Musings from the Disch:
Texas players got a break from the field from Wednesday to Saturday. Now it is time to go back to work. The Horns have 4 more games left in the regular season and then the "third season" starts aka post season play. While Texas did not play this weekend, they certainly benefitted from Big 12 play as they moved from 6th place to 5th place in the standings and if they have a successful weekend could move up to 4th place. Going into the weekend, Texas needed to go 4-0 against Sam Houston and Kansas at home, as well as winning at least one, probably two games in Arlington in the Big 12 Tourney to host a regional PLUS get some help from friends along the way. Texas got help from some teams but others probably narrowed the margin even further for the Horns making it all the more likely they will hit the road for Regionals. Florida State and Vandy both winning their series puts sizeable dents into the chances of Texas hosting and that does not even factor in what Texas Tech did this weekend. There is still baseball to be played, but Texas is going to need a lot of help from friends this coming weekend and that likely means rooting for a surging Oklahoma squad which Texas is very likely to face in the first game of the Big 12 Tourney (gross).
While all this was happening, I turned my attention back to what players Texas potentially has coming in for Fall 2023. While it is extremely early and there will certainly be some additions and at least two subtractions that I know of, it was a great time chatting with Dustin McComas and Drew Bishop about Texas Baseball and the 2022 signee class. I realize youtube is not everyone's cup of tea, so I did a write up which you can find here (2022 Signee Class). As we get into June and closer to MLB Draft, I will have more on the signee class, as well as updates on current Horns and what their prospectus looks like for the draft.
Useless Stat of the Day (aka the Ivan Melendez update):
For all the pain, agony and suffering that Texas fans have endured this season as it relates to the bullpen, keep in mind that you are watching possibly one of the all time greatest hitting seasons in college baseball. Ivan Melendez is doing this in the BBCOR era to boot. He is special. #GoldenTitanic
Speaking of bullpen and pitching...to fan the flames a little, Texas does lead the Big 12 in ERA again
Mid-week Preview:
Texas (34-17, 11-10) v. Sam Houston (29-21, 19-8)
Tuesday night the Horns welcome in the Bearkats of Sam Houston State. Texas faced Sam Houston once prior this season back on March 1st when the Horns travelled down to Don Sanders Stadium in Huntsville for Crawfish Boil night. Andre Duplantier got the start that evening and went 6 IP, giving up only 1 run in route to a 10-2 win by the Horns where they completely dominated the Bearkats. Hitting wise, Hodo was the leader on the evening going 3-5 with a couple of RBIs and a walk. Offensively for the Bearkats, Chadwick went 2 for 3 on the evening accounting for 2 of the 6 total hits that the Horns staff gave up that night.
TEXAS (35-17) vs. SAM HOUSTON (29-21)
May 17, 2022
Where: UFCU Disch-Falk Field
Time: Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.
TV: Longhorn Network
Radio: 104.9 FM The Horn/1260 AM
All-time series: Texas leads, 81-19
Horns v. Bearkats Stats:
RPI: 18 v 102
SOS: 28 v 142
ELO: 21 v 106
BA: .318 v .314
OPS: .976 v .870
ERA: 4.24 v 5.33
WHIP: 1.26 v 1.56
Fielding: .986 v .966
Sam Houston Top Hitters (BA / OPS / SLG):
Probable Pitching Matchups:
Common Opponents:
Big 12 Recap:
Big 12 Weekend (Thurs - Sunday) Series Ahead:
Big 12 Rankings:
Big 12 RPI/SOS:
Top 25 (D1 Baseball Poll):
Top 41 RPI:
Texas players got a break from the field from Wednesday to Saturday. Now it is time to go back to work. The Horns have 4 more games left in the regular season and then the "third season" starts aka post season play. While Texas did not play this weekend, they certainly benefitted from Big 12 play as they moved from 6th place to 5th place in the standings and if they have a successful weekend could move up to 4th place. Going into the weekend, Texas needed to go 4-0 against Sam Houston and Kansas at home, as well as winning at least one, probably two games in Arlington in the Big 12 Tourney to host a regional PLUS get some help from friends along the way. Texas got help from some teams but others probably narrowed the margin even further for the Horns making it all the more likely they will hit the road for Regionals. Florida State and Vandy both winning their series puts sizeable dents into the chances of Texas hosting and that does not even factor in what Texas Tech did this weekend. There is still baseball to be played, but Texas is going to need a lot of help from friends this coming weekend and that likely means rooting for a surging Oklahoma squad which Texas is very likely to face in the first game of the Big 12 Tourney (gross).
While all this was happening, I turned my attention back to what players Texas potentially has coming in for Fall 2023. While it is extremely early and there will certainly be some additions and at least two subtractions that I know of, it was a great time chatting with Dustin McComas and Drew Bishop about Texas Baseball and the 2022 signee class. I realize youtube is not everyone's cup of tea, so I did a write up which you can find here (2022 Signee Class). As we get into June and closer to MLB Draft, I will have more on the signee class, as well as updates on current Horns and what their prospectus looks like for the draft.
Useless Stat of the Day (aka the Ivan Melendez update):
For all the pain, agony and suffering that Texas fans have endured this season as it relates to the bullpen, keep in mind that you are watching possibly one of the all time greatest hitting seasons in college baseball. Ivan Melendez is doing this in the BBCOR era to boot. He is special. #GoldenTitanic
Speaking of bullpen and pitching...to fan the flames a little, Texas does lead the Big 12 in ERA again
Mid-week Preview:
Texas (34-17, 11-10) v. Sam Houston (29-21, 19-8)
Tuesday night the Horns welcome in the Bearkats of Sam Houston State. Texas faced Sam Houston once prior this season back on March 1st when the Horns travelled down to Don Sanders Stadium in Huntsville for Crawfish Boil night. Andre Duplantier got the start that evening and went 6 IP, giving up only 1 run in route to a 10-2 win by the Horns where they completely dominated the Bearkats. Hitting wise, Hodo was the leader on the evening going 3-5 with a couple of RBIs and a walk. Offensively for the Bearkats, Chadwick went 2 for 3 on the evening accounting for 2 of the 6 total hits that the Horns staff gave up that night.
TEXAS (35-17) vs. SAM HOUSTON (29-21)
May 17, 2022
Where: UFCU Disch-Falk Field
Time: Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.
TV: Longhorn Network
Radio: 104.9 FM The Horn/1260 AM
All-time series: Texas leads, 81-19
Horns v. Bearkats Stats:
RPI: 18 v 102
SOS: 28 v 142
ELO: 21 v 106
BA: .318 v .314
OPS: .976 v .870
ERA: 4.24 v 5.33
WHIP: 1.26 v 1.56
Fielding: .986 v .966
Sam Houston Top Hitters (BA / OPS / SLG):
- Carlos Contreras - he is an absolute dude and knows how to swing the bat. When you are looking at the NCAA stat leaders and see Melendez at or near the top, you will also notice Carlos up there with him in quite a few categories.
- .413 BA / 1.207 OPS / .741 SLG% / .466 OB%
- 53 R, 88 H, 14 HR and 87 RBIs
- .413 BA / 1.207 OPS / .741 SLG% / .466 OB%
- Wishkoski (.375 BA / .997 OPS)
- Chadwick (.354 BA / .980 OPS)
Probable Pitching Matchups:
- Texas RHP Zane Morehouse (2-0, 4.56) vs. Sam Houston RHP Matt Rudis (0-4, 8.05)
- Cole Wesneski, the Tuesday starter for SHSU went down on April 1st with a season ending elbow injury and they have faced a number of injuries to their pitching staff.
- Gavi Coldiron (3-4, 5.06 ERA)
- Lance Lusk (4-0, 2.14 ERA, 8 saves) - closer
- Alex Havlicek (1-0, 5.87 ERA)
- Logan Hewitt (2-2, 6.75 ERA)
- Cole Wesneski, the Tuesday starter for SHSU went down on April 1st with a season ending elbow injury and they have faced a number of injuries to their pitching staff.
Common Opponents:
- Okie State (win)
- Texas Southern (3-0)
- Baylor (win, loss)
- Rice (loss x2)
- SFA (2-1 and 3-0)
- Texas State (win)
- UT RGV (1-2 & 2-1)
- Texas A&M (loss)
- Houston Baptist (win)
Big 12 Recap:
- Texas Tech went to Stillwater and swept Oklahoma State...a fun series to watch, but man did Okie State shoot themselves in the foot often. If you haven't seen the 513' missile that Doersching launched, look it up.
- TCU travelled to Kansas and absolutely obliterated them, including a Saturday beating with a final score of 30-3....
- Oklahoma continues to surge and while they dropped a close affair on Saturday, they beat the brakes off of West Virginia on Friday and Sunday to win the series
- Kansas State hosted Baylor this weekend and played a tight series but came away with the series win after the Cats bounced back to win Sat and Sunday
- Texas - idle
Big 12 Weekend (Thurs - Sunday) Series Ahead:
- Texas v. Kansas
- Texas Tech v. Oklahoma
- Baylor v. Oklahoma State
- West Virginia v. Kansas State
- TCU v. Santa Clara (non-conf)
Big 12 Rankings:
- Texas Tech (14-7)
- TCU (15-8)
- Oklahoma State (13-8)
- Oklahoma (13-8)
- Texas (11-10)
- West Virginia (11-10)
- Kansas State (8-13)
- Baylor (6-15)
- Kansas (4-16)
Big 12 RPI/SOS:
- Oklahoma State (12/11)
- Texas (18/28)
- Texas Tech (33/65)
- Oklahoma (35/18)
- TCU (36/38)
- West Virginia (41/32)
- Baylor (74/16)
- Kansas State (97/85)
- Kansas (157/77)
Top 25 (D1 Baseball Poll):
- Tennessee (45-7) - Vols took 2 of 3 from Georgia
- Oregon State (40-11) - lost 2 of 3 to Arizona
- Virginia Tech (36-11) - Hokies continue to impress to winning a series against fellow Top 10 and conference foe Louisville
- Stanford (33-14) - Swept Utah
- Texas Tech (35-16) - Raiders went to Stillwater and swept the Pokes and grabbed the outright lead of the Big 12 in the process
- Texas A&M (33-16) - A&M continues to rack up series wins in the SEC by sweeping Miss State this weekend
- Arkansas (37-14) - Hogs lost 2 of 3 to Vandy over the weekend and gave up the SEC West lead to A&M in the process
- Oklahoma State (34-17) - Pokes lost to Dallas Baptist mid-week and then got swept at home by Tech
- Miami (37-14) - Hurricanes lost 2 of 3 to old foe Florida State
- Louisville (35-15-1) - Cardinals dropped 2 of 3 to the Hokies
- Gonzaga (32-13) - Swept Santa Clara
- Virginia (37-13) - The Hoos took 2 of 3 from Clemson
- Texas State (41-11) - Bobcats continue to stockpile wins as they swept Louisiana over the weekend
- Notre Dame (31-11) - Took 2 of 3 from Pitt
- Maryland (41-10) - Terps crushed Michigan and remain the best of the Big 10
- Connecticut (42-10) - Took 2 of 3 from Xavier
- Southern Miss (38-14) - Eagles dropped a mid-week to Ole Miss but bounced back to take 2 of 3 from a plucky UTSA squad
- UC Santa Barbara (37-11) - Swept Dixie State
- Auburn (35-16) - Auburn took both games against Bama with the third being rule no-contest due to weather delays and travel day restrictions
- Florida State (32-18) - took 2 of 3 from conference foe Miami
- Vanderbilt (34-16) - Dores continue to fight back as they took 2 of 3 from Arkansas on the road
- Texas (35-17) - Horns beat Texas Southern but were idle this weekend
- UCLA (33-18) - Swept Washington State
- TCU (32-18) - Frogs destroyed Kansas on the road this weekend to finish conference play
- Grand Canyon (36-17) - Swept New Mexico State
- LSU (33-18) - Tigers got swept at home by Ole Miss, ending their hopes of hosting a regional.
Top 41 RPI:
- Tennessee
- Oregon State
- Vanderbilt
- Auburn
- Virginia Tech
- Dallas Baptist
- Georgia
- Miami
- Georgia Southern
- Maryland
- Louisville
- Oklahoma State
- Stanford
- Notre Dame
- Virginia
- Florida
- Florida State
- Texas
- Texas A&M
- Southern Miss
- Wake Forest
- Clemson
- North Carolina
- Gonzaga
- Wofford
- Georgia Tech
- Oregon
- UC Santa Barbara
- Arkansas
- Texas State
- Coastal Carolina
- East Carolina
- Texas Tech
- North Carolina State
- Oklahoma
- TCU
- LSU
- Ole Miss
- Arizona
- Liberty
- West Virginia
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