It's that time again and the Jim Schlossnagle Era is about to fully be underway. First things first, let's catch up on what happened this offseason.

Offseason:

The MLB Draft hit us fairly hard. Our 3 top guys in innings pitched including our Friday starter, Saturday starter, and top bullpen arm. On the offensive side, Will played at an All-American level. Basically, our only stud bat in 2021.

Not only did we such last year, but we lost our top players.

Have no fear, the transfer portal is here. Per D1Baseball, A&M is ranked #5 in the newcomer class.

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OVERVIEW: A strong recruiter in his own right, new Aggie head coach Jim Schlossnagle wasted no time assembling a stellar staff that includes former LSU recruiting coordinator Nolan Cain, along with one of the nation’s premier pitching coaches in former Oregon State and Arizona coach Nate Yeskie. Taking over in the summer can, many times, set back a program a few years, but the staff did an excellent job of maintaining the freshman class, grabbing some late adds, and especially dominating the transfer portal. Coach Childress was able to build College Station into an “arms factory”, and judging by this group that made it to campus, the transition will still bring a plethora of high level pitchers (as well as position players) moving forward.

Here is how D1 Baseball Ranked the top 75 Transfers
3. Micah Dallas, RHP, Texas A&M (Transferred from Texas Tech)
7. Troy Claunch, C, Texas A&M (Transferred from Oregon State)
19. Dylan Rock, OF, Texas A&M (Transferred from UTSA)
22. Jacob Palisch, LHP, Texas A&M (Transferred from Stanford)
26. Trey Dillard, RHP, Texas A&M (Transferred from Missouri)
53. Kole Kaler, INF, Texas A&M (Transferred from Hawaii)
61. Xavier Lovett, RHP, Texas A&M (Transfer from Mississippi State)

Basically, we are going to see a very new team. How that works our... we will find out. Expectations are fairly low.

Preseason:

Preseason Coaches Poll

I won't even bother with the All-SEC Preseason Teams because we aint got no one on em! Same with any preseason top 25s.

In continuing with the managed expectations, D1Baseball previews the SEC. They have 9 teams making regionals. We aren't one of them.

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Outlook: The Aggies finished last in the SEC West with a 9-21 conference mark in Rob Childress’ final season as head coach, and then brought in Jim Schlossnagle from TCU to infuse some new energy into the program. Schlossnagle and his excellent coaching staff (recruiting dynamo Nolan Cain and premier pitching coach Nate Yeskie) immediately worked to overhaul the roster through the transfer market, and their hard work should pay off with an improved season. Whether they did enough to get A&M back to regionals is an open question, but the potential is clearly there.

2022 Schedule:

FEB

MAR

APR

MAY

A few thoughts on the schedule. We have a very soft early season. Our OOC weekend series are nothing to write home about. Our big tournament early is far from loaded like Houston or Round Rock. Even the midweek games throughout are "meh" outside of t.u. and DBU. Rice, Houston, & Sam are all coming off down years. Once SEC play kicks into gear our schedule becomes hell. We do avoid UT & UF, but we don't get Mizzou.

Prediction:

Here is my stab how we end up in 2022.

31-21 (13-17)

We'd need to go 18-4 in OOC (assuming a couple gets canceled) then 4 games under .500 in conference. This should put us squarely on the bubble. A good run in Hoover may get us in.

***2022 Fightin Texas Aggie Baseball Thread***

2022 Fightin Texas Aggie Baseball Thread