With the 2021 season firmly in the rearview mirror, it’s time to look ahead to 2022 for the Arkansas baseball program.
The Super Regional loss to North Carolina State represented an early, jarring end to what just 48 hours earlier became the program’s first 50-win season in three decades. There’s no use rehashing the lurking deficiencies that Kevin Kopps alone might have masked for months.
Kopps, newly anointed as the first relief pitcher to ever win the Dick Howser Trophy, should be on his way to a strong professional future — even if some naysayers don’t think he’s even worth a Top 100 pick.