The state of Illinois hasn’t produced a first-rounder since Kris Honel in 2001, and that streak likely won’t end this year because top prospect Mike Foltynewicz fits more in the sandwich round. Foltynewicz headlines a deep crop of high school arms, many of whom could be early picks three years from now after time in college.
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State Report: Illinois
The Florida Gators were rewarded for their 42-15 record and SEC East regular season title with the #3 national seed. They will be matched up with Florida Atlantic, Oregon State and Bethune Cookman in the Gainesville Regional, and are paired up across the board with the Miami Regional
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Florida Head Coach Kevin O’Sullivan Reacts to Regional Announcement
Results from day three of the NAIA Baseball National Championship in Lewiston, ID: Embry-Riddle 8, Belhaven 4 Point Loma Nazarene 7, Cal Baptist 6 Cumberland 8, Oklahoma City 1 Embry-Riddle 8, Belhaven 4 (Belhaven eliminated) The Blazers took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first when CF Jimmy Gilford hit an RBI triple, then scored on a ground
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NAIA National Championship Recap for May 31st
While 2010 is not a great year for Puerto Rican talent, scouts did find plenty of interesting storylines and tools, including a son of a big leaguer as the top prospect. With talk of an international draft possibly being on the horizon, opponents of the idea often point to Puerto Rico as evidence that it would be bad for the sport in a country that becomes subject to a draft.
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State Report: Puerto Rico
Wisconsin usually produces one early-round pick in each draft, but for the second time in three years the Badger State is devoid of talent. Adam Frost (21st round) was the state’s top choice in 2008, and Grafton High righthander Conor Fisk, the best prospect this year, figures to go in about the same area of the draft.
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State Report: Wisconsin
The Empire State boasts the top two prospects in the Northeast and two more top 200 talents. All of that adds up to a better than average year in New York, and the state’s first four-star rating in the last decade. Prep righthander Robbie Aviles and Oneonta State righty Dave Filak could go in the top two rounds, and prep shortstop Cito Culver offers premium arm strength and true middle infield actions that are rare commodities among Northeast high schoolers
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State Report: New York
New Mexico’s Division I baseball programs had strong years, beginning with New Mexico’s series win on the road at Texas to start the season, but the team with the most draft picks this year out of the state is likely to be New Mexico JC. The Thunderbirds could have six players drafted, including outfielder Jordan Buckley, a former two-sport standout who turned his focus to baseball this spring.
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State Report: New Mexico
The Dakotas are never a fertile draft ground, but South Dakota State did have its best season ever, tying a school record with 39 wins and earning a share of the Summit League regular-season title. The Jackrabbits fell to Oral Roberts in the conference tournament championship to end their season. They have the three best 2010 prospects in the Dakotas, starting with righthander Blake Treinen, and a commitment from the top high school prospect, righty Kolton Emery.
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State Report: Dakotas
The state of Minnesota hasn’t had a first-round pick since Glen Perkins in 2004, but Mike Kvasnicka has a chance to end that drought this spring. Kvasnicka helped Minnesota win the Big 10 Conference regular-season and tournament titles, and he and his teammates occupy six of the top seven spots on the state prospect list.
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State Report: Minnesota
Day four at the 2010 WAC Tournament saw Fresno State stave off elimination twice as they continue the quest to maintain domination of the conference tournament. The Bulldogs eliminated sixth-seeded San Jose State 13-1 in a run-rule seven inning game and then followed up with a 14-5 dismantling of fourth-seeded Hawai’i in the championship game
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WAC Tournament Day Four Recap/Day Five Preview
It’s a good year for junior college talent. Of course that will be the case when a phenom like catcher Bryce Harper graduates early from high school to enroll at JC of Southern Nevada and outfielder LeVon Washington—a first-round pick by the Rays last year—doesn’t sign and heads to Chipola (Fla.) JC
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Harper Leads A Very Talented Junior College Crop
FROM NCBWA RELEASE MORGANTOWN, W.Va – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) released the Pro-Line Athletic National Player of the Week awards for the period ending May 2, today. Wichita State junior designated Hitter Preston Springer was named National Hitter of the Week, while Oregon senior right-handed pitcher Justin LaTempa was named National Pitcher
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NCBWA Players of the Week
#20 Arizona vs. #3 Arizona State The Wildcats were riding high 2 weeks ago with consecutive series victories, that is before they ran into UCLA’s Gerrit Cole and Trevor Bauer, and weren’t able to recover this past weekend as they were almost swept by USC when visiting Dedeaux Field this past weekend and squeaking out
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5 Games to Watch for Tuesday, May 4th
The Navy Midshipmen are off to one of their best starts in the history of the program starting off with a 13-3 record heading into their series against Princeton this weekend. FIELD recently did a great article about the Midshipmen’s great start with some quotes from Coach Kostacopoulos and starting pitcher Sam Long
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Navy off to a Great Start
The second week of ACC action sees only one series featuring ranked squads facing off against each other with Florida State heading to North Carolina. The number 1 ranked Virginia Cavaliers will entertain Boston College, Georgia Tech heads to Maryland, Virginia Tech visits Clemson, Miami (FL) visits Duke, and NC State heads to Wake
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ACC Weekend Preview (March 19th-21st)
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