Tim Tadlock said yesterday he's using the weekend to test a lot of different pitchers to help define roles for the season, so pitch counts are limited and I don't expect Micah Dallas to go deep into the game even if he's cruising. Yesterday, Tadlock pulled Patrick Monteverde after 64 pitches and four shutout innings. All hell broke loose after that, as Tech threw six different relievers -- four for less than than an inning each -- and gave up 13 runs over the final five frames.
So Dallas is expected to be on an extreme pitch count, but we'll see since Tadlock couldn't have enjoyed that last night. He's a 6-foot-2, third-year right-hander who stays over the plate, doesn't waste many pitches and comes right at hitters. He had an 0.57 ERA in 15.2 innings. Opponents hit .132 off him and he struck out 23 with one walk. That was all in relief work with his longest outing was four innings. He went at least three innings in four of his five appearances.
Dallas was a starter as a freshman, throwing 76 innings with a .260 batting average against and a 4.03 ERA with 84 strikeouts and 28 walks.
There's nothing odd about his delivery. It's really straightforward and he throws strikes. Not much mystery here. The fastball is 91-94 with some sink and late life. He throws a hard slider in the low to mid 80s that works well against right-handers and a splitter that dives that he uses as a changeup against left-handers mostly. Everything is down plane and he generates a lot of strikeouts and a lot of ground balls.
It's baseball cliche but this is about punishing mistakes when he misses up and not pulling off pitches middle to low in the zone. You're going to get strikes. Ole Miss can go up there expecting to hit. He hides the ball pretty well against lefties because of how he throws across his body to some degree.
He was an interesting recruit because he was homeschooled. He played elite summer and travel ball but his "high school" team was affiliated with the Texas Homeschool Education Athletics Association that played private schools in the state.
So Dallas is expected to be on an extreme pitch count, but we'll see since Tadlock couldn't have enjoyed that last night. He's a 6-foot-2, third-year right-hander who stays over the plate, doesn't waste many pitches and comes right at hitters. He had an 0.57 ERA in 15.2 innings. Opponents hit .132 off him and he struck out 23 with one walk. That was all in relief work with his longest outing was four innings. He went at least three innings in four of his five appearances.
Dallas was a starter as a freshman, throwing 76 innings with a .260 batting average against and a 4.03 ERA with 84 strikeouts and 28 walks.
There's nothing odd about his delivery. It's really straightforward and he throws strikes. Not much mystery here. The fastball is 91-94 with some sink and late life. He throws a hard slider in the low to mid 80s that works well against right-handers and a splitter that dives that he uses as a changeup against left-handers mostly. Everything is down plane and he generates a lot of strikeouts and a lot of ground balls.
It's baseball cliche but this is about punishing mistakes when he misses up and not pulling off pitches middle to low in the zone. You're going to get strikes. Ole Miss can go up there expecting to hit. He hides the ball pretty well against lefties because of how he throws across his body to some degree.
He was an interesting recruit because he was homeschooled. He played elite summer and travel ball but his "high school" team was affiliated with the Texas Homeschool Education Athletics Association that played private schools in the state.
