FAYETTEVILLE — When Baseball America released the results of an anonymous survey earlier this week, Arkansas pitching coach Matt Hobbs had influence on two of the top vote-getters.
Baseball America asked 90 college head coaches to rank the programs with the best facilities for player development. Arkansas was ranked No. 1 with 18 first-place votes, followed in order by Vanderbilt (14), Mississippi State (9) and Wake Forest (7).
Prior to coming to Arkansas in November 2018, Hobbs was the pitching coach at Wake Forest and had just helped oversee the implementation of a top-notch pitching lab within the Demon Deacons’ Hurd Player Development Center, complete with the latest technologies available to pitchers.