He has been a guy who has been talked about as a rotation guy. We haven't done it yet. |
He has great poise and composure for a freshman. For any pitcher, you have to have those traits to be successful. He throws four pitches for strikes, and he'll throw them at any count. His competitive nature is as good as anybody. Plus, you throw in the fact he has the genes to be successful. |
He never missed an inning for us. I couldn't get him to take even a half-game off. I would say, 'Landon, let's pull back in.' He would say, 'I'm fine,' and he would be back out there. |
He pitched three innings out of 29 (against Kentucky). If he's our best guy, and arguably he is right now, we need to pitch him more innings. |
He's a guy we sort of identified has the potential to eventually be a weekend guy or battle for some weekend innings. He makes a case for himself a little bit, but we're not making any changes right now. We're going to leave him where he is. But he's building a resume for himself. |
He's a guy we think a lot of. He needs this game. Hopefully, it'll turn out a very positive game for him. But even still it's going to be a great experience for him. |
He's been doing a good job for us. Beverly's been giving us five or six good innings each time, and we've been able to keep his pitch count down. He could go longer, but we want to make sure we use everybody in the bullpen and try not to wear ourselves down before the end of the year. |
He's had back issues. He's tried to fight through it. He's tried to rehab and get where he can play. |
Honeycutt was scheduled to go and he got sick. He came in Saturday and threw a light bullpen to get ready and before the game today he was on the training room table with some type of virus. |
I don't think it should set off alarms. It sends a message that we're trying to get our best pitchers to eat as many innings as possible. That's the message we're sending to our pitchers. We've got to get our guys who are pitching the best to pitch the most. |
I don't think we have awesome talent, but we have very good talent. |
I don't think we've ever had a team where we've relied on freshmen like this season. They play with more maturity and poise than their age. |
I don't usually go back that far. But that's when he caught my attention. |
I doubt he ever saw that sign at Bishop England. But he's in the fire. He's a tough kid. He's got thick skin, and he's ready for this type of environment and did a nice job. |
I feel like we have a pretty good bench, and a lot of times you can't get guys in, but we were able to give some guys chances. I thought we played well in all areas. We made plays defensively and only walked one. |