Co'mon man. This is typical MSU baseball.

(1) Ginn - Huge Loss. He was like a $20 bill in our pocket, that we never should have had. He needs to get healthy and come back when he's ready.
(2) Smith - Huge Loss. The kid was good and would have been Saturday. Probably.
(3) Barlow was not that good. Leibelt was a total surprise. Gordon was a first-baseman. White was barely used. Eagan barely pitched 5 SEC innings in 2019
(4) Self and Price are actually more experienced and more accomplished than anybody but Gordon coming into last year.
(5) The big thing that a long term college baseball fan has to accept is that coaches have to find and test how to use each pitcher. Some guys can only face 3 batters, some 1 batter, some clean innings, and some cannot do SEC work.
(6) Freshmen pitchers have got to be given playing time to find their capabilities. KC Hunt will have better games.
(7) Westburg is currently hitting 400; Westburg, Foscue, Allen, and Rowdy are 4 players any team in the nation would want
(8) Hatcher is very experienced and will be right.

As far as national seed, that's always hard. Really hard when you don't have a All American or two in the SEC Rotation.

Next year, will have new problems. Lots of pitching but we lose 5 big hitters (Westy, Foscue, Allen, Rowdy, and Hatcher). But, that's baseball.