“I don’t know where we would be without AJ Balta.”
A lot of special players laced ‘em for TCU Baseball this past season, and the seasons before them. We got more baseball nominations than for any other sport... Luken Baker, Durbin Feltman, Jared Janczak, Josh Watson... there were plenty of great options. Shoot, even guys like Jake Eissler, Haylen Green, Augie Mihlbauer - and who could forget Michael Landestoy - deserved to be considered.
But... as I was narrowing down the field... that quote kept coming back to me. It was something Jim Schlossnagle said multiple times, and that I heard him say after Haylen Green came a couple of outs away from throwing a no-hitter - “I don’t know where we would be without AJ Balta.