Great duo for 1 year and then they're both done. They also have 4 incoming freshmen with pitching experience, however they won't get many innings to prepare for the year after.
Olaf obviously isn't a true Gopher fan. There shouldn't be much of a conflict since Minnie and North Dakota (jk) are in different conferences and Minnie plays a weak non-conference schedule. True Gopher fans would keep rooting for the rodents as long as there wasn't a direct conflict of interests.Well that's PERFECT. I want my Gophers to be great for one more year. After that, they become the enemy. Until after dd graduates.
Defensively, they definitely lose a lot of talent, but of their 9 players with 100+ ABs, the worst 3 were seniors (Stewart, Munro, Fuller), and Schwarz was even worse than those 3 (only 66 ABs). Janell Wheaton had a solid year and can hopefully play a decent catcher if necessary. It's pretty tough to start 26-0 or whatever no matter how good you are, but there's basically 0 chance they don't make the postseason.
