Speaker 1: Raging Cagens Baseball has its final piece to complete Team
one thirteen. Let's discuss it here on Raging Rundown. What's good,
ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to another episode of Raging Rundown.
All Cajuns all the time. I'm your guy, JaMarcus Fitzpatrick,
but you know you can always call me fits. And
in today's episode, we will be talking about the final
commitment that Louisiana Baseball has earned for their twenty twenty
seven class. We'll also discuss about you O men's basketball,
adding another little bit of anticipation as they reveal yet
another opponent that they will be facing this upcoming basketball season.
So we'll lead off as we've done in many episodes.
And I know it's been a couple of days, it's
been kind of quiet. I've also had some time off,
but it's been a little bit quiet on the front.
But now we have some news to discuss, so it
warrants another episode. Louisiana Baseball gains a commitment from Chipola
Junior College right handed pitcher Joey Irvin. This young man
is six foot one, he has two hundred pounds. He
is a red shirt sophomore, so he will have two
years of eligibility under the five year playing because he
red shirted red shirt freshman, red shirt sophomore, so sophomore,
so he has two more years of eligibility. According to
his statistics that he pinned to his Twitter account, he
has a ninety two to ninety four fastball. It tops
out in ninety six. It's a slider between eighty four
to eighty six. So he has some really good stuff
on him. A quick snapshot about some of his statistics.
He's been to two schools. He started off at Coastal
Alabama North in twenty twenty four, where he had fourteen appearances,
a five point zero to ERA fourteen and a third
and he's pitched seventeen strikeouts, thirteen walks, eight earned runs
while opponents hit a two forty three against him. Last year,
in his season a Copola College or Chipola College, he shoes,
excuse me, where's it hard? Sixteen appearances, eight and one record,
a five point seven to four ERA and four starts.
He had pitched in forty two and the third innings,
fifty eight strikeouts, twenty seven earned runs, and thirty walks
while opponents hit a two fifty six, so the strikeout
to walk ratio decreased in terms of what it was
in the first season of his career. Would getting much
burned in Coastal Alabama North. So he transfers to Chipola College,
getting a few appearances, being a solid back end option
for that team. And that's what you're gaining in someone
like him to your roster now. And from what I've
been told, he did choose the Cajuns over Oregon. So
that just goes to show you the level of commitment
that players are seeing in the vision that Matt Diggs
is presenting to these players as they are inching closer
to fall ball.
Speaker 2: And once we.
Speaker 1: Get there to the twenty twenty seven season, so you
gain another picture commitment. And so from what I've been told,
this roster is complete. They will not pursue anyone further.
Things are completely rounded out for them. I will name
off all of these players for you, and if you
want to be able to write it down or anything
like that, I have them all that I'll read them
off to you as we've done in so many different episodes.
We'll start off with the returners, we'll talk about the freshmen,
and then round out each position with the transferred players,
so you have twenty total pictures.
Speaker 2: Twenty total pictures.
Speaker 1: First off, with your returners Tyrowman, Garrett Carter, cam Riley
Parker Smith, Hayden Pearson, saw Your Pruitt, Chase Morgan, Jerald Tillett, Landon,
Victorian Bryce Wilson. Your freshman is Evan Vincent from Turtline's Catholic.
Your transfers are Trent Lape, Dagan Kubat, Magne, Mattix Sullivan,
Charlie Krebs, Blaine Albright, Griffin, Miller, Kendall, Dove Jackson Evers,
and Joey Irvin. Twenty pitchers. Your infielders. Your returners Drew
markle Blaize Rodriguez, Josh Lim Miles Lado is your freshman
from barb Your transfers are Eric Fernandez, Jeremy Kuiper, Michah Kendrick,
Manny Salaz, Tanner Hornback.
Speaker 2: That's nine.
Speaker 1: Your outfielders, you have four returners and a transfer. Those
four returners are Donovan LaSalle, Mark Collins, Noah Lewis, Steven Spelita.
I've been told we'll switch from catcher to outfielder. There's
no telling there, but I am going to assume from
what I've been told that he will be in the
outfield and kel Pazzano is your final outfielder.
Speaker 2: That give you five.
Speaker 1: You have two catchers and Colp Brown and Jose Carmona
the transfer. Colp Brown is your returner for thirty six
total guys. And when you look at the layout of
this roster, right you have all of your pictures. And
it was really really important for this squad to get
the number of pictures that they did because Coach Diggs
felt like coming out of the Startville Regional that they
didn't run out of gas. I asked him that, did
you feel like your guys ran out of gas? And
he simply said no, He felt like they just needed
more arms. And there was something that he said after
the lost to Mississippi State in the regional final that
stood out in one of his postgame comments. I'm going
to play that entire clip for you right here so
you can be able to hear it. It's about a
minute long, everything in his entirety of what he felt
like could be the expectations for this team if they
could get all the right arms in.
Speaker 2: Front of them.
Speaker 3: We have, first of all, we have some really talented
kids coming in. Secondly, if we can match, if we
can match what we've got position player wise, on the bump,
you're gonna have to replace Brash. I understand that. I
truly feel like this team will be knocking on door
of them all. I really we'll push to get there.
I don't think, and I know I'm over confident at times.
I just damn, it's just me, But I don't think
starting next fall and making a Golden Host is out
of the Roman possibilities. I just don't with this group,
and I don't like the fact that we're talking about
having to get them back. You know, It's the bottom
line is this is a brotherhood. If they decide that
they want to be a part of that brotherhood and
they want to bet on themselves, if they want to
be a big fish and a smaller pond, but that
pond is very, very popular, and every Scout in America
knows about that little bitty small pond. And if they
want to bet on themselves, like Kyle de Barge, Carson
rock Afford, LP Longevan, Julian Brock, Simo the rest of them,
Cayle de Bar's bet on himself he turned down five
hundred and two point six. That's what it boils down to.
Speaker 1: So a lot of passion there from coach days and
his final few seconds there saying simply that he believes
with what these guys were able to put together, that
this roster would be capable of reaching Omaha. And to
have that type of confidence in your team, knowing what
you have and knowing what you could be able to
bring in, and like he said, knowing that there have
been other guys to come through this program that have
been big fish in small ponds. It gives a great
recruiting pitch and obviously there were multiple guys that believed
in that vision of Matt Diggs and company. And that's
why this roster has been fully complete as we head
now into the twenty twenty seven season. So that's how
things are looking, and it'll be interesting to see how
they all gel together, because like on paper, we know
like it looks good, it sounds good, it feels good,
like all of those great things like that, but it
does not matter unless they are able to put it
all together as a complete team. That is what is
most important. That's what matters the most because we can
say it all we want to about, Hey, this guy
is really really good on paper, or this team really
has a lot of potential, but if they can't formulate it,
if it cannot come all together, then none of that
will really matter at the end of the day. So
that's how things are looking on the baseball front. In
terms of basketball, it's gonna be an exciting in state
matchup for the Raging Cagens later this year in twenty
twenty six. We're gonna discuss a little bit about that matchup,
how important it is, and what it could all mean
for the future of this program when we come back
here on Rage and Rundown. Hey, guys, thank you so
much for tuning into another episode of Rage Rundown. Now
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So before we went to break, we talked about how
baseball is now rounded out. There twenty twenty six or
twenty twenty seven upcoming roster for the next season.
Speaker 2: But in a couple of months there will be another.
Speaker 1: Raging Cagen's program that will be getting into action, and
it will be going against an in state rival. As
I'm trying to pull it up here on my computer
with the graphic that they posted a little bit earlier today,
the men's basketball program posted earlier to here today on Monday,
July the sixth, saying mark your calendar is one of
the biggest games of the season is said as Louisiana
will head down to ban Rouge and take on the
LSU Tigers on December twenty second. That is a Tuesday,
I believe of twenty twenty six. Let me double check
on my calendar so I know I'm not telling you
guys incorrectly. I thought I looked earlier, but I want
to be correct. Yes, that is a Tuesday. Tuesday two
days before Christmas Eve and three before Christmas Day. So
that's gonna be a fun one for sure. Now you know,
there are a lot of reasons why this game is important.
The very first one is kind of not the obvious one.
But it is what it is because this is still
business while it is athletics. And that is for a
monetary reason, because we know that Power four schools are
willing to play G five schools and this is an
opportunity to make anywhere between maybe eighty two one hundred
thousand for a single game because of something like this.
But Quantus White, I'm sure is not thinking about, hey,
I'm just going to go out here and get paid.
He wants these guys to go out and compete, and
that kind of ties into the second reason behind that,
which is, you know, the exposure aspect of things, like
if you go there, you are playing on a bigger stage,
so to speak, against the program that is in a
bigger realm than you are playing in the SEC, playing
against in a conference with the likes of Arkansas and
Kentucky and so on and so forth. So playing against
an opponent like that gives guys a ton of exposure
because now you have guys like Jeremiah Evans, like Todd Jones,
you know, like Jamiron Keller that hey, I crossed up
a guy that played at LSU. So if I can
do it against him, we can go ahead and be
able to compete and roll through the Sunbelt because of
you know that confidence that it will build into them
from an exposure standpoint.
Speaker 2: And the next thing is is just bragging rights overall.
Speaker 1: Like if you're watching this pod, that means you're a
Cajun fan, and anytime you play anyone else, you want
to be able to say we beat y'all. And when
you're playing LSU, you definitely want to say we beat y'all.
Whether that has been in softball, they've done it before,
whether that's baseball they just did it this past season.
You want to beat the end state opponent in whatever
opportunity that you get a chance to.
Speaker 2: So this will be the.
Speaker 1: Sixth matchup all time between these two opponents since two
thousand and one. That is, all of them have been
played in Baton Rouge, So this will be yet another
matchup happening in Baton Rouge. All of them have been
losses for the Cajuns, and all of them have not
been particularly close margins, except for the two thousand and
eight season where they lost eighty one to seventy nine,
and then in twenty seventeen. The twenty eighteens and twenty
seventeen season, they lost eighty four to seventy six in
the notorious If I'm not mistaken or no, now that
I think about it, they actually did play again, and
it was during the time where Bob Marlon was the
coach and it was.
Speaker 2: Bob Marlon facing off or words are hard.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Bob Marlin and I will wade getting into
a little bit of a shouting match, so to speak,
there at half court. So that was the last time
that those two teams played. And I do believe that
that was at the p MAC. If I'm not mistaken,
I'm drawing a blank just a little bit there. But
on the website twenty seventeen twenty eighteen season March fourteenth,
that was the last time that these teams played. I
believe that was in the NIT tournament, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 2: So that was the last time that these teams met.
Speaker 1: So, like I said, you always want to get the
opportunity to be able to beat an in state foe,
and now that that matchup is set, they will have
the opportunity to do that. We know that football season
is the first one that's coming up, but right in
behind that you got football, you have volleyball going on
and soccer as well as a fall sport right in
behind that got basketball. So this now gives you something
to look forward to as you are inching through the
remainder of twenty twenty six. We got a lot more
things that are gonna be on tap, obviously as we
get through the summer. Some Belt media day is going
to be next week myself and Anthony Council, but my
day job at KTC will be hitting down there to
check that out. But like I said, this just gives
you a little bit more excitement and something to look
forward to as you push towards the twenty twenty six
twenty twenty seven men's basketball season. So Rage Cagen's baseball
gets a commitment.
Speaker 2: From Joey Irvin.
Speaker 1: Basketball is set to play LSU on December twenty second
at the Marritage Center. So that's gonna wrap up yet
another episode of Rage and Rundown. If you made it
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