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A good problem to have but now wondering how Texas makes this work if Powell returns and they add an INF transfer. Under that scenario, it was already assumed that Thomas might move to the OF. 

Seems unlikely now. 

Borba, transfer INF, and Flores might be battling for playing time. 

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No surprise but it's official.   

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Super excited for this season. April 16 circled on the calendar. My son is a true freshman OF at UTRGV. Right now it's looking like he won't redshirt. He's the fourth or fifth OF on the squad. 

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Jesus we're loaded.    If we add one more good arm from the portal, I think we have a legitimate argument to be ranked #1 in the preseason polls. 

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3 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

A good problem to have but now wondering how Texas makes this work if Powell returns and they add an INF transfer. Under that scenario, it was already assumed that Thomas might move to the OF. 

Seems unlikely now. 

Borba, transfer INF, and Flores might be battling for playing time. 

Pierce made Carlson fight for a spot, can do it again this year. Flores and O’Dowd haven’t earned the right to not be in  position battles

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21 minutes ago, UnhappilyMarried said:

Amazing. Felt like his dad being the head of HS scouting for the Dodgers precluded him from stepping foot on a college campus. 

His Dad played for Tom Holliday at OKSt.   So respects the college game.

7 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

Can Powell play 2B?

All State catcher in high school.   Caught some his freshman year, iirc.  

Catcher is an issue you gurus (said with respect) haven't addressed.   Schuessler is having a pretty good Summer at Heraldsburg (CCL) hitting .282 with alot of PT  Galvan has not received much PT as catcher at SBF mostly DH and !B and hitting .115.     Need Guillemette.

Summer ball can be an outlier,  either pro or con.   Guillemette hit about .200 at the Cape but had a solid year.

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30 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

A good problem to have but now wondering how Texas makes this work if Powell returns and they add an INF transfer. Under that scenario, it was already assumed that Thomas might move to the OF. 

Seems unlikely now. 

Borba, transfer INF, and Flores might be battling for playing time. 

There’s a ton of position flexibility. Borba can play both corner IF spots. Same with Powell. Thomas can play the OF.

I see it this way right now:

Catcher: Guillemette or Galvan

1B: Thomas or Powell or even Galvan perhaps

2B: O’Dowd (followed by some freshman) or the transfer

3B: Borba or Powell

SS: Flores or Ardoin or Lane Allen or the transfer

RF: Belyeu or Gasparino or Thomas

CF: Cummings

LF: Belyeu or Gasparino or Duplantier

DH: Belyeu/Gasparino/Borba/Galvan/Duplantier

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3 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Fucking nailed it. 

LOL very glad to be wrong. They didnt even smoothe over differences or anything. Just felt it was his best thing for his career

 

Also Witt turned money from the white sox and others threw out other lucrative offers, hes hell bent on coming back. Gordon and LBJ also coming back hopefully. Plus cali kid should be signing. Been busy so not sure whats out publicly yet

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2 minutes ago, RGBIII said:

LOL very glad to be wrong. They didnt even smoothe over differences or anything. Just felt it was his best thing for his career

 

Also Witt turned down 2 mill from the white sox and others threw out other lucrative offers, hes hell bent on coming back. Gordon and LBJ also coming back. Plus cali kid should be signing. Been busy so not sure whats out publicly yet

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Based on rumors here and OB, I think it's pretty evident Texas thought there was a chance Gordon would return. 

Something must have changed. Did a team go over slot or Gordon just change his mind? Either way, getting 1 of Gordon or LBJ would be a huge win. I thought LBJ was the more likely to be gone. 

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25 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

Pretty sure Gordon is gone. Drafted in the 6th round. 

But if Texas survives 1 more round, I definitely think LBJ will be back. 

 Things change and my info is from predraft

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1 minute ago, Rickylovesweed said:

Round 10 starting now.

Can we survive 1 more round for Witt, LBJ, Guillemette, Hurley, and Morehouse? 

I think Morehouse is leaving even if it is taking the 150k min. The Woody Williams firing hurt that situation.

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13 minutes ago, UnhappilyMarried said:

His slot was just over 300k. How’s the reallocation work?

Fake derka is a turd

1 minute ago, closetojumping said:

This isn’t productive. 

fair, delete your quote of me kind sir

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Pierce has never really had an issue with a hitting coach has he? 

Tulo is back and Allen moved to pitching coach which is where that created issues. It's fairly obvious that pitching is Pierce's baby and he wants to be in control there. 

 

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2 minutes ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Ha, tell us again one of your ’insights’. 

Drink up, spare. 

 

Just now, shadow_operative2.0 said:

This is an idiot with a podcast trying to talk baseball. 

Yep. thats me, just an every day podcaster with zero insight into anything texas related. Definitely couldnt know anything at all. Ill just throw you on ignore and hope you do the same for me. Have a great life fake derka, will miss our interactions daily!

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Someone stewed all weekend after his temp ban for using slurs

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he gets to stew for two more weeks now. and next time, i'm tempted to permaban. 

you can't just come in here posting like a anti-lgbtq+ fuckstick and then come back and start in on the fucking non-additive insults again.

cards, brother's kids, etc.

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Getting Witt and LBJ back is HUGE.

Borba and Gasparino is big too.

Been awhile since we’ve had this kind of ceiling on both sides of the ball.  Guillemette and Porter Brown are the 2 unknowns at this point.

1B Thomas

3B Powell

DH Borba

C Guillemette*

RF Brown*

CF Cummings

SS Flores

LF Gasparino

2B O’Dowd

Bench: Belyeu, Galvan, Duplantier, Sweeney, Sanders, Kennedy, Ardoin, O’Hara
 

Im not banking on Witt though until after tomorrow.  Lots of teams take guys in the 11th and offer them $1M+.

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3 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

Getting Witt and LBJ back is HUGE.

Borba and Gasparino is big too.

Been awhile since we’ve had this kind of ceiling on both sides of the ball.  Guillemette and Porter Brown are the 2 unknowns at this point.

1B Thomas

3B Powell

DH Borba

C Guillemette*

RF Brown*

CF Cummings

SS Flores

LF Gasparino

2B O’Dowd

Bench: Belyeu, Galvan, Duplantier, Sweeney, Sanders, Kennedy, Ardoin, O’Hara
 

Im not banking on Witt though until after tomorrow.  Lots of teams take guys in the 11th and offer them $1M+.

I would be very surprised if Witt isn't official. The way OB and Kendall Rogers are wording things makes it sound like Witt's circle has told people he's returning. 

 

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