These tweeted introductions of newcomers to the team are interesting. UConn baseball has not done anything like this in a long time, putting out any sort of a press release or tweet on introducing the newcomers to the team. These introductory tweets are pretty much new ground for UConn baseball. There were quite a few times where we didn't find out about a few players being on the fall ball roster until the player introductions at the annual Barbecue and Alumni Game in late September.
My suspicion has been for quite a while is that this is because usually there are around 46 players with the team during the fall ball season, but with the 35 man spring roster plus the 3 or 4 players who end up redshirted on the "taxi squad", several players will end up getting cut from the team, and I suspect that the coaching staff doesn't want to publicize such players, then end up cutting them.
Whatever the case, now I'm wondering how far UConn baseball will go with these tweets. Will they tweet out an introduction for every newcomer to the team, whether or not they are receiving some scholarship money? There are no doubt players who are walking on to the team and getting no scholarship money who are long shots at making the spring squad, will they get a tweeted introduction as well? There are 13 incoming freshmen who have been mentioned in the recruiting threads as joining the team this season, will they all get an introductory tweet? As far as I'm concerned, I've been enjoying these tweets, so I will be quite happy to see them continue for the duration.