My parents were in town over the weekend, and if I have a family member under my roof, we go check in on the progress of the baseball stadium. and then get in trouble for writing what we see, even if it’s an innocent observation and ultimately true.

So that was how it looked Saturday, and it looks like it’s going to be wonderful when it opens. Just to be clear, I’m not guaranteeing anything, but I think the grand opening a week from tomorrow is safe.

A few things about the park. That’s a turf infield, and WVU likes the idea. The ball plays truer on the turf. It’s not slowed by grass or accelerated by dirt. Bad hops vanish. Fielding should be easier. It’s going to be hotter on the field, but it’s going to be significantly cooler atop that hill, so that should even out somewhat.

And it’s windy, man. Straight out to left field with nothing to obstruct it. That’s going to be a normal thing, even on otherwise calm days. And that’s noteworthy because WVU is clubbing the baseball this season.

Randy Mazey’s gang hit 32 and 24 home runs his first two seasons. They already have 28 home runs this season and rank No. 11 nationally in home runs/home runs per game and No. 36 in slugging percentage. Taylor Munden, a 5-11, 190-pound shortstop, has a team-high seven in 112 at-bats. He had three home runs in 495 ABs the previous two years.

He is college baseball this season, the year the NCAA reacted to the deadened bats and lagging offenses by flattening the seams on baseball and hoping for better offense. So far, it’s worked.

The biggest statistical change from 2014 to 2015 is an increase in home runs that is up more than 39 percent from 0.36 per game in 2014 to 0.50 per game in 2015.

“The NCAA Division I Baseball Committee is encouraged by the statistical trends using the new baseball in 2015,” said chair Dave Heeke, Associate VP/Director of Athletics at Central Michigan. “The committee looks forward to studying the results the rest of the year and into the championship.”

As of March 29, runs scored in a game are up five percent, and the batting average is basically flat from .268 in 2014 to .269 in 2015. However, this season, strikeouts have risen from 6.64 per nine innings in 2014 to 7.34 per nine innings in 2015, an increase of 10.5 percent.

A six-game winning streak has the Mountaineers at 16-10 overall and 2-4 in the Big 12 with a weekend series at last-place Kansas State (12-14, 1-5). They’re going to mash at that new park. That’s the way the place is engineered and how the ball has been re-engineered, but that’s what they do, too. In Tuesday’s win at Pitt, catcher Ray Guerrini, who’s batting but .210, hit his third home run in 63 at-bats (third best HR/AB ratio on the team). It easily went out over the fence in left center, and the power alley at Pitt is 375 feet from the plate. “It was 25 feet over the fence,” one team spectator told me. So what? The wind was blowing in 13 mph during the game.