When you start talking about elite players, you're recruiting against 2 things:
Hartleb would have to go out and recruit then
Not too fond of Hartlieb I take it?
Outsider perspective, pretty good in-game coach, does not have the staff that ILL baseball should imo. Bullpen is a trainwreck year in and year out.
Good luck with that
2/3 of the roster is from Illinois.
That does not exactly mean that you are retaining the in-state talent.
Hard to explain. If you aren’t in his very inner circle he can be cold and standoffish. In relation to coaching baseball he isn’t the most enthusiastic or go getter in recruiting( Snider and Drew covered up a lot of that when they were here).
I know that they plan to extend seating down both baselines and to replace some (all?) of the seats with seatback chairs. Not sure why they are adding capacity because they virtually never sell out (well there is no admission charge. Guess I should say that they never fill the place). A few years ago we hosted a post season tournament and the stands were pretty full and then we added temporary bleachers. They are also putting in fancier dugouts.
Extrapolating from other threads, I can only surmise that such stadium improvements will lead to poor defensive performance next season.
