The 2017 Ole Miss baseball team is a bit of enigma heading into this weekend’s season opener against ECU. On one hand, the Rebels have had to replace a significant number of key veteran contributors with youngsters. On the other hand, that group of youngsters is comprised of a crew of sophomore pitchers that got a ton of experience last year and a freshmen class that was ranked by D1Baseball.com as the best in the country.
Predicting how quickly young players will develop is mostly a crap shoot, which explains why Ole Miss’ preseason rankings are all over the place.