College: Summer Scene: Summer Stock
2011 Cal Collegiate Top 10 Prospects
Sep. 6, 2011
Several high school seniors made their mark in the CCL, but Rice's Austin Kubitza was an easy choice as the league's top prospect. [...] Continue Reading »
New Bats Couldn't Slow Down Victor Roache
Jul. 14, 2011
When power numbers were dropping all around college baseball, Victor Roach went on a home run surge. [...] Continue Reading »
Hawaii Collegiate League Top 10 Prospects
Sep. 9, 2010
Four rising freshmen, including No. 1 prospect Joc Pederson, lead the first installment of the Hawaii Collegiate League's Top 10. [...] Continue Reading »
2010 Summer College Player Of The Year
Sep. 2, 2010
The total package—the leadership, the absurd numbers and the strong performance in Team USA's biggest win of the summer against Japan—makes Sonny Gray Baseball America's 2010 Summer Player of the Year. A rising junior righthander at Vanderbilt, Gray is the third Commodore to win the award in the last five years. [...] Continue Reading »
Osich Faces A Tough Decision
Aug. 4, 2010
With the West Coast League championship at stake, the Corvallis Knights put the ball in Josh Osich's hands. And, like he had done for most of the summer, the 225-pound lefty from Boise came through. [...] Continue Reading »
Enigmatic Miller Seeks Last Piece Of Puzzle
Jul. 28, 2010
He is still working to rid himself of the nasty habit, but once Clemson shortstop and Team USA infielder Brad Miller learns to stop thinking on the field and instead rely on his athleticism and instincts, he can be one of the best all-around players in the country. [...] Continue Reading »
Springer Dashes Into National Spotlight
Jul. 13, 2010
George Springer needed just 90 feet to prove he was ready to make an impact. In a fall 2008 intrasquad scrimmage, Springer took one too many steps away from third base. Connecticut catcher Doug Elliot saw Springer's aggressive lead and called for a pitch-out. Time to teach the freshman a lesson. But Springer read Elliot's call and countered. When Elliot fired the ball to third, hoping to catch the runner napping, Springer bolted to the plate. By the time the catcher got the ball back, Springer had stolen home. [...] Continue Reading »
Great Lakes League Top 10 Prospects
Aug. 26, 2009
Ball State two-way star Kolbrin Vitek leads the Great Lakes League Top 10 Prospects list. [...] Continue Reading »
Brain And Brawn
Aug. 24, 2009
Whenever coaches and scouts talk about Christian Colon, they invariably start and finish with praise for his baseball IQ, instincts, leadership skills and confidence. Colon is just a darn good baseball player, they'll say, a born winner who simply finds a way to get the job done. [...] Continue Reading »
Mowing 'Em Down
Aug. 11, 2009
While his arm action is neither smooth nor orthodox, Kevin Jacob lit up radar guns this summer, reaching 98 mph for the Anchorage Bucs. [...] Continue Reading »
A Big Hit
Jul. 27, 2009
Harold Riggins is more than meets the eye. The 6-foot-3 first baseman looks 230, weighs 270, hits for average in a power hitter's body, and spurned pro scouts in favor of three years at North Carolina State, 800 miles away from his home and family in Normal, Ill. [...] Continue Reading »
Cox Shines In Wet Cape All-Star Game
Jul. 23, 2009
Soggy weather only put a slight damper on the Cape Cod League all-star game, which made a successful return to Fenway Park on Thursday after a 22-year absence. More than 13,000 fans packed most of the infield seating bowl for the league's home run hitting contest and all-star game, which the West team won 3-0 in a game shortened to four and a half innings by rain. [...] Continue Reading »
Tough Sale
Jul. 16, 2009
In 2007, Florida Gulf Coast coach Dave Tollet was looking at an intriguing recruit. A 6-foot-6 lefthanded pitcher named Chris Sale spent most of his time throwing an unspectacular 82-84 mph at Lakeland (Fla.) High. But every once in a while, the kid's velocity would shoot up to 88, flashing major-college zip before diving back to the low 80s. [...] Continue Reading »
New Reputation
Jul. 6, 2009
Once the a star on the MTV reality miniseries "Two-A-Days", Ross Wilson now enjoys the relative obscurity of playing college baseball. [...] Continue Reading »
Paying Dividends
Jun. 16, 2009
In the spring of 2007, Matt Hayes took a chance. The coach of the Forest City Owls needed an extra arm, and it was too late to draw a big-name player into the Coastal Plain League. So Hayes brought in a stringy, 6-foot righthander out of a small junior college in Illinois named Spencer Patton. Two years later, it looks like Hayes made one heck of a good call. Patton, now a junior at Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, was back in the Coastal Plain Leage and led the league in strikeouts. Through his first two starts of 2009, Patton dealt 27 Ks in just 14 innings of work. [...] Continue Reading »
No Minor Feat
Aug. 27, 2008
Weeks before the USA Baseball collegiate national team finished off its perfect summer, a first-inning pickoff might have been the biggest play of the whole campaign. In the second game of pool play at Haarlem Honkbal Week in the Netherlands, Team USA was up against a Cuban national team that was the same minus one player from its 2004 Olympic gold medal team and its 2006 World Baseball Classic squad. Cuba's Glorbis Duvergel singled against USA lefthander Mike Minor to lead off the game, but Minor stopped Cuba in its tracks and gave the Americans the momentum by picking Duvergel off first. [...] Continue Reading »
Torrid Streak Lasts All Summer
Aug. 8, 2008
Southern California shortstop Grant Green positions himself to be a first-round pick next year with a spectacular hitting performance in the 2008 Cape Cod League. [...] Continue Reading »
College National Roster Remains Incomplete
Jun. 25, 2008
USA Baseball assembles its college national team, but is unable to set its "final" roster after two last-minute defections by a pair of North Carolina hitters. [...] Continue Reading »
Valley's Greinke Takes Top Summer Honor
Sep. 3, 2007
For the third straight year, a pitcher claimed Baseball America's Summer Player of the Year honors. However, the previous winners, Andrew Miller and David Price, didn't put together an offensive performance like Luke Greinke of the Valley League's Winchester Royals did in 2007. [...] Continue Reading »
Summer Stock
Jul. 17, 2007
For a pair of 20-year-olds, Vanderbilt's Ryan Flaherty and Arkansas' Logan Forsythe approach hitting with remarkable maturity. [...] Continue Reading »
Summer Stock
Jul. 11, 2007
This summer, Eastern Kentucky sophomore Christian Friedrich has joined the rest of the nation's top college players in the Cape Cod League, pitching for the Falmouth Commodores. And just like most of his collegiate baseball career, he was off to good start—and in the meantime, he said, he's having the best summer of his life. [...] Continue Reading »
Summer Stock
Jun. 28, 2007
The Alaska Baseball League has seen an influx of Taiwanese talent over the past three seasons. [...] Continue Reading »
Summer Stock
Sep. 7, 2006
The 2005 Cape Cod League all-star game featured North Carolina teammates Daniel Bard and Andrew Miller on the mound to start the game, beginning a scoreless duel that also featured pitchers such as Tim Lincecum and Brandon Morrow who pushed radar gun readings toward the 100 mph mark. The big pitching name of the 2006 edition of the game was . . . Matt LaPorta? [...] Continue Reading »
Summer Stock
Aug. 11, 2006
Erik Davis is trying to recover after suffering an eye injury when he was struck by a comebacker during a Cape Cod League game. [...] Continue Reading »
Summer Stock
Jul. 21, 2006
The right side of Team USA's infield boasts impressive athleticism. [...] Continue Reading »
Summer Stock
Jul. 12, 2006
Team USA will face a difficult slate of games this summer. [...] Continue Reading »
Summer Stock
Aug. 8, 2005
On the final day of Perfect Game's biggest summer tournament, an extraordinarily hectic seven days of the World Wood Bat Association 18-and-under summer championship came to a close—fittingly, with a dramatic conclusion. [...] Continue Reading »
2011 Cal Collegiate Top 10 Prospects
Sep. 6, 2011
Several high school seniors made their mark in the CCL, but Rice's Austin Kubitza was an easy choice as the league's top prospect. [...] Continue Reading »
New Bats Couldn't Slow Down Victor Roache
Jul. 14, 2011
When power numbers were dropping all around college baseball, Victor Roach went on a home run surge. [...] Continue Reading »
Hawaii Collegiate League Top 10 Prospects
Sep. 9, 2010
Four rising freshmen, including No. 1 prospect Joc Pederson, lead the first installment of the Hawaii Collegiate League's Top 10. [...] Continue Reading »
2010 Summer College Player Of The Year
Sep. 2, 2010
The total package—the leadership, the absurd numbers and the strong performance in Team USA's biggest win of the summer against Japan—makes Sonny Gray Baseball America's 2010 Summer Player of the Year. A rising junior righthander at Vanderbilt, Gray is the third Commodore to win the award in the last five years. [...] Continue Reading »
Osich Faces A Tough Decision
Aug. 4, 2010
With the West Coast League championship at stake, the Corvallis Knights put the ball in Josh Osich's hands. And, like he had done for most of the summer, the 225-pound lefty from Boise came through. [...] Continue Reading »
Enigmatic Miller Seeks Last Piece Of Puzzle
Jul. 28, 2010
He is still working to rid himself of the nasty habit, but once Clemson shortstop and Team USA infielder Brad Miller learns to stop thinking on the field and instead rely on his athleticism and instincts, he can be one of the best all-around players in the country. [...] Continue Reading »
Springer Dashes Into National Spotlight
Jul. 13, 2010
George Springer needed just 90 feet to prove he was ready to make an impact. In a fall 2008 intrasquad scrimmage, Springer took one too many steps away from third base. Connecticut catcher Doug Elliot saw Springer's aggressive lead and called for a pitch-out. Time to teach the freshman a lesson. But Springer read Elliot's call and countered. When Elliot fired the ball to third, hoping to catch the runner napping, Springer bolted to the plate. By the time the catcher got the ball back, Springer had stolen home. [...] Continue Reading »
Great Lakes League Top 10 Prospects
Aug. 26, 2009
Ball State two-way star Kolbrin Vitek leads the Great Lakes League Top 10 Prospects list. [...] Continue Reading »
Brain And Brawn
Aug. 24, 2009
Whenever coaches and scouts talk about Christian Colon, they invariably start and finish with praise for his baseball IQ, instincts, leadership skills and confidence. Colon is just a darn good baseball player, they'll say, a born winner who simply finds a way to get the job done. [...] Continue Reading »
Mowing 'Em Down
Aug. 11, 2009
While his arm action is neither smooth nor orthodox, Kevin Jacob lit up radar guns this summer, reaching 98 mph for the Anchorage Bucs. [...] Continue Reading »
A Big Hit
Jul. 27, 2009
Harold Riggins is more than meets the eye. The 6-foot-3 first baseman looks 230, weighs 270, hits for average in a power hitter's body, and spurned pro scouts in favor of three years at North Carolina State, 800 miles away from his home and family in Normal, Ill. [...] Continue Reading »
Cox Shines In Wet Cape All-Star Game
Jul. 23, 2009
Soggy weather only put a slight damper on the Cape Cod League all-star game, which made a successful return to Fenway Park on Thursday after a 22-year absence. More than 13,000 fans packed most of the infield seating bowl for the league's home run hitting contest and all-star game, which the West team won 3-0 in a game shortened to four and a half innings by rain. [...] Continue Reading »
Tough Sale
Jul. 16, 2009
In 2007, Florida Gulf Coast coach Dave Tollet was looking at an intriguing recruit. A 6-foot-6 lefthanded pitcher named Chris Sale spent most of his time throwing an unspectacular 82-84 mph at Lakeland (Fla.) High. But every once in a while, the kid's velocity would shoot up to 88, flashing major-college zip before diving back to the low 80s. [...] Continue Reading »
New Reputation
Jul. 6, 2009
Once the a star on the MTV reality miniseries "Two-A-Days", Ross Wilson now enjoys the relative obscurity of playing college baseball. [...] Continue Reading »
Paying Dividends
Jun. 16, 2009
In the spring of 2007, Matt Hayes took a chance. The coach of the Forest City Owls needed an extra arm, and it was too late to draw a big-name player into the Coastal Plain League. So Hayes brought in a stringy, 6-foot righthander out of a small junior college in Illinois named Spencer Patton. Two years later, it looks like Hayes made one heck of a good call. Patton, now a junior at Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, was back in the Coastal Plain Leage and led the league in strikeouts. Through his first two starts of 2009, Patton dealt 27 Ks in just 14 innings of work. [...] Continue Reading »
No Minor Feat
Aug. 27, 2008
Weeks before the USA Baseball collegiate national team finished off its perfect summer, a first-inning pickoff might have been the biggest play of the whole campaign. In the second game of pool play at Haarlem Honkbal Week in the Netherlands, Team USA was up against a Cuban national team that was the same minus one player from its 2004 Olympic gold medal team and its 2006 World Baseball Classic squad. Cuba's Glorbis Duvergel singled against USA lefthander Mike Minor to lead off the game, but Minor stopped Cuba in its tracks and gave the Americans the momentum by picking Duvergel off first. [...] Continue Reading »
Torrid Streak Lasts All Summer
Aug. 8, 2008
Southern California shortstop Grant Green positions himself to be a first-round pick next year with a spectacular hitting performance in the 2008 Cape Cod League. [...] Continue Reading »
College National Roster Remains Incomplete
Jun. 25, 2008
USA Baseball assembles its college national team, but is unable to set its "final" roster after two last-minute defections by a pair of North Carolina hitters. [...] Continue Reading »
Valley's Greinke Takes Top Summer Honor
Sep. 3, 2007
For the third straight year, a pitcher claimed Baseball America's Summer Player of the Year honors. However, the previous winners, Andrew Miller and David Price, didn't put together an offensive performance like Luke Greinke of the Valley League's Winchester Royals did in 2007. [...] Continue Reading »
Summer Stock
Jul. 17, 2007
For a pair of 20-year-olds, Vanderbilt's Ryan Flaherty and Arkansas' Logan Forsythe approach hitting with remarkable maturity. [...] Continue Reading »
Summer Stock
Jul. 11, 2007
This summer, Eastern Kentucky sophomore Christian Friedrich has joined the rest of the nation's top college players in the Cape Cod League, pitching for the Falmouth Commodores. And just like most of his collegiate baseball career, he was off to good start—and in the meantime, he said, he's having the best summer of his life. [...] Continue Reading »
Summer Stock
Jun. 28, 2007
The Alaska Baseball League has seen an influx of Taiwanese talent over the past three seasons. [...] Continue Reading »
Summer Stock
Sep. 7, 2006
The 2005 Cape Cod League all-star game featured North Carolina teammates Daniel Bard and Andrew Miller on the mound to start the game, beginning a scoreless duel that also featured pitchers such as Tim Lincecum and Brandon Morrow who pushed radar gun readings toward the 100 mph mark. The big pitching name of the 2006 edition of the game was . . . Matt LaPorta? [...] Continue Reading »
Summer Stock
Aug. 11, 2006
Erik Davis is trying to recover after suffering an eye injury when he was struck by a comebacker during a Cape Cod League game. [...] Continue Reading »
Summer Stock
Jul. 21, 2006
The right side of Team USA's infield boasts impressive athleticism. [...] Continue Reading »
Summer Stock
Jul. 12, 2006
Team USA will face a difficult slate of games this summer. [...] Continue Reading »
Summer Stock
Aug. 8, 2005
On the final day of Perfect Game's biggest summer tournament, an extraordinarily hectic seven days of the World Wood Bat Association 18-and-under summer championship came to a close—fittingly, with a dramatic conclusion. [...] Continue Reading »
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