The pitching is dramatically better than last year. Here's something i dont see anyone mentioning, our infield defense is as good as i've seen in college baseball. The infield defense is incredibly tight and night and day better than the last 2 years. Replacing Larry with Mershon made it even better and even ol' Hunter is doing a good job at first. They're just not making errors this year. We gave away so many runs last year on errors and when you add the walks it was a recipe for disaster every night.