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Regarding Gasparino, his stats were posted above and they were bad. As stated by Torre "Probably for the best. He was hitting .083, 24 ABs, 12Ks, 1 HR. Needs to get in the cage with Tulo." I had checked on him a day or two before he was released and his stats were about what Torre posted.

Cade Fisher had a 7.13 ERA this year. In 59.1 inning he gave up 67 hits (.282 batting average), 6 homeruns, 29 walks, and struck out 76. He hit 13 batters, only had 3 wild pitches, and no balks.

Mendoza line!!!

Hope he does well. 2024 was not a good year for him.

Thanks for posting that BOW.

I wonder if Pudge weighed 155 when he was 17 or 18? He was a 200 pounder in the bigs.

Don't know much about the Chilcutt kid from San Antonio that just decommitted, but he seems to be small. I saw 5" 8" and 5"9" and about 155-160 lbs. Not sure how recent that was. Pretty small for any player, particularly a catcher. I did a quick search and other than being listed on a couple of the baseball prep sites there is not much information. Perhaps not much of a loss.

it is too bad we don't have a really good game 1/Friday starter this year. Or game 2. Or game 3.

Newly released lineup has Brown playing. I had the same hopes you did. It is painful to watch Porter this year after he had such a good year last year.

More inconsistency. The hitting was back to high strikeouts (10) and left 10 on base. They could not string things together. Ace was off tonight and his ERA has been steadily increasing in the last 6 weeks or so. He has been more consistent than LBJ, but that isn't saying much. Duplantier is probably not meant to pitch 4 innings and seems to be okay at 2 or possibly 3 innings. Boehm should have come in at least in the ninth, and possibly the eighth. I cringe when seeing Porter bat now. How can he gave fallen so far? It would have made a big difference if Witt had come back healthy and LBJ had pitched consistently even close to what he did last year. We can get lucky and win a regional in the right size park for our hitters but it sure seems to take a lot of consistency or excellence in pitching and hitting to win a super regional and do well in the CWS. We have had a hard time putting those things together and that is what it takes to make a long run in the post-season.

I sat through a few of those sauna games at Colt Stadium as a little kid and then enjoyed the 72 degree year round weather in the Dome until I moved out of state in the early 80s for quite a while. My grandmother and a couple of aunts worked at the concession stands for years at colt stadium and the dome and we could get some freebies occasionally. In high school and college I went to see the Astros a lot and would call my grandmother to find out what stand she was working. The vendors then (maybe Aramark) tracked food and beverage sales by the number of cups sold and the number of buns sold. The workers brought in loaves of bread and their own cups so they could eat and drink for free. I would go to my grandmother's stand and either she or one of my aunts would make a burger or sandwich on their bread for me and load it up. I loved my grandma.

I will do that. We have an autographed picture of Ernie somewhere. Years ago one of my employees met him at a diabetes fund raiser, got an autograph, and gave it to my son. I grew up in Houston and got to see him play a few times before he retired. I am old enough to have seen a lot of the greats that were his contemporaries. By the way, Ernie was born and raised in Texas.

Thanks for the input guys. I don't usually follow TexasSports.com but have relied on using my google machine to check the various summer leagues and teams. I spent a whole day last year searching those leagues and teams so that I could track down most of the players that were in the summer leagues, including some of the incoming freshman. The websites for some of them are not particularly good; however it did allow to keep track of a lot of the players. Some of the Cape Cod teams broadcast their games live on the internet (but the feeds are not good). I saw Tanner pitch a couple of times last summer and he had shown no improvement at that point either.

We have tickets for tonight, but with all the possible severe weather and 50 minutes of drive time each way we may settle in and watch the game on the big screen at home. Hopefully they cancel and schedule a double header and make Ernie happy.

Thanks for the input on Ace and Pierce's comments from the radio interview. Hopefully the offense is in gear in case Hurley or LBJ are not on the game, or even Max. It would be great to see good consistent hitting and good consistent pitching for a whole series. Hook'em.

Is Ace hurt? LBJ's conference ERA is near 9 and as discussed elsewhere his last three games have been pathetic as to ERA, hits, walks, HRs, etc.

According to the UT stats page LBJ's season ERA is now 6.03 and his conference ERA is 8.58. In conference, teams are batting .327 against him and his WHIP is over 2. In his last 3 starts he has only made it through a total of 11.1 innings and has given up 19 hits, 13 earned runs, 7 walks, and 3 homeruns. That does not inspire confidence. Is Ace hurt? He has not been lights out either but has done a lot better than LBJ.

How do you (or does one) find out where all of the different players will be in the summer? I don't recall that kind of information being published anywhere. I usually have to hunt with the google machine under each players name I am interested in and that takes a while.

1. Does Tanner Witt have any eligibility remaining? His draft prospects seem pretty bleak right now. He has played in 4 seasons but I don't know if he got a medical reprieve from last year or got any of the COVID extra eligibility. 2. Any information or updates on the new commit, Kyrin LeBlanc? The fastball sounds great, but he does not seem to have much control yet and is definitely a project. In those 19.1 innings this year (15 appearances) he gave up 15 hits and 19 walks, as well as 10 hit batters and 2 wild pitches. He only pitched 2.2 innings for Cisco Junior College last year. It would be nice to get some pitchers that already throw strikes and throw hard. He is old for the class and may have had grade issues because it appears that he was offered by Xavier of Louisiana while in high school, but somehow wound up at Cisco.

Congrats to Belyeu. He is really coming on.

I saw another high school prospect ranking recently that also had Gillen pretty high and said that if he did well this season he could possibly move up to a first day draft choice. Rainer was way up there and Luna was in there too.

I watched Friday on tv. I was there yesterday and it was not what I had hoped for. Several players haven't begun to hit yet. Hurley was not great yesterday, but was serviceable. Four walks in 3.2 innings is not good. Most of the relievers looked okay, with a few shaky moments. It was good to see Luke Harrision back. Play was okay except for a couple of instances. The steal of home by SD was a cluster f. SD had several stolen bases (6 of 7). I may be wrong, think that the catchers have thrown one runner in a stolen base attempt. Last year I think Galvan threw out one in over 20 attempts. Schuessler threw out 0 in 9 attempts the year before he was hurt. That really needs to pick up. Jared and Payton have looked really good. Jack and Porter are off to a slow start. Max looks like he is more comfortable at the plate this year, but doesn't have a hit yet. The 2 homeruns have produced the majority of the runs so far.

Not an Aggie engineer.

Hopefully this is not a duplicate-my internet glitched when I tried to post the first time. Powell would not be my first choice either if they shuffle players around. O'Dowd was an allstate caliber shortstop in high school. This if from his bio- "Attended Lipscomb Academy (Nashville, Tenn.)…nation’s 21st-ranked shortstop by Perfect Game…Tennessee’s top-ranked shortstop and fourth-rated overall prospect…" Powell is a good utility player and could probably play SS in a pinch, as could O'Dowd.

It was only a couple of weeks ago or so that Coach Pierce said that Luke had just thrown his first pitch to a live batter. So he might be ready to pitch, but he also might have to ease into it as far as innings are concerned.