The Big Ten went 0-3 in today's opening day of NCAA regional play. Georgia destroyed Ohio State, 24-8. Baylor shutout Minnesota, 5-0. Finally, Louisville downed Indiana, 8-2. It's the loser's bracket and elimination games for all on Saturday.
I think it safe to say that overall it was an awful performance for the conference on Friday. As such, I don't find a compelling reason to review the stats. That will just compound the misery.
Let's do what the players need to do -- put today behind us and focus on Saturday. Minnesota will play Southern. Indiana gets Vanderbilt. Ohio State is awaiting the loser of the Florida State vs. Marist contest. Although, it should be noted that FSU is leading in the seventh. Regardless of who the Buckeyes draw, we know they'll be in the early game.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Q & A With IU Head Coach Tracy Smith
By now, most of you are aware of the recently approved NCAA legislation that added a week onto the beginning of the college baseball season starting next year. Most of the traditional college baseball media (and some of the not-so-traditional) have either ignored the matter as relatively unimportant or accepted the fact it hurts northern baseball, but that because so many coaches wanted it, it must be fine.
Only Michigan's Rich Maloney had been quoted as opposing the measure. However, I knew there had to be more coaches as frustrated by this turn of events as Maloney. In that spirit, I contacted Indiana head coach Tracy Smith. Smith was kind enough to answer a few email questions about this new policy. Here is a portion of that exchange.
BTH: What was your initial reaction to this proposal?
Coach Smith: Disappointment was my initial reaction. I was disappointed that it happened, I was disappointed that (some) coaches wanted it to happened, and I was disappointed in the leadership that allowed it to happen.
BTH: Both ABCA executive director Dave Keilitz and the college baseball media admit that this change will have a negative effect on northern baseball, but counter that the measure benefits the sport overall.
Coach Smith: It depends on who is defining the "sport overall". I am not saying there is a perfect solution that benefits all colleges. But if you look at college baseball as it is today (even without the recent rule change) it very much favors "warm weather" teams. This recent rule change only increases that advantage for those schools. So to say it helped the sport overall, I greatly disagree. It helped those who needed it the least.
BTH: What significant benefit does the rest of the nation receive?
Coach Smith: The obvious benefit is it allows schools with warm weather to play more games at home, as if they didn't play enough already. This season we will play 17 home games of the 56 game-schedule. The term "home field advantage" was dubbed for a reason - in all sports. I don't know if there is scientific research supporting this point, but teams seem to have a better win percentage at home than on the road. Therefore, if a school is playing a majority of their games at home, I would argue they have a better chance of winning. Northern schools already play a disproportionate number of contests on the road so the new rule will only make it more disproportionate. Here comes my sarcasm . . . unless, of course, some of the southern schools would like to travel to Bloomington, IN in mid-February for a 3-game series.
This does not even take into account the "physical condition" of your team after X-amount of weeks on the road early in the season. Traveling every weekend for 4-5 straight, usually to venues requiring flights, takes it out of your team. This is where I shake my head at the NCAA when discussing this rule. Do you realize how much class our kids miss with the schedule the way it is now? Now they are talking about adding another weekend for our kids to miss school? So much for "student welfare".
The whole NCAA tournament field is designed to reward teams with solid records and high RPI's. Well, for reasons I stated above it is pretty obvious why you don't see too many northern schools receiving "at large" bids to the tournament every year. If you don't win early in the season, you aren't going. I hear southern coaches all the time state that "most programs in the north just aren't as good as those in the south." Looking at it at face value there is some truth to those comments, but how would we know? I would love to see some of the premier programs in the south play 70% of their schedule on the road with limited or no practice on their field before game 1, rain out after rain out during mid-week games (limited development of players) to see if their RPI would be the same. Maybe it would, maybe it wouldn't. The only way would have been able to come close to answering that question would have been to tack the extra week on the end of the season to allow northern schools to "host" southern schools when their weather was good enough to host. Even when we had those rare opportunities, many southern schools declined to travel north to play because they didn't like playing "away from home" if they didn't have to. So, if northern schools are forced to play more "away" games and travel more with less practice time outside, etc, is it any wonder northern schools have lower RPI's? All the NCAA has done is widen the already existing gap. So for people to use the NCAA tournament field as THE indicator of "who are the best teams", it's pretty obvious to me the system for determining the field is flawed and biased by the number of home games some teams play against the number of away games.
BTH: Some have said that as this new rule only effects about four games, and as the 2010 season will start on roughly the same date as this season did, why are so many in the north upset?
Coach Smith: Because it is adding injury to insult that's why. Most all coaches in the north don't like the current schedule because of everything I mentioned above, but it was put in place a couple years ago. At that time were told we would never get the 2-3 three weeks added onto the end of season like we wanted a few years ago. So we SETTLED for the March 1 start date, etc. Now to come back and do this, most northern schools feel we are no better off than we were before the rule change - which we aren't. So I don't care if it is 4 games or 1 game, it translates into more games we HAVE to play away from home. The rich get richer and poor get poorer.
BTH: Doesn't this new measure effectively crush the spirit of the Universal Start Date?
Coach Smith: No question it does.
BTH: Michigan's Rich Maloney was quoted as saying that the ideal situation for northern programs would be to have the fourteen week schedule, but have it begin on March 1st. Do you concur with that sentiment?
Coach Smith: Absolutely. You would think we could come up a way to have 14 week schedule beginning March 1st and concluding with a college world series. Yes, some adjustments would have to be made, but it is possible.
BTH: Realizing that we don't operate in a perfect world, is there any other alternative you could suggest to help create a more balanced schedule?
Coach Smith: If things keep going like they are, I would be in favor of reducing the number of games to say 52 (we can't get our 56 in anyway). I said this at our coach's meeting in Indianapolis. That way, college baseball would really be addressing "student wellness", reducing travel costs, and balancing the home and away "thing". And to borrow the southern school quote, "we are only talking about 4 games . . . "
BTH: Is there anything else you would like to say about this proposal or any other current NCAA legislation that hurts college baseball, especially here in the north?
Coach Smith: I don't think there is a way to fix college baseball for everyone, I really don't. Do I think it could be better for the overall sport? Absolutely. When I got the message from my compliance officer about the NCAA adding another week to the front end of the baseball schedule I was disappointed, but not surprised. After having a couple of days to digest the message I couldn't help but think about the greater message the NCAA is sending as a result of rule change, and unfortunately I've heard that message loud and clear - northern baseball really isn't a priority for the NCAA. Coming from a "northern program" where I wake up every day striving to reach the NCAA tournament with a hope of winning a national title; I think that it is sad.
Only Michigan's Rich Maloney had been quoted as opposing the measure. However, I knew there had to be more coaches as frustrated by this turn of events as Maloney. In that spirit, I contacted Indiana head coach Tracy Smith. Smith was kind enough to answer a few email questions about this new policy. Here is a portion of that exchange.
BTH: What was your initial reaction to this proposal?
Coach Smith: Disappointment was my initial reaction. I was disappointed that it happened, I was disappointed that (some) coaches wanted it to happened, and I was disappointed in the leadership that allowed it to happen.
BTH: Both ABCA executive director Dave Keilitz and the college baseball media admit that this change will have a negative effect on northern baseball, but counter that the measure benefits the sport overall.
Coach Smith: It depends on who is defining the "sport overall". I am not saying there is a perfect solution that benefits all colleges. But if you look at college baseball as it is today (even without the recent rule change) it very much favors "warm weather" teams. This recent rule change only increases that advantage for those schools. So to say it helped the sport overall, I greatly disagree. It helped those who needed it the least.
BTH: What significant benefit does the rest of the nation receive?
Coach Smith: The obvious benefit is it allows schools with warm weather to play more games at home, as if they didn't play enough already. This season we will play 17 home games of the 56 game-schedule. The term "home field advantage" was dubbed for a reason - in all sports. I don't know if there is scientific research supporting this point, but teams seem to have a better win percentage at home than on the road. Therefore, if a school is playing a majority of their games at home, I would argue they have a better chance of winning. Northern schools already play a disproportionate number of contests on the road so the new rule will only make it more disproportionate. Here comes my sarcasm . . . unless, of course, some of the southern schools would like to travel to Bloomington, IN in mid-February for a 3-game series.
This does not even take into account the "physical condition" of your team after X-amount of weeks on the road early in the season. Traveling every weekend for 4-5 straight, usually to venues requiring flights, takes it out of your team. This is where I shake my head at the NCAA when discussing this rule. Do you realize how much class our kids miss with the schedule the way it is now? Now they are talking about adding another weekend for our kids to miss school? So much for "student welfare".
The whole NCAA tournament field is designed to reward teams with solid records and high RPI's. Well, for reasons I stated above it is pretty obvious why you don't see too many northern schools receiving "at large" bids to the tournament every year. If you don't win early in the season, you aren't going. I hear southern coaches all the time state that "most programs in the north just aren't as good as those in the south." Looking at it at face value there is some truth to those comments, but how would we know? I would love to see some of the premier programs in the south play 70% of their schedule on the road with limited or no practice on their field before game 1, rain out after rain out during mid-week games (limited development of players) to see if their RPI would be the same. Maybe it would, maybe it wouldn't. The only way would have been able to come close to answering that question would have been to tack the extra week on the end of the season to allow northern schools to "host" southern schools when their weather was good enough to host. Even when we had those rare opportunities, many southern schools declined to travel north to play because they didn't like playing "away from home" if they didn't have to. So, if northern schools are forced to play more "away" games and travel more with less practice time outside, etc, is it any wonder northern schools have lower RPI's? All the NCAA has done is widen the already existing gap. So for people to use the NCAA tournament field as THE indicator of "who are the best teams", it's pretty obvious to me the system for determining the field is flawed and biased by the number of home games some teams play against the number of away games.
BTH: Some have said that as this new rule only effects about four games, and as the 2010 season will start on roughly the same date as this season did, why are so many in the north upset?
Coach Smith: Because it is adding injury to insult that's why. Most all coaches in the north don't like the current schedule because of everything I mentioned above, but it was put in place a couple years ago. At that time were told we would never get the 2-3 three weeks added onto the end of season like we wanted a few years ago. So we SETTLED for the March 1 start date, etc. Now to come back and do this, most northern schools feel we are no better off than we were before the rule change - which we aren't. So I don't care if it is 4 games or 1 game, it translates into more games we HAVE to play away from home. The rich get richer and poor get poorer.
BTH: Doesn't this new measure effectively crush the spirit of the Universal Start Date?
Coach Smith: No question it does.
BTH: Michigan's Rich Maloney was quoted as saying that the ideal situation for northern programs would be to have the fourteen week schedule, but have it begin on March 1st. Do you concur with that sentiment?
Coach Smith: Absolutely. You would think we could come up a way to have 14 week schedule beginning March 1st and concluding with a college world series. Yes, some adjustments would have to be made, but it is possible.
BTH: Realizing that we don't operate in a perfect world, is there any other alternative you could suggest to help create a more balanced schedule?
Coach Smith: If things keep going like they are, I would be in favor of reducing the number of games to say 52 (we can't get our 56 in anyway). I said this at our coach's meeting in Indianapolis. That way, college baseball would really be addressing "student wellness", reducing travel costs, and balancing the home and away "thing". And to borrow the southern school quote, "we are only talking about 4 games . . . "
BTH: Is there anything else you would like to say about this proposal or any other current NCAA legislation that hurts college baseball, especially here in the north?
Coach Smith: I don't think there is a way to fix college baseball for everyone, I really don't. Do I think it could be better for the overall sport? Absolutely. When I got the message from my compliance officer about the NCAA adding another week to the front end of the baseball schedule I was disappointed, but not surprised. After having a couple of days to digest the message I couldn't help but think about the greater message the NCAA is sending as a result of rule change, and unfortunately I've heard that message loud and clear - northern baseball really isn't a priority for the NCAA. Coming from a "northern program" where I wake up every day striving to reach the NCAA tournament with a hope of winning a national title; I think that it is sad.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
NCAA Adds A Week To Schedule
In a story reported by Kendall Rogers of Yahoo! Sports, the college baseball schedule will expand from its current thirteen weeks to fourteen weeks beginning next year. In a measure passed this afternoon, this additional week will come at the start of the season. However, the NCAA did vote to continue to play the same fifty-six game schedule.
When Eric Sorenson mentioned this possibility Saturday, I began trying to think of a way this could been seen as a positive move for northern programs. A few days later and I've yet to come up with a single one.
By putting this extra week at the start of the season, it all but forces the northern schools to head south or west a week earlier. (I presume the NCAA big-wigs that voted on this proposal realize it's kind of cold up here for baseball in mid-February, global warming notwithstanding.) I guess, technically, northern baseball programs could stay at home the first week of the season. Of course, choosing to bypass that first "official" week of play would allow their warm-weather foes a week of game action before their arrival.
In addition, if the snowbelt programs did opt to skip the first week of play, it wouldn't alleviate any of their condensed scheduling issues. Northern programs would still have the same 13 weeks to play the identical 56 games -- exactly the same format as this year.
Regardless of whether northern programs play an extra week of February road dates or choose the less likely option of sitting out the first week, which honestly doesn't seem like a viable plan, by passing this new proposal the NCAA has managed to trample all over the spirit of the Universal Start Date. That's before the economic downside.
If northern programs want to start at the same time as the programs south of the Mason-Dixon Line (again, the spirit behind the USD motion), they will now have to pay for an additional week of travel expenses. Brilliant. When the economy stinks and northern programs are struggling let's make them shell out more money.
Can I also mention that college baseball operates in a virtual media blackout until the weekend after the Final Four? Even in the south, the self-proclaimed college baseball hotbed, the sport doesn't get much attention until "One Shining Moment" is over. So why vote to add another week to the beginning of the schedule when the average college sports fan isn't paying the least bit of attention before April? It's marketing genius, I tell you.
I'm left with only one conclusion. This measure was passed simply to appease a few coaches at big-time programs who were forced to play the same kind of compacted schedule, albeit filled with far more home dates, as northern programs have for years. Outside of their comfort-zone, these coaches lobbied (and I'm being extremely polite in word choice) to alleviate some of their midweek scheduling concerns.
Need some proof? Here's a quote from Kendall Rogers' story:
Mr. Berst's comment is ripe with the rhetoric of coaches who cried foul when faced with the newly condensed schedule that the USD wrought. As soon as these coaches had to play back-to-back midweek games and midweek road games, no less, they began to publicly yearn for the old way.
I am open to contrary opinions on the matter, as I'm so defensive that I probably cannot separate the forest from the trees. Let's, however, ask ourselves "Who does this concept really help?" While it could take away three of four midweek affairs from northern programs, thus giving the teams more time to rest, the loss of home games (which many of these midweek dates provide) and the cost of spending an additional week in the south or west would appear to offset any gain.
Conversely, warm-weather power programs can scratch off some midweek non-conference road games and get to replace them with nice, toasty-warm, early season home dates. As it is now, a program like North Carolina has already played over thirty home games. Ohio State hasn't even played fifteen. That's with a more balanced plan in place. I don't see how this new, less northern-friendly measure will help make it any more equitable.
The NCAA seems determined to not only handcuff baseball, in general, but suffocate its existence in the north. Is it any wonder why programs like Northern Iowa are folding? If measures like today's continue to pass, we can expect to see more just like them.
Correction: I originally stated UMass baseball was also closing up shop. Apparently, they've been given a reprieve. I stand corrected and am happy to hear they live to fight another day. My apologies to all, especially the Minutemen and their fans. However, feel free to insert any other programs that have vanished (Colorado, Iowa State, Wisconsin, etc...) in the place next to Northern Iowa.
When Eric Sorenson mentioned this possibility Saturday, I began trying to think of a way this could been seen as a positive move for northern programs. A few days later and I've yet to come up with a single one.
By putting this extra week at the start of the season, it all but forces the northern schools to head south or west a week earlier. (I presume the NCAA big-wigs that voted on this proposal realize it's kind of cold up here for baseball in mid-February, global warming notwithstanding.) I guess, technically, northern baseball programs could stay at home the first week of the season. Of course, choosing to bypass that first "official" week of play would allow their warm-weather foes a week of game action before their arrival.
In addition, if the snowbelt programs did opt to skip the first week of play, it wouldn't alleviate any of their condensed scheduling issues. Northern programs would still have the same 13 weeks to play the identical 56 games -- exactly the same format as this year.
Regardless of whether northern programs play an extra week of February road dates or choose the less likely option of sitting out the first week, which honestly doesn't seem like a viable plan, by passing this new proposal the NCAA has managed to trample all over the spirit of the Universal Start Date. That's before the economic downside.
If northern programs want to start at the same time as the programs south of the Mason-Dixon Line (again, the spirit behind the USD motion), they will now have to pay for an additional week of travel expenses. Brilliant. When the economy stinks and northern programs are struggling let's make them shell out more money.
Can I also mention that college baseball operates in a virtual media blackout until the weekend after the Final Four? Even in the south, the self-proclaimed college baseball hotbed, the sport doesn't get much attention until "One Shining Moment" is over. So why vote to add another week to the beginning of the schedule when the average college sports fan isn't paying the least bit of attention before April? It's marketing genius, I tell you.
I'm left with only one conclusion. This measure was passed simply to appease a few coaches at big-time programs who were forced to play the same kind of compacted schedule, albeit filled with far more home dates, as northern programs have for years. Outside of their comfort-zone, these coaches lobbied (and I'm being extremely polite in word choice) to alleviate some of their midweek scheduling concerns.
Need some proof? Here's a quote from Kendall Rogers' story:
“We wanted to add the week on the front end of the schedule because that’s what our programs are familiar with from the earlier days,” NCAA Division I Vice President David Berst said.Ah, yes. The good ol' days. When the warm-weather programs got fat, sassy and piled on the home dates. Way back in 2007. Or was it 2008? It was just so long ago, I struggle to recall.
Mr. Berst's comment is ripe with the rhetoric of coaches who cried foul when faced with the newly condensed schedule that the USD wrought. As soon as these coaches had to play back-to-back midweek games and midweek road games, no less, they began to publicly yearn for the old way.
I am open to contrary opinions on the matter, as I'm so defensive that I probably cannot separate the forest from the trees. Let's, however, ask ourselves "Who does this concept really help?" While it could take away three of four midweek affairs from northern programs, thus giving the teams more time to rest, the loss of home games (which many of these midweek dates provide) and the cost of spending an additional week in the south or west would appear to offset any gain.
Conversely, warm-weather power programs can scratch off some midweek non-conference road games and get to replace them with nice, toasty-warm, early season home dates. As it is now, a program like North Carolina has already played over thirty home games. Ohio State hasn't even played fifteen. That's with a more balanced plan in place. I don't see how this new, less northern-friendly measure will help make it any more equitable.
The NCAA seems determined to not only handcuff baseball, in general, but suffocate its existence in the north. Is it any wonder why programs like Northern Iowa are folding? If measures like today's continue to pass, we can expect to see more just like them.
Correction: I originally stated UMass baseball was also closing up shop. Apparently, they've been given a reprieve. I stand corrected and am happy to hear they live to fight another day. My apologies to all, especially the Minutemen and their fans. However, feel free to insert any other programs that have vanished (Colorado, Iowa State, Wisconsin, etc...) in the place next to Northern Iowa.
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
New Reads
One of the reasons I began blogging about college baseball, in general, and the Big Ten, specifically, was the lack of such available resources. However, after lamenting a decline in college baseball coverage on the internet just a month or so ago, I'm happy to report some new voices in the wilderness.
Varsity Blue should appeal to my Maize and Blue supporters. A blogger known as Formerly Anonymous is cranking out quality Michigan baseball data on a regular basis. Here's an example. It's more than just graphs, though. Varsity Blue offers up previews, reviews, commentary and analysis.
Adding to the list of those covering the nation is College Baseball 360. The gang at 360 provides national previews, reviews and interviews.
Omaha Sky is the new blog by Will Geoghegan. Mr. Goeghegan, who also blogs about the Cape Cod League, is typing nearly everyday. It's another blog focusing on the nation, but he does include the northern schools.
Dan Hughes is working as the College Baseball Examiner. Mr. Hughes, like our previous three entries, is covering the entire nation.
Infield Chatter discusses all aspects of baseball. Right now, Harris Frommer has plenty of college baseball talk.
I would encourage you to check out all these new avenues of college baseball information.
Varsity Blue should appeal to my Maize and Blue supporters. A blogger known as Formerly Anonymous is cranking out quality Michigan baseball data on a regular basis. Here's an example. It's more than just graphs, though. Varsity Blue offers up previews, reviews, commentary and analysis.
Adding to the list of those covering the nation is College Baseball 360. The gang at 360 provides national previews, reviews and interviews.
Omaha Sky is the new blog by Will Geoghegan. Mr. Goeghegan, who also blogs about the Cape Cod League, is typing nearly everyday. It's another blog focusing on the nation, but he does include the northern schools.
Dan Hughes is working as the College Baseball Examiner. Mr. Hughes, like our previous three entries, is covering the entire nation.
Infield Chatter discusses all aspects of baseball. Right now, Harris Frommer has plenty of college baseball talk.
I would encourage you to check out all these new avenues of college baseball information.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Tournament Format
Kendall Rogers of Rivals.com College Baseball is reporting that the ACC is about to change the format of their conference tournament. Following the lead set forth by the Big XII, the Atlantic Coast Conference baseball tournament is going to change from double elimination to a pool format.
In pool play, the tournament opposition is split into two groups and the teams with the best record in each pool advance to play for the tournament title. This avoids the two-and-bbq result, as teams would always play more than two contests. It also helps easy the strain on pitching staffs.
Now that we have two conferences, and two power conferences at that, making the move to pool play, I wonder if the powers-that-be in the Big Ten would consider such a change?
In pool play, the tournament opposition is split into two groups and the teams with the best record in each pool advance to play for the tournament title. This avoids the two-and-bbq result, as teams would always play more than two contests. It also helps easy the strain on pitching staffs.
Now that we have two conferences, and two power conferences at that, making the move to pool play, I wonder if the powers-that-be in the Big Ten would consider such a change?
Thursday, August 10, 2006
The Transfer Market
The Big Ten has a number of players opting to apply their craft elsewhere this summer. Baseball America has published the list of athletes opting to transfer and the Big Ten is far too well represented.
Perhaps, the most notable departure is Troy Krider leaving Michigan State. Krider has gotten plenty of playing time with the Spartans -- playing in all 56 MSU contests while batting .355 -- and I suspected he would be in the running for an All-Conference selection in '07. Alas, Mr. Krider has chosen to leave East Lansing, although he hasn't decided where he is headed yet.
The other player whose name jumped out at me is the previously invisible Cameron Satterwhite. The Indiana OF/DH is headed to Cincinnati after playing only briefly for the Hoosiers in 2006. Satterwhite was really starting to look like an offensive force when he suddenly disappeared from IU's roster in the middle of the conference schedule. This is the first most of us have seen or heard of the slugger since.
Also on the list of those transferring out of the Big Ten are Ohio State's Dan Barker (RHP) and Josh Hula (C), Indiana's Jon David and Jason Drew, MSU's pitchers Mike Takashima and Matt Trausch.
The only player heading into the conference is Josh Lindblom. Lindblom is leaving Tennessee and taking the mound for Purdue in 2007.
Perhaps, the most notable departure is Troy Krider leaving Michigan State. Krider has gotten plenty of playing time with the Spartans -- playing in all 56 MSU contests while batting .355 -- and I suspected he would be in the running for an All-Conference selection in '07. Alas, Mr. Krider has chosen to leave East Lansing, although he hasn't decided where he is headed yet.
The other player whose name jumped out at me is the previously invisible Cameron Satterwhite. The Indiana OF/DH is headed to Cincinnati after playing only briefly for the Hoosiers in 2006. Satterwhite was really starting to look like an offensive force when he suddenly disappeared from IU's roster in the middle of the conference schedule. This is the first most of us have seen or heard of the slugger since.
Also on the list of those transferring out of the Big Ten are Ohio State's Dan Barker (RHP) and Josh Hula (C), Indiana's Jon David and Jason Drew, MSU's pitchers Mike Takashima and Matt Trausch.
The only player heading into the conference is Josh Lindblom. Lindblom is leaving Tennessee and taking the mound for Purdue in 2007.
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
August's # 1
It's August. It's also about as far away from the start of the next college baseball season as you can get. However, what have I been thinking about? If I were a member of the voting media, who would I vote as the number one team in the country heading into 2007?
My answer is South Carolina. The Gamecocks impressed me last year and have a number of players returning in '07. I guess that makes South Carolina my pre-pre-season number one.
My answer is South Carolina. The Gamecocks impressed me last year and have a number of players returning in '07. I guess that makes South Carolina my pre-pre-season number one.
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Miller Grabs BA Honor
North Carolina junior Andrew Miller was named Baseball America's Player of the Year today. Miller, the sixth overall pick in the amatuer draft, went 13-2 for UNC and posted a 2.11 ERA.
Miller also heads BA's All-America team for 2006. No players from the Big Ten were selected to any of the three star squads.
Miller also heads BA's All-America team for 2006. No players from the Big Ten were selected to any of the three star squads.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
New Blog, New Photos
I've stumbled upon this blog about Rice baseball. Take a look at some of the photos of the super regional between the Owls and Oklahoma.
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