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FROM CBD NEWS SOURCE
LAS CRUCES, N.M. – New Mexico State baseball head coach Rocky Ward recently announced the addition of eight new student-athletes, as each have signed National Letters of Intent to play and attend school at NM State.
The Aggies are bringing in a couple of left-hand pitchers, four right-handers, one that can also play in the outfield, a catcher and an infielder. These student-athletes come from California, Washington, Oklahoma, Oregon, Arizona and New Mexico.
“We are happy with the signing class. We filled our needs with quality baseball players and continued to get more athletic across the board,” Ward said. ”We don’t lose much off of this 2011 team, but this group of new Aggies will make us much deeper and more versatile on the mound and should be able to fill the voids left by graduating seniors.”
Baseball America has released their Top 25 Recruiting Classes for the incoming 2010-2011 freshmen class. Leading the way is the Stanford Cardinal with LSU coming in at number 2. CWS finalist UCLA comes in at number 3 with San Diego and Oregon rounding out the top five. These polls are always subjective as Collegiate Baseball had Stanford coming in 11th in their top 40 rankings that came out at the end of September. (Link)
FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Erik Bakich’s first recruiting class at the University of Maryland is complete.
The Terps added Creighton Hoke, a 6-foot-4, right-handed pitcher from San Jacinto College in Houston, to bring the number of 2010 incoming players to 23.
Florida Gulf Coast head coach Dave Tollett will have his entire signing class come to Estero this season for the first time in four years. He expects the class to be ranked in the top 10 in the nation led by Sean Dwyer and Harrison Cooney. Dwyer is a 6’0 190 pound first baseman from Tavares High School and was selected in the 15th round by the San Diego Padres. He decided to spurn the offer and continue his baseball career with Florida Gulf Coast. Cooney is a 6’2 175 RHP from Vero Beach, Florida who picked the Florida Gulf Coast program over the likes of Miami (FL) and LSU.
Florida State Baseball has added outfield Seth Miller to the 2010-2011 roster after the departure of Tyler Holt. Miller spent last season at North Florida State where he hit .312 with six home runs and 38 RBIs to go along with eight doubles and 37 runs scored.
Seth Miller is expected to be slotted into the center field for the Seminoles for the 2011 season filling into the huge shoes of Tyler Holt who was selected by the Cleveland Indians in the 10th round of the 2010 MLB Draft.
Central Florida head coach Terry Rooney is bringing in a strong freshman class this fall with six out of eleven recruits selected in the 2010 MLB Draft. Coach Rooney is impressed by the strong class stating:
The LSU pitching staff has been hammered with injuries, transfers, and players signing with MLB teams. The Tigers have lost three pitchers to Tommy John surgery this summer with Jordan Rittiner and Joey Bourgeois will miss next season after undergoing Tommy John surgery this summer. There is an outside chance Left-hander Chris Garrett will be back in April according to a Paul Mainieri in a report from The Times-Picayune. (Link) Both LHP Chris Matulis and RHP Mitch Moorman have decided to transfer. Matulis will join former LSU assistant Terry Rooney at Central Florida while Mitch Moorman will head to Wichita State to play under legendary head coach Gene Stephenson.
FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Stephen F. Austin head baseball coach Johnny Cardenas has announced the signing of six student-athletes to National Letters of Intent for the upcoming 2011 season. The class includes three players from the high school ranks along with three junior college transfers.
FROM NCBWA RELEASE
LUBBOCK, Texas – Rice sophomore third baseman Anthony Rendon is the recipient of the 24th annual Dick Howser Trophy as college baseball’s player of the year. The presentation was made Friday evening in Lubbock, Texas as part of the festivities to recognize and induct the College Baseball Hall of Fame and the awarding of several other national honors for 2010.
Rendon is just the second player in Conference USA history to be named Player of the Year in back-to-back seasons. He picked up that honor again this year while leading the Owls to the regular season league championship and the school’s 16th consecutive NCAA Regional appearance. The two-time first team All-CUSA selection was named to the C-USA Championship All-Tournament team and was named the Most Outstanding Player at the NCAA Austin Regional. The Houston native was also named the Male Athlete of the Year for all sports in Conference USA.
As many teams across the country besides South Carolina and UCLA, they are all playing the waiting game on which current college players will sign MLB contracts and the incoming freshman who were drafted that could sign and skip college. One school who this affects is Florida State which saw Tyler Holt selected in the 10th round by the Cleveland Indians and Mike McGee who was picked in the 41st round by the Arizona Diamondbacks after outstanding seasons from both of them. This doesn’t just mean the players on the Noles right now as they had five signees drafted including Kaleb Cowart who was selected in the first round by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
AUBURN, Ala. – The Auburn baseball team signed 15 players to National Letters of Intent during the fall signing period. The 15 players consist of 10 high school seniors and five junior college players.
"The recruiting class of 2010-2011 will have an immediate impact when they step foot on campus at Auburn next fall," Auburn Head Coach John Pawlowski said. "Recruiting coordinator Scott Foxhall along with assistant coaches Link Jarrett and Ty Megahee did an outstanding job of identifying and evaluating the type of `Championship Player’ we are looking for. It is our goal to not only recruit the best student-athletes in our state of Alabama, but on a national level. These players will help us continue to move forward as a program and represent Auburn University both on and off the field in a first-class manner."
2012 CBD All-American Teams Announced
Top 100 Countdown: 1. Mark Appel (Stanford)
Top 100 Countdown: 2. Mike Zunino (Florida)
Top 100 Countdown: 3. Deven Marrero (Arizona State)
Top 100 Countdown: 4. Michael Roth (South Carolina)
