The Seniors Lead the Way

A look at the roster alone would set high hopes for a promising season. The 2016 Tigers hosted a sixty-man roster: ten players more than they would carry for the next two years and ten more than they had carried in years prior. The Tigers comprised seventeen seniors, including future professional signees, Nick Jewett, Jeremy Wolf, and Carter McEachern. In an interview, Freshman, right-hand pitcher, Holden Nix, mentioned the dynamic immediately set by the closeness of the team’s senior players. 2016 Junior, right-hand pitcher, Kevin Flores also commented, “All of our starting position players were the same year in school and had been playing together for the previous four years". According to Freshman, center-fielder John Tucker, “Everyone was buddies".