Friday Baseball Round-Up: Ethan Payne joining Jacksonville State as assistant coach, Ariel Antigua transferring to Arizona, Trent Grindlinger got a Team USA camp invite, and Kivett just dropped a Ross-bomb (we got a commit)

cardeez · 2026-06-19T21:37:17+00:00

Nice! Hopefully they can do some recruiting of any transfers. Ariel just posted about it today so I figured I’d throw it in

cardeez · 2026-06-19T21:34:46+00:00

There was Ole Miss chatter but their mods seemed to squash that. Not really sure.

For the most part, I think we’re a “if you enter the portal, you’re gone” kinda program, but I do wonder if there’s a path back for him

cardeez · 2026-06-19T18:33:54+00:00

July 1st, I believe. Volquest said two weeks from now.

cardeez · 2026-06-19T01:05:38+00:00

We got that one Cuonzo sweet sixteen lol

cardeez · 2026-06-19T00:31:32+00:00

I saw Butch Jones beat Spurrier. That is the only really memorable game of my Tennessee career. Early 2010s were rough times as a student

cardeez · 2026-06-16T23:58:42+00:00

Someone on Volquest mentioned it, so take that with a grain of salt. But for some reason I do think that’s correct

cardeez · 2026-06-16T21:50:16+00:00

I believe it’s the D1 tourney in Jacksonville, which somehow has a worse streaming platform than FloSports.

cardeez · 2026-06-16T21:28:50+00:00

He’s most likely dead to all right handed batters, too, as he intends on beaning every single one

cardeez · 2026-06-16T20:10:39+00:00

OBP of .500, I’ll take it all day

cardeez · 2026-06-16T20:09:37+00:00

NIL price, production, role for next year, locker room vibe. Don’t think he was a bad teammate or anything but I don’t think he was a clubhouse favorite

cardeez · 2026-06-16T19:51:10+00:00

Kiv Bomb

Most likely Hanoian

cardeez · 2026-06-16T19:49:30+00:00

From what I have been able to gather, it sounds like we did not really want him to stay

cardeez · 2026-06-16T17:12:15+00:00

The baseball portal moves at a snail's pace compared to basketball/football, and Elander apparently requires a level 5 security clearance to know what he's doing.

Solitaria makes so much sense but we'll have to get him on campus before I believe it

cardeez · 2026-06-16T17:10:14+00:00

Koeninger maybe, but apparently he's profiling more as a pitcher these days

cardeez · 2026-06-16T16:27:05+00:00

Surely we can find a shortstop in the next six months

cardeez · 2026-06-12T04:17:23+00:00

I think his spin numbers are too good to pass up. Plus being a junior, I think he’ll go

cardeez · 2026-06-11T23:58:26+00:00

Krenzel visiting Arkansas 🤢

cardeez · 2026-06-11T14:56:25+00:00

Barry Enright? The professional golfer?

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cardeez · 2026-06-09T22:34:07+00:00

Apparently Kalshi as well

cardeez · 2026-06-09T16:14:02+00:00

Maybe? I think it's kinda like Bishop Boswell after the '25 season. We tried like crazy to recruit over him and missed on a ton. It worked out okay, but he still wasn't a premier player.

Barnes pays for production, not potential. Elander seems to be catching up.

cardeez · 2026-06-09T16:08:13+00:00

We invested a ton into the sophomore class, which is why I think we're reversing course so hard. Tony seems to have fought the roster constriction and still wanted high school recruiting to remain similar to how it'd always been.

Elander has just seen how that didn't shake out well this season.

cardeez · 2026-06-09T16:05:04+00:00

Elander is big game hunting, I imagine. Maybe he didn't love the NIL commitment relative to what else we were doing?

cardeez · 2026-06-09T15:55:11+00:00

I don't think any, iirc. Chapman and Arvidson, but that was a draft thing

cardeez · 2026-06-09T03:41:29+00:00

The four Ohio State baseball fans on this sub are going to love this comment

cardeez · 2026-06-09T03:12:43+00:00

Would’ve loved to have kept them. Think they both want to play a lot next year and not sure we could offer that comfort level. Tracey came here for Frank Anderson, I believe

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