Coming off an 18-36 record last season, the Mountaineers look to hit the diamond in 2017 with a new approach towards the season.
Appalachian State head baseball coach, Kermit Smith, will begin his first season with the Mountaineers after spending the past 15 seasons at the Division II level. Smith spent eight years with Belmont Abbey and the previous seven with Lander University.
In the face of this being Smith’s first season as a Mountaineer, he was able to land 10 freshmen to this year’s roster.
“Where I was at previously, I would say 95 percent of the time we didn’t get a recruit because they were looking for an offer from a Division I school,” Smith said at App State’s preseason media day.