Freshmen class- baseball

After watching Crews the first game, I predicted he would become our most feared hitter. I was thinking it would take a little while, I was wrong, he is already our most feared hitter. This guy is a man amongst boys and he is only a freshmen. Three years of this guy sounds awesome to me.

Morgan has been as good as advertised. Luck wasn't on his side last night, hard hit balls that didn't fall but that will change. Great defense and I love he approach at the plate, minus the full turn around after every pitch.

Drost's first swing was nothing but air but I could see from one swing why people were saying he has a great looking swing. I think we will see more and more of Drost.

Thompson sure looked great but lets not get too carried away. Thompson struggled at 3B so much in the fall that Mainieri moved him back to his natural position of SS. Has he figured 3B out or just so happened to make some good plays with limited action? Hard to say at this point. If he is an every day starter, I would make the argument that they should flip him and Arnold and put Arnold at 3B.

Paul sure loved Safford from the beginning but I think part of that was he fit the criteria Paul loves. He is undersized but gritty, hard worker, baseball rat. I'm thinking Paul might have overhyped this guy a little but time will tell.

I liked what I saw from Wyeth. I actually think he is going to take a decent amount of weekend innings away from Milazzo.

I won't get into pitching too much but I will give a couple of thoughts. Edwards is considered a developmental pitcher and he already could be our best freshmen pitcher. Floyd seems to bring the best stuff, lets see if the control will be there. There was something about Coleman's pitches that just looked awfully hard to hit. I would not want to be in the batters box against him. Coleman could wind up being better than Edwards. Brady and Money looked just okay to me but both brought plenty of emotion.