College Baseball Daily continues our countdown to the start of the 2013 college baseball season by checking in on the Top 100 Players in the country. We will be adding players day-by-day until we get to number one!
Number 31 on our Top 100 Countdown is San Diego’s Kris Bryant. The 6’5 infielder from Las Vegas, Nevada was selected in the 18th round by the Blue Jays in the 2010 MLB Draft.
FROM CBD NEWS SOURCE
SAN DIEGO, Calif – University of San Diego head baseball coach Rich Hill has announced the 2013 baseball schedule, which features six opponents coming off NCAA Baseball Tournament appearances in 2012 including Kent State, Stony Brook, Oregon State, Cal State Fullerton, Coastal Carolina, and WCC rival Pepperdine. Read the rest of this entry »
FROM CBD NEWS SOURCE
SAN DIEGO, Calif.- Head Coach Rich Hill of the University of San Diego baseball has released the 2012 Torero schedule, which once again features some of the nation’s top programs in Vanderbilt, USC, Oregon State, and Kansas State. Read the rest of this entry »
The MLB Signing Deadline is fast approaching as all teams have to midnight on August 15th to sign their prospects or they will head to college. Here is the latest news and notes from around the country.
Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe reported that Red Sox first round pick and 26th overall selection Blake Swihart took batting practice on Thursday afternoon at Fenway Park. Swihart is currently committed to Texas where he will play for Augie Garrido. If I had to guess right now, I would expect the Red Sox to sign Swihart for over the $1.2 million due to him with the slotting system. Read the rest of this entry »
The first weekend is now complete in College Baseball where there was a couple of decent sized upsets on Sunday afternoon.
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The freshman class for this season is the best in recent years with two top 15 picks deciding to spurn the MLB Draft for the next three seasons in Dylan Covey and Karsten Whitson. Covey decided to head to San Diego while Whitson ended up at Florida. They are not the only ones that decided to head to college as we have put together our 2011 Top Freshmen to Watch. Read the rest of this entry »
The West Coast Conference was dominated in 2010 by the San Diego Toreros who has a 19-2 conference record as they got the conference’s automatic bid into the postseason. They ended up getting sent to the Arizona State Regional where they went a disappointing 1-2 with both losses to Hawaii and the victory coming over Milwaukee. Portland came in second place in the conference with a 14-7 record while Pepperdine came in third at 12-9. San Francisco came in fourth at 10-11. There was a three way tie at fifth place at 8-13 with Santa Clara, Saint Mary’s and Gonzaga. Rounding out the conference was Loyola Marymount who went 5-16.
Friday was the first day of practice around the country for almost every Division 1 baseball program. Here are some of the most interesting links and videos from the day. Read the rest of this entry »
We attended the Southern California Baseball Media Day on Wednesday afternoon. We have put together our top three video interviews from the event with Bob Brontsema (UC-Santa Barbara), John Savage (UCLA), and Rich Hill (San Diego). UC-Santa Barbara is coming off a 24-30 campaign which saw them go 10-14 in Big West play. UCLA on the other hand was a finalist at the College World Series before dropping two games to South Carolina to end their campaign. San Diego won the West Coast Conference getting the automatic NCAA Tourney bid where they went 1-2 in the Tempe Regional beating Milwaukee but losing to Hawaii twice. Each of these coaches put out excellent information during their Q and A with the journalists and can be check out below. Read the rest of this entry »
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)
Collegiate Baseball has put out their 2010-2011 Top 40 Recruiting Classes. Leading the way is LSU with the San Diego Toreros coming in at the runners up spot. The Oregon Ducks come in at the third spot while CWS Finalist UCLA comes in at number four. Florida rounds out the top five with another strong class coming in. You can check out the full top 40 below.
FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
SAN DIEGO, Calif. - For the second year in a row, the University of San Diego baseball team will volunteer and help launch the fall baseball season for the Miracle League of San Diego. Last year, USD baseball assisted with the assisting with the celebration of Miracle League’s Opening Day, which included event registration, a fan fest and home run derby.
CBD Scouting Spotlight: Mark Appel (Stanford)
CBD Scouting Spotlight: Adam Plutko (UCLA)
CBD Scouting Report: Kevin Ziomek (Vanderbilt)
CBD Interview with Notre Dame’s Mik Aoki and Dan Slania
CBD Scouting Video: Colton Plaia (Loyola Marymount)
