North Carolina freshman Trent Thornton delivered seven strong innings to keep the Tar Heels alive in Omaha and send LSU home.
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OMAHA—Trent Thornton has saved eight games for North Carolina in 2013. On Tuesday, he may have just saved its season. With their national title hopes on the brink and their [...]
Welcome to Baseball America’s 2013 MLB Draft Signings Central. We’ll use this space to highlight all signings for $750,000 or more, plus any other significant transactions. We’ll also cover many [...]
USA Baseball’s Tournament of Stars, presented by Major League Baseball, starts Wednesday at the National Training Complex in Cary, N.C. It matches up some of the country’s best high school [...]
National writer Aaron Fitt, live in Omaha, joins editor John Manuel back in Durham to talk College World Series and make our daily picks every day during the College World [...]
The 2013 College National Team is taking shape this week, as the USA Baseball National Training Complex plays host to the nation’s best college underclassmen for the first stop in [...]
The game of baseball works in funny ways, especially at the high school level. Just ask Harvard-Westlake, whose run to Team of the Year glory came one year later than [...]
In the final Baseball America/National High School Baseball Coaches Association Top 25, Harvard-Westlake High of Studio City, Calif., is No. 1 and lays claim to Baseball America’s 2013 High School Team [...]
The draft ended just 10 days ago, yet entering this morning 15 of the 33 first-round picks had officially signed or are known to have agreed to terms. Another half-dozen [...]
ATLANTA—Scouting director Tony DeMacio believes the Braves achieved their goal for this draft by adding depth up the middle, particularly on the mound and behind the plate. Atlanta used 19 [...]
PHILADELPHIA—For two seasons now, the Phillies have struggled to score runs in the big leagues as their lineup core has gotten older. With an eye toward addressing this problem, the [...]
The draft ended just 10 days ago, yet entering this morning 15 of the 33 first-round picks had officially signed or are known to have agreed to terms. Another half-dozen [...]
Draft signings are starting to come fast and furious, and we’re tracking all the major developments at our MLB Draft Signings Central page. Four first-rounders turned pro yesterday: Hunter Dozier [...]
SECAUCUS, N.J.–The first seven picks of the 2013 draft unfolded according to plan. Stanford righthander Mark Appel went No. 1 overall to the Astros—after nearly doing so a year earlier—and [...]
This feels like just about the busiest week of the year at Baseball America. The draft is 10 days away and our coverage continues to heat up. Tomorrow, we’ll unveil [...]
Neither Jonathan Gray (Oklahoma) nor Mark Appel (Stanford) had one of their best outings of the spring over the weekend, but they remain the leading candidates to go to the [...]
It’s no surprise that the beginning of the minor league season delivered plenty of action. What would be shocking is if it didn’t. No, what was surprising was that the [...]
Welcome to the new BaseballAmerica.com! We like to give the site a fresh look every seven years or so, whether it needs it or not. This redesign has been in [...]
The World Baseball Classic has always been right in Baseball America's wheelhouse. No one covers the game around the globe like we do, and we always viewed a world cup-style tournament for baseball as a great engine for the game's growth.
You know, we will never figure out a perfect way to do the Top 100 Prospects list, because there's no way for us to know with certainty which players are going to fall by the wayside due to poor performance or misfortune. But I like to think we have become significantly better over the years at building our list, which is why it continues to be regarded as the best ranking of its kind in the industry.
It's college baseball season again, which means it's time for the annual wave of college marketers gone wild.
DENVER-—Roberta Mazur always figured she would grow up to be a housewife. “I didn’t really have a plan,” she said. “My mother, though, was into women’s liberation before there was [...]
DENVER–Miguel Cabrera has established himself as one of the premiere players in the game, and he can build on his impressive resume this year. The American League MVP of 2012, [...]
PEORIA, Ariz.—As far back as he can remember, Mike Zunino was hanging around ballparks, tagging along with his father Greg, a scout with the Marlins back then. “He was always [...]
Twenty-four players were picked in the first round of the 2009 draft before the Angels selected Mike Trout. Randal Grichuk was one of the 24. Not only was Grichuk one pick ahead of Trout, but he, like Trout, was selected by the Angels and is also an outfielder. The two became friends as teammates in the Rookie-level Arizona League in 2009.
Tracy Ringolsby checks in after the BBWAA failed to elect a player to the Hall of Fame for just the eighth time ever, the first time since 1996 and second time since 1971. It's a shame, because the ballot was full of qualified candidates this year and will only get more crowded. One of the players whose candidacy will be harmed the most figures to be Jack Morris.
When Arizona won last year’s College World Series, it put coach Andy Lopez in elite company as one of just two coaches to win a national championship at two different [...]
Three years ago, scouts and college coaches who evaluate talent in Mississippi had a hard time figuring out Hunter Renfroe. A righthanded-hitting catcher at Copiah Academy in Gallman, Renfroe was [...]
Aaron Fitt and I enjoy the regional preview podcasts every year, and this years’ were no different. If 2 hours, 46 minutes are too much for you, though, here’s a [...]
College baseball’s growth has meant new hotbeds for the sport around the country beyond just the old standbys of California, Texas and Florida. Oklahoma, South and North Carolina and Oregon [...]
Dick Cooke had just hired three new assistant coaches for his Davidson program in September. He hadn’t had the chance to go over details of how his first fall practice [...]
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