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Posted
10 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

Assuming we get to the point where all our position players are healthy, what is the lineup we would roll out with?

C - Galvan

1B - Schuessler

2B - Mendoza

3B - Borba

SS - Flores

LF - Farmer/Williams

CF - Gasparino

RF - Belyeu

DH - Rodriguez

Look right?

 

Posted
11 hours 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.

No one is saying we won’t manage the staff. But we won’t be holding anyone back on Saturdays if there is a chance to win the series. If we lose the Fridays then obviously the game plan changes. But if we win Friday night games, our Saturday plan will be win at all costs.

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Posted
1 minute ago, Hookem10 said:

borba is better defender right now. funny thing about borba is he strikes out looking or completely annihilates the ball. 

It’s wild tbh. Not sure what our options look like next year but I gotta think Borba moves across to 1st and Arod gets another shot at 3rd.

Posted
11 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

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. 

Let aggy concede Sunday’s game.  Sweep their ass.

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Posted
16 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

It’s wild tbh. Not sure what our options look like next year but I gotta think Borba moves across to 1st and Arod gets another shot at 3rd.

if borba can turn Into schuessler and give us that defense at first, we'll be looking good. 

Posted

I may be wrong but I think ARod or Mendoza play short next year. Any SS in the portal that's a plus defensive player is either going to be an offensive liability or super expensive. I'd rather bring in a guy like Raygoza at first base and enjoy the offensive production he gives you vs a Faltine clone who OPSs 600 and saves maybe 20 singles a year

Posted
1 minute ago, cmontexas said:

I may be wrong but I think ARod or Mendoza play short next year. Any SS in the portal that's a plus defensive player is either going to be an offensive liability or super expensive. I'd rather bring in a guy like Raygoza at first base and enjoy the offensive production he gives you vs a Faltine clone who OPSs 600 and saves maybe 20 singles a year

I’d put Mendoza there before Arod. I’m not sure Arod has the fluidity to play there at this level.

Posted
27 minutes ago, NBHorn7 said:

I am respecting the streak that Schloss has had at TCU, Aggy, and now at Texas.

His winning tradition at Texas starts here. We get nothing for his wins at TCU and A&M...very much the victim in a few notable cases.

Posted
8 hours ago, hobbes2702 said:

I’d put Mendoza there before Arod. I’m not sure Arod has the fluidity to play there at this level.

I don’t think Mendoza has the arm strength for SS, plus this shoulder injury popping up that he had to have surgery on in HS doesn’t give me the warm fuzzies.

Carson Luna is really the only true SS we have on this roster (Flores is a 3B playing SS), and he is redshirting so tough to know what we have. And our only SS signee in this class is about to be a first round pick in a few months.

Catcher and SS are both positions we likely need portal additions, even if they are just floor raisers and not superstars.

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Posted
1 minute ago, Hookem2147 said:

I don’t think Mendoza has the arm strength for SS, plus this shoulder injury popping up that he had to have surgery on in HS doesn’t give me the warm fuzzies.

Carson Luna is really the only true SS we have on this roster (Flores is a 3B playing SS), and he is redshirting so tough to know what we have. And our only SS signee in this class is about to be a first round pick in a few months.

Catcher and SS are both positions we likely need portal additions, even if they are just floor raisers and not superstars.

I gotta think after the way this season has gone, we will have some options for stars all over the field. 

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Posted
9 hours ago, cmontexas said:

I may be wrong but I think ARod or Mendoza play short next year. Any SS in the portal that's a plus defensive player is either going to be an offensive liability or super expensive. I'd rather bring in a guy like Raygoza at first base and enjoy the offensive production he gives you vs a Faltine clone who OPSs 600 and saves maybe 20 singles a year

Armani, UTRGV?

 

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Posted (edited)
3 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

His winning tradition at Texas starts here. We get nothing for his wins at TCU and A&M...very much the victim in a few notable cases.

If he hadn't won big at TCU and at Aggy, he wouldn't be here.

I believe we were the victim of a certain coach at Cal State Fullerton, even in Omaha.

He wouldn't have been here either without those wins.

What Texas got from Augie and now Schloss are great coaches that wanted to come to Texas.

We got national championships from Augie, and I expect the same Schloss.

Augie's winning tradition didn't start at Texas, but it ended here, and it didn't start here for Schloss either, but his will most likely end here too.

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Posted
18 minutes ago, NBHorn7 said:

Augie's winning tradition didn't start at Texas, but it ended here, and it didn't start here for Schloss either, but his will most likely end here too.

Yeah well Schwinning at Texas starts now.

Posted

We don't need pitchers to beat HBCU aggy this Tuesday.

But yeah. Hopefully we can find somebody who used to start in little league somewhere on campus who can go.

Posted
7 minutes ago, NBHorn7 said:

People had been talking about cancelling the game for RPI reasons.

I didn't hear it had happened and didn't want it to.

One guy on this board did. I don't think we would cancel a game for that reason.

But we won't be that determined to play it either if we get bad weather. But I don't see any indication of rain for Tuesday.

Posted
6 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Throw North Dakota until his arm falls off. Fastballs only, aim down the middle.  Certainly he can do that?

and I hope we win by 1 run. 

Rerick, Navarre, McCreary, Moffitt and Howard can surely get us 27 outs against PVaggy.  

Posted

If he hadn't hurt his hamstring, I was hoping Jonah Williams might make his pitching debut.

He has a 90's fastball and a good curve and a lefty, won't happen now.

Posted
34 minutes ago, EZ$ said:

Rerick, Navarre, McCreary, Moffitt and Howard can surely get us 27 outs against PVaggy.  

I would start Bing. Get him 2 innings. I don't think he played against aggy did he? Needs a couple innings.

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Posted (edited)

I stand by what I said about the Tuesday game being pointless and only having downside, but will admit I was probably overdoing it with the RPI stuff. The quick turnaround to a Thursday start at Arkansas also isn't ideal.

Going forward, just leave these games off the schedule. We used to schedule Texas Southern every year under Pierce and even he stopped doing that regularly because it just accomplishes nothing. There are other in-state schools we didn't schedule this year (Rice, SFA, ACU, Tarleton). Add one of those to the schedule. Yeah it's a cool experience for the SWAC schools to play at the Disch but it's not our job to provide fun for them.

Edited by Hookem2147
Posted

I wouldn't begin to rank them, but those teams have some talent, and in this NIL/portal era it probably doesn't hurt to get eyes on their players and see if there is someone we want next year.

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Posted
4 hours ago, NBHorn7 said:

If he hadn't hurt his hamstring, I was hoping Jonah Williams might make his pitching debut.

He has a 90's fastball and a good curve and a lefty, won't happen now.

Was coming here to say the same thing. 

Posted

Lol teams ranked 2-5 all lost their series. #2 Clemson got swept by NC State, #3 Oregon State got swept by Oregon, Florida State lost to Louisville, Arky to FL. 

I'm loving this team and can't wait to see how they finish it off!

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