Columbia baseball: Raiders’ consistency keys best start to a season in at least 15 years

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Columbia baseball: Raiders’ consistency keys best start to a season in at least 15 years

In 2009, Minnesota Twins legend and baseball hall of fame player Joe Mauer won his only MVP award with a .365 batting average, Jacoby Ellsbury of the Boston Red Sox stole 70 bases in the pre-pitch clock era, and the recently retired Stephen Strausburg was the No. 1 overall pick by the Washington Nationals. The same year was the last time the Columbia Raiders started a baseball season 7-0, when many of the 2024 Raiders were in diapers or not even…