Kavin Keyes in the INF orange shirt
All areas of the Oregon State baseball team do early work each practice day. Most of the time I see the INF taking ground balls.
The OF and C have their drills, and they hit in the cage. The INF, however, have an honorary standout each week.
Associate head coach Marty Lees works with the INF, and picks someone who works the hardest and makes significant strides. Sometimes superior leadership qualities go into the decision.
Whoever wins that honor gets to wear the orange shirt for a week. This week it’s Kavin Keyes. Check him out fielding below at SS on Tuesday, and above is the back of the shirt. There’s a better view of the back of the shirt when you look at the home page of the blog since the photo is bigger.
Kavin Keyes practicing at SS on Tuesday.
Also, check out my story on Lees if you haven’t see it, yet. It ran in Tuesday’s GT. Find out why I call him the backbone of the program and why coach Pat Casey named him the coach-in-waiting.
Also, I asked OSU about baseball scheduling since someone asked on teh blog, there will be no Pac-12 tournament in the near future. One reason is the coach coaches don’t like to tear up their pitching before a regional.
Another reason is the geographic size of the conference makes it not work the money. The southern and eastern schools are in closer proximity and fans will travel by car to make it a draw at the gate. That’s not the case with the Pac-12 so spread out.
4 comments
AndySnacks says:
May 17, 2011
Have they figured out scheduling for Pac-12 baseball next season? With Cal now keeping baseball, that makes 11 teams correct? Will the Beavs just skip one team every year, or are they adding three league games? There’s no chance they’re going to split into North and South again, is there?
Cliff Kirkpatrick says:
May 17, 2011
The plan is to play round robin. There will be a midseason bye where each team has to find a nonconference opponent in the middle of the Pac-12 season.
BeaverDon says:
May 17, 2011
Cliff,
Glad to see there are no plans for a Pac-12 (11) tournament. Being so spread out makes int sense not to have one. Also, why beat each other up before Regionals? Scheduleing all the other schools for 3 game series makes more sense.
Maybe with the new money from the TV contract Colorado will add Baseball!
maffu72 says:
May 17, 2011
How much will it cost to build them a dome to play in?
Don’t mean to be snarky… Just thinking of February/March baseball in Boulder :O