Last season, Hendricks’ bat wouldn’t shut up. He batted a team best .372, while also leading the Crimson in RBI (29) and homeruns (6). The same production is expected of him this season.

“Trey’s definitely going to accept the responsibility of being a guy who’s expected to go up there and hit the ball out of the ballpark from both sides of the plate and be a top RBI guy,” senior catcher Brian Lentz says. “It’s something he accepts, and it’s something people are going to ask of him.”

With the departure of Crockett and a slew of other starting pitchers, Hendricks may also be critical on the mound. Despite his prep heroics, the lefty never really emerged as a pitcher during his first two seasons.

“I don’t know [why I haven’t pitched more],” Hendricks says. “This year coach Walsh said he’ll probably need me on the mound, so I worked on it a lot [during indoor practices].”

Through the season’s first 19 games, Hendricks has been the squad’s ace, compiling a 1-1 record and a team-best 2.79 ERA in four appearances. In both no decisions, Hendricks came out of the game with Harvard leading.

His success should be no surprise.

The surroundings are a little different. Hendricks runs onto the field for daytime doubleheaders now, wearing a turtleneck under his jersey. Last season down in Princeton, he even played a game in snow.

The crowds aren’t as big or as loud. There’s rarely barbecue smoke. And they don’t play night games in Cambridge.

But Hendricks has been everything at Harvard that he was at Spring—the power threat in the middle of the lineup, the ace, the prospect, the switch-hitter, the silent leader.

He’s a Harvard man.

But he’s still a Texas boy.

—Staff writer Lande A. Spottswood can be reached at spottsw@fas.harvard.edu.