He's never had a bad year for us. This isn't about some unusual baseball bat,'' Bertman said. We used to recruit little guys. Now, we recruit big guys. Today's game has changed.
Kids lift weights all the time and swing hard.
We recruit kids who are big and swing hard. When he took the LSU job 15 years ago, he pushed pitching and defense. I had 32 ways to pick a guy off second base,'' he said. I had 19 ways to score a run without hitting a ball. The last place Mike Hota expected to find himself Sunday night was in Long Beach State's starting lineup.