Vanderbilt shortstop Connor Kaiser (Aaron Fitt)

Fall Report: Vanderbilt

NASHVILLE — It takes a while for some semblance of normalcy to return after a trauma as major as the death of a teammate. So it’s understandable that a cloud hung over the Vanderbilt program last fall, as players and coaches continued to cope with the passing of Donny Everett the previous June. Injuries even conspired to cause Vandy to cancel its annual fall world series in 2016 — it was an abnormal fall in every way.

By the end of the spring, the Commodores had begun to find themselves again, and they played with confidence in the[…]