Posted by NomadDevil on January 04, 10 at 18:08:55:
In Reply to: Ping Baseball Preseason Poll posted by Real Devil Fan on January 04, 10 at 09:18:43:
I wouldn't be surprised if we got out to a very slow start out of the gate with all the turmoil that has gone down. How well the kids adjust and recover will determine what we make of the season. Hopefully we have some veterans step up in leadership roles. We have a few seniors (Torres, Spence, Calhoun) and juniors (Newman). I don't know how vocal they are. I know Torres is supposedly a leader, but it may be tough for a freshmen to follow a senior that doesn't get in and fills out one of the last roster spots. Wish we had an Antone Williamson or Paul LaDucca type of field general that leads in the dugout and gets it done on the diamond. That would really lesson the loss of Murphy.
Going into the year I would have had us in Omaha and a better squad than last year. Now I could see us going either way: Omaha, or a chaotic season that sees us struggle to make a regional