re: First year coaching observations

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48, 83, and 35

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Right, so three of their most used pitchers were already there.

Just looked it up. They signed 14 transfers, 7 of them being pitchers. The pitchers and their numbers were:

Landon Ellington (freshman, TCU signee)
- didn't play

Trey Dillard (Missouri transfer)
- pitched 1 inning this season

Micah Dallas (Texas Tech transfer)
- 76.2 IP, 5.40 ERA, .297 OppBA

Chris Cortez (freshman, Arizona signee)
- 43.1 IP, 4.78 ERA, .264 OppBA

Robert Hogan (JUCO transfer, Arizona signee)
- 18.1 IP, 4.91 ERA, .191 OppBA

Xavier Lovett (Miss State transfer)
- 6 IP, 12.00 ERA, .208 OppBA

Jacob Palisch (Stanford transfer)
- 52 IP, 2.60 ERA, .246 OppBA


Their starting rotation this year was:

Nathan Dettmer - 3rd year player at A&M
Wyatt Tucker - 2nd year player at A&M
Ryan Prager - freshman signee who had been committed to A&M since 2020

Most of the pitchers Schloss signed from the portal were either not big contributors or weren't very good. The only objectively good pitcher transfer he signed was Jacob Palisch from Stanford. So to say he signed 14 guys from the portal is true; however, those 14 guys aren't why they had better starting pitching than LSU did.

And if we're being honest, Jay signed more quality transfer arms than Schloss did. None of them were starters, but neither were any of the arms Schloss brought in either. But can you imagine how fricked we'd have been all season without Rez, Collins, and Cooper. They fell apart in the end, but those guys (and others) carried us all season when we had but one consistent starting pitcher.

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He’s a better coach than J 

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Both are really good coaches. Schloss is one of the top 3 or 4 in the country for sure. J will be right there in that company over time.

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So you don't consider the guy who had the 2nd most innings pitched this year a significant contributor?

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I said significant contributor OR very good. The guy with the most innings on their staff, Micah Dallas, had an ERA of 5.40 and an OppBA of .297. I wouldn't call that very good. If we had a pitcher with those numbers, you wouldn't either. Honestly, pitching isn't even the reason A&M is good this year so I'm really not sure why we're having this discussion. I guess if you only looked at the last two games you might think that, but they had to win very similarly to how we had to win this uear...with scoring a lot of runs and throwing bullpen games. The difference in our two teams is really just they were miles better defensively.

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Also you have a player who pitched a total of 17 innings and made 2 starts this year as part of their starting rotation.

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Any pitcher who started a weekend game for them had an ERA of 4.75 or higher. Feel better?

Their pitching staff was not good. Their offense was very good, and their defense was better than ours.

They led the SEC in batting average, on base percentage, and runs scored in conference games (yes, better than Tennessee in all 3). That's why they won the West and got a top 8 seed, not because of their 5.32 ERA in league play

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You have to develop those players

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Are you saying that CJJ & his staff has been here an entire year but haven’t developed any of the recruits that haven’t actually made it to campus yet?

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And what has Johnson done to prove that he can’t develop them?

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When did I ever say that? I said having a top recruiting class doesn’t automatically make you a good team. Not sure why you have a problem with that.

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Like I said, the reason they were/are good is because they were #1 in the SEC in batting average, on base percentage, and runs scored in SEC play. Period. It has very little to do with pitching transfers Schloss signed from the portal as many have inferred and/or said ITT. They pieced together games with their staff just like we did all season. They had no one in their staff they knew was giving them 6 innings (or more) every outing, just like us. They have 8 guys on their staff with 30 or more IP (same as LSU). That's not a sign of a team with a reliable starting rotation. In fact, we led them in basically every meaningful team pitching metric.

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I never said anything to disagree with that. I told you I responded to a guy saying that they were better than us because Schloss inherited better pitching that Johnson. I said that that was not true. And it sound like you agree with me. So I’m not sure why you are trying to argue with me?

I don't really care what anybody says. No college baseball coach was going far with this roster and awful pitching staff.

You could have stuck prime Bertman, the mythos of Turtle Thomas and whatever pitching coach you want back there and this team wasn't winning jack.

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When did I ever say that? I said having a top recruiting class doesn’t automatically make you a good team. Not sure why you have a problem with that.

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I mean you’re right, but it’s a very good start towards a good team.

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I mean you’re right, but it’s a very good start towards a good team.

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I know. It is a very good start, which is why I said I'm hopeful for the future.