(01-04-2017 04:36 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  

(01-04-2017 02:06 PM)cr11owl Wrote:  In case you missed it Rice went to Cuba in the fall to play 5 exhibition games. After a dominant first game Castro died

Now THAT'S dominant!

http://baseball.blogs.rice.edu Here is a blog that followed the trip.

And yes I'd say our pitching is a little less proven than last year but probably deeper.

"The depth comes from a bumper crop of true Freshmen (no less than 6 of them), only two of whom were considered Top 400 prospects, but who shone during Fall Intrasquads. Otto is a preseason all-american as our 2 - 3 inning "fireman". Salinas was our most consistent pitcher last year. Amador was inconsistent, but showed his potential against elite competition (A&M, LSU). Dane Myer is the most improved pitcher on the staff, and is currently slated to be our Friday night starter. He had an exceptional Fall, culminating with his 6-inning, 2-hit, 0 run outing in Cuba. Evan Kravetz, who had a solid Freshman campaign last year out of the pen, was our best pitcher this Fall, and should be an inning-eating LHP reliever (think Bobby Bramhall) and one of our set-up men (along with Zach Esquivel and Frosh Addison Moss, who shut down Cuba for 3-innings). Jackson Parthasarathy, who was so impressive the first month of last season before getting injured, has started throwing again and should be back in action by March, if not February. Add to that two returning guys (So. Kendall Jefferies, Sr. Austin Orewiler) who have seen limitted action due to injury, control issues and/or inconsistency, who both had impressive outings this past Fall. Myer, Moss and Jefferies are all two-way players who are also expected to be in our everyday lineup" -waltgreenberg on our board.

Our OOC weekend opponents in the top 40: Texas, Stanford, SeLA
And midweek: TCU, A&M, DBU, SHSU, and UH