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PMDawg
07-03-2024, 11:18 AM
Per 247.
Pancho
07-03-2024, 01:31 PM
ok
Cooterpoot
07-03-2024, 01:57 PM
Frees up a spot to add another arm because that one wasn't helping us
Leeshouldveflanked
07-03-2024, 06:43 PM
He didn?t even dress out for Regional and wasnt hurt.
KOdawg1
07-03-2024, 08:21 PM
Add him to the same list that Cerantola, Walling, Fristoe (to a lesser extent), Stinnett, KC Hunt, and others are on. Maybe he figures it out in the pros. Most of these other guys on the list have
Cooterpoot
07-04-2024, 08:54 AM
Add him to the same list that Cerantola, Walling, Fristoe (to a lesser extent), Stinnett, KC Hunt, and others are on. Maybe he figures it out in the pros. Most of these other guys on the list have

Hunt has been good in the minors
Saltydog
07-04-2024, 09:03 AM
Why is he in the portal? Somebody on this board kept saying he was a can't miss high draft prospect. I just don't understand this. Hell, even Parker couldn't fix him.
bigbub50
07-04-2024, 10:09 AM
More than likely going pro. This is a fall back plan and also to test his market value in the portal to be able to make a wise choice in whether to sign or not when he gets drafted. Hurd at lsu is doing the same thing.
Coach34
07-04-2024, 11:34 AM
He will be drafted late like Hunt and some others- especially with the way he is pitching this summer
Cooterpoot
07-04-2024, 11:40 AM
He will be drafted late like Hunt and some others- especially with the way he is pitching this summer

He's just hedging his bet by getting in the portal. I don't blame him.
Hot Rock
07-04-2024, 12:20 PM
Minor leagues have the time to let them develop and lose games. College teams are trying to win now. It?s a different mindset, They don?t care about wins and losses, only player development.

You got the arm talent, they got the patience to get you there. A college coach would be out if a job in short order for leaving a guy in to figure things out.
Pinto
07-04-2024, 02:03 PM
Minor leagues have the time to let them develop and lose games. College teams are trying to win now. It?s a different mindset, They don?t care about wins and losses, only player development.

You got the arm talent, they got the patience to get you there. A college coach would be out if a job in short order for leaving a guy in to figure things out.

Cheese says hold my beer!
parabrave
07-05-2024, 11:58 AM
Minor leagues have the time to let them develop and lose games. College teams are trying to win now. It?s a different mindset, They don?t care about wins and losses, only player development.

You got the arm talent, they got the patience to get you there. A college coach would be out if a job in short order for leaving a guy in to figure things out.

This. You have 3-5 years to develop in the minors then alot of the ones who get released will get one or two more as FAs
Coach34
07-05-2024, 02:12 PM
And we were more than fair to Holcombe. He had his adjustment year under Foxy and then a year for him to step up under Parker. He was looking like he may be coming around and then just fell apart in the Spring.

Best of luck to him
Commercecomet24
07-05-2024, 04:31 PM
Minor leagues have the time to let them develop and lose games. College teams are trying to win now. It?s a different mindset, They don?t care about wins and losses, only player development.

You got the arm talent, they got the patience to get you there. A college coach would be out if a job in short order for leaving a guy in to figure things out.

This is correct.