Notre Dame adds Georgetown graduate transfer pitcher Carter Bosch to 2023 baseball roster
For a couple weeks, the sky was falling on the Notre Dame pitching staff. Head coach Link Jarrett left for Florida State, and five Irish pitchers entered the transfer portal within a week and a half.
Now things are looking up.
Notre Dame hired former VCU head coach Shawn Stiffler as Jarrett’s replacement. A few days later, rising sophomore and freshman All-American left-handed sensation Jack Findlay retracted his name from the NCAA transfer portal so he could stay at Notre Dame. Former Davidson pitcher Blake Hely is officially enrolled at Notre Dame and will be on the 2023 roster, too.
And so will former Georgetown righty Carter Bosch.
A source told BlueandGold.com Sunday evening that Bosch is currently taking classes at Notre Dame and has been since the summer academic session started in June. Bosch went 6-4 with a 4.50 ERA in 18 appearances as a senior in 2022. He was Georgetown’s Saturday starter. He had 64 strikeouts, including a season-high 11 against Xavier on April 23, and 25 walks in 64 innings.
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The 6-2 right-hander hails from McLean, Va., and went to Potomac High School. He was a three-year starter there. He had 60 strikeouts and a 0.17 ERA in 41 innings as a junior and 77 strikeouts and a 2.14 ERA in 49 innings as a senior. He was also a three-year starter and captain on the Potomac football team.
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Hely and Bosch have combined to pitch 347 innings of college ball. They’ve also combined for 263 strikeouts. That’s a ton of experience and punch-out ability for a Notre Dame pitching staff that could surely use it in 2023 in the first year of a new regime. A source told BlueandGold.com he expects Bosch to be really good for the Irish.
Stiffler and whoever he hires to be the Notre Dame pitching coach will have options for the weekend rotation. Findlay, Hely and Bosch are likely at the top of the list. If rising senior Liam Simon does not get selected in the MLB Draft this week or does not choose to sign a professional contract if he is, he’ll be in the mix as well. The same goes for rising fifth-year senior Alex Rao, who is also a draft prospect.
Notre Dame lost ace starter John Michael Bertrand to eligibility and might be losing No. 2 starter Austin Temple via transfer, but the Irish have enacted roster management procedures to counteract the departures.
The sky is not falling in South Bend, Ind.
