With Pinckney spending the majority of his offseason focusing on his power and consistency, the Crimson Tide’s opening weekend was a full exhibit of his work.
“To be fair, the ball was outside,” Andrew Pinckney laughed.
While the deep voice of Pinckney came through the earpiece of a telephone with his face hidden from sight, the tone indicated the cheerful grin that Alabama baseball’s star junior outfield has become known for.
Pinckney was regaling with a story from the Crimson Tide’s spring training that indicated the progress that he had made over the offseason. The story involved his head coach, Brad Bohannon, and a home run during a scrimmage that, while successful, was not where his coach had requested that he hit it.
“We were doing our little fireball scrimmage and at the end of the round sometimes Coach Bo is like, ‘Just hit a home run,’” Pinckney said. “Every now and then I have trouble pulling the ball for power. That’s what I’ve kind of been working on at the…
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