2024 Baseball Season Thread

[Rotty22]

Meanwhile Texas has cherry picked their recruits

Yep

 

[david ficken]

The MLB draft is starting a week from Monday going thru Wednesday.

The following needs to be watched:
LBJ
A. Duplantier
HS:
LHP: Flipped to Texas, Bryce Navarre
Jason Flores two way player
Bryce Rainer two way player
Levi Sterling two way player

We did puck up a very nice player in 2nd baseman Ethan Mendoza on Saturday

Still waiting on
Jalin Flores
Casey Borba
And Nik Sanders

This is on Horns247 free board.

 

[82Horn]

Saw something several weeks back that Casey Borba was coming back.

 

[david ficken]

Have heard that we flipped at least 1 maybe more HS recruits from aggy to Horns.
Just haven't seen who though.
Did see where David Shaw has hit the portal.

The MLB draft is a week away, so we should know more about the possible returners and the HS recruits coming here. They have a month to decide on the offer or returning.

 

[Baron]

 

[Baron]

 

[Sirhornsalot]

Texas dips into the JUCO ranks to secure a commitment from LHP Ethan Walker.

Walker struck out 38 in 30 innings this year with a 4.80 ERA at Walters State CC. #HookEm https://t.co/adZsCBT2MQ

— HornSports (@HornSports) July 9, 2024

 

[joeywa]

Unless an MLB team offers 1st round type money, there’s a pretty good chance that Flores is back at Texas.

Regarding portal and recruiting, don’t sell this staff short. It is possibly the absolute strongest staff in collegiate baseball right now. A&M staff has 3 guys, including their HC, that have a combined 2 years among them of being a paid coaching staff member, with zero yrs as a HC. Also, the former UW HC was not lighting the world on fire in Seattle and was rumored to be on his final year at UW.

Finally, this UT staff is putting together a very nice squad for the upcoming season. Still a few holes to piece together but should know quite a bit more after the draft.

 

[Baron]

Unless an MLB team offers 1st round type money, there’s a pretty good chance that Flores is back at Texas.

Regarding portal and recruiting, don’t sell this staff short. It is possibly the absolute strongest staff in collegiate baseball right now. A&M staff has 3 guys, including their HC, that have a combined 2 years among them of being a paid coaching staff member, with zero yrs as a HC. Also, the former UW HC was not lighting the world on fire in Seattle and was rumored to be on his final year at UW.

Finally, this UT staff is putting together a very nice squad for the upcoming season. Still a few holes to piece together but should know quite a bit more after the draft.

The aggy I work with seems to think the pitching coach (UW coach) was a homerun hire.
Schlossnagle is a Chris Beard type hire, hopefully without the baggage.

 

[joeywa]

The aggy I work with seems to think the pitching coach (UW coach) was a homerun hire.
Schlossnagle is a Chris Beard type hire, hopefully without the baggage.

Well, he’s an aggy, so there’s that as it pertains to thought process.

And a P5 HC with ~20 yrs of pitching coach, asst coach and HC experience moving somewhere to be the pitching coach? That seems to me more like a demotion than Homerun hire. Kelly is a good pitching coach, but after being a HC at a P5 school, I have a hard time believing he took the job at A&M because less money, less responsibility and a flickering spotlight was calling him to College Station.

 

[Baron]

Well, he’s an aggy, so there’s that as it pertains to thought process.

And a P5 HC with ~20 yrs of pitching coach, asst coach and HC experience moving somewhere to be the pitching coach? That seems to me more like a demotion than Homerun hire. Kelly is a good pitching coach, but after being a HC at a P5 school, I have a hard time believing he took the job at A&M because less money, less responsibility and a flickering spotlight was calling him to College Station.

I didn't say I was impressed. The aggy I work with was. I was actually trying to agree with you, because aggys are delusional.

 

[joeywa]

I didn't say I was impressed. The aggy I work with was. I was actually trying to agree with you, because aggys are delusional.

Oh I know you were. Guess I should’ve put a in the post for better clarity. Apologies.

 

[Baron]

Oh I know you were. Guess I should’ve put a in the post for better clarity. Apologies.

No big deal dude. I could have worded my comment better.

 

[Sirhornsalot]

 

[Drb522]

The aggy I work with seems to think the pitching coach (UW coach) was a homerun hire.
Schlossnagle is a Chris Beard type hire, hopefully without the baggage.

Sorry but your Aggy coworker is a moron. He’s just enamored that UW actually won the series in Austin and is missing the fact that guy was about to get fired

 

[83Dee]

Schloss is shopping for pitchers like I've never seen. CJ Vogel compared this to Flood's campaign when he arrived in Austin and evaluated the OL on campus.

 

[Sirhornsalot]

 

[Baron]

Did LBJ enter the portal. I had heard some rumors.

 

[Baron]

https://ontexasfootball.com/uploads...mage.png.6884edea8d008bc1a5a594097568e22f.png
Riojas played 2 years at UTSA. He pitched in 46 games. Started 2 games but as a reliever he averaged about 2.5 innings per outing.

In 2023, he was 5-0 in 20 appearances with 57 strikeouts in 46 innings and an ERA of 4.11.

In 2024, he was 10-3 and 7 saves in 26 appearances with 75 strikeouts in 69 innings and an ERA of 3.25.

 

[tejasrulz]

Did LBJ enter the portal. I had heard some rumors.

Hope not