In my limited opinion. Limited since I don’t know enough coaching and instructional variables about pitching to make sense out of raw statistical analyses, nor do I trust scouting reports that are two or three years old (only advance scouts have in depth guidance or guesswork about current roster pitchers).

I do feel that the Rangers have had more than their share of pitching failures, particularly in losing winnable games in the eighth inning or beyond. Whether that’s pitching quality, poor selection of whom to throw, bad advice from the coaching staff, or bad luck, I don’t know. I do realize that a few games have gone south because of poor defense or errors, but when it’s the pitcher making the critical error, it’s irritating.

Does anyone have a count over the past two years of how many games were lost by giving up multiple runs in the eighth inning? If not, I will wait and hope for improvement in both pitcher readiness, pitcher quality, and maybe wholesale change in the coaching staff.

Connor and Chiti are on the last year of their current contracts. I remember Randy Galloway complaining about this early in the year saying that Wash and the other coaches had at least two years to go and Nolan should do the same for the pitching coaches.

Based on what JD has said, I think the minor league pitchers use and development is supervised by Scott Servais and his organization. I got the impression that everyone from Nolan down to the scouts had input into what should be done but, once that was decided, it was in Servais’ court. When a minor league pitcher is needed at the major league level I am not sure who decides who gets the call.

...two years of this nonsense…

and i guarantee that next year, you’ll see the same problems.

fire chiti and conner and hire peterson and leo for the exact same gigs. thats a duo ill get behind.