We are so incredibly back!!!
Guessing it was discussed at some point yesterday on here, but I think he should be our third starter with Massey coming in for relief.Falco throwing 4 innings of 2 hit shoutout baseball was encouraging. If we want to go deep, we will need him show up big in the postseason
I think Massey likely missed yesterday because of some lingering injury, so the Falco starter thing is probably going to happen. Although I'm not particularly confident that he will ever last more than once through the order against actually good teams, so we're basically going to be in the same spot we were in except without Falco in the bullpen.Guessing it was discussed at some point yesterday on here, but I think he should be our third starter with Massey coming in for relief.
Seems like a win-win for both guys to me, especially if Sundays/our third game in a regional/supers is going to be a total "all hands on deck" situation anyway.
All of this is why I believe that Massey has some sort of lingering injury issue that has been a problem since the early season when it happened. He didn't suddenly go from a pitcher with great command last year to a pitcher that can barely throw strikes just because he's pitching in the first inning of games now.It might be a good plan, but I think people are assuming that Massey will magically start pitching well if he moves into relief. But his issues have been mostly around command (and from the gate).
Massey hasn’t shown any of the usual traits you see in should-be relievers who struggle when moving into a starting role (diminished stuff, trouble the second and third time through the order, fatigue leading to poor command later in games). Massey has been struggling from the first batter of starts, but his raw stuff still looks pretty good.
I think that pretty much regardless of which 3 games are the losses, 5-3 gets the job done. I even think there's a world in which 4-4 gets Wake there as long as they win one of the two ACC series.What do we think needs to be done to lock-up hosting a regional?
8 games left:
A&T and Liberty (both at home)
Clemson (home)
State (away)
Let's just assume we win both noncon games, which could be risky given some of our struggles, but I would think 3-3 against ACC teams would get it done?
Would at least give us some leeway heading to Charlotte since that's a complete crapshoot in the pool system they've got.
Hopefully this tough schedule pays dividends and will have proven to sharpen our boys for when it really matters in the post season!I don't think we've talked enough about how difficult Wake's schedule has been. By the end of the regular season, Wake will have had 3-game series against the current #2, #8, #9, #10, #11, and #23 teams. That's 32% of the schedule. Add in two games against Coastal, a neutral site game against UNCW, and a road series against VT, and it's a damn hard schedule.
It's pretty remarkable that things have been basically worst case scenario with 2/3 of the weekend rotation and Wake is still in solid position to host a regional with that schedule.
Maybe I'm looking too into it, but there are still big what ifs for me.What do we think needs to be done to lock-up hosting a regional?
8 games left:
A&T and Liberty (both at home)
Clemson (home)
State (away)
Let's just assume we win both noncon games, which could be risky given some of our struggles, but I would think 3-3 against ACC teams would get it done?
Would at least give us some leeway heading to Charlotte since that's a complete crapshoot in the pool system they've got.
What's the NET rank say about our kenpom SOS?Of course the three ACC teams that WF won't play are the the three worst teams in the Coastal.