Overall, I agree with most of this.
However, being good at "working the count" is a good thing when the pitcher is a little wild, but yesterday, I thought they looked almost timid in how they were working the count, kind of like they weren't sure whether they should swing instead of actively looking for a good pitch. I didn't think yesterday was one of their better games in terms of plate-approach, but do agree that it's been better overall (minus the Sat/Sun games this weekend)
Now, we did work 5 walks, which is commendable, but how many times did our "working the count" put us behind the 8-ball in the count, forcing us to swing at not-ideal pitches? The play-by-play on rolltide.com doesn't list the pitch sequences so we can't tell if it started 0-2 and we took pitches outside the zone (a good "working the count") or if it was 1/2/3-0 and we worked it to a 2-strike count (IMO, a bad "working the count"), but we had 20 appearances where our hitters were in two-strike counts and that resulted in an out 13 times, a hit in 2 of those appearances, but also 4 of our 5 walks came with 2-strike count. So I guess it's kind of a trade-off, but personally, I think we were so focused on "working the count" yesterday that we weren't prepared to hit a good pitch when it came in if it wasn't deep in the count. And "working the count" for the sake of "working the count" is not a good strategy.
That said, giving what we have to work with on the mound, I didn't have the best expectations coming into this year, but it is very encouraging to see that this team has a ton of fight and you never really feel like they're truly out of the game at any point in time. So much more fun to watch this year as opposed to last year. Body language of the guys is night and day different from last year and you can tell they really enjoy the game a lot more this year.