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Just based on the basic stats of IP, WHIP, ERA and record I’d go with the following Pitcher deployments:

Game 1: Palisch + Jensen
Game 2: Williams + Miller
Game 3: Beck + Matthiessen 

The first two eat innings to save the best arms for Game 2 and 3. Don’t deviate unless they do well and Stanford has a lead to protect after 6th inning. If so, all bets are off and use others as match-ups make sense.

Hey, what happened to Weiermiller and Grech?

I assume you are suggesting this might be a clever idea, rather than suggesting it might happen. It won't.

Beck and Miller are our best starting pitchers. I don't think there is any way Esquer will go down without either of those starting a game. So, one of the two will start game 1, and if we lose the other will start game 2.

I'd also say that the result of baseball is random enough, i.e. the nominal better team fails to win often enough, that it would be a bad strategy to tank one game of a three game series for better nominal matchups in the others. That, plus good old tradition, means whichever game Beck or Miller doesn't start will have either Matthiessen (probably) or Williams start.

One interesting development is that our visiting friend has indicated that Mississippi State's star frosh pitcher Ginn may be hurt, ailing if not injured. I wouldn't believe that enough to set strategy, but it will be an issue to keep an eye upon.

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Just based on the basic stats of IP, WHIP, ERA and record I’d go with the following Pitcher deployments:

Game 1: Palisch + Jensen
Game 2: Williams + Miller
Game 3: Beck + Matthiessen 

The first two eat innings to save the best arms for Game 2 and 3. Don’t deviate unless they do well and Stanford has a lead to protect after 6th inning. If so, all bets are off and use others as match-ups make sense.

Hey, what happened to Weiermiller and Grech?

I assume you are suggesting this might be a clever idea, rather than suggesting it might happen. It won't.

Beck and Miller are our best starting pitchers. I don't think there is any way Esquer will go down without either of those starting a game. So, one of the two will start game 1, and if we lose the other will start game 2.

I'd also say that the result of baseball is random enough, i.e. the nominal better team fails to win often enough, that it would be a bad strategy to tank one game of a three game series for better nominal matchups in the others. That, plus good old tradition, means whichever game Beck or Miller doesn't start will have either Matthiessen (probably) or Williams start.

One interesting development is that our visiting friend has indicated that Mississippi State's star frosh pitcher Ginn may be hurt, ailing if not injured. I wouldn't believe that enough to set strategy, but it will be an issue to keep an eye upon.