Appreciate your experience and perspective Stealthy, but I am not sure how close you have been watching UL baseball, and particularly CDM and Roger Williams with respect to managing our pitching performance during the games over the last several seasons?
With all due respect, you are wrong about “saving the rotation”. Look at the number of pitchers that we have on this roster, and remember Dan’s preseason comments about “the quality of depth that we have”.
Little League, HS, College and MLB managers/coaches are expected to recognize when the pitcher has lost control, and as a rule they know it’s time to make the change before disaster hits. When a Coach or a Manager fail to make the change, the consequences affect the pitcher, the team and the fans ……. Dan not only did Forbes no favors, he allowed him to contribute to the disastrous 6th inning after a brilliant 5 innings of work. I believe that further explains the “team meetings”.
These last two games resulted in our pitchers giving up 24 runs to California; now you can either concede the rotation is simply not ready for ACC level baseball, or question our coaching staff as to whether they have an abundance of confidence in one or two pitchers, or very little confidence in the rest of the rotation. Ten runs should be enough to win an ACC game.
