One would think with at much interest shown, Cal will land enough freshman to mix with experience  ever year, not sure you want more than 3 maybe four of that caliber to gel together with a team.

Quote from: Snout team on Today at 11:54:11 amOn a scale between Qaintance, Garrison and Davis, how sure are we that we have Pryor?

Davis......

Quote from: donnie on Today at 02:17:37 pmYou're getting greedy lol

who is Hugo

Quote from: hogfan10 on Today at 10:18:40 amI'd go with your lineup w/2 changes.
Wilmsmyeyer batting 1 pushing all others down a slot.
Move Jones yo the DH pool.

Nooooooooo, automatic out needs to stay out. If Diggs sits I say throw nolan souza in RF or wagner. Dh the other. Leave Holt in. I really think Holt is trying to swing for more power now which has affected his average a bit but he has 3 HR in sec play. Back in leadoff I think he would just want good solid contact to get on. Last year he was great batting lead off.

Quote from: philiphog on Today at 02:14:34 pmIt is relatively easy to sign players that most teams know are going to sign with a MLB team. The real proof that a hitting coach can recruit is evaluating kids that aren't projected to sign and getting those kids to school. He's simply not doing that. Because of our poor recruiting and bad evaluations - and you can add on poor development, we are now in a position where this year is bad offensively and, if you look at our roster, next year looks to be worse unless we miraculously get a whole new group out of the portal. Hanging your hopes on getting kids out of the portal each year is recipe for disaster. I know high school coaches in the state and, collectively, they say our staff, as far as recruiters, is not impressive. They are good coaches, but not great recruiters. DVH has some hard choices coming up.

The biggest issue is that several of our signees have had huge draft spring leaps.

Walker Martin was a top 200 rated player when he committed and was going to be a DE Sophomore had he made it to campus.  He had a MASSIVE spring last year which led him to the first round.  Had he been someone who had to be in school three years instead of two, he has that leap as a Hog.

To a certain extent, Max Muncy, Jordan Viars and Drew Gray were all similar in their draft springs in 2021.

Add those four players to this team and it looks different.  Although, who knows if we get Aloy had Muncy been here.

Quote from: AwholeHog on Today at 02:54:22 amI'm SW of Hot Springs between the Caddo River and Lake Greeson. If it's that thing that came thru here about 10:40 pm the wind got as high as fast as anything I've ever seen. Had to have been 40-50 mph winds. I was expecting trees to go over.
Then as quick as it came it calmed down. But man that was some serious wind for a few minutes.

That is the neck of the woods I grew up in.

Quote from: Johnnie5 on Today at 02:07:59 pmWagner, Pryor, hugo gonzalzes. And maybe just hawkins will fill out our roster.

You're getting greedy lol

I think I can get used to these waves of 5* recruits showing major interest in the Hogs!  Peat, Acuff, Darryn Peterson, AJ Dybantsa...The Cal effect is REAL! 

Quote from: Boardon Hamsay on Today at 12:00:57 pmTook a lowball shot at the 5/10 SBUX $75 calls for a dime yesterday and got lucky with Howard Shultz sounding off on the company's need to change strategy. I figure the SBUX CEO will be out within 6 months and Shultz might come out of the bullpen again. Stock popped today and I closed the trade at $0.44.

Been on the lookout for sell off stocks with cheap out of the money options that could in the least get a short term pop from a rebound move.

I actually made that same trade o Starbucks with otm options about to expire but in may 1 with options that expired may 3.  Options selling for less than a dime really are some great lotto tickets if you can get the right risk/reward. 

If i saw this yesterday I might have said builders first choice. Roblox is getting killed today.

Long term, idk how I feel about Starbucks.  They are a major part of the Idiocracy portfolio and Mike judge is a psychic.

Quote from: NOVAHog on Today at 01:46:49 pmNate signed a LOT of big high school bats the last few seasons that went professional in lieu of attending Arkansas. That speaks volumes for his ability to recruit high school players. I do, however, wonder why we're not getting some established bats by way of transfer. We're rolling the dice with players like Wagner, Edmundson and other JUCO, D-2 or low D-1 bats.

It is relatively easy to sign players that most teams know are going to sign with a MLB team. The real proof that a hitting coach can recruit is evaluating kids that aren't projected to sign and getting those kids to school. He's simply not doing that. Because of our poor recruiting and bad evaluations - and you can add on poor development, we are now in a position where this year is bad offensively and, if you look at our roster, next year looks to be worse unless we miraculously get a whole new group out of the portal. Hanging your hopes on getting kids out of the portal each year is recipe for disaster. I know high school coaches in the state and, collectively, they say our staff, as far as recruiters, is not impressive. They are good coaches, but not great recruiters. DVH has some hard choices coming up.