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Man the pitching last year though. You felt if starting pitchers had a good outing , the hitters would find enough production and we could beat anyone. We were so close vs Miss Aggie. It was a Fun, likeable team.

This year it feels like we need to score 9 to win with our erratic pitching, yet we are more often than not fully capable of doing just that against anyone. Also, fun likeable team.

2020 Could have been Lit, as the kids say.

We’ve won 42 when allowing 5 or fewer runs. We lost 4 when allowing 5 or fewer.

We’ve only won 3 when scoring 10+ and not winning by more than 5. By 2, 4 and 5. The close one was Air Force. For our other two victories, we beat Texas State and ECU 9-8.

We’ve scored 5 or less in 14 of 17 losses.

As good a hitting team as we are, we win when our pitching give us a chance. And it does quite often.


And damned if I know when to use less or fewer. It’s a mental block.
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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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LTtxfan

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39 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

I still trust 2 of our starting pitchers.  Nobody is producing spectacular pitching numbers and Texas still has the 2nd or 3rd best pitching staff at the College World Series. 

According to @Js1 post, Texas has the 4th best pitching ERA:

  • Top HR team left
  • Top BA team left
  • 4th best ERA team left (#2 and #3 on the other side of the bracket)
  • Top fielding team left

 

 

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3 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:

I went ahead and answered my question from earlier. Here are the number of College World Series appearances in the last 4 full seasons by head coach. 

David Pierce 3

Dave Van Horn 3

Tim Tadlock 2

David Esquer 2

Chris Lemonis 2

Tim Corbin 2

Butch Thompson 2

*No other coach has multiple appearances. 

 

 

 

Deserves to be fired for only being tied for 1st, IMO.

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Just now, 40acredropout said:

Fuck the facts, I'm still fired up about the keebler elf letting Mitch GIDP against a righty instead of lifting him for EK.  

Despite how cantankerous and persnickety some of our fans are, Pierce has done one hell of a job since taking over.

Oh, and thank God for Tulo. A lot of the success falls on him, too.

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2 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:

I still trust 2 of our starting pitchers. 

Hansen and Gordon are good starters. Some are expecting last years pitching numbers when there's been an offensive explosion because of the wind and/or juiced baseballs. Nobody is producing spectacular pitching numbers and Texas still has the 2nd or 3rd best pitching staff at the College World Series. 

 

We’ve walked a lot of runners.  It’s every bit that as much as any other factor.  Like others here have said, when we miss the zone, we miss badly too.

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1 minute ago, Valmy77 said:

Kumar Rocker? Are you sure that is not last year's draft?

He did not sign with anyone in the 2021 draft and did not return to Vanderbilt.  His name is in the 2022 draft again.  Pitching in an independent league. 

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If you had told me at the very beginning of the season that we would make Omaha, I would’ve taken it for granted.

After seeing who this team really was, I’m very happy with Omaha, even if we performed poorly once there.

Sometime we played like a top 8 team but most of the season we really didn’t.

Well done to the guys to dig deep when in tough spots and overcome some major slumps. Proud of those guys.

Horns up for a very entertaining season. 🤘🤘🤘

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06.24.2022 | Baseball

Baseball’s Melendez wins Golden Spikes Award

Ivan Melendez becomes Texas Baseball’s first Golden Spikes Award recipient.

AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Baseball's Ivan Melendez was named the 44th winner of the Golden Spikes Award, announced in a live presentation during the College World Series Special on ESPN. Created in 1978, the Golden Spikes Award honors the top amateur baseball player in the United States based on their athletic ability, sportsmanship, character, and overall contribution to the sport.

Melendez is the first Longhorn to win the award in the program's heralded history. Texas boasts the second-most Golden Spikes Award finalists all-time with 11 and is one of three schools to have a finalist in 11 different seasons. He is just the fourth player from the Big 12 Conference to win the coveted award and the first since Alex Gordon (Nebraska) took home the trophy in 2005. Jason Jennings (Baylor) also won the award in 1999, as well as Robin Ventura (Oklahoma State) in 1988.

In addition to this honor, Melendez has been named the Dick Howser Trophy winner as the nation's best college baseball player and received National Player of the Year recognition by Collegiate Baseball, D1 Baseball and Perfect Game.

"Ivan Melendez put together a season to remember for baseball fans," said USA Baseball Executive Director/CEO Paul Seiler. "He became one of the most feared hitters in college baseball this year thanks to consistent and staggering power numbers, and he made every at-bat a must-see event. We are honored to celebrate Ivan and his record-breaking accomplishments by naming him our forty-fourth Golden Spikes Award winner."

Melendez finished his redshirt-junior season leading the nation in home runs (32), RBI (94), slugging percentage (.863), and total bases (214), as well as landing in the top 10 in three other offensive categories: hits (96), on-base percentage (.508), and runs scored (75). He broke Texas' regular-season home run record in the championship game of the Big 12 Tournament after launching his 29th homer of the year. Melendez followed that up by breaking the BBCOR-era home run record set by fellow Golden Spikes Award winner Kris Bryant in 2013 with his 32nd during the Greenville Super Regional.

A consensus All-America selection, Melendez helped lead the Longhorns to Austin Regional and Greenville Super Regional titles, as well as their second-consecutive College World Series appearance and the third in the last four complete seasons.

Melendez was named the Big 12 Player of the Year after leading the Big 12 in six offensive categories: batting average (.421), home runs (28), RBI (85), on-base percentage (.531), slugging percentage (.941), and OPS (1.472). Additionally, he earned conference Player of the Week a record five times throughout the regular season.

Melendez joins a group of past winners that include Kevin Kopps (2021), Adley Rutschman (2019), Andrew Vaughn (2018), Brendan McKay (2017), Kyle Lewis (2016), Andrew Benintendi (2015), A.J. Reed (2014), Bryant (2013), Mike Zunino (2012), Bryce Harper (2010), Stephen Strasburg (2009), Buster Posey (2008), and David Price (2007).

Golden Spikes Award winners have had tremendous success in the Major Leagues. Of the 43 previous winners, six earned Rookie of the Year honors, including Lewis in 2020. Additionally, three have won the Cy Young award, three were named MVP, and 11 have won a World Series championship as a player or manager, combining for 18 championships. Nineteen previous winners have also been named to at least one All-Star Game roster as a player or manager, combining for 59 total selections.

The award winner was selected through the distribution of ballots to a voting body consisting of national baseball media, select professional baseball personnel and USA Baseball staff, and the previous winners of the award, totaling a group of more than 150 voters.  Fan voting continued to be a part of the Golden Spikes Award in 2022 and contributed to the voting total.

https://texassports.com/news/2022/6/24/baseballs-melendez-wins-golden-spikes-award.aspx

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