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Mississippi State has had a rough start to this season, although it's not totally unexpected considering the talent we lost from last year's squad. Of interesting note is the insane number of arms (several of which we were counting on for this season) that we've lost to TJ - I think the count is up to 7 right now that are on our squad currently. Folks on MSU message boards are pretty well convinced the fault lies with our ex-pitching coach Wes Johnson (who took the same job at Arkansas). If I'm not mistaken, they recently lost two pitchers to TJ as well, so they may not be far off. The running idea is that his approach to increasing velocity (which is what he prides himself on) stresses younger, less-conditioned arms far too hard far too early with weighted balls and intense training. Who knows, though. We could just be extremely unlucky this year. It's particularly unfortunate because this team is a couple of quality arms in the bullpen away from having solid postseason potential. We may turn things around anyways, but we have comically little depth on the mound right now. Hell, we pitched last years SEC Freshman of the Year Jake Mangum in tonight's midweek game. He's an outfielder. He actually did pretty good, though - 3 IP, 0H, 0R, 5K!
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