After a promising season on the diamond, a different kind of offseason showed another side of Kentucky baseball shortstop Grant Smith’s game.
Smith arrived in Lexington from the University of the Incarnate Word, where he spent three seasons and played 116 games and, in his first season in blue and white, he played a very complete game.
At the plate, he filled up the stat sheet. Smith posted an .281 batting average, had 52 hits, clubbed eight home runs, eight doubles, was hit by 14 pitches and led the SEC with 11 sacrifice bunts.
While this complete offensive stat line may be hard to come by, his defensive output may be even harder to compete with.