With two straight big wins, Virginia Tech has put itself in the thick of the hosting race. Aaron Fitt looks at how Thursday affected the postseason picture.
Thursday Roundup: Hokies, Hogs Continue To Surge
Don Of A New Era: Alex Balog Follows Brother’s Path To San Francisco
Peterson Brothers Could Land In First Round
Prospect Notebook: Alen Hanson, Gregory Polanco Team Up To Trounce Tampa
How Certain Teams Can Exploit The CBA
The races for the last national seeds and regional hosts are heating up. Let’s start the Thursday Roundup with a look at those two races, then examine how the day’s [...]
FORT LAUDERDALE—Marcell Ozuna wasn’t supposed to beat fellow outfield prospect Christian Yelich to the majors. He wasn’t even supposed to beat Jake Marisnick to Double-A Jacksonville. Ozuna did both. A [...]
TORONTO—Andy Burns might have gone higher in the 2011 draft if he had played his junior year at Arizona. Instead, he was ruled ineligible to play that year because he [...]
MINNEAPOLIS—Brad Goldberg threw 20 innings over his first two collegiate seasons at Coastal Carolina in 2009-10. Then he transferred to Ohio State, sat out 2011 due to NCAA transfer rules, [...]
SEATTLE—With Nick Franklin, the biggest question is not whether he’s ready to handle major league pitching. The 2009 first-rounder, a switch-hitter with power, tore up the Triple-A Pacific Coast League [...]
SAN DIEGO—Family ties can do a lot for a college baseball program. Just ask North Carolina, which has gotten a pair of All-Americans from the Moran family—not to mention an [...]
Baseball America’s Best Tools list for the 2013 draft, with candidates drawn from the top 250 prospects on the BA 500. Compiled by Jim Callis, Aaron Fitt, Conor Glassey, John [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—Hitting peas and frozen ropes is not anything new for the Peterson brothers. It’s simply how they learned to hit. D.J. Peterson, a junior at New Mexico, is generally [...]
If you’re looking for the best pair of position prospects on a minor league club, you can take a look at Triple-A Tacoma, where Nick Franklin and Mike Zunino hit [...]
The penalties for exceeding the international bonus pools are harsh, but for certain teams this might be the year to ignore them. The Rays did just that last year when [...]
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 [...]
North Carolina’s run as college baseball’s No. 1 team ended (at least temporarily) this week. The Tar Heels lost a weekend series at Georgia Tech and have dropped four of [...]
CHICAGO–Until a few minutes before the 2012 draft began, Mark Appel looked certain to go to the Astros as the No. 1 overall pick. Multiple sources say Houston was willing [...]
We’re putting the finishing touches on our first of our two Draft Preview issues, which means that our steady flow of draft information will become an avalanche by week’s end, [...]
CHICAGO–Jurickson Profar-for-Oscar Taveras trade talks are like Jason Voorhees in the “Friday The 13th” movie series. They don’t really exist, yet they refuse to die. The Rangers and Cardinals haven’t [...]
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.
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 [...]
Most teams do not want the pressure that can come with ranking No. 1 in Baseball America’s Top 25 college rankings. If it’s feeling any pressure, North Carolina has a [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—The Dominican Republic won the third World Baseball Classic, but there’s more to the WBC than just who was wearing gold medals and plantains when the tournament ended. I [...]
Towson isn’t a big-name baseball program. It plays in the Colonial Athletic Association, the fourth conference it has competed in since Mike Gottlieb became head coach in 1988. Gottlieb, a [...]
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