- February 17th, 2013, 4:34 pm
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ok fellas, shouldnt be any real big excuses this year. This team appears to definitely have top 25 talent - especially in the lineup, which now has out hit South Carolina on game 1 and game 2 - not just midweek games where you are facing #4 or 5 starter for each team. The line up has some really strong power, speed from multiple guys, and quality patient veteran hitters throughout than can help protect the couple of younger guys that are mixed in. The rotation is still not incredibly strong with no doubt starters, but is solid. The bullpen is pretty full of strong powerful arms, good depth, lefties, and different looks. Defensively we are not tremendous, but very solid - with some really bright spots. You will be hard pressed to find a better defensive catcher than Wimmer, and Cordell is going to be able to run down a TON of balls b/c that kid has some tremendous wheels and can glide!
The best part of having a very talented team.....we have a good schedule that will be able to showcase it - as shown by this weekend! From what I have seen so far, I dont think there is any reason to really be playing the "underdog" card much, these guys should have some serious swagger.