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<blockquote data-quote="MWBATL" data-source="post: 310492" data-attributes="member: 944"><p>Not sure ND matters much to us and our chances...they have already proven on the field they are a better team than we are (and that was when we still had Shadday). </p><p></p><p>As far as the rest of our season goes, we might get better performances out of our pitching against weaker teams, but that has almost no impact on how those same pitchers, pitching the same way, would do against the elite teams. You can shut out an Illinois-Chicago and still get slammed by a top flight ACC or SEC team. It is not that the pitching was any worse or better, it is the difference in the opposition.</p><p></p><p>What I see with out pitching is that they get afraid to throw strikes against good teams, largely because the strikes they throw get hit, hard. Zac Ryan is a perfect example of this. When he doesn't fear getting hammered, he throws strikes fearlessly, daring the other team to hit him. When he gives up hits, he fears giving up more hits and tries to "hit the corners" and winds up missing, sometimes disastrously so. But this happens more or less to all our pitchers, not just Zac.</p><p></p><p>Maybe we just don't have good enough pitchers. It's not like we have had a ton of our pitchers make it in pro ball. Maybe we are recruiting the wrong kids, or maybe we screw them up when we get them into the program, I don't know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MWBATL, post: 310492, member: 944"] Not sure ND matters much to us and our chances...they have already proven on the field they are a better team than we are (and that was when we still had Shadday). As far as the rest of our season goes, we might get better performances out of our pitching against weaker teams, but that has almost no impact on how those same pitchers, pitching the same way, would do against the elite teams. You can shut out an Illinois-Chicago and still get slammed by a top flight ACC or SEC team. It is not that the pitching was any worse or better, it is the difference in the opposition. What I see with out pitching is that they get afraid to throw strikes against good teams, largely because the strikes they throw get hit, hard. Zac Ryan is a perfect example of this. When he doesn't fear getting hammered, he throws strikes fearlessly, daring the other team to hit him. When he gives up hits, he fears giving up more hits and tries to "hit the corners" and winds up missing, sometimes disastrously so. But this happens more or less to all our pitchers, not just Zac. Maybe we just don't have good enough pitchers. It's not like we have had a ton of our pitchers make it in pro ball. Maybe we are recruiting the wrong kids, or maybe we screw them up when we get them into the program, I don't know. [/QUOTE]
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