Matt Allen didn't do much last year after the first couple weeks. I do think we need to get him some AB's to break up all the lefties and in case Embry were to get banged up. Barrick unfortunately hasn't done much of anything the first 3 years and he's gotten a decent amount of AB's every year. Yacyk is the one that I would prefer to see us stick with a bit. We really need him to be the big RH bat in the middle to break up all the lefties. We've almost went too far with the LH bats from having none the last few years.
Big game tomorrow. It's early but we're at 21 in the RPI right now. We really need to win the series.
Opponent Notes
-VCU has since beaten William & Mary & WVU and is up late again against WVU. St Johns is 6 and 0 and that appears to be a very big late season road trip. UVA would appear to be a bit down with 3 losses already against EKU (their only win), VMI & one of the Florida teams. Duke is solid at 4 & 2. VT got hammered by Coastal and beaten by South Alabama before stomping Oklahoma
(overrall 1 and 5). George Mason is 0 and 6...Campbell 1 and 4. Canissius is 5 and 2 with a couple solid wins. WF is 2 and 5 against a rather weak schedule. Finally, UNC is 2 and 4 against a decent schedule but it's not ACC play. The Big South as a whole has struggled so far other than LU.
The takeaway is that our RPI is going to be difficult to stay in the top 50 if all our ACC opponents continue to struggle the way they are so far.
That VCU sweep could be huge if they are as good as they could be. Would love to see us win tomorrow, beat Elon then take 2 of 3 from UNC on the road while there struggling. It could really energize the team and boost the RPI up big time.