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2025 off-season thread
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Cowboy4life9688
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JUCO RHP commits to good guys!! We have 4-5 JUCO pitchers in this class
pokesinomaha
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Good to see some quality JUCO arms commit because we appear to have had zero portal additions to date. Josh needs to get the pitching coach hire done asap to help firm up the recruiting class. He's known for a month now (at least) that Rob was retiring, I'm surprised we haven't heard anything.
It’s because Tom isn’t ready for all the attention yet
Cowboy4life9688
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Even if we do have a pitching coach, which could happen any day now, we don’t have the NIL funds to bid. I believe the portal window closes July 1 and extends for the teams that are in Omaha
6’ 2”, so about 7” too short.
Very good numbers. 2.09 ERA in 65 innings, .90 whip, 9.9 k’s per 9, and a KO/BB of 4:1. Good control. Low 90’s. CAC is a solid program.
Cowboy4life9688
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They’ve been good to us in the past with players
Cowboy4life9688
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Opening day at the cape…Watkins with a good start.
Avery Ortiz had a good day with a ground rule double.
Avery Ortiz had a good day with a ground rule double.
Cowboy4life9688
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Ladies and gentleman…your new pitching coach. From Oregon
A teammate of Matt Holliday in STL.
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pokesinomaha
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Does anyone have any insight into this hire? It appears Josh has gone "somewhat" outside the family as he doesn't have any obvious OSU ties but I'm guessing there is at least some level of a connection via Matt and their time as Cardinals teammates. He appears to have an interesting resume ... not a ton of time spent as a college pitching coach, but a MLB career along with experience as a agent/scout for the Boras Corp. Looks like he did decent at Oregon and had a strong season as pitching coach at Fullerton about 8 years ago.
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We'll see about Hawksworth. Not a bad hire, but it's not like its a home run on paper, either. First thing we'll see is if he can do some work in the portal AND keep some of our young arms.
Cowboy4life9688
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HS commit was impressive at the combine today
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First portal pickup…2 way player from Clemson that has OSU ties. Father played golf and won a national championship. Was a regular starter at RF towards the end of the season
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pokesinomaha
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Kind of my thoughts as well. Not a home run hire but an interesting one with maybe some high upside. For all the criticism of Rob, the pitching staff has been more dependable than our offense (at least in the regular season, a few regionals lately have been another story) the last several years so Hawksworth has his work cut out for him to keep the young arms in place, add a few pieces via the portal (which Rob was excellent at) and hopefully continue having an above average pitching staff.
