Three weeks to go before the regular season and this is what we have: 1) A manager who has never managed at any level. 2) A pitching coach who has not been a professional in baseball before and 3) no established closer in camp.
That's either pretty scary or pretty cool depending on how you look at things.
It may be, to start with, that we will have no eighth inning set-up guy and no closer. We may use a variety of guys in those roles and see what happens.
That's never worked before, but then again, I don't think any team has had a combination of the three things I mentioned in the first paragraph before either.
I think it's pretty reasonable to assume that THIS baseball team is going to be trying stuff other teams have never done before. That alone should keep the first few weeks of the season interesting.
Eventually pitchers and roles will probably start developing, but maybe this is the first real chance we've had at a team looking a pitching, as a whole, differently.
One-inning guys, two-inning guys, and three-inning guys with no real emphasis on starters and closers, just putting in the guy who fits each game when he needs to go in.
No worn out arms, alternating righties and lefties, and throwing off managers and their batting line-ups.
Someone IS going to that someday. It might as well be us.
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