There are a couple of guys I’m interested in seeing……one is the kid, Boushele.
He was the D-3 pitcher of the year.
There are usually 5-10 D-3 guys drafted each year….
I had a kid about 5-6 years ago who was a 3b with a great arm but not great bat….I told the dad he was not a college player at any level as a 3b….I asked if I could work with him as a pitcher ( kid never pitched a single inning in HS) and he obliged….lots of wildness but could touch 92 mph on the gun.
Worked with him from late May through June….still pretty rough but I got a D-3 coach to take him as a PO.
That first year he may have thrown 10-15 innings….we worked most of the next summer and managed a repeatable delivery.
He became the Friday starter at this school….transferred to a D-1 PAC school for his junior year and was drafted following summer.
He was working as the closer for his team in AA this season and up to 98mph.
Sorry for the derailment of this post….so many times I’ll see a kid or read their bio and it reminds me of someone I coached.
Jack Cooper is a graduate from Dartmouth that put up big numbers last year….we’ll see if it translates….personally I hope to see Connor Bennett has taken the next step and is starting at C.
And also Connor McGinnis( one of the Blinn transfers), want to see this kid hit….a .399 average with a .515 OBP is legit anywhere, especially at a D-1 Juco.
I agree with Connor and hope he does well. I am just shocked that he didn’t play anywhere in the Summer, especially when you consider how small of a sample size of AB’s he had last year.
Excited about the bats or maybe better stated as seeing how well the hitting will transfer over to UH and their competition. I didn’t know a lot other the pitchers but the more I research , I’m beginning to see some promise ! Ok go ahead , burst my bubble !!
You obviously don’t understand the mathematics of college baseball. You can’t have over 50 players and have them all be on scholarship. It doesn’t work that way.
I totally understand and have been through it with several players i have known or coached over the years. Scholarships are or were cut up to give to many. They have to cut rosters down by end of fall workouts etc. A&M has lots of NIL money too. Many kids in the fall aren’t on scholarship or were not in fall for last few years. They ‘figure’ it out by end of fall. Ask kids to go to JUCO etc or other methods to move kids. Its changing now with more scholarhships and NIL money. The mathematics of baseball for years didn’t make sense 34 plus kids on 11.7 scholarships. Then 11. 7 scholarhips plus NIL money. Now 30 plus scholarships and NIL money.
You have to have it figured out when you start the season, not at the end of the 1st semester. If a kid is on scholarship, he has to get at least a 25% scholarship. Since most of the pitchers are on more than 25%, that cuts the amount of people on scholarship down a lot. A&M has more money than most but the amount of players in college baseball on NIL is still very small. They don’t go to the 34 scholarship limit until next year.
Yes I get it and I’m with you. However , I’m very aware of how ol Schloss handled all of this over the last several years at Aggieland. I think the original post or questions were about having so many come in the fall and over the limit for where you need to be for the spring. Kids that won’t be here or be asked to go elsewhere. That changes roster sizes and who is getting what etc if given scholarship money. All good. I’m glad to be discussing and hope to see good things ahead.
I know someone whose son played on a national select team out of California the last two years and had offers from Oklahoma and Virginia Tech to name two but wanted to go to A&M. Schloss recruited him then waited until he was in school and then told him he did not have a scholarship or place on the team that year, but to keep working out at the rec center and would pick him up after the season was over.
If there were a shred of truth to it they would have found him a spot at a JUCO, mostly likely Blinn for that season.
Not, go work out for a semester and we’ll get back to you.
It sounds like Sark has a buddy who told him a fib about his son.
