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2012 Baseball America Top Prospects for Summer Leagues

– September 4, 2012Posted in: 2013 Top Players, Alaskan Summer League, Atlantic Collegiate, Cal Ripken Sr. Collegiate League, California Collegiate, Cape Cod Baseball League, Central Illinois Collegiate League, Clark Griffith League, Coastal Plain League, Florida Collegiate League, Futures League, Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League, Hawaii Collegiate League, Jayhawk, MINK League, NECBL, Northwoods League, NYCBL, Prospect League, Texas Collegiate League, Valley League, West Coast League, Western Major Baseball League

FROM BASEBALL AMERICA PRESS RELEASE
DURHAM, N.C.–The Southeastern Conference once again dominated Baseball America’s top prospects lists for 20 college summer leagues and Team USA, which have been released at BaseballAmerica.com. The SEC leads all conferences with 31 players on the lists, followed by the Pacific-12 (24 players), the Atlantic Coast (16) and the Big 12 (13). The ACC leads all conferences with four players ranking as the No. 1 prospects in their respective leagues. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2013 Top Players, Baseball America

South Carolina’s Chad Holbrook named the 2011 ABCA/Baseball America Assistant Coach of the Year

Brian Foley

– November 22, 2011Posted in: Baseball America, National Awards

FROM CBD NEWS SOURCE
Columbia, S.C. – South Carolina associate head baseball coach Chad Holbrook has been named the 2011 American Baseball Coaches Association/Baseball America Assistant Coach of the Year. Now in his fourth season as associate head coach and recruiting coordinator for the baseball program, Holbrook serves as hitting instructor, oversees the Gamecock offense, including base running and the short game, and is the third base coach. He also works with the outfielders. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ABCA, Baseball America, National Awards, SEC, South Carolina

Baseball America releases 2011-2012 Recruiting Class Rankings

Brian Foley

– October 20, 2011Posted in: 2012 Recruits, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Conference USA, Mountain West, Pac 12, SEC, WAC, West Coast Conference

Baseball America has released their 2011-2012 Recruiting Class rankings for the class that will be eligible for the start of the 2012 season. Leading the pack is the Vanderbilt Commodores which got a first round pick in Tyler Beede among other talented players to Nashville. The rest of the top five is filled out by Texas, Southern Miss, NC State, and Ole Miss.

You can check out the full top 25 compiled by Baseball America’s staff below. Read the rest of this entry »

2011 Baseball America Top Prospects for Summer Leagues and Team USA

Brian Foley

– September 10, 2011Posted in: 2012 Top Players, Alaskan Summer League, Atlantic Collegiate, Baseball America, Cal Ripken Sr. Collegiate League, California Collegiate, Cape Cod Baseball League, Coastal Plain League, Florida Collegiate League, Futures League, Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League, Hawaii Collegiate League, Jayhawk, MINK League, NECBL, Northwoods League, NYCBL, Prospect League, Team USA, Texas Collegiate League, Valley League, West Coast League

FROM BASEBALL AMERICA PRESS RELEASE
DURHAM, N.C.–The Southeastern Conference, which has produced college baseball’s last three national champions, dominated Baseball America’s top prospects lists for 20 college summer leagues and Team USA, which have been released at BaseballAmerica.com. The SEC leads all conferences with 24 players on the lists, followed by the Pacific-12 (22 players), the Big 12 (18 players) and the Atlantic Coast (17). The ACC leads all conferences with four players ranking as the No. 1 prospects in their respective leagues. Read the rest of this entry »

2011 Baseball America Preseason Poll

Brian Foley

– January 27, 2011Posted in: 2011 Polls, Baseball America

Here is Baseball America’s 2011 Preseason Poll. The Florida Gators come in at number 1 after finishing last season with a 47-17 record and a 2010 ranking of seventh. UCLA who finished last season as the CWS runner-up comes in at number two with CWS semifinalist TCU coming in at number 3. Vanderbilt and Oklahoma round out the Top 5 respectively at 4th and 5th. You can check out the rest of the Top 25 below. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2011 Polls, Baseball America

Top 100 Countdown: 40. Carson Smith (Texas State)

Brian Foley

– December 13, 2010Posted in: 2011 CBD Top 100 Players, 2011 Top Players, California Collegiate, Southland Conference

College Baseball Daily continues our countdown to the start of the 2011 College Baseball season by checking in on the Top 100 Players in the country. We will be providing one player per day until we reach number 1.

We continue the countdown today at number 40 with Texas State’s Carson Smith. He is a 6-5 215 pound right handed pitcher from Midland Texas where he attended Midland Christian High School. As a senior in 2008, he was named District MVP and 1st team All-State. He was also named TAPPS 5A 2nd Team All-District in 2007 as a junior.

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Tags: 2011 MLB Draft, Baseball America, California Collegiate league, Carson Smith, CBD 2011 Top 100 Players, Santa Barbara Foresters, Texas State

Vanderbilt’s Derek Johnson named ABCA Assistant Coach of the Year

Brian Foley

– November 29, 2010Posted in: Baseball America, SEC

FROM CBD NEWS SOURCE
Vanderbilt Associate Head Coach/Pitching Coach Derek Johnson has been named the ABCA/Baseball America Assistant Coach of the Year.

The honor comes on the heels of one of the Commodores most successful seasons in school history. Vanderbilt was one win away from their first trip to the College World Series and appeared in the school’s second-ever Super Regional, eventually losing to Florida State. The team’s pitchers helped guide the Dores to 46 wins, second-most in school history, while posting the second-best team ERA (3.69) in the rugged Southeastern Conference. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ABCA, Baseball America, SEC, Vanderbilt

Baseball America releases Top 25 Recruiting Classes

Brian Foley

– October 15, 2010Posted in: 2011 Recruits, ACC, Baseball America, Big 12, Big East, Big West, Pac 12, SEC, West Coast Conference

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)

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2010 Baseball America Top Prospects for Summer Leagues and Team USA

Brian Foley

– September 15, 2010Posted in: 2011 Top Players, Alaskan Summer League, Atlantic Collegiate, Baseball America, Cal Ripken Sr. Collegiate League, California Collegiate, Cape Cod Baseball League, Coastal Plain League, Florida Collegiate League, Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League, Hawaii Collegiate League, Jayhawk, MINK League, NECBL, Northwoods League, NYCBL, Prospect League, Team USA, Texas Collegiate League, Valley League, West Coast League

FROM BASEBALL AMERICA RELEASE

DURHAM, N.C.–The Pacific-10 Conference dominated Baseball America’s top prospects lists for 18 summer college leagues and Team USA, which have been posted at BaseballAmerica.com. The Pac-10 leads all conferences with 30 players on the lists and six players ranking as the No. 1 prospects in their respective leagues.

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2010 Baseball America Preseason All-American Team

Brian Foley

– February 5, 2010Posted in: 2010 Top Players, Baseball America

Baseball America has announced their 2010 Preseason All-American Team. You can check out the entire team below. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2010 Preseason All-American Team, 2010 Top Players, Baseball America

Baseball America releases Preseason Top 25

Brian Foley

– January 27, 2010Posted in: 2010 Polls, Baseball America

Baseball America has published their Top 25 for the 2010 Season. They have put Texas in the top spot with Virginia coming in at number 2. They have put defending national champion LSU in the third spot. Cal-State Fullerton and Rice round out the Top 25. I have posted the rest of the Top 25 below.

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Tags: 2010 Polls, 2010 Preseason Poll, Baseball America

Top 100 Countdown: Number 3 Zack Cox (Arkansas)

Brian Foley

– January 19, 2010Posted in: 2010 Top Players, Baseball America, Cape Cod Baseball League, CBD Column, SEC

The CBB continues our countdown for the 2010 College Baseball season by checking in on the Top 100 Players in the country. We will be providing one player per day until we reach number 1.

We continue the list today with number 3 in our countdown with sophomore infielder/RHP Zack Cox from Arkansas. He is from Louisville Kentucky and attended Pleasure Ridge Park High School where he had an outstanding career both at the plate and on the mound. He had a career batting average of .449 while hitting 33 home runs. On the mound, he was even better with a 38-3 record with a 1.03 ERA and 495 strikeouts over 300 innings. He was named an Under Armour, Rawlings and Louisville Slugger All-American while being named Mr. Baseball in Kentucky as a senior. He was selected in the 20th round by the LA Dodgers but decided to head to Arkansas.

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Tags: 2010 Top Players, Arkansas, Baseball America, Cape Cod Baseball League, CBB 2010 Top 100 Players, CBD Column, SEC