After three weekends of baseball, conference play starts this Friday. Weather and roster flexibility become a much larger part of the season as teams head north. Muncie is projected to be rainy and 38° F on Friday when they host Western Michigan.
With eleven teams in the conference, one team plays a non-conference opponent every week. Buffalo shuttered their baseball program in 2017, but if they came back it could be uninterrupted springtime MACtion after week three. Central Michigan is the odd one out this weekend. They won’t get a break the rest of the way.
The non-conference schedule is far from balanced, but quite a bit can be learned from the games played so far.