There's an old tenet in baseball that championships are won by pitching and defense. Good pitching can make good hitters look silly, creating more opportunities for easy defensive outs. In turn, good defense can compensate a pitcher if there's a mistake pitch somewhere along the way. The two go hand-in-hand, a dual-front battle against the eternal quest for hitting.
If the motto is proven true once again, the 2018 Boston College baseball team will likely stand as Exhibit A. Two years removed from a dream run to the NCAA Super Regionals, its sport's equivalent of the Sweet Sixteen, it enters this current year ready to once again prove doubters wrong with a roster built by its brotherhood.