Baseball Question

[UTTUCK]

With Volantis moving to starter, who will closer be?  Grubbs???

I was looking at their roster, Horns got some big ol boys!!!😁🤘

 

[CJ Vogel]

2 minutes ago, UTTUCK said:

With Volantis moving to starter, who will closer be?  Grubbs???

I was looking at their roster, Horns got some big ol boys!!!😁🤘

 

Going to be tbd for now. 

Grubbs, Cozart, one of Riojas/Flores are all going to be in contention. We will see about Crossland too, he has been someone with a lot of expectations coming out of the winter.

[tfoster40]

Rick Vaughn is my guess 

[Horn n KS]

2 hours ago, tfoster40 said:

Rick Vaughn is my guess 

Waiting for NCAA to confirm eligibility. I have high hopes 

[CJ Vogel]

25 minutes ago, Horn n KS said:

Waiting for NCAA to confirm eligibility. I have high hopes 

These days anything can happen.

[AZ Longhorn]

On 2/2/2026 at 9:43 AM, UTTUCK said:

With Volantis moving to starter, who will closer be?  Grubbs???

I've got my eye on Burns and Higgins.

Burns is the "pro-style closer" option with top shelf electricity in that arm. But he had control/command and mental toughness issues last year; we'll see how he's grown there.

Higgins is more the "college-style closer" option... and has some similarities to Volantis as a composed lefty who is better than his stuff would indicate. Higgins has also gotten some recent preseason honors recognition, which tells me those outlets think he's gonna be our closer (rare for a middle reliever / stopper to get preseason first team picks). 

We can quibble about whether we have a top-end starter to match up eye-to-eye with the Casan Evans, Hunter Elliots, Gabe Gaeckles, Cam Flukeys, and Dax Whitneys of our title competitors (we don't IMO), but we have as much if not more pitching depth than anyone! It's up to Schloss and Weiner to strategize to our strengths.  

Edited 1 hour ago by AZ Longhorn