2025 Updates, Transfers & Recruits

[aUTfan]

Booooom!! Another pitcher with a nasty curve.

 

[2003TexasGrad]

Booooom!! Another pitcher with a nasty curve.

Texas or the As? He made the right choice!

 

[aUTfan]

Hurley to the cubs.

 

[RS]

Good luck to Charlie Hurley with Cubs.

 

[Chop]

Hurley to the cubs.

He's got that really good curveball. Master another pitch or two in the minors, and who knows...

 

[aUTfan]

 

[RS]

Anybody know when Fall ball starts at UT? I heard Schloss mention a potential date somewhere not long ago, but haven't heard anything since.

 

[Chop]

DeGroat signed with the Kansas City Royals as a 14th rounder.

 

[Chop]

He signed on with the DirtBags of Long Beach State.

Not sure why our new coach didn't want to keep him, or if he just wanted to be 3 hrs closer by plane to home.

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[mchammer]

Class starts on Monday. No more guessing after that.

 

[RS]

Jonah Williams!!!

 

[mchammer]

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

How crazy is it to have the 6th overall recruiting class but have the 5th rated class in the SEC?

It's going to take me a while to get used to saying SEC.....

 

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[das3603]

That’s awesome! I remember the short time his dad played for the Astros. He had a big hit in Game 2 of the World Series against the Dodgers as I recall.

 

[aUTfan]

 

[Chop]

aTm is just a farm school for UT--coaches, players...

 

[aUTfan]

 

[aUTfan]

 

[LHABSOB]

Did they staff just tell Morris and Pearson that they don't have spots for them anymore?

 

[Chop]

Maybe the new staff will look at Matthew Porchas, who signed with us and left before playing a game...

He put up a 0.86 WHIP at Walters State JC in Tennessee.

He seems to still like us, but he also seems to really like Notre Dame.


3 years of eligibility left
Velo
FB 92-94
SL 82-83
Ch 85-87
CT-87-88

Summer ball stats (against other collegians, such as our players)
3 Starts.
13 innings
20ks
6 hits
8 walks
3 runs (assuming all were earned runs)
[that's a 1.08 WHIP; and a 2.08 ERA against college players]

If you watch him throwing below, his spin rate gets up into the 2,600s RPM at times. Fastball sits in the low 90s MPH.

Still has UT Longhorns stuff on his X/Twitter account.

 

[Chop]

If you watch him throwing below, his spin rate gets up into the 2,600s RPM at times. Fastball sits in the low 90s MPH.

Tumis and Hudson Hamilton may be all we've got that can match that. (both of whom have nasty sauce on their breaking stuff)



The average spin rate for a Major League Baseball (MLB) pitch depends on the type of pitch:

• Fastballs: The average spin rate for a fastball depends on the type of fastball:
  
  • Two-seam fastballs/sinkers: Average spin rate of around 2150 rpm
    
    
    
  • Cutters: Average spin rate of around 2350 rpm
    
    
    
  • Four-seam fastballs: In 2019, the average spin rate was roughly 2300 rpm
    
• Curveballs and sliders: Typically have the highest raw spin totals, with an average spin rate of around 2430-2530 rpms
  
  
  
• Splitters: In 2021, the average spin rate for a splitter was 1,290 RPMs

 

[aUTfan]

That's next years recruits, not concerned, we appear extremely deep in the bullpen after Schloss went to work, hoping we don't lose any more though but we have tons of talent on the pitching staff this coming season, mostly unproven but looks like the deepest staff we've had in years (quality wise).

 

[aUTfan]

2026 class…..No. 1 pitching recruit

 

[ViperHorn]

2026 class…..No. 1 pitching recruit

Great, but wake me up when he shows up for the first day of classes in August.

 

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[FWHORN]

Great, but wake me up when he shows up for the first day of classes in August.

Yeah the odds of this guy actually showing up to campus are what winning the lottery type odds. While most young just out of HS pitchers benefit from three years of college and with NIL you can get way more to go than you could even three years ago, its hard to see the best HS pitcher in country who is likely a 1-3 round pick in a college uniform.

 

[Chop]

This is from late Summer:

Thomas Burns
RHP

Rose as high as the #1 starter for Arizona State as a Freshman last year. Then he suffered a bicep injury. Hopefully he's fully recovered, as he could see a lot of time on the mound.

Arizona State transfer RHP Thomas Burns commits to Texas

The Longhorns land another arm from the NCAA transfer portal.

www.burntorangenation.com