Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
And I will add about fundamentals- if you are a SEC baseball player you should know fundamentals by the time you get to this level unless you had a combination of a really bad high school and summer ball coach and their Dad wasn't a baseball fan at all. Odds of that are low for our players.

Fundamentals should simply be reviewed at this level. Also- players get feedback from the coaches using data showing the players any mistakes they made on any given play and that is reviewed with the player and coaching staff.

That said- players screw up. Go look up a MLB blooper reel on YouTube and you'll see plenty of examples of that.
To echo that - players area also going to be a little rusty getting on-field. Doesn't matter how many reps you take in practice, it takes some time to lock in via scrimmages and even a few games.
Outfield defense is a great example. We pretty much have a new outfield. Do they know how much range the guy next to them has? Do they know if they struggle with balls hit to a certain area? Do they know how the ball caroms off the wall in the corner or if it dies? The first couple of weekend of scrimmages is where you are going to see a lot of uncertainty like this.