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The Hurricanes have landed their first transfer arm of the 2026 class with UNLV transfer RHP Michael Taylor.



The 6-foot-4, 220-pound righty had a solid year for the Rebels, pitching to a 3.86 ERA alongside a 11.6 K/9 across 21 innings. Taylor held opponents to a .231 AVG in a schedule that included the likes of Oregon State and Cincinnati.



His ****nal reminds me of a Will Smith with his fastball/cutter pairing, and he will likely fill...

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Sebastian Font said:
The Hurricanes have landed their first transfer arm of the 2026 class with UNLV transfer RHP Michael Taylor.



The 6-foot-4, 220-pound righty had a solid year for the Rebels, pitching to a 3.86 ERA alongside a 11.6 K/9 across 21 innings. Taylor held opponents to a .231 AVG in a schedule that included the likes of Oregon State and Cincinnati.



His ****nal reminds me of a Will Smith with his fastball/cutter pairing, and he will likely fill his vacant role in being a key bridge peice through the 6th-8th innings.

Miami has lost multiple key bullpen arms due to eligibility/draft/portal (Smith, Fischer, Walters, Jackson Cleveland and possibly Rob Evans), so there's a glaring need to reload at this position.

Taylor is the first step in this direction, as Miami will continue to shop at this position.

Taylor becomes the fourth transfer to commit to the 'Canes, following offensive weapons Brylan West, Vance Sheahan and Cian Copeland in their move to Coral Gables.

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A portal pickup from UNLV?
Sounds like quite a gamble.


/I'll be here all summer.
 
Good k rate but High WHIP and only 21 innings screams of a bottom UNLV bullpen guy. Only really 3 pitchers on their team had less innings. So basically low impact guy..
 
Good get era under 4 runs not great for a reliever but better than what we got. We didn’t have any pitchers with an era lower than 4 runs this season
 
Stuff looks good from what I've seen, solid numbers, freshly converted to pitching from a position play so probably still has room to grow.

BUT.. game log shows he went multiple weekend series without an appearance. Key series against Nevada and San Jose State (both had close games and/or extra inning games) where he didn't pitch. Never came in on Friday game.

Mostly a Sunday and a mid-week reliever with lots of appearances with big leads or trailing big. Started getting some Saturday appearances mid-late in the year but was probably their 5th or 6th option out of the pen. Looked like he was gaining traction and moving up in the pecking order until the Air Force series and New Mexico series where he walked 7 guys in a combined 2 innings and lost the Air Force game due to control issues. Probably didn't trust him as much after that.

High walk numbers but kinda skewed to those 2 outings.
 
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