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Hookem2147

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  1. Farmer reaches, Duplantier sac bunt and Mendoza walk off
  2. Collarbone, right? I just don’t think it’s realistic to expect contributions from a guy who went 8 months without swinging a bat and should be a senior in HS.
  3. If it was up to Surly we would have starters pulled by the 3rd inning about every other game. Pitching depth isn’t endless.
  4. Do we know the freshman are talented? I don’t think they would be purposely holding back more talented players in favor of Jayden Duplantier. I don’t think any of those freshman outfielders are ready.
  5. Gerry said Texas leads. Missed last season with a knee injury. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/4897052/lassina-traore
  6. UTSA is quietly up to #31 in RPI. 7-2 in the AAC with series wins over solid FAU and UAB teams. It may not happen this week but they might be another good week away from cracking the top 25. Texas State is also just outside the top 100 in RPI, which is the cutoff for Q4 games so it would be nice if they snuck inside that mark to make that loss sting a little less. We have quite a few midweek games left against top 100 RPI teams: Houston Christian, Lamar and UTRGV at home + the road game at Texas State. This midweek schedule has turned out to be more challenging than I thought a few months ago.
  7. Harrison fighting his way into the 6th inning despite not having his best stuff was massive and sets up well for tomorrow.
  8. Harrison and Grubbs piggyback should be good enough. 3 earned in 5 innings against Georgia ain’t horrible.
  9. I don’t really look at our rotation like that. Riojas might be the second best pitcher on the team and is better than every Sunday starter in the league, but there is value in keeping him in a swing role with the option to start once a week. When we get into a postseason format we won’t deploy guys like we do now.
  10. That throw from Farmer was horrible and forced Mendoza to waste time doing a weird spin around relay.
  11. I really think Gasparino has the chance to be a special player here. We are seeing it now and maybe it doesn’t fully come together until next year, but he has all 5 tools at a premium position. You can tell Tulo finally has him in a good spot compared to last year when he would seemingly go up to the plate every at bat with a different stance.
  12. Duplantier legitimately did not start his swing until the ball was in the glove
  13. He has tools and will probably be drafted in the top 5 rounds in July, but Flores feels like a guy who is going to get eaten alive by breaking balls in pro ball.
  14. Not even close to a strike
  15. Obviously these guys are getting paid and aren’t returning for free, but it’s nice to see that a good chunk of the guys with eligibility left are wanting to stay. Would be pretty easy to bounce after a shitty season and a few of them would have been in pretty good demand by other teams. Schloss was able to do something similar on the baseball side retaining players and those returning guys have helped set the table in year 1 for what is to come.
  16. He is playing third base for Kansas State, FWIW. IIRC, he was committed to A&M years ago and Schloss basically dropped him when he took the job in 2022. So I doubt he was very interested in playing for him here.
  17. Gonna go out on a limb and say a 19-year-old was not being serious on Instagram. The first time it's ever happened. Rare.
  18. This seems mildly surprising, no? I guess OL spots are filling up and some tough decisions will have to be made.
  19. Hopefully Codie looks healthier in year 2 after the knee injury, because his movement skills left a lot to be desired in the limited minutes he did get. Just did not look comfortable.
  20. Still waiting for the video evidence Beard claimed he had the night of the incident that would prove his innocence. He wouldn't hand it over to police when they asked for it and his lawyer wouldn't release it later on. I wonder why that is.
  21. Looking through some stats today and was surprised to see that we only have 4 guys hitting above .280 in conference play (Mendoza, Gasparino, Galvan and....Borba). Flores is all the way down at .200. A few other things that stuck out: -We have the best team ERA in conference play -.272 team average in SEC is 8th out of 16 teams -We are walking more than last year and striking out a tad less. I guess that is a good sign for the overall approach even if it feels frustrating some games -We are going to surpass last year's stolen base number easily despite losing some good speed (Thomas, Kennedy, Brown). Overall base running has been a plus.
  22. Way too early to be thinking about the portal but this staff has said publicly about 65 times now that they don’t have enough left handed hitters and Belyeu going down is just going to shine more light on the problem. Winfield ineffective, Rodriguez hurt and Stewart just kind of meh. Chamberlain was the only lefty in the lineup and 7 of the 9 innings by Texas State were covered by righties. I’ll be watching every left handed hitter with a pulse that enters the portal in 2 months.
  23. We threw Ruger for 4 innings against UTSA. They straight up beat us. Absolutely both games were winnable. We had a no hitter with 2 outs in the 8th inning last night.
  24. Gasparino has made that same play against the wall 20 times already this year.
  25. I can’t get over that throw from Duplantier in LF on the double that was routine single right in front of him. Would have ended the inning. Any other outfielder on this team throws that guy out by 3 steps.
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