Notebook: Impact Freshman and Veteran Pitching Headline Baseball Media Day

It was 60 degrees and sunny this afternoon at Alex Box Stadium, and it felt like baseball was on the horizon, because it is.

Three weeks, to be exact.

The 21-day wait to Opening Day will feel incomparable to the 345-day wait since the Tigers defeated South Alabama at home on March 11, a night that will be remembered for far more than the outcome the game.

Running out of the dugout for practice on a beautiful late-January day is something no one, players and coaches included, will ever take for granted because of that night, and the weeks that followed.

"It was terrible, the rollercoaster of emotions thinking I might have played my last game," said senior pitcher Matthew Beck on hearing the 2020…