Fall Report: Louisville

MARION, N.C. — Standing outside the chain-link fence down the first-base line at the Big League Camp facility in North Carolina’s mountains, it was easy to hear every word Dan McDonnell said to his gathered Louisville players in Sunday’s postgame huddle in right field. His message, after the Cardinals looked flat in a split of two eight-inning scrimmages against Western Carolina, was abundantly clear.

“They didn’t look good Sunday. I was really disappointed Sunday afternoon, maybe just because I’m kind of hard-headed and stubborn,” McDonnell said a few days later. “Hopefully it got their attention because I thought Western played[…]