Season long Flores and Gaspy were serious liabilities. Borba clearly improved including on defense. Flores at the SS spot has to be at least great on defense, he was not. His bat a tremendous liability. I think we certainly can expect a Texas SS to be great in the field and at the plate but I get many great SS prospects are gone, but with NIL there's even more honest expectation that Texas fields a SS that can catch and hit. seriously come the fuck on.
pitching was going to be a liability we thought anyway, DP left this team trashed in the bull pen. we really were fortunate to have Spencer and Riojas come in and dominate the first 2/3 of the year. With Grubbs and Volantis and Harrison coming a long we had a ridiculous run of good fortune unlike many years before, then Spencer and Riojas fell off for different reasons and we had to rely on our third starter as an ace. yeah, that shit just will not cut it, especially when the team's championship make up was defined by tops in the SEC in pitching and solid defense with a mid offense. pitching falls apart, offense regressed a bit more to lower mid and defense was whatever, doesn't matter. no way this team was going to make a run. My natural optimistic self thought CWS was 50/50 at best.
now he has had a whole year to recruit and to get ready for the portal. I suspect he's got more cash available than DP had, so I bet next year will be competitive down the stretch. we will see.