Bailey, who hit .304 in 92 at-bats last season, ranks among the team’s most accomplished returning players. Sophomore outfielder Mike Martin led last year’s squad with 12 steals and 26 runs and tied for the team lead with three home runs.

On the mound, sophomore Baron Davis—third on the squad with 13 appearances in 2012—and senior Matt Doyle, second on the team with 14 games pitched last year, registered respective ERAs of 3.14 and 3.57.

The Crimson is thus focused on looking towards the future and the players it now has, rather than the past and the ones it has lost.

“Yes, we miss those guys, but at the same time we have to do our own thing with what we have, and we all think that what we have is definitely strong enough to win,” Bailey said.

“We’ve been working really hard in the bubble the last few weeks,” Wineski added. “We have a great chance to be very successful this year, and the team’s very excited. We’re just ready to go outside and play baseball.”

The Class of 2016 is expected to make an immediate impact as well.

“Since we don’t have the numbers we usually have, they can’t sit back and develop for a few years,” Wineski said. “They’re all going to get a lot of playing time.”

The new talent and the unity that has grown out of the past year’s adversity has led Harvard to believe it can compete in 2013, despite the losses it has endured.

“People are writing us off,” Wineski said. “But we’re going to surprise people.”

—Staff writer Scott A. Sherman can be reached at ssherman13@college.harvard.edu.