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
Northeast-10 Attracts Scouts With Raw Athletes, Wood Bats
Wednesday Roundup: Bubble Watch
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday was a mixed bag for NCAA tournament bubble teams. Before we get to which bubble teams won and lost, let’s take a look at how mid-major favorites fared, keeping [...]
MINNEAPOLIS—Kyle Kubat was pitching with a heavy heart Wednesday. Kubat spent Tuesday at his grandmother’s funeral and did not travel to Minneapolis with his teammates. He dedicated Wednesday’s start to [...]
MINNEAPOLIS—Pitching coach Todd Oakes, wearing a mask in the dugout to protect him from dust, is a constant reminder to Minnesota’s players about the value of perseverance and belief. If [...]
This time of year, a hefty majority of all questions submitted in our weekly college chat, as well as those sent via e-mail or Twitter, center around the battle for [...]
On Thursday, Cincinnati announced that coach Brian Cleary would be relieved of his duties at the end of the season. The Bearcats sent Cleary out by playing spoiler against Notre [...]
Strike One: Something Old, Something New . . . FULLERTON, Calif.—Carlos Lopez, a fifth-year senior who arrived at Cal State Fullerton in the fall of 2008, had never hit a [...]
In a pair of excellent articles at Baseball Prospectus in the fall of 2011, Rany Jazayerli studied the correlation between a hitter’s age out of the draft and his success [...]
1. VANDERBILT Last Week: 3-1. Overall: 48-7, 26-3 in SEC. (11-1 vs. Top 25). Weekend Series: 14-0. Vanderbilt took two of three from Alabama to set a new record for [...]
Aaron Fitt: Hi everybody, another hectic College Monday, so I’ll probably have to keep today’s chat tight. Let’s get to it. James (Atlanta): Could New Mexico's Ray Birmingham be a [...]
John Manuel and Aaron Fitt will discuss Georgia coach David Perno’s firing in this week’s Google+ Hangout, beginning at 12:30 p.m. ET.
This week’s college podcast, sponsored by Project LoMo, takes a long look at how the field of 64 is shaping up now one week from the announcement of the field [...]
DURHAM, N.C.—Vanderbilt set a Southeastern Conference record with 26 league wins after winning a series against Alabama, and the Commodores remain No. 1 in the Baseball America College Top 25 [...]
• Fresno State outfielder Aaron Judge went 4-for-8 this weekend against Nevada with a double and two home runs. Judge went 0-for-3 against Nevada righthander Braden Shipley on Thursday, with [...]
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 [...]
Georgia has fired David Perno after 12 seasons at the helm. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported and Baseball America confirmed that Georgia’s players were informed Sunday evening that Perno will not [...]
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