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UConn Baseball Recruiting and Commitment Thread

The summer baseball team Nashua of the Futures League has listed on their roster a player named George Welch, a senior LHP. The roster lists his college team UConn. From what I can tell Welch has been playing for Southern New Hampshire University, and Welch's twitter page says that he is in the transfer portal, so it would seem Welch has just transferred to UConn. The Nashua roster so far is the only place I have found this mention of Welch and UConn.

There have been occasions in the past where a collegiate summer baseball team has first listed a player as transferring to another school.
 
dbmill said:
The summer baseball team Nashua of the Futures League has listed on their roster a player named George Welch, a senior LHP. The roster lists his college team UConn. From what I can tell Welch has been playing for Southern New Hampshire University, and Welch's twitter page says that he is in the transfer portal, so it would seem Welch has just transferred to UConn. The Nashua roster so far is the only place I have found this mention of Welch and UConn.

There have been occasions in the past where a collegiate summer baseball team has first listed a player as transferring to another school.
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An article about George Welch from this spring while pitching for Southern New Hampshire University.

currently.att.yahoo.com

Welch's move to bullpen making life easier for SNHU

May 17—IT'S NOT OFTEN you see a starting pitcher with a 5-0 record move to the bullpen, but that's what happened to Southern New Hampshire University's George Welch last month. Welch, a Derry resident...
currently.att.yahoo.com currently.att.yahoo.com
 
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If we eventually join the Big 12, do you all think that would have a positive effect on baseball recruiting?
 
We've already made some inroads in the last 10 years, but there's still this whole class of player in Connecticut that it feels like is going to pick an ACC school or Vanderbilt over us 95% of the time (Winkels being the chief outliers).

Think Matt Scott at Stanford, Chad Knight at Duke, Jake Deleo at Georgia Tech, Langhorne who went to Vandy initially, etc. And yes, not only it, but I am talking a lot about Fairfield County, as all the above guys are from there.

Those are the guys we're going to have a great shot at keeping in-state if we're able to give them power conference baseball, imo.

Probably don't need to elaborate on this as we all here already know it, but Connecticut punches well above its weight when considering location and size, in terms of baseball talent. If we can keep even more of those players, and the best of those players, consistently at home... it's a dream scenario.
 
UConNick said:
We've already made some inroads in the last 10 years, but there's still this whole class of player in Connecticut that it feels like is going to pick an ACC school or Vanderbilt over us 95% of the time (Winkels being the chief outliers).

Think Matt Scott at Stanford, Chad Knight at Duke, Jake Deleo at Georgia Tech, Langhorne who went to Vandy initially, etc. And yes, not only it, but I am talking a lot about Fairfield County, as all the above guys are from there.

Those are the guys we're going to have a great shot at keeping in-state if we're able to give them power conference baseball, imo.

Probably don't need to elaborate on this as we all here already know it, but Connecticut punches well above its weight when considering location and size, in terms of baseball talent. If we can keep even more of those players, and the best of those players, consistently at home... it's a dream scenario.
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Coach Penders in a number of interviews in the past has mentioned more than once hoping to keep the the best baseball players in the state and hopefully bring them to Storrs to play. He has mentioned how he thinks such a team would be one that would likely make June trips to Omaha for the NCAA Tournament.
 
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HookC22 said:
By leaps and bounds. 1000%
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Thought folks might say this, and I agree.

Selfishly, as an appreciator of all UConn teams -- but particularly hardcore fan of HookC -- I am pulling hard for us to join the Big 12. I know it wouldn't come without some very real drawbacks, but damn, it feels like it could really supercharge an already thriving HookC program.

Will all be moot, of course, if we never get an invite.
 
BaseballDog said:
Cameron Mayer RHP Graduate Transfer from Tufts (D3) will be playing at UConn next year.
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Cameron Mayer's Twitter page appears to shows him playing for UConn in the 2024 season.


Mayer's info from the Tufts baseball website:

Cameron Mayer - 2023 - Baseball - Tufts University

Cameron Mayer (17) P - 2023 (Senior): Pitcher for the Tufts University baseball team...Appeared in 12 games ands started 1...Pitched 36.2 innings tossing 34 strikeouts
gotuftsjumbos.com gotuftsjumbos.com
 
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New UConn additions for the D1Baseball.com Transfer Portal listings. In addition to the players previously mentioned who are transferring to UConn, D1Baseball.com now lists George Welch of Southern New Hampshire and Cameron Mayer of Tufts as transferring to UConn.
 
dbmill said:


Owen Norrell is a high school Class of 2024 LHP from Austin, Texas. Not the usual high school recruiting territory for UConn baseball, that's for sure.

www.perfectgame.org

Owen Norrell Class of 2024 - Player Profile | Perfect Game USA

Owen Norrell Class of 2024 Perfect Game Player Profile
www.perfectgame.org www.perfectgame.org
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Can’t help but wonder if MacDonald shared some insider info about UConn’s future conference…? Texas… ya know?
 
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No real surprise here. He’s likely a high draft pick and he’s leverage it against big NIL money to fall back on. Smart move on his part.
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dbmill said:
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I had thought that Anthony Belisario was coming to Storrs for the coming school year. However, there are a couple of tweets and other info out there that make him out as a High School Class of 24, including the above tweet. It would seem Belisario is still a year away from arriving at UConn and joining the baseball team.
 


Bryce Detwiler, INF/RHP, High School Class of 2025. Incoming UConn freshman Tyler Minick went to the same high school.
 
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