Texas A&M baseball is turning to Aiden Sims in a key weekend series against Texas after the sophomore’s dominant rise and Weston Moss’ uneven season.
Texas A&M baseball is making a notable move ahead of one of its biggest weekends of the season.
With rival Texas coming to College Station for a series that could carry major SEC and postseason implications, Aggies coach Mike Earley is reshuffling his pitching rotation and handing sophomore Aiden Sims a bigger role.
Shane Sdao will still get the ball Friday, but Sims is now set to start Saturday after spending much of the year as a depth arm who kept forcing his way into the conversation.
The decision comes at a critical moment for Texas A&M, which is trying to regain momentum after a frustrating midweek loss to Texas State and a season filled with uneven pitching performances.
Sims has earned this opportunity. He opened the year 6-0 across his first eight starts and has been the Aggies’ most reliable starter statistically among pitchers with a meaningful workload.
Through more than 30 innings, Sims owns a 3.32 ERA, comfortably the best mark on the staff in that group.
He also enters the weekend coming off the kind of outing that can change a pitcher’s place in a rotation for good ... a complete-game shutout against Vanderbilt that helped him grab SEC Pitcher of the Week honors.
That surge made the contrast with Weston Moss hard to ignore.
Moss has had a difficult junior campaign, posting a 6.69 ERA, the highest among Texas A&M pitchers with more than 30 innings logged.
He’s also surrendered 11 home runs, more than double the five allowed by Sims.
For a staff that has struggled at times to keep games under control, that difference in hard contact matters.
Earley pointed to contact management earlier this week, and this move clearly reflects that emphasis.
Texas A&M needs cleaner innings, fewer damaging swings and a steadier presence behind Sdao if it wants to win a series of this magnitude.
Now the spotlight shifts to Sims. He’s no longer just the hot hand in reserve.
Against Texas, he’ll be asked to help carry the Aggies through a weekend that may say a lot about where this season is headed.
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