Succeeding in three out of 10 at-bats is considered to be good in baseball. Failure is expected, and Trenton Moses has learned to accept that.

"You just have to accept it," said Moses, the third baseman for the Southeast Missouri State University baseball team. "It's just a miserable game. If you go 0-for-10, you can easily go 7-for-10 in your next 10 at-bats. It's a crazy game. It really is."

Moses had a breakout 2011 season in which he set a career-best in almost every offensive category. That earned him the 2011 Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year award. He has since been voted to two All-American teams and was named the 2012 OVC Preseason Player of the Year.

Moses hit .261 in his first three seasons at Southeast, which is 134 points lower than his 2011 batting average of .395. It took a torn labrum that caused him to miss almost all of the 2010 season for Moses to reach All-American status.

"The year that he was forced to take off because the injury, I think he used every day to observe the game -- make himself personally better," Southeast coach Mark Hogan said. "Some guys get hurt and they sit back and don't do anything and just hope it comes back to them. Trenton was just the opposite. He's a guy that pursued excellence on a personal level and also was a real keen observer of what was going on in the game."

The soft-spoken Moses doesn't think about improving himself. It's just something that he does.

"I hit the ball well when I was a freshman and sophomore, but I struggled through a lot of slumps," Moses said. "Whenever I got hurt, I played summer ball with a wood bat and kind of learned to hit a little bit better. I think I just matured a little. I got bigger and stronger during the injury with the rehab and everything."

Moses posted career-highs in batting average, on-base percentage and walks during Southeast's 2011 season, but the most surprising increase was in his power hitting numbers.

In 2011, college baseball teams started using a different model of aluminum bats. The model causes the ball to rebound off the bat at a slower speed and has a smaller sweet spot. Most Redhawk players saw their slugging percentage drop from the 2010 season, but Moses posted a career-high .672 slugging percentage that was higher than any player on the 2010 team. That team set the school record for runs scored in a season.

"I just started finding the ball on the barrel a little bit more I guess," Moses said. "It's just being a little bit more mature as a hitter. And the power -- I was stronger that year."

Moses has picked up where he left off in 2011. He is hitting .429 with a slugging percentage of .762 through 12 games in the 2012 season. He now handles success in the same way that he learned to handle failure.

"He's been pretty solid for us," Hogan said. "He's not a real up-and-down guy emotionally, and I think that's one reason why he's had so much success. He handles a good day and he handles a bad day about the same way. That's a key in baseball because there are a lot of ups and downs. It's a difficult game and nobody runs the table every day."