Tuesday, January 20, 2009
JUST ONE MORE MONTH
The start of the college baseball season is now exactly one month away. There are pros and cons to the uniform start date, but I think it's good for college baseball. Having a single starting point to the season gives every one of the 300+ DI teams in the country the same single day on the calender to point to. Unlike Major League Baseball, pretty much every team will play on that same day as well. Teams in the north and south alike are on somewhat equal footing. The players who are in locales blanketed in snow are building their calluses indoors, while teams farther south break their sweats in the sun. The "pings" are just a month away!
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Wow. Nice site to talk college baseball. We need that. Thanks for the site. BTW...300 D1 schools play baseball? And yet the University of Tulsa is not one of them. Sad. Any sleepers to watch out for in non-traditional strong conferences?
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Brant--Thanks for the nice words about the site. We hope to have some good content for college baseball fans. Hard to believe Tulsa doesn't have a baseball team. I guess Oral Roberts will have to do. As far as your "sleeper" question. Off the top of my head I would say Indiana is a team to watch this year. They have an All-American candidate, Josh Phegley, who hit .438 with 15 home runs and 80 RBIs last year. They'll need to find a little pitching along the way though. Michigan ran away with the Big 10 last year, but they lost a ton of players. Thanks again & looking forward to your comments this season!
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