2016 Louisville Slugger All American Team:

FIRST TEAM:
RHP Alex Lange (Louisiana St.)
RHP Mike Shawaryn (Maryland)
LHP A.J. Puk (Florida)
RHP Logan Shore (Florida)
RHP Kyle Funkhouser (Louisville) Oak Forest HS
RHP Kevin Hill (South Alabama)
Relief Zack Burdi (Louisville) Downers Grove South HS
Relief Zach Jackson (Arkansas)

C Zack Collins (Miami, Fla.)
1B/P Carmen Benedetti (Michigan)
2B Stefan Trosclair (Louisiana-Lafayette)
3B Will Craig (Wake Forest)
SS Michael Paez (Coastal Carolina)
OF Buddy Reed (Florida)
OF Nick Banks (Texas A&M)
OF Corey Ray (Louisville) Simeon HS
UT Brendan McKay (Louisville)

THIRD TEAM:
LHP Jacob Hendren (Illinois St.) Normal HS
OF Jaren Kendall (Vanderbilt) Holem , WI HS

http://baseballnews.com/2016-louisville ... americans/

D1 Baseball released their preseason top 25. No surprise at the top. Florida is absolutely stacked. I'm a little surprised Louisville is ahead of Vandy. Cal and Miami are also teams to keep an eye on. I thought maybe Maryland or Iowa would show up somewhere but that northern bias is strong. I'm sure they'll both be there sometime during the season.

1. Florida
2. Louisville
3. Vanderbilt
4. Texas A&M
5. Oregon State
6. Miami
7. LSU
8. Oklahoma St
9. California
10. N.C. State
11. UCLA
12. Southern California
13. Virginia
14. Oregon
15. Mississippi State
16. North Carolina
17. South Carolina
18. Louisiana-Lafayette
19. TCU
20. Florida St
21. Cal State Fullerton
22. Houston
23. Texas
24. Coastal Carolina
25. Arkansas

Season starts a week from tomorrow and D1baseball did their breakdown of the Big 10. Here's how they see them stacking up along with players of the year. I'm going with Iowa to win the conference. My Player of the year is Ryan Boldt- Nebraska, Pitcher of the year Cody Sedlock - Illinois, Freshman of the year Luke Schilling- Illinois.

Maryland
Indiana
Michigan
Iowa
Nebraska
Illinois
Michigan State
Ohio State
Purdue
Minnesota
Penn State
Northwestern
Rutgers


Projected Regional Teams (4): Maryland, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa

Player of the Year: Carmen Benedetti, 1B/LHP, Michigan

Pitcher of the Year: Mike Shawaryn, RHP, Maryland

Freshman of the Year: Luke Miller, DH, Indiana

Any of the state schools have a chance in their conferences? Is EIU still a dumpster fire?

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Eastern is terrible. They have a new coach (Jason Anderson) but he has a huge hole to dig out of. They won't be relevant for years. Bradley has a chance to be pretty good. They have a bunch of juniors and seniors. Illinois won't be terrible despite losing most of last years team. They had a couple drafted juniors come back and they have a pretty good freshman class. They'll make a run at the regional.

The season starts tomorrow. Hawger your Hogs are on ESPN3 at 3pm against Central Michigan. They're going with Tacollini on Friday nights. I thought McKinney would win that job if they kept Jackson in the bullpen. It's going to be a fun year.

Keyser, is the U of I's Pat McInerney a prospect?

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I hope so. He's not just a big strong kid. He's got some athleticism. I saw him hit a couple bombs last year. He just needs to do that a little more consistently. I think it's in there and I'm really hoping it comes out this year.

Good kid too.

Severely broke his leg when he was three and had a long recovery from it. His sister played four years of hoops at NU.

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#1 Florida stays put after winning 2-3 at #10 Miami. Louisville dropped to #5 after losing 2-3 at #17 Ole Miss. #14 Arkansas moved up 10 spots after a 5-0 week.


1. Florida 7-1
2. Vanderbilt 8-0
3. Texas A&M 7-1
4. Oregon State 7-1
5. Louisville 5-2
6. North Carolina 5-1
7. LSU 5-2
8. NC State 5-2
9. Oregon 6-1
10. Miami 5-2
11. TCU 6-1
12. California 5-2
13. South Carolina 8-0
14. Arkansas 8-0
15. Florida State 5-1
16. East Carolina 6-1
17. Ole Miss 6-1
18. Coastal Carolina 4-2
19. Virginia 4-3
20. Mississippi State 6-2
21. UCLA 3-4
22. Southern California 4-3
23. Cal State Fullerton 4-2
24. Louisiana-Lafayette 4-3
25. Oklahoma State 2-5

Hey Pat the bat actually did something! I think he was O fer the season before today. Dude's making me look bad.

What's going on with your Hogs, Hawger? Extra inning games against shit buckets Eastern Illinois and Western Illinois? If they can't put away those god awful teams what are they going to do against the SEC?? They gotta figure out how to score some damn runs.

The top 7 teams stay the same. #8 TCU moved up 3 spots. #9 Ole Miss moved up 4 spots. #14 Arkansas stayed put for now. #22 Long Beach State joined the rankings while Georgia Tech moved out.

1. Florida
2. Vanderbilt
3. Texas A&M
4. Oregon State
5. Louisville
6. North Carolina
7. LSU
8. TCU
9. Ole Miss
10. Miami
11. Florida State
12. California
13. NC State
14. Arkansas
15. Mississippi State
16. South Carolina
17. East Carolina
18. Virginia
19. Clemson
20. UCLA
21. Oregon
22. Long Beach State
23. Cal State Fullerton
24. Louisiana-Lafayette
25. Oklahoma State

Caught some Cal-Texas this weekend on the Longhorn Network. Cal looked great. Scored like 5 in the 9th to win the 3rd game. They have a kid whose first name is Ripken (whose brother is named Rolen) and another one who is named Daulton. Kody Clemens looks like a prospect.

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Soccer 1,2,3
Spanish Honor Society 1,2,3,4
Forensics 1,2,3,4

"Smiles with Nostrils"

"...no Hmong, go find some blacks"

Daulton Jeffries is ok for an undersized righty. He has a lot of helium right now but I don't see first round stuff. If you're a 6' righty you better be really fuckin special and he ain't that. He has some pitchability and his secondaries are ok but it's efforty and I don't see him holding up for the long run. I've seen Clemens a couple times. He's an undersized righty too but he does have a pretty good arm. When I saw him he was just a rock thrower. Maybe he'll develop a secondary or two in college but if not he'll only go as far as his name can take him.

Rethinking that Iowa for the Big 10 thought?

They are really struggling to score runs.

Nah. They'll still be there when it's all said and done. Yes they are struggling to score runs but they've only played 1 home game. The bats will heat up with some home cooking. Mason McCoy can flat out hit and he's not going to stay down for long. Same with Tyler Peyton. I think freshman Luke Farley and Mitch Boe will start picking it up too. They're just too good to struggle like this for long. They have another tough weekend series at Missouri St but things will start to get easier for your Hawkeyes after that.

Cal Eldred's kid is really good. Heller is really happy to have him back in Iowa I bet.

I'm sure he is. I don't know a whole lot about him. He transferred from Indiana but I never heard a reason why. I think he's Iowa's Friday guy until/if Peyton comes back. I think he's draft eligible this year. I'll ask a couple guys how he's throwing.

I'm sure he ended up at IU for two reasons 1) Dahm was on his way out at the end of 2013 and 2) That was IU's peak years.

He didn't pitch in 2014 so fresh arm hopefully.

#1 Florida stays on to after sweeping Mizzou at home. #5 Vandy dropped 3 spots after losing 2-3 at home against #15 Miss St. #9 Louisville dropped 4 spots after losing 2-3 at #7 Miami. #20 Arkansas dropped 6 spots after getting swept at #14 South Carolina. #23 Missouri St moved into the rankings after a home sweep of Iowa (ouch).

1. Florida
2. Texas A&M
3. Oregon State
4. North Carolina
5. Vanderbilt
6. TCU
7. Miami
8. Ole Miss
9. Louisville
10. LSU
11. Florida State
12. Clemson
13. NC State
14. South Carolina
15. Mississippi State
16. Virginia
17. California
18. UCLA
19. East Carolina
20. Arkansas
21. Long Beach State
22. Oklahoma State
23. Missouri State
24. Florida Atlantic
25. Houston

Louisville vs Purdue tonight on Big 10 network at 6pm. Corey Ray (Simeon), Zack Burdi (Downers Grove North) and Nick Solak (Naperville North) will all be high draft picks come June. Purdue blows.

Penn St vs Illinois on Big 10 network today at 3pm. Game 2 of a DH. Fr. Cole Bellair (Lockport HS) should be the starting pitcher. We'll see if the Illini can get s good start out of someone besides Cody Sedlock who threw a gem last night.

Everyone D1 baseball team in this state has a losing record.

How can they all be so bad?

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Bradley and Southern have winning records but yeah for the most part Illinois baseball sucks. There are many reasons why but the two most important ones are shitty facilities and not being aggressive on the recruiting trail. Illinois schools default to the "safe" college player and let far too much talent leave the state. They're obviously going to lose the top guys to southern schools with better weather and stronger competition but there are a ton of really good second tier players who end up in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, etc. That shit has to stop.

#1 Texas A&M takes over the top spot after winning 2-3 against #10 LSU. #2 Florida dropped a spot after losing 2-3 at Kentucky. #3 Vandy moved up 2 spots after sweeping Mizzou on the road. #8 Louisville moved up a spot after wining 2-3 against #20 Virginia. #20 Arkansas moved up 2 spots after sweeping Auburn.

1. Texas A&M
2. Florida
3. Vanderbilt
4. Miami
5. South Carolina
6. Oregon State
7. North Carolina
8. Louisville
9. Florida State
10. TCU
11. Mississippi State
12. California
13. Ole Miss
14. Clemson
15. LSU
16. Long Beach
17. NC State
18. Arkansas
19. East Carolina
20. Virginia
21. Oklahoma State
22. Florida Atlantic
23. Houston
24. UC Santa Barbara
25. Georgia Tech

Hawger your Hogs are on SEC network at noon today but I'm not sure if you want to tune in. Things aren't pretty in Fayetteville these days.

Florida at the Hogs 8pm on ESPNU. This could get real ugly.

#1 Miami stays on top after winning 2-3 vs Duke. #2 Florida moved up a spot after sweeping the hapless Hogs. #5 Louisville moved up 4 spots after sweeping #22 Clemson. #23 Cal dropped 6 spots after losing 2-3 against ASU. #25 Minnesota of all teams enters the rankings after winning 2-3 against Maryland.

1. Miami
2. Florida
3. Texas AM
4. Vanderbilt
5. Louisville
6. Mississippi St
7. Florida St
8. NC St
9. TCU
10. LSU
11. Texas Tech
12. South Carolina
13. Santa Barbara
14. Oregon St
15. Rice
16. Ole Miss
17. North Carolina
18. Long Beach St
19. Kentucky
20. East Carolina
21. Coastal Carolina
22. Clemson
23. California
24. Louisiana-Lafayette
25. Minnesota

Georgia vs Florida on ESPNU. Matchup of 1st rounders Robert Tyler and AJ Puk. Puk struggled with his command in the first but got out of it unscathed. Tyler's 1st pitch of the game was 98.