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Texas Baseball Team To Retire The Number of Longhorns Legend

The Texas Longhorns will be retiring the number 25. That number was worn by Austin native and Longhorns legend Huston Street.

The Texas Longhorns are looking to return to the College World Series in hopes of capturing the elusive World Championship that has evaded their grasp since 2002. To do so, the Longhorns brought back the man that helped lead them to Omaha during that season, former Major League Baseball pitch Huston Street. He was the MVP of that championship run.

Huston Street’s number 25 jersey will be retired. A huge honor bestowed upon a legend in the streets of Austin. During his time with the Longhorns, Street finished with 41 career saves. He is regarded as one of the best college closers of all time. In 2010, Street was named to the NCAA College World Series Legends Team.

Street finished his professional career with 324 saves that spanned 13 seasons. His career record finish 42-34 with 665 strikeouts. Street joined the staff this past offseason. He was also named AL Rookie of The Year in 2005 while a member of the Oakland A’s. The two-time All-Star finished with a 2.95 earned run average (ERA).

What a way to welcome back Streeter.

Four Longhorns named to Big 12’s All-Decade baseball team

Kody Clemens, Mark Payton, Taylor Jungmann, and Corey Knebel are named to D1 Baseball’s Big 12 All-Decade team.

It was a successful decade for Texas baseball, consistently winning throughout all ten years. Winning the Big 12 regular season three different times in 2010, 2011, and 2018. The only other program to come close to the Longhorns was Texas Tech, also winning three.

Texas also added a Big 12 tournament win in 2015, sending them straight to the NCAA tournament. Making it to the tournament in 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2018, the Longhorns got to the College World Series in three of those years.

All of this success was due to a few players who made it into the D1baseball.com Big 12 All-Decade Team. Kody Clemens, Mark Payton, Taylor Jungmann, and Corey Knebel all made it in for the Longhorns. You can check out the full team here:

Here are the four players that made it into the Big 12 All-Decade team:

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LOOK: Texas Baseball unveils state-of-the-art player development center

The Texas Longhorns baseball team just unveiled its new player development center, called the J. Dan Brown Family Player Development Center

The Texas Longhorns baseball team just unveiled its brand new, state-of-the-art player development center, called the J. Dan Brown Family Player Development Center. This facility is packed to the gills with amenities aimed to help players improve and for Texas to field the best group of players it possibly can on any given day. Check out this video giving a brief tour through the facilities:

This center makes its’ mark as the first fully donor-funded athletics facility on the Forty Acres. It includes a sports performance center for weight training, a nutrition center, a multi-use turf room outfit with multiple batting cages, the new Roger Clemens pitching lab, and an alumni locker room for former Longhorns who have since gone pro to work out in the off-season.

This facility is truly remarkable, and is another way that Texas sets itself apart from the competition. The Longhorns baseball team will utilize the facility in hopes of making a run at the College World Series this season.