FAYETTEVILLE — Matt Cronin didn’t have to think long to answer the question: How has he improved in the short time he’s worked with new pitching coach Matt Hobbs?
Cronin is the junior lefty who set the Arkansas school record with 14 saves last season. That beat by one the previous record of 13 set in 2013 by Colby Suggs.
Cronin would have liked to have done two better than Suggs. There was a blown save — and one of his two losses — in the middle game of the College World Series finals when Oregon State rallied from a 3-2 deficit with two outs in the ninth.