re: Little baseball talk before the weekend series

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Expect it to be a good series, lots of good pitching.

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Hope so.

It's just so hard to tell what to expect because of the competition we've played. Sweeping UGA was a good sign.

We throw a freshman on Saturdays. His ERA is the worst of the 3 at a 3.21 ERA but he's still been pretty solid. Think he's only walked 3 all season.

Our Sunday starter is a junior who's thrown pretty well, with a 1.52 ERA. We have 2 other starters that I was really hoping would get a shot at the weekends, a former 2nd round pick but he has some control issues and then another freshman who brings it 96-98. He's only thrown 5 innings but has yet to give up a hit.

Mizzou's biggest problems over recent years has been fielding and hitting. They've cut back on the errors so far and the hitting, while not at SC Caldwell levels, is improved. A freshman catcher, Bond is leading the team in hitting and seems to be solid. I'll bet we didn't have 5 guys hitting over .200 last year at this time. Nearly everyone is so far this year, though that's bound to change now that we're in conference play.