Kyle Peterson applauds 12th Man following A&M's successful super regional

After an incredible night at Blue Bell Park, former Stanford All-American and ESPN baseball analyst Kyle Peterson joined Monday's edition of TexAgs Radio to discuss A&M's Omaha berth and the rest of the field that has punched their ticket to the promised land.

Key notes from Kyle Peterson interview

• I think sometimes when you put an inning like the seventh inning together, generally, it's not going to be because you got 10 hits or something crazy. You usually need help, and they got a lot of it. I think the help was the environment that has, over time, gotten better and better at that ballpark. It's not an easy place to play.
   
• When people are going nuts, it's interesting what goes through your mind on the mound or wherever you are. Some are built for it, and they love it, and some aren’t. It can have a huge effect.
   
• Kaeden Kent hits the grand slam, and that changes everything, but the reality is, up to that point, you didn't have to swing for a lot of it. You just kind of let the environment take its place, and that's a good thing. It was pretty crazy to watch that unfold in real-time.
   
• The scouts look at guys that they're going to the MLB draft, and it's a lot easier to take a chance on guys that have a ton of stuff. Because if they don’t work, it's a lot easier to go back and say well, hold on, I gave you a guy that throws 98 mph.
   
• Chris Cortez is a really easy guy to take a chance on. You see him and his stuff can play at any level. You can put Cortez in a big-league bullpen right now, and nobody would blink.
   
• Evan Aschenbeck is a little bit different. His high-end stuff isn't quite where you would look at and think, “Oh, yeah,” but the results are as good as anybody else in the country. It's also harder for scouts to take a chance on a guy like that. It's a long way of saying someone is going to take a chance on him, and they damn sure should.
   
• When it comes to college, give me five of Evan. Give me the guy that you can hand the ball to and tell everybody else in the bullpen to take their spikes off. Y’all just hang out, see he's going to take us home, and then we can all run out onto the field. Most places don't have that guy, and the Aggies got him.
   
• Especially with the portal, you can go get guys that have experience at the high Division I level. It makes for a lot of turnover, but it's the best return. I've talked to a lot of coaches about this, like you still got to develop your own guys, too. 
   
• It's kind of two different recruiting characteristics. Give me the plug-in guy that's going to help, and then give me the guy that is going to help us over the next three years. The Aggies have both.
   
• You got Gavin Grahovac and Jace LaViolette, who are really good guys that they've brought in. Then, you go get the best guys in the country that you can get. You got the Ivy League train that has worked really well, but I think A&M has done as good a job as anybody in the country at balancing those two things.
   
• Balancing the high school kids that you know are going to develop, but might help right away, like Grahovac. He's a freak. Most of the time, you're not going to have a freshman step in and do what he does. Jace was the same way last year. 
   
• Having a developmental component to the program and the team and going out and getting the guys that you can get. The mix-and-match has worked really well.
   
• I do know that the one absolute is that the team that makes a run is going to have whoever it is. Look at Florida. Ashton Wilson, going into the postseason, had four starts, and it was the last four games of the year. He's batting third now.
   
• If you went back three weeks and had to pick somebody on their roster that you think is going to be the reason why Florida makes a run, that ain't the dude. I would assume Kent is similar to that, but you gotta have them.
   
• There is hardly ever an exception to that where the teams that make a run have somebody that nobody talks about the whole year, and then for a month, they play at a completely different level.
   
• You need somebody, whoever it is, and hell, who knows? You might look up over the next few weeks, and Kent keeps on doing what he's done.