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58 minutes ago, chase25 said:

He is done, regardless of what recovery path he chooses there is only 2 months left in the season and that is if this team is playing for a national championship. He won’t even be picking up a baseball for a chunk of time.

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Fuck you, Kurt 

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Feel terrible for him,  great young man.   Drafted in the 14th rd last year by the Phillies (same rd as Tanner by the Mets),  projected by many in the top 100 this year (65th by ESPN).   His family, Schloss, and Weiner will give advice and referrals on the path forward.

From a cursory search, depending on the extent of the injury shoulder injuries can be more debilitating than TJ.   Let's hope that is not the case.

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2 minutes ago, torre said:

Feel terrible for him,  great young man.   Drafted in the 14th rd last year by the Phillies (same rd as Tanner by the Mets),  projected by many in the top 100 this year (65th by ESPN).   His family, Schloss, and Weiner will give advice and referrals on the path forward.

From a cursory search, depending on the extent of the injury shoulder injuries can be more debilitating than TJ.   Let's hope that is not the case.

Does this increase the likelihood he returns for next season or nah?

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6 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Does this increase the likelihood he returns for next season or nah?

No.

Sucks to lose him but I’m not too worried with the staff we have and the guy coaching them.

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2 hours ago, Frank Drebin said:

Howdy.  If you get lost in between the parking lot and Disch Faulk, just look for someone in burnt orange to give you directions.

Maybe don’t ask this guy since he doesn’t know the name of the baseball field.

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Tough luck for Spencer, really didn't want to hear it.  I was hoping whatever was going on was minor.  Regardless, of what happens next, I'm more than pleased with how this season has turned out.   Now, let's go stunt these sheep molesters. 

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Good luck to Spencer in whatever the future brings him in baseball, was certainly a great asset as a Longhorn.

If you agree to schedule a team, you should honor that agreement, unless they want out for some reason.

You don't just drop a game because of some RPI numbers, which in this case means basically nothing anyway to Texas at this point.

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Baseball...football...we're always down one or two crucial pieces due to injury.

Brooks, Witt, Baxter, Belyeu, Spencer...  It's maddening.

Yeah, we have depth and guys have stepped up; all the credit to those guys.  But still.

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21 minutes ago, Hondo said:

Baseball...football...we're always down one or two crucial pieces due to injury.

Brooks, Witt, Baxter, Belyeu, Spencer...  It's maddening.

Yeah, we have depth and guys have stepped up; all the credit to those guys.  But still.

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Blake Munroe

 

As the Longhorns gear up to host a red hot Texas A&M team this weekend, I checked with a couple of sources to see where things stand as of Friday morning.

First, let's start with some really good news. I'm told that all signs are pointing to freshman Jonah Williams playing against the Aggies this weekend.

"Good chance he plays, but we will be careful," said a team source.

That's phenomenal, as Williams leads the team in batting average (albeit a small sample size compared to the rest), as he is .462 at the plate in 13 ABs.

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Yesterday I reported the weekend lineup on the mound would look like this:

Friday - Ruger Riojas
Saturday - Luke Harrison
Sunday - Jason Flores

As of Friday morning, that has NOT changed. Flores is still expected to be the Sunday starter.

Will that be the same going forward? It's too early to tell.

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Finally, in case you missed it, Jared Spencer is now out for the year. He will undergo surgery on his shoulder next week.

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54 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

That's phenomenal, as Williams leads the team in batting average (albeit a small sample size compared to the rest), as he is .462 at the plate in 13 ABs.

lulz

 

18 hours ago, MuellerHorn said:

Next man up. Let's take the series against aggy. Look for Schloss to do everything in his power to win Friday and Saturday.

And Sunday.

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If we end up using all of our good pitching other than Flores today and tomorrow and end up seeing the guys that we saw on Tuesday pitching 4-5 innings to aggy on Sunday, it will likely be a rough Sunday. But that’s a Sunday problem and will be made infinitely more tolerable if we have won the first two. 

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23 minutes ago, WBT said:

And Sunday.

 

3 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

If we end up using all of our good pitching other than Flores today and tomorrow and end up seeing the guys that we saw on Tuesday pitching 4-5 innings to aggy on Sunday, it will likely be a rough Sunday. But that’s a Sunday problem and will be made infinitely more tolerable if we have won the first two. 

Exactly. Schloss wants to win series. He’ll go all out to win a game now and worry about tomorrow, tomorrow. Probably even more now that Spencer is out. 

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22 minutes ago, MuellerHorn said:

 

Exactly. Schloss wants to win series. He’ll go all out to win a game now and worry about tomorrow, tomorrow. Probably even more now that Spencer is out. 

Dont forget, if we get blown up in one of the first two games, he will hold back Grubbs or Volantis and we can use them on Sunday. So I think we have enough pitching for 2.5 games this weekend. 

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53 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

If we end up using all of our good pitching other than Flores today and tomorrow and end up seeing the guys that we saw on Tuesday pitching 4-5 innings to aggy on Sunday, it will likely be a rough Sunday. But that’s a Sunday problem and will be made infinitely more tolerable if we have won the first two. 

Sunday doesn’t matter if we win the first two. We need to be all out for the Friday Saturday games for the rest of the season. No saving arms.

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Bobby was taking about injuries today. Why so many injuries and when does it start to negatively affect this team? Kids just not use to this grind, over use or just bad luck? Do we need a new S&C coach?

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46 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

Sunday doesn’t matter if we win the first two. We need to be all out for the Friday Saturday games for the rest of the season. No saving arms.

In fact, under that scenario, we should cancel Sunday but keep the Tuesday game against PV haha

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2 minutes ago, DanTheHorn said:

Bobby was taking about injuries today. Why so many injuries and when does it start to negatively affect this team? Kids just not use to this grind, over use or just bad luck? Do we need a new S&C coach?

lol wut? People get hurt sometimes.

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Seriously.  In all sports, there's injuries.  

I am going to need to see it happen 2-3 years in a row before I blame S&C and bad luck.  (looking at you, Texas Women's Basketball) 

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8 minutes ago, DanTheHorn said:

Bobby was taking about injuries today. Why so many injuries and when does it start to negatively affect this team? Kids just not use to this grind, over use or just bad luck? Do we need a new S&C coach?

It's already negatively impacting the team. It's just not resulting in losses because the team isn't being bitches about adversity like some of our fans.

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3 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Seriously.  In all sports, there's injuries.  

I am going to need to see it happen 2-3 years in a row before I blame S&C and bad luck.  (looking at you, Texas Women's Basketball) 

It’s also baseball. In sports like football, soccer, even basketball there is much more blame to go around for s&c. It’s not like a bunch of our guys have pulled a hammy. We have a wrist from diving for a ball, a catcher who’s been beat to shit, another guy who’s hand is fucked up likely from just hitting, and a pitcher who’s shoulder is cooked. Other than Spencer those are all random injuries. Spencer’s injury is likely an overuse one but it’s not like we abused him. He’s stepped up to a starter level and just got worn out. It happens 

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If I’m remembering the injuries correctly, Spencer is the only one which could even be considered a S&C issue. Rodriguez was hit in the hand by a pitch, Belyeu hurt his hand diving in the outfield, and Mendoza hurt his shoulder on an awkward diving play up the middle. Those are just unfortunate accidents.

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29 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

It’s also baseball. In sports like football, soccer, even basketball there is much more blame to go around for s&c. It’s not like a bunch of our guys have pulled a hammy. We have a wrist from diving for a ball, a catcher who’s been beat to shit, another guy who’s hand is fucked up likely from just hitting, and a pitcher who’s shoulder is cooked. Other than Spencer those are all random injuries. Spencer’s injury is likely an overuse one but it’s not like we abused him. He’s stepped up to a starter level and just got worn out. It happens 

Wasn’t Spencer hurt at his previous school? 

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I think every baseball team with players older than 16 years old should just count on losing 2+ key pieces of their pitching staff for an extended amount of time every season.  The current state of the sport, unfortunately, and has very little to do with S&C.

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8 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

I think every baseball team with players older than 16 years old should just count on losing 2+ key pieces of their pitching staff for an extended amount of time every season.  The current state of the sport, unfortunately, and has very little to do with S&C.

Kind of is just the way baseball is with pitchers now days. Limit pitches initially helped but the switch to just throwing straight gas every pitch in those limited pitches really fucked it up.

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The interesting part with Spencer is that it’s not elbow related which is the usual problem modern pitchers have. 
I don’t know the injury specifics but shoulder injuries are most often overuse which isn’t surprising considering his step up this year.

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1 hour ago, Chuckie Finster said:

I think every baseball team with players older than 16 years old should just count on losing 2+ key pieces of their pitching staff for an extended amount of time every season.  The current state of the sport, unfortunately, and has very little to do with S&C.

Teach all of our players to throw knuckleballs?

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2 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Kind of is just the way baseball is with pitchers now days. Limit pitches initially helped but the switch to just throwing straight gas every pitch in those limited pitches really fucked it up.

I think the use of metrics, specifically spin rate, are taking a toll too. 

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Hope is still high:

 

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Are you surprised? Look who we're playing. The team is petrified and trying way too hard again just like the beginning of the season.

I don't buy that. If their peen was going to suck up inside them like a scared dog, it would have done that in Knoxville and Fayetteville instead of going balls deep on them.

 

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13 hours ago, MuellerHorn said:

 

Exactly. Schloss wants to win series. He’ll go all out to win a game now and worry about tomorrow, tomorrow. Probably even more now that Spencer is out. 

 

12 hours ago, hobbes2702 said:

Sunday doesn’t matter if we win the first two. We need to be all out for the Friday Saturday games for the rest of the season. No saving arms.

On what basis do y'all say stuff like this?  You don't get to 17-2 in the league without a plan for how to manage the staff throughout the weekend to give yourself a good chance in every game.  We're not going to eat all of our seed corn on Friday and Saturday.

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11 minutes ago, WBT said:

 

On what basis do y'all say stuff like this?  You don't get to 17-2 in the league without a plan for how to manage the staff throughout the weekend to give yourself a good chance in every game.  We're not going to eat all of our seed corn on Friday and Saturday.

We went 17-2 with some key players that we don't have anymore, including our ace. I don't think we're saying that we will concede Sunday's, but moreso that we need to make sure we win Fri/Sat and if we need to sacrifice pitching for Sunday we will do that. 

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I’m with Hobbes there’s no margin for error Friday and Saturday. The good news though is we have the arms for that approach and we have 6 more series / tournaments before the supers to find next man up for the third spot. I’m cautiously optimistic.

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3 minutes ago, troph said:

I’m with Hobbes there’s no margin for error Friday and Saturday. The good news though is we have the arms for that approach and we have 6 more series / tournaments before the supers to find next man up for the third spot. I’m cautiously optimistic.

Well, very few teams have a great third starter.  It's usually band-aids at that point, even in Omaha.  I like what I see.  At the very least we've put ourselves in a position for just about the most favorable regional/super matchups possible, and at that point we just have to roll with it.

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