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Clearly DBo didn't work out overall but I know multiple kids who worked with him in the minors and/or at GT who loved his approach and felt he helped them. Many of our pitchers this year publicly stated as much. However, I don't believe DBo had much, if any, experience calling pitches in game...

Interesting graph for sure so thanks for sharing. To your point on the importance of pitching in conference and tourney play. It would be interesting to look specifically at pitching recruits only for PG ratings. I mention this as my hypothesis would be our pitching recruiting has not been as...

Indeed - giving up 24 runs only means we don't have enough pitching depth for three b2b games and will obviously kill our team ERA stat. But the primary reason we lost this series was our lack of timely hitting on Saturday. Actually our pitching on Fri and Sat showed significant improvement...

Agreed - the team ERA continues to look rough but doesn't tell the whole story so far this season. It sure feels like we have more hope on the mound this season as compared to last season. If the kids mentioned above can continue to trend in a positive direction we could end up with a...

Agree with this - not clear on likelihood of Hill or McGwire coming back this season but if they can, we could be better than .500. If not we'll likely finish below .500 in ACC unless another starter (or two) develops into that role quickly...

Not worried about this as most P5 programs want to hire a coach with previous HC experience - as GT should strongly consider. So it's most likely he'd go to a G5 program, get some HC experience and then be an even better candidate to come back to GT as HC... At least that's one theory which...

Love to hear it - love it when anyone beats those cocky bastards...won't ever forget the finger flip...

CDH lives in the neighborhood next to ours and we know many of his neighbors. From everything I have heard from his neighbors, he is 100% baseball with no hobbies and no plans or desire to retire in the near future. Of course I realize he may not share retirement plans with neighbors but there...

I'm not a CDB fan based on very poor results to-date but agree we should acknowledge the good with the bad. Busse has been lights out and he clearly credits CDB with making some adjustments to his pitching with "taking him to the next level" from his previous team.

Heard we shouldn't expect to see him to pitch this season.

Agreed - this is by far the best board for GT Baseball - more "constructive" or statistics-based input vs having to weed through all the name calling, personal attacks and off topic commentary on JOL.

Not defending the decision but at least now understand CDH's logic with the slow hook. He clarified in the post game interview they were trying to "stretch him out" with more pitches in a game situation. Seems a bit bizarre to me given the potential negatives with this approach (injuries more...

Agreed on leaving Brown in too long - he was clearly fatigued toward the end struggling to just get the ball across. It's like they had a preconceived pitch count goal of 80 before they were going to take him out. That seemed like too high of a pitch count for first day of season when...

Assume Brown getting the start is due to one or both: 1) Injury to Hill or other projected starters 2) See Friday as a Johnny Wholestaff game due to weather conditions - very short pitch count (eg ~30) for all...

Thanks for posting. Jim is a close friend of mine and no doubt this is a great honor for him. I was not aware of this extra touch from the baseball program so thrilled to see this happen. I have never known anyone in my lifetime who has impressed me more as a person than Jim - so glad to see...

Good CDH interview here if you haven't already seen it (or perhaps this is already posted here and I missed it...).

Genuinely appreciate you adding your perspective as it's respected. However, one must also acknowledge GT finished ranked #227 in the nation and next to last in the ACC in team ERA. So GT is failing relative to most other D1 schools as measured by actual pitching results. GT isn't the only D1...

Couldn't agree more. Guessing this won't happen due to egos involved but DBo already had two seasons to get this part of the game figured out and GT shouldn't suffer through a third season watching DBo "develop" this part of his game when we have an an MLB all-star level pitch caller on staff...

A complex topic at one level for sure but results always speak for themselves and are much less complex to understand. GT pitching has clearly seen a results-oriented downturn the past two years under DBo - team ERA being an obvious metric example. Observation by many much smarter than me on...