Tyler Houston, Butler (Butler photo)

Fall Report: Butler

Excitement is building around the Butler Bulldogs baseball program. Coming off its first winning season since 2003 and a 17-win improvement from 2016, Butler looks to continue its rapid rebuild with hopes of evolving into a perrenial Big East contender.

Fall workouts had a different feel to it than past seasons. Last fall was spent mostly familiarizing the coaches with the team as head coach Dave Schrage took over a struggling program. For the returning players, this fall workouts were very much about creating consistency and finding comfort in the system. For the 14 freshmen (eight pitchers) fall ball was[…]