Here’s something fun. The Major League Baseball Draft has remembered West Virginia through the years, though never too fondly. The Mountaineers have never had more than six players taken in the draft, and that happened in 2001.

We might witness history this weekend, though. WVU stands to have six juniors drafted, plus a couple of seniors.

No problem, though, because the Mountaineers recruited really well. I mean, better than they ever have before.

“This is the first class of guys we’ve been able to be on since the first day you’re allowed to email them,” said Matlock, a part of the staff since manager Randy Mazey was hired in June 2012. “The first two classes, we’d be moving our feet and trying to find who’s out there, and that’s not always bad. Sometimes you can find the best players at the end.

“But with this group of guys, we beat N.C. State, we beat Texas A&M, we beat Texas Tech. We definitely beat some good teams for these players, where in the past couple of years, all the guys really had was us. That’s exciting to know because to win on the field, you’ve got to win in recruiting and we feel like we did that with a few of these guys.”

The work isn’t done, though. WVU may be in position to re-recruit some guys because maybe five recruits could get drafted, too. So consider this for the 2015 season, the first in the new stadium: WVU loses eight seniors to graduation and could also be without, say, a dozen players who could have been a part of the upcoming season.