College Baseball - 2013

Are you ready for college baseball  - 2013 style.  Let's get the thread going.

Everyone have a great day and weekend. 

Collegate Baseball top 25

1.[Arkansas]1.2.[North Carolina]2.3.[Vanderbilt]3.4.[LSU]4.5.[UCLA]5.6.[Oregon]6.7.[South Carolina]7.8.[Kentucky]8.9.[Stanford]9.10.[Oregon State]10.11.[NC State]11.12.[San Diego]12.13.[Mississippi State]13.14.[Oklahoma]14.15.[TCU]15.16.[Arizona State]16.17.[Georgia Tech]17.18.[Arizona]18.19.[Florida State]19.20.[Rice]20.21.[Texas]21.22.[Louisville]22.23.[Cal State Fullerton]23.24.[Florida]

Hello GTF, getting ready for a good season. I hope The Hogs can live up to their ranking.

UNC Baseball practice began Friday...in the snow!  I m pumped up about this season.  In addition to being ranked #2 by Collegiate Baseball, Perfect Game and Baseball America have us ranked #1 (First time in history for the Heels).

Arkansas first day of practice, was sunny and about 60 degrees. Hogs are ranked # 1 in 3 out of 5 polls.

"Yesterday LSU released a few of the leading stats from the baseball team’s scrimmages last week, and they are very encouraging. The stats below were pulled from three six-inning scrimmages.

Leaders from LSU Baseball Scrimmages (Jan. 25-27)

Aaron Nola pitched 2.2 scoreless innings with three strikeouts
Cody Glenn pitched 2 scoreless innings
Junior RHP Will LaMarche pitched 2 scoreless innings
Freshman RHP Russell Reynolds piched 2.1 scoreless innings with two strikeouts
Freshman right-hander Hunter Newman pitched 2.2 scoreless innings

Raph Rhymes went 5-for-10 with a Home Run
JaCoby Jones went 4-for-9 with three doubles and a triple
Chris Sciambra and Tyler Moore each went 4-for-8
Ty Ross went 3-for-8 with a double and Home Run
Mason Katz went 3-for-9 with a triple and Home Run
Freshman shortstop Alex Bregman went 5-for-10 with four doubles".



Man, I am ready for the season to start. 

Evening. Good to be back. Not sure what to expect from Miami this year. They will probably not be ranked at the beginning of the year. They only have 6 seniors on the roster, so the hong guys will have to step up. We'll see what happens. Many of you may have seen that former Canes coach Ron Fraser passed away last week. Nicknamed "The Wizard of College Baseball," he will be missed. He led the Canes to the CWS 12 times, including championshs in 1982 and 1985. RIP Coach. You will be missed.

The Heels have a freshman phenom named Skye Bolt.  What a great name!  He is supposedly the fastest player on the team and expected to be our staring CF this year.  The other starting freshman is named Lassiter.  He will be playing SS.  I find it interesting that we are so young up the middle, but apparently these guys can really play.

RIP coach Ron Fraser.  He was a great coach, Skip Berkman was an assistant of his at Miami.  Fraser always had the Canes ready to play and coached many good teams at Miami. 

Yup Geaux, Fraser will be missed. It's kinda odd around here, normally by now I would be ready for college baseball to start, but the Canes are having a good year in basketball, they are now 16-3, 7-0 in the ACC and they went 8-0 in January. They have a senior laden team, the kind that makes deep runs in March. It could be an interesting spring . . .

Good luck to the Canes basketball team.  Tigers are not too good in basketball so I am really ready for college baseball to begin.  Not too far off.  I am anxious to see how the Tigers do this year.  They have experience in the pitching staff, but do not have a great one.  Aaron Nola is the best of the lot.  He will be the Friday night starter.

The Longhorns played their Alumni game on Friday. The Alumni got off to a quick 5 run in the 3rd and the students came back to tie it 5-5 with a run in the bottom of the 9th. The game featured the two winniest college Baseball coaches when Cliff Gustafson entered the game in the 3rd as the 3rd base coach with a standing ovation from the crowd, while Brooks Kieschnick managed the Texas Exes. It starts for real Feb 15 when the Longhorns host Sacramento State.<br />

I was thinking of maybe going to the LSU opener this Friday and I checked the LSU
site for tickets and all I can get are standing room only from the LSU website. 


That's the problem with trying to go to a LSU baseball game.  Almost all
the tickets are sold through season tickets and then one has to buy from a non
LSU source for two to three times the normal ticket price.  Man it sucks.  I
guess that is what happens when a team is pretty successful in that sport -
especially LSU and college baseball.  A solid revenue sport for LSU.

Good to see your post Geaux....it's that time of year and we are excited in Tar Heel land...heading to Chapel Hill on wednesday for National signing day as we try to rebuild this FB program and improve from 8-4, good class coming for us....but now it's baseball time and I'm ready, good to see the rest of you (CanesCanesCanes, Gnat etc).

Good to see evryone.

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Congrats Geaux!  You passed the test!

Our First Pitch Dinner was Saturday.  It was announced that UNC set a season ticket sales record this season.  Now, if we could only get the students to go to the games...SMH 

DUUUUUUUUUDE!!! A College Baseball board!

I had no idea this was here. I have actually looked for the College Baseball area of the CBS sports site and never found one. Is this new? Or am I just an idiot?