Hard to say. Sully usually plays as many bench players and backups (especially pitchers) as he can in the mid-week games to see how they respond, so the mid-week games are never really a reliable barometer for how good the team is going to end up. Sully won't consistently play our best relievers until SEC play starts.
Well the sample size is small to date but he has not really gone too deep through 9 games. Our weekend starting rotation may be as good as we have had since 2017, we shall see. It's clear he expects Slater, Purnell and Ficorotta to cover the brunt of the work during weekend SEC play. Each one has had some ugly outings, especially Purnell. It seems he wants Abner to expand his role but he is outside the strike zone too much. His one freshman potential star to date has been Cade Fisher who has looked pretty good in his three outings. Fisher Jameson, Ursitti and Tyler Nesbitt do not look improved which is disappointing. I don't know why we have not seen Carsten Finnvold other than he does not throw 95, even though he may have pitched the best game last season against Okla to keep us alive. I believe Coppola is on his radar but still not recovered from the mystery inaction last year. Yoel Tejeda looked OK in his only appearance and he may get the start tonight.
The middle relievers are certainly questionable, yet again. It does appear Neely is a capable closer so that is good news.
The best news is we can hit and score bunches of runs which help a questionable pen. Glad they are streaming tonight's game. Go Gators.
