Scouting Report

Good stuff, Matt. A&M’s ERA is ridiculous to-date.

Don’t give up on basketball yet! March to March still has two more weekends of stellar basketball, even if the Horns are out.

Good article, thanks. Can you put up the stats for Texas?

Texas
ERA: 2.49
Runs/Game: 5.5
Fielding: .970

Relatively speaking, I would assume we are a red threat level to all Big 12 opponents, right?

Good stuff Matt. Three team race for the Big 12. I like our chances.

Here are the upcoming games in March for Texas, starting tonight at home against teh Baptists.

 
03/23/11 vs. Houston Baptist Austin, Texas 6:00 p.m. CT
03/25/11 at Oklahoma State Stillwater, Okla. 6:30 p.m. CT
03/26/11 at Oklahoma State Stillwater, Okla. 2:00 p.m. CT
03/27/11 at Oklahoma State Stillwater, Okla. 1:00 p.m. CT
03/29/11 vs. Oral Roberts Austin, Texas 6:00 p.m. CT

FTP - yes, Texas is a definite red threat to A&M and OU. To most everyone else, Texas is just a good old fashion pain in the ass…..the beatdown is coming and they’re helpless to fight it.

This is, top to bottom, A&M’s best team in the last 5 years, imo. The pressure is squarely on them to dethrone the Horns. In everyone’s eyes, this Texas offense is weak, the team is green and they lost their top 3 pitchers. It’s now or never for the Farmers. Tough spot.

So from what I can if TCU can get Purke over his blister problems they stand a great chance of winning the Big XII.

That would have been better if you hadn’t garbled it, Frog.

Matt - Your command of Big 12 hardball info and colored fonts is impressive. Thanks for the write up.

Are there any Houston Anabaptists?

“In everyone’s eyes, this Texas offense is weak, the team is green and they lost their top 3 pitchers.”

Your 2nd and 3rd best pitchers. Everyone knows Jungman was/is our best, right?

Proof reading is for the weak and the literate.

Baseball is probably the thing that I miss most about living in Austin. Meaning I’m not traveling from Florida to watch a baseball game like I would a football game. Nothing like spring in Austin when the females leave most of their clothes in their closet and baseball is on tap every weekend. I’m looking forward to watching baseball on the Bevo ESPN whenever it comes out.

Thanks for the post Matt.

1. Texas blanked Houston Baptist last night, 12-0.
2. The loss dropped them to 1-18. Not good.
3. Horns scratched together 8 hits, 2 HBP’s, 7 BB’s & 4 SB’s.

Dick - MLB Scouts would argue it, but Jungmann wasn’t Texas’ best pitcher last year in terms of on-field results. That was Chance Ruffin. I could also make the case that Workman was a bit better as well. Not talking potential here, only performance. It’s no slight against Jungmann. More of a testament to those other 2.

Matt, what’s the latest on Austin Dicharry?

Matt,

Would you mind making your case for Workman being better last year than Jungmann?

Workman: 3.35 ERA, 101 K, 23 BB, 1.16 WHIP, .247 Opp Avg, 4 CG (15 starts, 17 games)
Jungmann: 2.03 ERA, 129 K, 41 BB, 1.08 WHIP, .209 Opp Avg, 1 CG (17 starts, 17 games)

Walks per inning and complete games are in Workman’s favor. If I’m an MLB scout, I would almost ignore the W/L, walk, and CG metrics that favor Workman because of who Jungmann was facing every Friday versus who Workman was facing every Sunday. We destroyed teams on Sundays last year, so all Workman had to do was throw strikes. That’s not to say he was just piping the ball, didn’t Workman toss a couple no-hitters during his stay here?

Actually, Workman had a much better year than I thought looking at those stats.

Jungmann is supposed to go Top 15 easy in this year’s draft while Workman went early 2nd round right? Was that a money issue that caused Workman to drop? Same question applies to Chance.

texasengr - Those stat lines tell the story. You can also put Green’s in there and the 3 are very similar. The weekend guys were all spectacular.

Because of that, the case for Workman is not based on data - instead I’ll wade into the murky pool of ‘value’…..

Jungmann was phenomenal. He was expected to be a lockdown, Friday night guy and he was exactly that.

Workman came in with much lower expectations and exceeded them by a longshot. That doesn’t mean he was better, but his value to the staff was immeasurable. By dominating on Sundays, that opened up the move of Ruffin. Workman’s season changed the dynamic of the staff and went a long way towards contributing to the season’s success.

Matt,

Do you have any expectations/predictions as to who, between Milner and Stafford, will lock down the last weekend starter spot?

It seems like Stafford has more explosive stuff but Milner has been a little more consistent thus far.

FYI - I put out a couple of feelers on Dicharry and the Milner/Stafford tango. I’ll let y’all what kind of response I get.

It would be inappropriate for me to comment on either without some type of confirmation.

UT just beat OK State in 15 innings 1-0 by stealing HOME.

I have to wonder if that’s ever happened in college or MLB? Where a game’s only run was stealing home?

Offense is Connie Clark pitiful. Not only not getting hits, but looking awful doing it. Something has to give here.

Zero rbi in 23 innings now and down to oSu 3-0 in the 8th after they burned the best of their rotation last night. 2011 sucks.

Looking like we’ll be lucky to finish 3-4 in conference. Terrible offense and weak middle relief.

Nordberg - got word that Dicharry is getting the start tonight. Total surprise to me, as it goes against most of what I’d heard.