I think our track record speaks for itself. We do a pretty good job of identifying young arms and developing them. A lot of different pitchers come through our program and develop into pro prospects. Most recently everybody hears about (2005 Big East Pitcher of the Year) Craig Hansen (the Boston Red Sox organization's top prospect).

Ed Blankmeyer

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He shows signs for you, but I guess he's not in sync. He just has to find his stroke, so to speak. When he puts a good swing on the ball he's going to hit it a long way. He's a big guy.

— Ed Blankmeyer

He had a lot of opportunities out of high school. And like a lot of kids, he wanted to play down south.

— Ed Blankmeyer

This is pretty stunning. The net out-migration (domestically) is so powerfully high. That's the story. Riverside (County) is just the opposite. Here you have the coastal counties with all these people leaving them but the counties just to the interior have all these people moving in.

There are a lot of teams that are pretty even, and we feel like we're one of them. We've kind of been in the mode where we haven't finished, and that's been one of our strengths over the years.

The whole tournament was like this. Everybody was pretty competitive.