FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE DENVER – Fresno State has been selected as the favorite to win the 2010 Western Athletic Conference regular season baseball crown in a vote by the league’s seven head coaches. The coaches also voted on a preseason all-WAC team with Fresno State and Nevada leading the way as each placed four

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2010 WAC Preseason Coaching Poll

The NCBWA has put out their 2010 Division 2 Preseason National Poll and Regional Polls. Emporia State out of Kansas comes in at the top spot in the country with Southern Arkansas coming in at number two. The top five is rounded out by UC San Diego, Florida Southern and Grand Valley State.

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NCBWA Division 2 National and Regional Polls

The College Baseball Blog continues our series of interviews with head coaches around the nation today with Duke head coach Sean McNally. He is entering his fifth season in charge of the Blue Devils program where he has a career record of 116-107-1 while going 39-79-1 in ACC play

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CBB Interview with Sean McNally (Duke)

To celebrate the release of the 2010 Prospect Handbook, we held an all-day chat on Friday, January 29. In addition to having your burning questions answered by the editors at Baseball America, we hosted four chats with prospects, including Tim Alderson, Ryan Westmoreland, Logan Morrison and Casey Crosby.

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All-Day Prospect Handbook Chat

Boston Globe correspondent John Vellante recently wrote a fantastic article on former UMass-Lowell manager Jim Stone who won over 800 games in his 37 year career. He had 11 NCAA Northeast Regional Appearances, two Division 2 College World Series Appearances and was named NEIBA Coach of the Year seven times while being named ABCA

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Former UMass-Lowell manager Jim Stone set for Induction

How much of an afterthought is the Rule 5 draft these days? Well, during the 2009 Winter Meetings, the minor leagues were based in one hotel, major league executives and media in another, and the trade show was in the convention center, basically in the middle. The Rule 5 was in a third hotel next door, sort of off to the side, where little other Winter Meetings activity transpired.

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Rule 5 Draft Is Becoming An Afterthought

For the first time since 2002, the Indians were both buyers and sellers at baseball’s annual Rule 5 Draft. Not only hoping to protect their own players as usual, but also open to adding someone from another organization, the Indians selected two players—including righthander Hector Ambriz from the Diamondbacks—and lost two minor leaguers—including lefthander Chuck Lofgren—to the Giants.

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Indians Add, Subtract In Rule 5 Draft

Looking to pare payroll in tough economic times, the Tigers parted ways with all-star center fielder Curtis Granderson, sending him to the Yankees, and righthander Edwin Jackson, sending him to the Diamondbacks. In exchange, Detroit acquired four young, cost-controlled players in the seven-piece deal with Arizona and New York.

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Curtis Granderson Heads To New York In Three-Team Trade