In a surprisingly-spring-like setting, Mississippi State baseball began preseason scrimmages over the weekend, just a couple weeks away from the consensus top-20 Bulldogs beginning the 2016 season. Several notes and observations will follow, along with more in-depth stories as the preseason moves along.
Head coach John Cohen spoke Friday after the first of the three scrimmages and we expect to talk to him again this week, though several of his thoughts are included below. As for my big picture take-in: this looks like an almost brand new club. Or if not new, like someone doused the locker room with fertilizer every day through the offseason.