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It would be nice if they advertised this months ago. I would have been easy to fly in to Atlanta in the morning and catch the game. Already playing hooky from work, another half day would not have been an issue. I just saw this 2hrs after the game started
 
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The bad thing about injuries and losing the majority of our veterans to the portal is the dependence on freshman. I don’t think we have another Burress on the roster that is an immediate game changer. Feedback on the scrimmages has not been positive with the incoming class. Maybe someone has a better perspective who attended.
 
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Curious which veterans that were major contributors were lost to the portal? As far as I can tell the only underclassmen we lost to the portal were not getting much if any playing time so they decided to move on to seek playing time elsewhere. The only exception might be Busse who mysteriously lost his mojo last year. Guys like Diamant, Sabathia and Minnick either weren't playing or when they did play were not performing well. Most of the other veterans that didn't run out of eligibility either got drafted or signed to play pro ball.
 
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78pike said:
Curious which veterans that were major contributors were lost to the portal? As far as I can tell the only underclassmen we lost to the portal were not getting much if any playing time so they decided to move on to seek playing time elsewhere. The only exception might be Busse who mysteriously lost his mojo last year. Guys like Diamant, Sabathia and Minnick either weren't playing or when they did play were not performing well. Most of the other veterans that didn't run out of eligibility either got drafted or signed to play pro ball.
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Ryan Jaros is probably the most impactful transfer portal loss from last season. He transferred to NC State. I will be interested to see how he develops. On the pitching side Aeden Finateri transferred to Alabama. Those are probably the two biggest impact losses. Personally I would have liked to have seen Diamant and Sabathia get more consistent plate appearances, especially early in the season, but neither did anything to bust the door down and make it obvious that they deserved more time.

Is Graziano still with us? I'll admit I lose track sometimes of who stayed and who left.
 
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gtbeak said:
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Is Graziano still with us? I'll admit I lose track sometimes of who stayed and who left.
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Didn't see Graziano here https://ramblinwreck.com/sports/m-basebl/roster/

We have over 25 pitchers.

I was feeling thankful Saturday evening after the ND loss that Danny Hall gave me the ability to flush losses very quickly. Bad losses used to replay in my mind at night; but through years of repetition, that no longer happens.
 
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gtbeak said:
Ryan Jaros is probably the most impactful transfer portal loss from last season. He transferred to NC State. I will be interested to see how he develops. On the pitching side Aeden Finateri transferred to Alabama. Those are probably the two biggest impact losses. Personally I would have liked to have seen Diamant and Sabathia get more consistent plate appearances, especially early in the season, but neither did anything to bust the door down and make it obvious that they deserved more time.

Is Graziano still with us? I'll admit I lose track sometimes of who stayed and who left.
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I forgot about Jarros. He had a lot of potential and did pretty well when given a chance to play. Unfortunately he found himself playing behind some guys that were not coming out of the lineup because they were also top performers. Had he stayed I feel pretty confident he would have started this year. Did he ever state his reason for leaving? Just wondering if it was playing time, school or something else.

I think Finateri needed a change of scenery. He logged a lot of innings but had an ERA of 6.24 and gave up way too many home runs - 19. The next closest on the team only gave up 9. Add that to the fact that he led the team in HBP's with 11. His tenure at Tech got derailed when he got hurt and he just never seemed to reach the potential he showed early on. I don't know but maybe his departure was a mutual thing to give some of the younger arms a chance to shine. It will be interesting to see how he fares against SEC hitting.

Graziano is not listed on this year's roster. I'm not sure where he went. We do have a talented and highly rated freshman class coming in. Like the other poster said, I doubt any of them will have the impact like Burress but you never know. Guys like Drew Rogers and Ryan Johnson have some hype behind them so it will be interesting to see how they do.
 
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Graz is at Mercer with Busse & Gaspard
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Here are the transfer destinations. Sabathia is at Houston. I am not sure about the others who don’t have a team listed.

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78pike said:
I forgot about Jarros. He had a lot of potential and did pretty well when given a chance to play. Unfortunately he found himself playing behind some guys that were not coming out of the lineup because they were also top performers. Had he stayed I feel pretty confident he would have started this year. Did he ever state his reason for leaving? Just wondering if it was playing time, school or something else.

I think Finateri needed a change of scenery. He logged a lot of innings but had an ERA of 6.24 and gave up way too many home runs - 19. The next closest on the team only gave up 9. Add that to the fact that he led the team in HBP's with 11. His tenure at Tech got derailed when he got hurt and he just never seemed to reach the potential he showed early on. I don't know but maybe his departure was a mutual thing to give some of the younger arms a chance to shine. It will be interesting to see how he fares against SEC hitting.

Graziano is not listed on this year's roster. I'm not sure where he went. We do have a talented and highly rated freshman class coming in. Like the other poster said, I doubt any of them will have the impact like Burress but you never know. Guys like Drew Rogers and Ryan Johnson have some hype behind them so it will be interesting to see how they do.
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Jaros also had some injury problems that (I think) ended his season early. As to why he transferred, no, I don't think that info is public knowledge. Finateri, I normally would agree that it was mutual except that we don't seem to have much depth on our pitching staff. But that's OK, because we seem to make up for that lack of quantity by not having much quality pitching either. :( I wish I could be more optimistic on this front.
 

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gtbeak said:
we don't seem to have much depth on our pitching staff. But that's OK, because we seem to make up for that lack of quantity by not having much quality pitching either. :( I wish I could be more optimistic on this front.
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Sounds like the football coach who bragged that his team “wasn’t very fast, but they sure are small”…..
 
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78pike said:
Curious which veterans that were major contributors were lost to the portal? As far as I can tell the only underclassmen we lost to the portal were not getting much if any playing time so they decided to move on to seek playing time elsewhere. The only exception might be Busse who mysteriously lost his mojo last year. Guys like Diamant, Sabathia and Minnick either weren't playing or when they did play were not performing well. Most of the other veterans that didn't run out of eligibility either got drafted or signed to play pro ball.
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Hypothetically, players in the GT system should be better than 99% of the freshman coming in, assuming we are developing them. Can we agree to that? Second, let’s not put the hard press on “not performing well” when none of those mentioned above ever started a full series last year that I can recall. You are judging them off how many ABs?
 
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