Visited Son yesterday after his first baseball practice (D3 top 10 program). There were about 35 kids at practice but about 12 players are not on campus this fall and can't practice. They were broken into 4 groups with two groups on the field for 2 hours at a time. That total number, 47, includes about 6 guys trying to walk on which is going to be very tough to do. Also in that 47 are 3 5th year seniors from last years squad (school has a business graduate program), a Columbia 5th year transfer as well as one other high end D3 school 5th year transfer. This team will carry 41-42 this year, a large number due to 5th years. This team has a very strong pitching staff and plans another run to the world series. My son says he's the hardest throwing Freshman but he also told once he got every math problem right on his SAT, so let's just say he hasn't fine tuned his ability to estimate things.... He does throw hard though. The bottom line though is his process has begun. The team will be great. He's pumped.