I walked through the foyer of the Lowell-Stevens Football Facility on Friday and saw the UA baseball team running the steep stairways to the press box. Itβs 5Β½ months until the 2017 season opener. Not that coachΒ Jay JohnsonΒ is letting off the accelerator. He got a recruiting commitment last week from Glendale Mountain Ridge leftyΒ Matt Liberatore, a Class of 2018 prospect some believe will be the stateβs No. 1 pitcher by his senior year. Liberatore struck out 39 batters for Mountain Ridge last spring and pitched in the state championship game as a sophomore. Johnson and the 2016 Wildcats will be honored by the Arizona Diamondbacks before the Sept. 18 game against the Dodgers at Chase Field. Itβs probably the best spotlight the Dβbacks could provide; they will surely draw fewer than 2 million fans for the first time in franchise history, but the Sunday 1 p.m., game against the Dodgers is likely to draw in excess of 30,000.Β
Arizona baseball team already gearing for 2017
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