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In the postseason, you don't see as much of the middle relievers and midweek starters you can pad the stats against during the regular season. Teams find their best 4-5 arms and will run them into the ground before they turn to someone they don't trust as much. It makes life tougher for hitters, and it's part of the reason it is so important to get in the winner's bracket so you can try to catch teams when their arms are running on fumes. With a team like ours that doesn't walk a lot and strikes out quite a bit, it is a concern, and we are likely very matchup-dependent.

My guess is it will be 1 and it will likely be OU. OSU, despite the H2H series win over OU, is 5 spots behind OU in RPI.

1. Yes, Witt is a redshirt junior. Got a medical redshirt for the 2022 season. Even with his draft stock tanking, my guess is he has thrown his last pitch as a Longhorn. 2. LeBlanc just started pitching full-time this year, so yes, he is extremely raw. Was previously committed to Texas State but started getting interest from some big boys and backed off that pledge.

That is probably the selling point if he were to return. That and NIL and whatever the hell happens with this coaching staff in about 4 weeks.

Relievers have tricky draft prospects. Guys like Tyson Neighbors who throw 100 will go top 5 rounds but I don't see Boehm going that high. He just has a different type of profile than what you normally see. You don't see many 6'5 255, 255-pound guys who lean heavily on their breaking ball while only touching 93-94 with their fastball on good days. He will be 23 in November so he is on the older side. That's a double-edged sword because these models MLB teams lean on often ding older draft-eligible players, but a guy who is that old might also be inclined to start his pro career now even if he isn't drafted super high, especially with how short the shelf life can be for pitchers.

I think it is a very good offense. Not sure if it is Omaha caliber. Too many games where the offense disappeared against arms they shouldn't be disappearing against (think Friday nights against Washington, UH, BYU, Baylor. Midweeks against A&M Corpus and Texas State). Also a little too reliant on the home run ball for my liking at times. Considering the current lineup construction (3 freshmen, 4 sophomores, a junior and a senior), maybe it is just the youth showing. We can also go long stretches where we get next to nothing from Gasparino and Kennedy at the bottom so that makes things tough.

OTF I have been told UTSA is trending for a trio of former Texas players – linebackers Kendrick Blackshire and S'Maje Burrell, as well as cornerback Terrance Brooks.

Something in the wrist/hand area is what I heard a while back. Has gotten at least one injection to try to help it but sounds like it won’t be something that fully goes away til the offseason. He has walked 8 in his last 7.1 innings so I was wondering on Saturday if it might be flaring up more than normal. Kid is a warrior though. The fact he is getting P5 hitters out with his stuff is a testament to knowing how to pitch.

Yep. Only 24 teams in the country currently have better than a 1.34 WHIP as a staff. Anything below 1.25ish is elite at the college level. Lucas Gordon had a 1.15 WHIP last year. Anything in the 1.30-1.35 area is pretty good for a starter.

It was posted in the NCAA Baseball thread but Kendall Rogers had a comment today about the overall state of pitching in college baseball. Said it's harder than ever to pitch with the smaller strike zones and ball that is being used that is geared towards offense. Plus ERA isn't always the best stat to use because of how shaky defense (and official scoring) can be at this level. It's why the guys who miss bats are so coveted. Coaches can live with the dude with a 4.7 ERA that strikes out over a batter per inning because if the ball isn't being put in play they feel like they can't get hurt as much.

Agreed. Will be interesting to see what ends up happening with him and Whitehead, both of whom have held their own this year and compete well but I worry about against better lineups. Obviously, starting to pitch in the portal is a bloodbath. I'm hopeful we get this lefty from San Jac to campus that we've had committed since the fall. Been up to 96 this year and has 100 strikeouts in 56 innings. Would be an immediate weekend guy. https://www.njcaa.org/sports/bsb/2023-24/div1/players/brandonarvidsonpt3d?view=profile

Neil has some doozy takes if one ever ventures into the hornet's nest known as the comment sections on OTF. His favorite thing to do is just reiterate what he heard on the YouTube show in his own words.

All bets are off in the postseason. You definitely do stuff you wouldn't do in a normal weekend series. You shrink your circle of trust to about 2-3 starters and 2-3 relievers and ride those guys hard. You will bring your closer in during the 4th inning after he threw 25 pitches the day before if the game calls for it. Maybe that ends up helping us because we will be using every last drop from Duplantier and Boehm instead of bringing in David Shaw in a 2 run game because Boehm threw the night before.

What do we think the realistic ceiling is for Max Grubbs? Is he a weekend guy in the SEC? He doesn't miss a ton of bats, but he gets a lot of groundballs and has looked pretty good this year for a true sophomore who we didn't expect to be a weekend starter heading into the year. Pitching Statistics Season ERA W L APP GS CG SHO SV IP H R ER BB SO 2B 3B HR BF BAVG WP HBP BK SFA SHA Total 4.43 5 4 23 9 0 0 0 67.0 77 44 33 15 45 12 2 7 302 .281 9 7 0 2 4 2023 9.35 1 0 8 0 0 0 0 8.2 13 11 9 3 6 5 0 1 45 .325 1 2 0 0 0 2024 3.70 4 4 15 9 0 0 0 58.1 64 33 24 12 39 7 2 6 257 .274 8 5 0 2 4

We would have a lot more heartburn in the 8th and 9th innings. I like Boehm in his current role. Allows him to pitch multiple times in a series, if needed.

Apparently, he just started pitching this year so he is pretty raw. Can't teach 99-102 though.

Hopefully Tech shows more fight against OSU than they did against OU. They are playing for their postseason lives now at 12-15 in the conference. Hard to believe Texas could finish something like 19-11 in the league and that would only be good enough for 3rd. I thought that record might win the league just a month ago. Just a weird year all around.

Just saw the stat that OU is 3-6 against the other 3 teams in the top 4 of the conference and 15-0 against everyone else.

Thought the offense would have to carry us to this sweep and they went into witness protection all afternoon. Then the dam eventually broke on the mound. Go take the series in Orlando.

Thought OU would be on the verge of a collapse after dropping the DH against us and losing a midweek game to Oral Roberts. Tech wasn’t competitive at any point this weekend.

There is a notable gap between the two defensively but Kennedy seems to boot a routine one every couple games anyway. It wouldn’t shock me if they trotted O’Dowd out there to see if there is any juice in the bat. Kennedy hasn’t had an extra base hit in 3 weeks.

Get ready for Jack O Dowd in the lineup next Friday

Of course it dried up as soon as the inning ended

Why are they still playing

Again, if Dre is available why are we using Lummus to start an inning?