2027 Razorback Baseball

[BleedinRed]

Time to wash the stank off from the 2026 season.

What do we have coming back?

[Hizog]

Nate Thompson 

[Son of Spam]

Nate Thompson 

Yikes!

[BleedinRed]

Sounds like the 2027 season is over before it even begins.

[Boarat]

We did get a JUCO pitcher with pedestrian numbers!

[DirkPiggler]

https://x.com/MimsCourtney/status/2064493635098296509?s=20

https://x.com/_aroundthehorn_/status/2064687477877534981?s=20


Got an infielder and outfielder from the portal.  Both have decent power numbers at their previous mid-major stops.

[Boarat]

That'll work. Now desperately need starting pitching.

[Feral]

Good pickups, and goes to my "stop recruiting .260 hitters and get guys who hit."

Allen hit .310 with a 1.005 OPS.

Bryce is a career .340 / .970 guy.

I keep pointing to guys like Davalon, Maxwell, and Ruiz from the last two years (and the inverse examples of guys like John Bolton, Niu, and Stewart). Guys who hit...hit. Guys who can't hit...don't just magically find it.

[DirkPiggler]

Good pickups, and goes to my "stop recruiting .260 hitters and get guys who hit."

Allen hit .310 with a 1.005 OPS.

Bryce is a career .340 / .970 guy.

I keep pointing to guys like Davalon, Maxwell, and Ruiz from the last two years (and the inverse examples of guys like John Bolton, Niu, and Stewart). Guys who hit...hit. Guys who can't hit...don't just magically find it.

Nate (or the strength coach) seems to do okay with guys who show up with the hit tool but lack power.  He's useless with power bats who get to campus with a ton of swing and miss.  Hopefully we focus on the former rather than the latter in this class.

[Feral]

Nate (or the strength coach) seems to do okay with guys who show up with the hit tool but lack power.  He's useless with power bats who get to campus with a ton of swing and miss.  Hopefully we focus on the former rather than the latter in this class.

100%...well said.

Nate coaches the long ball well, but if you're a guess hitter who relies on just running into one, then you're not going to get better under him.

That's precisely why guys like Stewart, Niu and Pompey were so bad this year, whereas the aforementioned guys like Davalon, Maxwell, Iredale, and Ruiz succeeded. Davalon hit like .400 at his previous school, Maxwell was hitting well into the .300s at TCU, and Ruiz hit .380 at Lamar. Hitters hit, plain and simple.

I never want to recruit another "active NCAA career leader in home runs" again. That's great, but can he single a guy in from 2nd with 2 outs in a tight game, or work a count to draw a walk in a leverage situation?

[BASS]

Good pickups, and goes to my "stop recruiting .260 hitters and get guys who hit."

Allen hit .310 with a 1.005 OPS.

Bryce is a career .340 / .970 guy.

I keep pointing to guys like Davalon, Maxwell, and Ruiz from the last two years (and the inverse examples of guys like John Bolton, Niu, and Stewart). Guys who hit...hit. Guys who can't hit...don't just magically find it.

pompey hit .348 at texas tech

[Feral]

pompey hit .348 at texas tech

True, but that was in 18 games before getting injured.

He looked like the epitome of a guess hitter here, and it looked like he got markedly worse under Nate's coaching. There was just way too swing and miss with him. Almost more than I've seen from any Razorback player I can ever remember.

He led the team with 88 strikeouts. No other player even had 70. Niu had 69, and then we had a few guys in the mid 50s. I'm not sure I've seen a gap that wide in terms of strikeouts. 

[DirkPiggler]

True, but that was in 18 games before getting injured.

He looked like the epitome of a guess hitter here, and it looked like he got markedly worse under Nate's coaching. There was just way too swing and miss with him. Almost more than I've seen from any Razorback player I can ever remember.

He led the team with 88 strikeouts. No other player even had 70. Niu had 69, and then we had a few guys in the mid 50s. I'm not sure I've seen a gap that wide in terms of strikeouts.

No almost to it.  Pompey set the record this year. 

[buff2.0]

No almost to it.  Pompey set the record this year. 

I'm glad baseball coaches are all gentlemen and won't try to use that drastic swing in his performance against us

[Feral]

No almost to it.  Pompey set the record this year. 

Had no idea he set the record. 

But not surprised at all. Hell, he struck out something like 30 times in his first 50 AB's here.

[Feral]

To literally no one's surprise, Brumbaugh to the portal.

https://x.com/kbobaseballguru/status/2064465978474352910?s=46

[buff2.0]

If you ignore things like stats this is a really good get

https://x.com/TransferPortal/status/2065870485682839562?s=20

[DirkPiggler]

If you ignore things like stats this is a really good get

https://x.com/TransferPortal/status/2065870485682839562?s=20

If we ever need to beat Miami with a weak PI call at the end to win a title, he may be our guy. 

[Pig Benis]

I believe we have commitments from 4 of the top 35 players in the portal now. Still need some pitchers.

[Boarat]

Maginnis is top 25 on some lists. We're supposed to get Evasco who I saw close to top 10. Need several pitchers.
Supposed to get catcher from TCU too.