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Hey, time again for a college baseball thread that most people won't look at till the College World Series, if even then. Which is a shame, because college baseball is the best baseball! At this level pretty much every day you get position players pitching, comedy fielding, bunts, cool pinging sounds, future major leaguers, bunts, future car salesmen, constant huge upsets, bunts, and the best rain delay antics. Opening day is this Friday, February 17. Now that there's one unified opening weekend, pretty much every team will be playing somewhere as long as nature obliges. If you're new to college ball vs. the professional variety, now is the time to follow your team or adopt a random one. If you have a team near you, it's also a great way to kill an afternoon—the bigger teams are starting to up prices quite a bit, but most games at the smaller schools are still super cheap. Polls are as meaningless in this sport as any other, especially last season when Coastal Carolina came...not out of nowhere, exactly, they've had a good program for a long time, but still, in a sport dominated by the SEC with help from the ACC, Big XII, and Pac-12, no one would generally pick a Big South team as their eventual champion. It was a hell of a series, though. Anyway, this year everyone loves TCU and, to a lesser extent, Florida. For polls I recommend the CBI Composite, which smooths out the huge anomalies present in any single one of the polls; this year's preseason version is below. No, I don't know why the BA entry drifted over to the team column. There's tons of info online about NCAA baseball now, and also lots of games on TV or streaming on ESPN3 or conference networks. For scoreboard options you've got D1Baseball or the NCAA itself. Baseball America has reliable coverage. There's no outright Kenpom equivalent, but Boyd's World hosts a few different stat-based ranking systems.
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Mandatory viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-vtHeyLTks Inspector_666 posted:Are there any guys who are already big draft names? I don't remember any of the talked-up HS guys fro last year not singing, but I assume there are guys who will be juniors this year with some hype (juniors are the usual draft year, right? I know seniors generally get the underslot money because they have no leverage.) The USA Baseball Roster is a pretty good indicator, all those sophomores listed there are draft-eligible juniors now, and many of the likely first rounders as of preseason estimation are on there: Kendall (Vandy OF), Wright (Vandy RHP), Faedo (Florida RHP), McKay (Louisville 1B/LHP), Bukauskas (UNC RHP), Lange (LSU RHP) and Houck (Mizzou RHP) are all top 10 caliber. It's pretty widely expected that the 2018 college draft class is the one to watch for, though. Clemson 1B Seth Beer in particular is the next mega-prospect (he's also a year younger than his class, which is terrifying). elentar fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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Feb 15, 2017 19:57
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Opening day upsets: VCU over #5 FSU, San Diego over #7 Vandy (yesterday, several SoCal teams got a special waiver to start early because of the expected rains), Ole Miss over #10 ECU, Wright State over #11 Clemson. Ole Miss will be very good by the end of the year, they have maybe the #1 class in the nation. But the others are surprises, especially VCU winning in a one-hit shutout.
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Feb 18, 2017 16:52
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Biggest news over the weekend was Ole Miss sweeping ECU—people expected them to be good by the end of this year, but not this good this soon. Meanwhile, wild day today: Florida, Florida State, LSU all losing midweek games to the likes of South Florida, Jacksonville, and New Orleans. You usually don't see polls move much in the early part of the season, but these are the kinds of games that change that.
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Feb 22, 2017 05:32
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Climate change is terrifying and billions will probably die in our lifetimes but goddamn if this isn't the best day ever for some February baseball.
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Feb 24, 2017 21:43
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it is with a heavy heart that I must announce that the ncaa is at it again https://twitter.com/sportscenter/status/836709970502643712
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Mar 1, 2017 01:39
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Highly-ranked Florida was losing a midweek game to Stetson today 10-1 in the top of the 5th, when a huge downpour ended play for the day. Florida has since refused to reschedule a date to resume play, despite Stetson being able to bus over literally any day to try to hang on to their lead for four innings. Bitch move, Gators.
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Apr 5, 2017 05:07
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Virginia is putting together a really good season in a year nobody expected much of them, despite a few recent recruiting blips Brian O'Connor remains one of the best coaches in the nation. NC State meanwhile has taken a team many regarded as CWS-level and driven out to the desert to die. I was sort of skeptical of the CWS thing but they clearly have enough to be a regional host, not struggling to even make the ACC Tournament (much less the NCAAs). They got swept by Boston College for god's sake. It would have been hard to see Elliot Avent getting booted after actually getting them to Omaha but with wasting this year and not winning an ACC title at least during the Rodon/Turner days it's getting hard to argue that he'll ever add any more high points to the program's paltry history. bathhouse posted:Here is an interesting article to put the Beavs season in perspective. I’m hoping we cap it off right. It has been a fun season to watch no matter what happens. Very earnestly relying on Oregon State to once again prevent UNC from winning the CWS. I hope it doesn't get to that point, obviously, but it would be pretty hilarious if it happened. elentar fucked around with this message at 19:00 on May 4, 2017 |
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May 4, 2017 18:52
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ACC tournament schedule announced. They've changed the format to get more teams in, and also to make it so teams aren't drawing dead after day 1 even if they haven't played yet. Not double elimination, but some sort of improvement? Anyway: it's four "pods" with three teams each, so beat both your podmates and you're through to the semis. Not sure what tiebreaker is yet, ACC site itself seems stuck on old one. Pod 1: Louisville, FSU, Notre Dame Pod 2: UNC, NC State, BC Pod 3: Wake, Miami, GT Pod 4: Virginia, Clemson, Duke UNC has probably been the best in the ACC all year, and the tournament sets up decently for them, in particular because Louisville just lost a series at home to FSU. State has been playing a lot better though, they're not the team that got swept by BC earlier this year (though it wouldn't shock me if they lost a fourth game to them this week).
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May 21, 2017 18:11
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Rain hosed the ACC tournament yesterday, they had to move one game over to the Louisville campus today, maybe one tomorrow. Last bit of the system still coming through.
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May 25, 2017 15:04
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elentar posted:UNC has probably been the best in the ACC all year, and the tournament sets up decently for them, in particular because Louisville just lost a series at home to FSU. State has been playing a lot better though, they're not the team that got swept by BC earlier this year (though it wouldn't shock me if they lost a fourth game to them this week). And in fact the ACCT has fallen freakishly well for the Tar Heels, who will be the only top seed left in the semis after Louisville, Wake, Clemson (and Virginia, for that matter) were all knocked out. A resurgent FSU is probably their only competition at this point, although Miami is desperate enough. Yet again also I learn never ever to say anything good about NC State under any circumstances; they struggled through BC and then immediately in tonight's game went down 10-0 to UNC, including a dropped popup that could have limited the damage to 2-0. Jesus Christ I really don't know why I keep wasting any amount of time on this team, program, or school.
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May 27, 2017 01:38
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NCAA tournament starts Friday. Well, actually Thursday for the rogue Stanford regional, but Friday mostly. Here's the bracket. D1Baseball has a stripped-down bracket challenge.
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May 31, 2017 03:50
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UNC, behind likely high first-rounder JB Bukauskas, loses to Davidson 8-4. Obviously they'll still run the table from here and make Omaha, but nice while it lasts. The other 1 seed to lose so far is also ACC: Florida State, to Tennessee Tech. edit: Iowa made it 3 on the day, beating Houston. Also Stanford lost to Fullerton but that was day 2 of the BYU-blessed regional. Two 1 vs 2 elimination games first thing tomorrow: FSU-UCF at noon, Houston-Baylor at 3. elentar fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Jun 3, 2017 |
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Jun 3, 2017 02:19
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Today UNC will poo poo on fun by beating Florida Gulf Coast and then Davidson before beating Davidson again in the final tomorrow. NC State will complete a counteracting collapse by losing to the Kentucky-Indiana winner tonight, and again tomorrow.
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Jun 4, 2017 19:01
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Hahaha, UNC has just gone 0-2 against Davidson and crashed out of just about the cushiest regional imaginable.
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Jun 5, 2017 03:24
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What a game. And they do it all over again at 6 local time tomorrow (er, today).
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Jun 5, 2017 09:29
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Sam Houston State takes out Texas Tech, so that's national seeds 2, 5, and 8 gone before Supers. Florida was getting a hell of a game from Bethune-Cookman too, but one BC error kept an inning going long enough for a Gator 3-run homer, might be too much to expect a comeback there.
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Jun 5, 2017 23:10
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:How do they decide home field if 3-seed Auburn takes out FSU tonight? I think that's the super regional they're paired with. Both teams put bids in to the NCAA and whoever has the more suitable facility gets it. I can't imagine that wouldn't be Auburn, but I was 4 or 5 years old the last time I was at a game on the Plains.
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Jun 5, 2017 23:43
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Davidson went down 6-0 to Texas A&M but rallied to tie in the 9th and the game's now going to the 14th. That is all.
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Jun 10, 2017 00:27
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CWS starts today at 2 PM Omaha time, 3 Eastern. Two pods of four teams apiece, double elimination, leading to a best of 3 final series. Bracket. The only good thing about the lovely super regional round is that the CWS is stacked. Louisville is a slight favorite, but they'll have to go through preseason #1 TCU, Florida, and a hot Texas A&M team. Oregon State would be the easy favorite even in this field with Heimlich, but now they're joint second with LSU. Florida State had a bad year by their standards but picked up to win the ACC tournament; Fullerton's along for the ride but definitely have the history to hang in. Should be a good ten days.
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Jun 17, 2017 16:32
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Fullerton got out to a big start, up 3-0 in the first and 5-1 as late as the 6th. Beavers have tied it up now though, 5-5 in the 7th. edit: OSU wins, 6-5. Fullerton had the chance, couldn't take it. elentar fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Jun 17, 2017 |
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Jun 17, 2017 22:59
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Oregon State kicking the absolute poo poo out of LSU in the winner's bracket today. Hard to see anyone beating them twice in a row.
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Jun 20, 2017 03:21
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elentar posted:Oregon State kicking the absolute poo poo out of LSU in the winner's bracket today. Hard to see anyone beating them twice in a row. I am surprised. Don't expect to see another college team as good as this year's OSU any time soon.
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Jun 24, 2017 22:50
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Good final series. Gotta be gratifying for Gator fans that even though it took 11 CWS tries to finally get a title, Florida State is on 22 and still counting. edit: actually now the top three teams on appearances without a title are all ACC: FSU, Clemson (12), UNC (10). That it took so long for the ACC to win a CWS has to be one of the weirder anomalies in college sports. Meanwhile Northern Colorado has 10 also but I don't see them getting back any time soon. Most were in the '50s when they were Colorado State College (not CSU) and the last was in 1974. elentar fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Jun 28, 2017 |
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Jun 28, 2017 04:53
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