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Former Greenwood baseball star Graeson Register has committed to Houston.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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It didn\u2019t take long for former Greenwood baseball standout Graeson Register to find a new collegiate home after reopening his recruitment.<\/p>\n
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Register announced Saturday on social media platform X that \u201cdue to moves made that I cannot control, my recruitment is now open.\u201d Register, who spent his senior year with baseball academy The Bennett School in Houston, had signed with the Texas A&M baseball program last fall and had pledged to the Aggies before his junior year at Greenwood. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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Register announced on Tuesday that he was committing to Big 12 program Houston just days after reentering the recruitment process.<\/p>\n
The right-handed pitcher said he received heavy interest after reopening his recruitment, which included inquiries from USC, Nebraska, Virginia Tech, Arkansas, LSU, Tennessee and national champion Oklahoma.<\/p>\n
Register said Oklahoma wanted him to throw in front of them, but he chose the Cougars because he felt he had a good chance to see the field as a freshman.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just think I would be better off at Houston because I would get a lot of innings as a freshman, so I could develop a lot easier because developing is not about throwing a bullpen,\u201d Register said of his decision. \u201cIt\u2019s about getting in the game as a freshman, doing what you can as to develop because you need to see those kinds of hitters.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Register joins a Houston program that just hired Will Davis as head coach after he helmed the Lamar baseball program from 2017-26.<\/p>\n
\u201cWill Davis is an awesome guy, he\u2019s a great guy,\u201d Register said. \u201cWhenever you look at a college, you want to go play for a great guy. Will Davis is a great guy, a great personality, he knows baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n
Register said Cougars pitching coach Jace Hutchins originally recruited him to College Station before he left for an opportunity in the Chicago Cubs organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMe and him have always been super tight,\u201d Register said. \u201cHe was fortunate enough to come to Houston and he was the first person that called me, so I knew I wanted to end up there with Jace. He\u2019s a pitching guru. I know I will develop with him for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Register said he was conducting a local baseball camp with Nikko Velarde last week and was set to move in at College Station this past Sunday. He said received a phone call from Texas A&M head coach Michael Earley two days before his move-in date.<\/p>\n
Register didn\u2019t elaborate on what happened, but said things went downhill on the phone call, which caused him to reopen his recruitment.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I\u2019ve been seeing a lot of people like A&M fans saying they don\u2019t understand why I am going to UH, I just want them to know that it wasn\u2019t my choice, that I always wanted to be an Aggie, still want to be an Aggie,\u201d Register said. \u201cIt\u2019s just not going to work that way. It was not my choice at all. I would do whatever I could to be at A&M, but it just didn\u2019t work out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Register, who was ranked as the 52nd overall high school prospect in the state of Texas by Baseball America, is hoping to get a chance to pitch against the Aggies as a freshman at Houston.<\/p>\n
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The Cougars face Texas A&M in a tournament game on March 7, 2027, at Daikin Park in Houston.<\/p>\n
\u201cI told Jace, \u2018I want the rock for that game,\u2019\u201d Register said. \u201c\u2018Let me pitch.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Greenwood baseball star Graeson Register has committed to Houston.\u00a0 Courtesy of Graeson Register It didn\u2019t take long…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-357802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}