*** THE OFFICIAL 2012 COLLEGE BASEBALL THREAD ***

Since the season is upon us, use this thread to talk about pre season hopes, top prospects on your teams, big games, etc. Follow this thread all the way through to Omaha.

The 2 time defending National Champion Gamecocks are poised to make another deep run in the playoffs with the strength of the team being 4 returning SP's. Having the #1 recruiting class may help fill some voids left from last year's team. Tanner English, a very talented Freshman, is one to watch.

Good luck this year to everyone's teams.

My favorite college player is catcher Mike Zunino from the Florida Gators. Hope he has another solid year.

CAROLINA BOSOX said:

Since the season is upon us, use this thread to talk about pre season hopes, top prospects on your teams, big games, etc. Follow this thread all the way through to Omaha.

The 2 time defending National Champion Gamecocks are poised to make another deep run in the playoffs with the strength of the team being 4 returning SP's. Having the #1 recruiting class may help fill some voids left from last year's team. Tanner English, a very talented Freshman, is one to watch.

Good luck this year to everyone's teams.

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Hopefully LSU has a good season and gives them a run for their money

Looks like a little bit of a rebuilding year for UVA here in Charlottesville. They are still ranked nationally, but not nearly as high as in the recent past as they lost a lot a talent to the draft. Hopefully the first year guys will step up and Branden Kline will live up to his first team all American billing.

Vanderbilt playing Stanford this weekend in a nice three game series. Tyler 'keep your Canadian millions' Beede taking the hill in the second game. Might be a bit of a rebuilding year after we lost 12 draft picks, but should still be a nice race in the SEC East. I shudder to think how good the Gators are this year.

2012 Baseball America pre season poll

team/ last years record/2011 final ranking

1. Florida 53-19 2
2. Stanford 35-22 13
3. South Carolina 55-14 1
4. Arkansas 40-22 24
5. Arizona 39-21 NR
6. Rice 42-21 15
7. Texas A&M 47-22 7
8. Louisiana State 36-20 NR
9. North Carolina 51-16 5
10. Vanderbilt 54-12 4
11. Georgia 33-32 NR
12. Georgia Tech 42-21 20
13. Texas 49-19 6
14. UCLA 35-24 22
15. Texas Christian 43-19 19
16. Clemson 43-20 21
17. Arizona State 43-18 9
18. Miami 38-23 23
19. Oklahoma 41-19 NR
20. Florida State 46-19 8
21. Central Florida 39-23 NR
22. Mississippi 30-25 NR
23. Oregon State 41-19 10
24. Louisville 32-29 NR
25. Cal State Fullerton 41-17 14

Not sure what the outlook is for Rutgers baseball this year - but I'll hope for over .500 and a good showing in the Big East tourny and see what happens. Hope Steve Nyisztor can come back from his injury plagued 2011 season. Anyway, good luck to all, it's nice to have baseball coming back

*Edit* lol - just did some checking and Nyisztor flunked out of RU and transferred to a JC. too bad, but I still wish him well going forward

I just got to Wilmington, NC with the Ohio baseball team for our first series. Pumped to get this season started tomorrow.

Looking forward to the Dave Serrano era at Tennessee as well.

I didn't hear about the projects for the Gophers, but my Huskies are one of the top teams in DII if I am correct.

Who are the bigger prospects in the Big 10 this year? Any USA guys?

Hallsgator said:

http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/college/season-preview/2012/2612949.html

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Ty for posting that.

2012 BA preseason All American team


2012 Preseason All-America Teams
First Team
Pos. Player, School Cl. B-T Ht. Wt. AVG OBP SLG AB R H HR RBI SB
C Mike Zunino, Florida Jr. R-R 6-2 215 .371 .442 .674 264 75 98 19 67 7
1B Adam Brett Walker, Jacksonville Jr. R-R 6-5 225 .409 .486 .682 242 65 99 13 75 14
2B Tony Renda, California Jr. R-R 5-8 173 .332 .366 .434 265 38 88 3 44 9
3B Stephen Piscotty, Stanford Jr. R-R 6-3 195 .364 .423 .471 225 35 82 3 40 2
SS Deven Marrero, Arizona State Jr. R-R 6-1 194 .315 .352 .434 219 33 69 2 20 10
OF Travis Jankowski, Stony Brook Jr. L-R 6-3 190 .355 .419 .457 186 39 66 2 38 30
OF Tyler Naquin, Texas A&M Jr. L-R 6-2 170 .381 .449 .538 273 68 104 2 44 6
OF Victor Roache, Georgia Southern Jr. R-R 6-1 225 .326 .438 .778 230 58 75 30 84 3
DH Richie Shaffer, Clemson Jr. R-R 6-3 205 .315 .438 .557 222 62 70 13 55 8
UT Brian Johnson, Florida Jr. L-L 6-3 225 .307 .414 .464 192 26 59 5 29 2
Pos. Player, School Cl. B-T Ht. Wt. W L ERA G SV IP H BB SO AVG
SP Mark Appel, Stanford Jr. R-R 6-5 190 6 7 3.02 17 0 110 114 29 86 .277
SP Chris Beck, Georgia Southern Jr. R-R 6-3 220 9 5 3.23 20 0 103 79 40 109 .211
SP Kevin Gausman, Louisiana State So. L-R 6-4 185 5 6 3.51 14 0 90 70 23 86 .215
SP Marcus Stroman, Duke Jr. R-R 5-9 185 3 4 2.80 17 4 64 59 21 90 .241
RP Nolan Sanburn, Arkansas So. R-R 6-0 185 2 4 3.62 24 8 32 28 15 35 .239
UT Brian Johnson, Florida Jr. L-L 6-3 225 8 3 3.62 16 0 80 78 15 72 .253

MisterT said:

Looks like a little bit of a rebuilding year for UVA here in Charlottesville. They are still ranked nationally, but not nearly as high as in the recent past as they lost a lot a talent to the draft. Hopefully the first year guys will step up and Branden Kline will live up to his first team all American billing.

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Yep. Could either be a rough year or a very surprising year for the Hoos. Lots of similarities to 09 though which was a pretty good year.

I do not get Adam Walker as a first team All American. He looks like a physical beast, but then you see him move in the field or when he takes a breaking ball and you realize his issues.

TBTwinsFan said:

I didn't hear about the projects for the Gophers, but my Huskies are one of the top teams in DII if I am correct.

Who are the bigger prospects in the Big 10 this year? Any USA guys?

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BA has the Gophers finishing 3rd in conference behind Purdue and Michigan State. They're actually playing their 1st game of the season right now against Louisville, up 3-1. This could be a nice win if they finish it off.

TGutta said:

TBTwinsFan said:

I didn't hear about the projects for the Gophers, but my Huskies are one of the top teams in DII if I am correct.

Who are the bigger prospects in the Big 10 this year? Any USA guys?

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BA has the Gophers finishing 3rd in conference behind Purdue and Michigan State. They're actually playing their 1st game of the season right now against Louisville, up 3-1. This could be a nice win if they finish it off.

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I think they have a pretty solid team this year. Last year it was a mess. I went to one game and it was a pathetic loss to a very small school.

TBTwinsFan said:

TGutta said:

TBTwinsFan said:

I didn't hear about the projects for the Gophers, but my Huskies are one of the top teams in DII if I am correct.

Who are the bigger prospects in the Big 10 this year? Any USA guys?

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BA has the Gophers finishing 3rd in conference behind Purdue and Michigan State. They're actually playing their 1st game of the season right now against Louisville, up 3-1. This could be a nice win if they finish it off.

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I think they have a pretty solid team this year. Last year it was a mess. I went to one game and it was a pathetic loss to a very small school.

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Their pitching is really going to have to carry them but it's always tough for schools in the Midwest to really succeed on a national level. They're up 7-1 right now in the 8th.

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TBTwinsFan said:

TGutta said:

TBTwinsFan said:

I didn't hear about the projects for the Gophers, but my Huskies are one of the top teams in DII if I am correct.

Who are the bigger prospects in the Big 10 this year? Any USA guys?

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BA has the Gophers finishing 3rd in conference behind Purdue and Michigan State. They're actually playing their 1st game of the season right now against Louisville, up 3-1. This could be a nice win if they finish it off.

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I think they have a pretty solid team this year. Last year it was a mess. I went to one game and it was a pathetic loss to a very small school.

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Their pitching is really going to have to carry them but it's always tough for schools in the Midwest to really succeed on a national level. They're up 7-1 right now in the 8th.

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Wow. They are really going.

The team from 2 years ago was just nuts... Knudson, Rosin, Kvasnicka, Pettersen, Matyas, Gominsky...

That was some good baseball.

Former Commodore Kent Emanuel UNC TarHeels goes 7IP 7H 2ER 3K's in an win.

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