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3 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Not really related to your point but I was thinking about Kerry Wood this past off season. He is my age and back in 1995 when he graduated from High School College Baseball was for guys who couldn't make it to the Minors. Now with the shrinking minor league systems and NIL we might be seeing pitchers of his caliber playing in College now. That is pretty cool to think about. 

College baseball (the bigger conferences at least) has the change to blow minor leagues out of the water thanks to NIL. It'll be interesting to see what, if anything, milb gets whenever the MLBPA and MLB come to an agreement. If it's not much, we could be in for exactly what you posted about, which will be amazing (especially for us).

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Well you must have heard nothing after the end of the series because we got our best case scenario, we barely lost anybody in the draft either returning players or draftees. We are loaded. I star

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Every time this thread is started especially after a good season I always think of the somberness of the ending scene of Friday Night Lights where they are outside the stadium and coach removes their

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3 hours ago, SomeoneYouKnow2 said:

Does anyone have a runners stranded stat for opposing teams on the year? TXST just stranded 10, I think LSU or Tennessee (or both) stranded double digits.

Clearly there is some skill involved from our pitchers to get out of those jams, but also a lot of luck. If we can't throw strikes we may be hurting come conference play.

 

2 hours ago, SomeoneYouKnow2 said:

Yeah man, you got it. I expect a Kerry Wood performance every game. Good point!

Hmmm you’re right, there is “some skill involved from our pitchers to get out of these jams”. That’s why they’re here and not Texas southern. “BUT LUCK!!!” Yeah. There’s luck in baseball. Weird how more talented teams like, say, Texas, are luckier than say Alabama or Texas state. Throw strikes? Have you been watching this season or did you just tune in tonight? We average like less than 3 walks a game. We throw plenty of fucking strikes. So what’s your point here? That we may have to deal with a few 2 on no out situations throughout the year and that may cause some trouble? So no yeah you actually do make it sound like you expect Kerry Wood level shit every game 

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Hmmm you’re right, there is “some skill involved from our pitchers to get out of these jams”. That’s why they’re here and not Texas southern. “BUT LUCK!!!” Yeah. There’s luck in baseball. Weird how more talented teams like, say, Texas, are luckier than say Alabama or Texas state. Throw strikes? Have you been watching this season or did you just tune in tonight? We average like less than 3 walks a game. We throw plenty of fucking strikes. So what’s your point here? That we may have to deal with a few 2 on no out situations throughout the year and that may cause some trouble? So no yeah you actually do make it sound like you expect Kerry Wood level shit every game 

We’re allowing more baserunners and ER the last four games (1.6/IP and 3.5 ERA v 0.9/IP and 0.7 ERA) than previously. But thats against much tougher competition and our ERA isn’t bad over those four. Not worried about it now.
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2 hours ago, Spaceman_Spiff said:


We’re allowing more baserunners and ER the last four games (1.6/IP and 3.5 ERA v 0.9/IP and 0.7 ERA) than previously. But thats against much tougher competition and our ERA isn’t bad over those four. Not worried about it now.

Ignore the dude I was quoting. He’s either an aggy or a 12 year old 

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11 minutes ago, Nope said:

Pierce doing a radio interview right now, described Tanner Witt’s injury as a “long term situation”

Report will come out later today on Witt -- but Pierce was really down about it. 

Todd has separated shoulder, so not sure how much Texas will be able to get from him this season -- rehab time.  😡

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Tommy John surgery to end Texas pitcher Tanner Witt's 2022 season

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If No. 1 Texas is going to return to the College World Series and make a serious run at the program’s seventh national championship, the Longhorns will do so without the services of Tanner Witt. The sophomore pitcher who earned Freshman All-American honors last season as one of the team’s top bullpen hands in 2021 will undergo Tommy John surgery, officially ending his 2022 season, the school announced on Thursday.

The trouble began after Witt’s most recent start, the team’s 6-1 win over Alabama on Feb. 27. After being charged with an earned run, allowing four hits and one walk while striking out nine in six innings of work, Texas (12-2) head coach David Pierce said Witt began dealing with what was said to be a muscular, non-structural issue above his elbow.

Witt was scratched from his scheduled start in the Shriners Children’s College Classic at Minute Maid Park on March 6. Left-handed sophomore Lucas Gordon got the start in the team’s 5-1 loss to UCLA and following the game, Pierce said there wasn’t much of a reason to be alarmed regarding Witt’s status.

“He's been nursing it since his last start just trying to get a lot of treatment,” Pierce said. “It's very tender, but it's not anything that we're concerned [about] long term. Just talking to him yesterday, and he felt like when he maxed out he had good tolerance, but I didn't feel like he had 100 percent and it’s just too early to risk that, so we scratched him.”

Gordon (0-0, 0.75 ERA in four appearances with two starts) is the most logical choice to join the weekend, at least in the short term. Texas, fortunately, remains blessed with one of the top Friday-Saturday combinations in the country with lefty Pete Hansen (2-0, 0.53) and rigthy Tristan Stevens (3-0, 0.00), but moving Gordon, Dre Duplantier (2-0, 4.50) or anyone else on the pitching staff to rotation will force Pierce and pitching coach Sean Allen to tinker with the bullpen and midweek roles leading up to the start of conference with a three-game series at No. 17 Texas Tech at the end of the month (March 25-27).

Tuesday’s 9-8 win over Texas State in San Marcos and Wednesday’s 6-4 loss to the Bobcats in Austin marked the second of four double-midweeks on the schedule. The next one is next week when Texas, after wrapping up a three-game road series with South Carolina, visits College of Charleston on Tuesday and The Citadel on Wednesday.

If Gordon, who started the second of two midweek games with Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Feb. 23, takes Witt’s spot in the weekend rotation, the two midweek games in the Palmetto State could look a lot like the two Texas State games with redshirt freshman Dre Duplantier (2-0, 4.50) going on Tuesday and redshirt sophomore Justin Eckhardt (two runs, one hit, one walk and one strikeout in 2.1 innings) starting on Wednesday with all available hands on deck after the first pitch leaves his hand. Regardless, the Longhorns' national title odds were dealt a significant blow on Thursday with no clear-cut plan to accomplish the seemingly impossible task of filling Witt's incredibly talented shoes.

 

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On 3/7/2022 at 9:13 AM, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Let’s call a spade a spade. He’s probably having TJ soon. 

The Man.

 

The trouble began after Witt’s most recent start, the team’s 6-1 win over Alabama on Feb. 27. After being charged with an earned run, allowing four hits and one walk while striking out nine in six innings of work, Texas (12-2) head coach David Pierce said Witt began dealing with what was said to be a muscular, non-structural issue above his elbow.

90 pitches in February for a former reliever.

Luv ya,  Tanner !   Wish for a complete, successful recovery and a bright future.

 

 

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Fucking cunt shitting ball farts.  Fucking fuck nuts.  Ass bitches.  Fuck 

 

 okay.  So much for our “as shucks, we got six starters in staff for four spots.”

Step up gentlemen.  Omaha by dawn!

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5 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

We've got the arms to do it. 

Yeah I’m not necessarily worried. Hansen and stevens are an awesome 1-2 punch. Gordon and Duplantier have about 3/4’s of the season left to put it together. Losing Witt really fucking sucks but damn, even without him, who’s going to want to face this team in the tournament? Just need Gordon, Duplantier and maybe a freshman or whatever to step up. Not exactly the same thing, but we lost Sam LeCure unexpectedly iirc like a month or 2 before the 05 season started and I think we did ok that year. 

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1 hour ago, Spaceman_Spiff said:

It’s also just modern baseball. TJ is common even a couple years after HS. Multiple used to be a death sentence but will likely end up the norm. Guys throw more, harder, and more breaking at a younger age. Arkansas and MS State both lost stud starters for the year too.

And the year around baseball thing has contributed to this.   There is a reason when sports leagues became a thing decades and decades  ago , an off season was included.  But the year around baseball thing has been sold to parents as THE ticket to a schollie or bypassing college altogether and a pay check in the MLB.   Baseball seems to lead all other sports with many coaches discouraging their athletes from multi sports in their youth and high school years.

 

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16 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

Gordon slides into Witts spot and some combo of Stewart, Cobb, and Eckhardt join Duplantier as mid-week SP.  Not ideal but not the end of the world.

Yeah we made the CWS with some Italian dude pitching some critical innings in the 2018 postseason. Not worried 

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Yea I don’t really worry about our starting rotation. We’ve clearly got some options. I do worry that it thins the bullpen slightly. Obviously we’ve beaten the discussion to death about the difference between the top end of our pen and the others. Hopefully we someone steps up there and gives another good mid reliever 

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1 minute ago, hobbes2702 said:

Yea I don’t really worry about our starting rotation. We’ve clearly got some options. I do worry that it thins the bullpen slightly. Obviously we’ve beaten the discussion to death about the difference between the top end of our pen and the others. Hopefully we someone steps up there and gives another good mid reliever 

Enter Southhard and Sthele. And maybe hopefully Cobb 

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3 hours ago, Snake Diggity said:

Gordon slides into Witts spot and some combo of Stewart, Cobb, and Eckhardt join Duplantier as mid-week SP.  Not ideal but not the end of the world.

There aren't too many Wednesday games left. I think just Citadel this week and Air Force later in the year. So that's not a big worry after this week.  The bigger problem is postseason depth, but at least there's plenty of time for guys to step up and prove worthy.  In one way, it's better to lose a guy now then right before the postseason (Dillon Peters situation), because you can "get used to it."

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