A few things:

1. We're not going to play four games every weekend in SEC play. That will help us out some.

2. Rigby should be back soon from his groin injury. That will hopefully help some.

3. Stovall being back will help us out a lot because then we can use Skelton at catcher and sit Lovelady.

4. We don't have to play Florida or Vanderbilt in SEC play. That helps us out some. We also have LSU at home and I'm pretty sure that Coach Cann knows their hitters as well as anyone.

This weekend will be interesting to see how they handle Cyr/Ashcraft. No inside knowledge on this- but my guess is we start Ashcraft based on performance.

Barton, Price, and Rigby is a solid bullpen for us. I think Billingsley will be fine too despite his last outing. Ashcraft or Self will also be in the bullpen depending on how we handle the Sunday spot. Either one of those two give us a solid closer type in the bullpen. Pilkington looked better and Plumlee has looked solid against lesser competition. I still think Self ends up with the Sunday spot by the end of the year.

C- Skelton
1B- Should be Cody Brown over Gordon.
2B- Stovall
3B- LA
SS- Gridley
LF- Poole/Blaylock
CF- Mangum
RF- Rooker
DH- Poole or Blaylock

That's a solid lineup and we're hitting the ball better than we did last year. We bunt more effectively and we steal more bases- which actually makes the bunting and overall hitting more effective because then you are getting runners in more ideal situations to score.

I think we'll be fine. IMO, ultimately we have lost to a top 20 team in Texas Tech whom we beat a couple of days later and then the other two are because of pitching injuries- Smith being hurt when we didn't know about it and then against Marist because our staff was thinned out and one of our top guys that we'll have later was out with a groin injury.

And as IseenIt said- it has only been 10 games. There's no reason to freak out now. We do need to win as many of our midweek games as possible to make up for Morehead and Marist though- especially South Alabama, Ole Miss, and USM.