. Even if the first 2 games had the same result, imagine the difference in pitching depth if you had Willingham and Hurter ready to start today. And in all likelihood, if you...

In general, I think yes. Probably going to knock Roedig out of the game, but he was likely going to max out at 5 innings anyway. We weren't doing anything with their pitcher and either he's out of the game now, or thrown off his rhythm quite a bit. Plus, having been playing since noon today, I...

To summarize, if you can go Gibson, Curry, and Roedig as the 3 starters, you'd love to see them get 14-15 innings between them. Then you've got to come up with 12-14 innings between: Hughes English Bartnicki Carpenter Chapman Lee Willingham (maybe 2 innings on Monday). Just go one game at a...

I agree, Murray needs a shot, Radcliff has had a rough couple of weeks and might need to sit for now. And what about McCann? Not saying we need to bench him, but it seems like the grind of the long season and catching almost every game is starting to wear on him offensively. Is it reasonable for...

Auburn has 2 very good weekend starters but both have had injuries off and on. One wasn’t even available in the SEC Tourney. So like X, a lot of questions. Either Owen or Burns could pitch against us and be dominant. Or they might could only go a few innings. Coastal looks like they mash the...

Pitt's Friday starter has beaten FSU and UNC in consecutive weeks. Definitely not a gimme against them next week on that opening game. Maybe the short week will affect him a little more.

One other complicating factor for the weekend - rain. Weather channel shows 90-100% chance of rain in Durham on Sat and Sun. Wonder if they might move up games and try a DH on Friday.

One thing to note with Duke is that their expected ace and preseason All-American, Graeme Stinson, has been out for several weeks now. As best I can tell, there is no timetable for him to return. So even if we're missing X this weekend, remember they are in a similar situation with their ace...

Going to put a lot of pressure on everybody but especially X and CT in the postseason. Previously, I thought we'd be in decent shape even if we lost one of the first 2 games in the regional with the depth of the pitching staff. But now, if you lose one of those first 2, you've got to play 5...

CDH pointed out in the post-game interview that the pitcher seemed to have pinpoint control for several innings after that. Hitting those 2 hitters in a row is highly suspicious in that light. Just hope it doesn't carry over past today with English. Our offense this week vs last week against VT...

Great win and also seems to me to help further clarify the bullpen pecking order. Assuming Hurter is healthy and we don't have to use a different Sunday starter: -English closing -Hughes #1 setup man -Bartnicki, Chapman, Carpenter as 1 inning guys if starter can't make it 7. -Willingham and...

Possibly, however, even before Hurter pitched Sunday, I was already thinking Roedig might pitch against Uga. They beat up Willingham pretty bad just 2 weeks ago and have seen him twice now. Roedig would be a new pitcher to them. Also, in the Auburn game last week, Roedig helped clean up and...

I'm still not sure it's going to be a DH tomorrow. The first game should be fine (though cold). However, lots of rain still in the forecast for afternoon and night there tomorrow. Feels like it's either a game on Easter or just a 2 game series.

One thing of note is that our opponent's RPI for the rest of the season is pretty poor. Now that could be a good thing if we can take care of business against teams we should beat. However, a few unexpected losses and our RPI could drop tremendously. The mid-week games against Uga and Auburn are...

One of the problems I think is that we're having problems finding time to get guys work. Think about it. We only have one mid week game each week now and the starters as a whole are going so deep in the game, it's hard to bring anybody in unless it's a tight, high-leverage situation late in the...

I wonder if there might be some consideration to not playing English at 1B every day and use him as the DH at least once or twice on the weekend. You could play Guldberg in the OF and have Radcliff at 1B. At least then, he could be warming up while the team is in the field. Of course, you...

I think this is the biggest problem with English as the closer. I'm not sure why he wasn't in to start the 9th. However, once you start and the pitcher gets in trouble, it's hard to bring English in straight from first base, even if he was warming up in between innings. He had a pinch hitter...

We have 23 guys listed as full time or part time pitchers on our roster on RR.com. I mean, seriously, why are they there if we just take the same 2 pitchers every game and run them out there inning after inning even when they are clearly fading? How can seemingly every other team in ACC baseball...

I would be in favor of just letting Turley develop as the main catcher and leave McCann at 1st as much as possible. Simmons going in the 6th round could throw a wrench into him getting here. If he's here, I'd think you'd sort out between him, Serratos, Wilhite, and Waddell for 2B, SS, and 3B. If...