2025 Updates, Transfers & Recruits

Not worried about hitting. It’s pitching that needs big improvement. Is DuP back or did he finish his eligibility?
 
Anyone else get the feeling that many players in the conference of misfit toys are realizing that to play against the best you need to be in the $ec. While that may be arguable in football, it is not in baseball.
 
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Returning production (including transfers) right now, I have:

Outfield
Max Belyeu
Winfield
Cummings
Gasparino - If Cummings is capable? Does he move to 1st?

Infield
Kimble Schuessler - DH/C
Casey Borba - 3rd
Rylan Galvan - C/DH
O'Hara - 2nd*
SS - Incoming freshman
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Pitchers
Will Mercer - SP
Aiden Moffett - SP
Max Grubbs - SP
Thomas Burns -SP
Eli Trop - Reliever
Ace Whitehead - Reliever
Gage Boehm - Closer
Easton Tumis - Reliever
Hudson Hamilton - Reliever
Andre Duplantier - Closer
Luke Harrison - Reliever (still working back from injury)
I expect at least one freshman pitcher to compete for a major role but we have quite a few arms coming in from the freshman class that might help.
 
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Weiner is going to have his work cut out for him, Mercer and Harrison need to return to form from injury, we all know how difficult that has been lately. Moffett, Grubbs, Burns, Tumis and Hamilton just need to show growth with another year of experience.

IF Weiner can stabilize the pitching staff we simultaneously need to figure out the defense.

We are now hurting for infielders, bad.

Spit balling below until we either get another portal to fill the infield or Flores returns:

I thought we needed a 2nd baseman, O'Hara could actually fill that role, i'm not sure his arm is strong enough for SS so that means we actually need a SS or it will be filled by a freshman. Not the end of the world though, 1 freshman in the starting 9 won't break the team.
 
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I thought he'd do better, but he just didn't pan out. Best I could tell was that his fastball came in straight as an arrow, with no discernable movement, and around 90 mph. Pretty good control, but he got hit hard. There are many places where he could go and play. Probably on the level of SFA, UIW, etc. or their equivalent in Wisconsin or Minnesota.
 
aUTfan said:
*Updated
Returning production (including transfers) right now, I have:

Outfield
Max Belyeu
Winfield
Cummings
Gasparino - If Cummings is capable? Does he move to 1st?

Infield
Kimble Schuessler - DH/C
Casey Borba - 3rd
Rylan Galvan - C/DH
O'Hara - 2nd*
SS - Incoming freshman
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Pitchers
Will Mercer - SP
Aiden Moffett - SP
Max Grubbs - SP
Thomas Burns -SP
Eli Trop - Reliever
Ace Whitehead - Reliever
Gage Boehm - Closer
Easton Tumis - Reliever
Hudson Hamilton - Reliever
Andre Duplantier - Closer
Luke Harrison - Reliever (still working back from injury)
I expect at least one freshman pitcher to compete for a major role but we have quite a few arms coming in from the freshman class that might help.
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Boehm and DuP are coming back? That would be great if they were.

Mercer might be a closer or a set up man.

Newcomers on the mound -- if Jason Flores and Kyle DeGroat make it to Austin, they'll likely see plenty of action, as will the guy from Hawaii. A few of the other pitchers, I'm already writing off to the draft.
 
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Boehm and DuP are coming back? That would be great if they were.

Mercer might be a closer or a set up man.

Newcomers on the mound -- if Jason Flores and Kyle DeGroat make it to Austin, they'll likely see plenty of action, as will the guy from Hawaii. A few of the other pitchers, I'm already writing off to the draft.
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I'm not seeing anything on them being drafted high enough for them to leave but we will find out by the time school starts.
 
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I'd think O'Hara stays on the mound as a reliable long reliever. He pitched well last year.
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IDK, it was merely my thoughts for now, i have no inside info but that would likely mean 2 freshman playing up the middle cause we don't have many options, don't think Schloss will do that, Duplantier is error prone but could get that figured out by next season. Also, we may have plenty of relievers if you can believe that? Time will tell.
 
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Current status

Returning production + Transfers:

Schuessler .343, 30 RBI's, 10 HR's, .420 OB%
Belyeu .340, 53 RBI's, 18 HR's, .423 OB%
Galvan .287, 37 RBI's, 8 HR's, .392 OB%
Gasparino .252, 47 RBI's, 12 HR's, .300 OB%
Borba .256, 17 RBI's, 4 HR's, .371 OB%

Winfield .332, 40 RBI's, 10 HR's, .414 OB%

Returning & Txer = Avg. .304, 62 HR's.

Borba is likely to hit more HR's, he had less than half the AB's that the rest had, probably hit around 9 which would give us 67. Even with another good portal we are not likely to hit more than 90 HR's and score 450 runs.

For perspective, Texas A&M & Florida both hit 136 HR's; Tenn hit 184, all higher than our all time highs.

Not expecting the returners to hit more with the improved pitching/defense in the SEC. If we want to be in the upper echelon of the conference, our pitching and defense will need to be airtight.

As everyone already knows, lots of work to do but I'll continue to do updates as things change and new information comes out.

Rumored we are hosting an infielder from the portal soon, a SS?
 
aUTfan said:
Current status

Returning production + Transfers:

Schuessler .343, 30 RBI's, 10 HR's, .420 OB%
Belyeu .340, 53 RBI's, 18 HR's, .423 OB%
Galvan .287, 37 RBI's, 8 HR's, .392 OB%
Gasparino .252, 47 RBI's, 12 HR's, .300 OB%
Borba .256, 17 RBI's, 4 HR's, .371 OB%

Winfield .332, 40 RBI's, 10 HR's, .414 OB%

Returning & Txer = Avg. .304, 62 HR's.

Borba is likely to hit more HR's, he had less than half the AB's that the rest had, probably hit around 9 which would give us 67. Even with another good portal we are not likely to hit more than 90 HR's and score 450 runs.

For perspective, Texas A&M & Florida both hit 136 HR's; Tenn hit 184, all higher than our all time highs.

Not expecting the returners to hit more with the improved pitching/defense in the SEC. If we want to be in the upper echelon of the conference, our pitching and defense will need to be airtight.

As everyone already knows, lots of work to do but I'll continue to do updates as things change and new information comes out.

Rumored we are hosting an infielder from the portal soon, a SS?
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I expect Texas to reach 100 home runs. Many of the SEC ballparks are HS sized.
 
I hope you're right, we will still play more than half of our games in the Disch though, just like we did in the Big XII. Not sure it's just the field dimensions. Our field is exactly the same size as A&M and Florida's.

The weather must have as much or more effect on the ball than field dimensions, possibly wind blowing in?

Next season:
Texas A&M is likely ranked #1
Arkansas #2
Vanderbilt and LSU likely in the top 10. Still have Florida and Tennessee to contend with.

Thats 4 teams more than the Big XII had this season and will have next season in the top 10. :lmao:
 
Video on Ka'imi. I'm telling you folks, we've got a good one coming in from Hawaii. 6'8" Fastballs sitting in the lower 90s, hitting max around 94-95 mph. 3/4 (or lower) arm brings a sweeping motion that's hard to hit--think pre-injury Shaw with a lot more velocity and movement.

 
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Chop said:
Video on Ka'imi. I'm telling you folks, we've got a good one coming in from Hawaii. 6'8" Fastballs sitting in the lower 90s, hitting max around 93-94mph. 3/4 (or lower) arm brings a sweeping motion that's hard to hit--think pre-injury Shaw with a lot more velocity and movement.

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Sounds like he's working on a splitter/split-finger fastball:

 
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