2023 Fall Report: Utah Valley

The Wolverines won just 10 games during the 2021 season. Last year’s 34-win campaign punctuated a massive two-year turnaround that was engineered by skipper Eddie Smith and his coaching staff. While we know that 24-win improvements are rare in college baseball, there is a notion that this program is just getting started.

Smith’s pedigree is very strong. He played for Paul Mainieri at Notre Dame following two years of junior college in his home state of Washington. He coached with Brian O’Connor at Virginia when that program was building towards regular appearances in Omaha. He ran his own program at[…]