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<blockquote data-quote="MWBATL" data-source="post: 870946" data-attributes="member: 944"><p>This pitching curse drives me nuts. I am a huge believer that pitching wins in baseball, offense is cool, but good pitching beats good hitting. As we so often see when GT gets into the post-season.</p><p></p><p>Yet, here we are again. GT has a 5.68 team ERA (admittedly ruined badly by Saturday's game, but still...). (NB, all data in this posting are for the full season stats so far.)</p><p></p><p>We lead the league in walks. In fact, our 102 walks in 20 games (5 per game) are virtually double the volume of walks given up by good pitching staffs. UVa has yielded 61 walks and UNC only 58. Those are HUGE differences. Same story with HBP. We are tied for league-worst with 31 while good staffs yield 15 (UVa) and 17 (UNC). I am ignoring conference only stats for the moment because it's only 6 games, but trust me when I say we lead the league in being the worst in both those categories.</p><p></p><p>I simply don't understand why our pitching is so poor. My understanding of pitching excellence is that it is NEVER really about the quality of your "stuff" per se, but about how well you can locate your pitches. Greg Maddox is my hero, but he never had a killer fast ball or anything but pinpoint control. It seems like we keep trotting guys out who have great "stuff" somehow hoping they will learn to control it. Maybe we should be rewarding guys with average "stuff" who can hit their spots? I'm NOT close enough to say that's what we're doing. I am just saying we see this same pattern year, after year, after year.</p><p></p><p>And I'm getting tired of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MWBATL, post: 870946, member: 944"] This pitching curse drives me nuts. I am a huge believer that pitching wins in baseball, offense is cool, but good pitching beats good hitting. As we so often see when GT gets into the post-season. Yet, here we are again. GT has a 5.68 team ERA (admittedly ruined badly by Saturday's game, but still...). (NB, all data in this posting are for the full season stats so far.) We lead the league in walks. In fact, our 102 walks in 20 games (5 per game) are virtually double the volume of walks given up by good pitching staffs. UVa has yielded 61 walks and UNC only 58. Those are HUGE differences. Same story with HBP. We are tied for league-worst with 31 while good staffs yield 15 (UVa) and 17 (UNC). I am ignoring conference only stats for the moment because it's only 6 games, but trust me when I say we lead the league in being the worst in both those categories. I simply don't understand why our pitching is so poor. My understanding of pitching excellence is that it is NEVER really about the quality of your "stuff" per se, but about how well you can locate your pitches. Greg Maddox is my hero, but he never had a killer fast ball or anything but pinpoint control. It seems like we keep trotting guys out who have great "stuff" somehow hoping they will learn to control it. Maybe we should be rewarding guys with average "stuff" who can hit their spots? I'm NOT close enough to say that's what we're doing. I am just saying we see this same pattern year, after year, after year. And I'm getting tired of it. [/QUOTE]
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