Baseball theory

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When does "next year" get here? It's always next year's class ......

The last "next year" for most of us was in 2012 with the injuries, youth, and what we were bringing back. You forgot about how 2013 went huh?

Most of us always felt this would be a transition year. Doesn't take but one glance at the the classifications next to the names in our lineup to understand why we thought that. The start being so good is why people are taking the struggles now so rough. People had started to buy in to this team being better than most of us thought it was supposed to be(I'm guilty of that myself -- but I also recognize what happened there)...

2016(next year) is the next 2013. We only lose a couple contributors on this squad, and the vast majority of our talent is young. The freshman class coming in is the best class MSU has had since 1994, if not ever, if it doesn't get decimated by the draft. And the "other" best class of the Cohen era will be JRs.

Cadaver is right. Cohen was telling people 2 years ago that he wished they would hold off on the new balls for 3 years and allow him to recruit to them. He said at the time that he would have to rebuild his roster to adjust to it(my buddy he was talking to thought it was pretty crazy -- but the team he coaches for was still recruiting the long ball pretty well. This is the same guy Cohen was telling about wanting to turf our whole infield to play to our speed).

The ball change been a little more drastic of a change than we had hoped, but the major change seems to be coming on the hill. I sure thought we would be hitting for more power by now too...