2025 NCAA Baseball Portal Thread

[The Federalist Engineer]

Still some players to get if the draft bites the roster...

Some head scratchers on this list. The UGA Dogs Kolten Smith and Alton Davis are wasted collegiate roster spots, like taking someone's wrecked cars. Even the dude on the top of the list has performance numbers that even USMs midweek starter could possibly give you. Fastball velo is sexy to the scouts. The top Duke dude has a +7 ERA. These dudes need minor league A-ball for 3 years, not SEC roster spots.

The good collegiate pitchers are on the bottom. Proksch, Reddemann, and Cooper Moore look like excellent guys to get if someone gets drafted high and you can redirect the NIL. Cooper Moore has 120 innings of experience and been getting sharply better.

[Todd4State]

Still some players to get if the draft bites the roster...

Some head scratchers on this list. The UGA Dogs Kolten Smith and Alton Davis are wasted collegiate roster spots, like taking someone's wrecked cars. Even the dude on the top of the list has performance numbers that even USMs midweek starter could possibly give you. Fastball velo is sexy to the scouts. The top Duke dude has a +7 ERA. These dudes need minor league A-ball for 3 years, not SEC roster spots.

The good collegiate pitchers are on the bottom. Proksch, Reddemann, and Cooper Moore look like excellent guys to get if someone gets drafted high and you can redirect the NIL. Cooper Moore has 120 innings of experience and been getting sharply better.

We may get Godbut and Arroyo if they aren't drafted. That and any other pitching that we think can help us. Not sure how much of that is really out there at this point. I'd be looking for a Cam Schuelke type that can eat innings and throw from a weird arm angle as much as anything and that's a luxury for us at this point.

[Todd4State]

Yes, 1 Aug is the deadline. I really don't understand why the draft has been pushed so much later than it used to be? I was not a fan of when it was right before or during the CWS but college baseball has been over for a while now. Finding out so late which players and signees are getting drafted and where really puts college coaches in a bind.

MLB wants to tie it into All Star game festivities. Coaches were complaining for years about the timing of the draft in June. And I agree it was a huge distraction.

Coaches mostly know where they stand with draft candidates at this point and most should be using the portal to mitigate losses before the Fourth of July. Like O'Connor has essentially already done.

[The Federalist Engineer]

We may get Godbut and Arroyo if they aren't drafted. That and any other pitching that we think can help us. Not sure how much of that is really out there at this point. I'd be looking for a Cam Schuelke type that can eat innings and throw from a weird arm angle as much as anything and that's a luxury for us at this point.

I wonder how much Hickson costs to recruit, if he goes MLB draft, you can go for the Kansas, San Diego or the good Duke player. Those guys look like a Plug and Play Sunday starters if not better.

My guess is that BOC is a game theory man, he's looking NPV of Hickson, Bauer, Harmon, and two high effort power kids in his inherited Recruiting Class and is factoring how to transition for a total loss to MLB or just losing 3 of 6.

[Todd4State]

I wonder how much Hickson costs to recruit, if he goes MLB draft, you can go for the Kansas, San Diego or the good Duke player. Those guys look like a Plug and Play Sunday starters if not better.

My guess is that BOC is a game theory man, he's looking NPV of Hickson, Bauer, Harmon, and two high effort power kids in his inherited Recruiting Class and is factoring how to transition for a total loss to MLB or just losing 3 of 6.

I'm not sure how much it costs to recruit a player in general but probably not that much. I'm 99% sure that they don't get their NIL if they go pro and I'm 99% sure their NIL deals don't start until after they get to school.

All BOC and anyone else can do is talk to scouts and try to gauge as best as they can what will happen.