Frank Cruz
Frank Cruz
Frank Cruzis an American college baseball coach, who most recently served as the head coach of the USC Trojans baseball team. He held the position from 2011 through 2012. Cruz was relieved of his duties for "knowingly violating NCAA Countable Athletically-Related Activities limitations" just two days prior to the beginning of the 2013 NCAA Division I baseball season...
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He's competing to be a starter right now. He's pitched well. We'd like to have him be a starter. I think he has better command and his changeup and slider are much better.
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Elvis has swung the bat very well. If we were to start the season right now he'd be our DH. He's been our best hitter since we got back (from winter break).
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You take away those last nine games from us and we wind up in third or fourth place. (But) you have more time to prepare for (conference) games and you have more time to play other conferences, which is pretty interesting.
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He was a true pioneer of Hispanic media here in Los Angeles. And he was a gutsy cameraman.
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We recruited him late in the summer (of 2002). We thought he had some tools and when he arrived he had more tools than we realized.
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We think we've improved his breaking ball so he's right in the mix of starters.
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Well, normally there would be, but I know Andy so well, he's started his whole life and that's what he wants to do. His arm is healthy and we think he's ready to go.