re: ***2024 Fightin Texas Aggie Road to Omaha***

Here is the TA preseason write up on him.

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RHP Chris Cortez - Entering year three in Aggieland, and it's a similar story for the hard-throwing right-hander from Las Vegas. Anybody with a pair of eyeballs can tell what kind of talent Cortez possesses in that thunderbolt attached to his right shoulder. The issues that have plagued him up to this juncture in his career have been command of the heater and an inability to provide a consistent secondary offering. If he can start taking big strides to answer those questions under Weiner, he has All-SEC potential. I think we will see some changes in his pitch arsenal and selection. Cortez has spent a lot of time reworking pitch shapes that should, in theory, give him more avenues for success. Seeing is believing, and I anticipate Schlossnagle giving him some chances early in the season to see where he's at. Grabbing Cortez some confidence in the first few weeks would be ideal.

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If Max can make some tweaks, he could be a weapon on Sundays-Tuesday. Maybe even be the long relief stopper on weekends. Imagine having a talent like him to throw game 4 of a regionals while the other team is running on fumes.