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Spaceman_Spiff

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  1. I agree we shouldn’t throw in the towel. Pierce teams seem to finish strong and our schedule isn’t exactly scary down the stretch. But losing Witt was brutal, no other way to put it. That’s 100 innings going from a 3 ERA guy to a 4.5 ERA group. A lot of runs. Last year, even after Kubicheck imploded, we had 4 genuine starters + Quintanilla and Nixon. Then like 2-3 more quality arms. This year its 3 starters + Harrison and a sketchy version of Nixon. Not a lot of answers in the bullpen for the sheer load they’ll have to carry. Blessed as we’ve been, 3 ERA guys out of the pen are the exception not the norm.

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  2. Double midweeks and the roadtrip were tough, but our slate hasn’t been overpowering. Tennessee and Tech are the only to date opponents likely to host. We’ve just played a lot of solid (3/4 regional seed) type teams. Good news is the conference isn’t too bad. Okie and TCU are the only really tough opponents left.

  3. I don’t know that it will be night and day, but I could see a difference. An above average player or even star on a major team likely clears $10k+ a year (there was already a story of an LSU family giving up a scholarship because of NIL money to help the team).

    Slot value past R7 is less than 200k. If I’m Pierce I think you lay it out like this: “You can take your 200k and live below minimum wage in the middle of nowhere alabama as a minor leaguer with awful facilities and food as a low priority prospect. Or you can get a degree, $50k+, enjoy 3-4 years as an athlete on campus, with state of the art training/meal-plan/facilities. Then in 3 years make a play for a top-end draft pick with the big payout and club attention that comes with that”

    I don’t know, if Im a player or parent, thats awfully tempting even at rounds that would have been guaranteed to go pro before. Obviously R1-7ish are going to be the exact same. But even 50-100 Madden or Faltine level players making it to campuses will be a huge difference in college talent. And UT can position itself to be among the ones to benefit most (if Pierce and CDC execute).

  4. Serious question: how the hell was Incarnate Word 9-5 coming into this series?  They look like they couldn't beat a lot of high school teams.

    Haven’t played anyone. Swept a terrible UT Arlington team and scraped together a few other wins against crappy teams.
  5. Weirdly enough, the best 6 guys in our lineup are outperforming our best from last year. But our average wOBA for the back three is .284, compared to .354 last year. Kennedy, our worst hitter last year, hit .329. Brutal back of the lineup.

    Hodo will continue to regress (his fundamentals look the same as last year). Faltine has to bat 5/6, Ks or not. Gotta hope Daly, Messinger, or Campbell find a spark.

  6. you could kind of see this coming.  our hitting was good early but too many K's and getting some timely walks.  Everyone was crowning their ass.
    this team without Witt can't have 3 guys hitting below the mendoza line.  I'd be willing to live with Campbell struggling(he's not ready obviously) from the 9 hole but Daly and Messinger need to get their shit together.  if they don't it is going to be a real long season.  Messinger left 6 on base tonight.

    Messinger is the worst hitter in the lineup. Yes, worse than Daly and Campbell. He has to bat 8 or 9.
  7. Interesting. I feel like in baseball more than any other college sport you see guys flash as freshman and less of dudes who sit for a year or two before making their presence felt. Maybe I’m wrong though.
    This staff has done a good job of developing players so I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. It’s just frustrating to see teams like Texas State with a lineup full of dudes with chest chair and kids in the stands while we are praying that our 7 through 9 hitters aren’t auto outs. Obviously having been through the Augie days I know the mashing style doesn’t always translate to wins, but it sure would be nice to have more than 1-2 hitters in our lineup that opposing teams fear.
    We will probably need to be more aggressive in the portal and juco ranks after signing just a small class last year.

    Yeah, agreed on both the development pluses and some of the frustration. The hitting still looks good overall, so I’m not too freaking out yet. Stehly and EK are both great surprises. And I think FR taking time to develop is normal; Kody, Hamilton, Faltine, and Hodo all struggled first year iirc. The bullpen will be stretched all year but once you get into June we look good if we can lock down ~7 quality arms (Hansen, Stevens, Gordon, Nixon, Harrison, Southard/Eckhardt?)
  8. Wasn’t this past recruiting class supposed to be stacked? Obviously they are freshmen so I’m not asking for 3 all-Americans out of the group this year, but even in the limited appearances some of the hitters haven’t looked too good (thinking of Kash)
    On the mound, I guess Stewart has looked okay but outside of that you haven’t heard or seen a peep about anyone else.

    Unfortunately, it wasn’t. PG had it ranked 60th, partially because its small, but we didn’t have much star power either. Stewart and Kash are the headline recruits, but they both will need at least a year it seems. Great to see Harrison contributing early though.
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