I feel like it will be overall done by committee like some of our other games. Smith generally takes care of business so no problem there, but many games have seen numerous pitchers. We apparently have that luxury which is great and doesn’t burn pitchers if they aren’t on that particular game.

On a side note, I’ve kind of felt like Mcentire has been kinda screwed when he was coming in behind Smith. Anyone coming behind Smith has to look a lot easier no matter how good they are. I wonder if it hurt his confidence.

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Posted by Feral

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Posted on 5/22/24 at 4:50 am to Clark14

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I’ve kind of felt like Mcentire has been kinda screwed when he was coming in behind Smith. Anyone coming behind Smith has to look a lot easier no matter how good they are. I wonder if it hurt his confidence.

It has nothing to do with following Hagen.

McEntire was lights out earlier this season when he was regularly middle relief for Hagen. He was arguably the second best pitcher on our staff for a time, and then promptly fell off a cliff when he started having trouble locating and his cutter stopped fooling batters.

Following the Ole Miss series, he had almost the exact same ERA (1.78) as Hagen (1.76).

After that series he:
- got shelled in Game 1 against Bama (3 earned in 1.0 IP)
- gave up 3 earned in 2.0 IP against South Carolina
- gave up 2 earned in 1.0 IP against Florida
- almost blew Game 1 against MSU by loading the bases in just 0.1 IP (and Wood came in and bailed him out).

This post was edited on 5/22/24 at 4:51 am

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