Baseball Preseason Ranking

[Dawgs'n'Grizz]

Collegiate Baseball has us at #13 in its Preseason ranking. Seems a little high to me. Lots of question marks for the pitching staff and I'm still not sure who our most dependable RBI guys are going to be.

 

[bulldogcountry1]

Our pitching staff should be fantastic. The hitting is what we have to see about, but we know what we have with Mangum, Stovall, Vansau, and Macnamee.

 

[MSUDC11]

Really excited about our pitching. And Cannizaro is a good coach that will figure out ways to produce runs.

I would probably have us in the 17-20 range, but I think we’ll be a team that’s right on the hosting bubble all season much like last year.

 

[Hump4Hoops]

At this point we're getting votes based on reputation/tradition/coaching

and I'm okay with that. I'm confident we'll end up a top 20 team. MSU baseball over the past 7 years makes me feel like the floor is very high.

 

[philduckworth]

If he could get last year's team to a Super Regional, I will believe anything.

 

[G-Dawg]

Quote from Captain Obvious, but it's gonna be tough replacing Brent Rooker's production. We'll need 2-3 guys to step up their game to replace a Triple Crown guy.

 

[missouridawg]

Quote from Captain Obvious, but it's gonna be tough replacing Brent Rooker's production. We'll need 2-3 guys to step up their game to replace a Triple Crown guy.

As you alluded, we ain’t going to replace him. We will need Macnamee and Vansau to turn the corner and become upper tier SEC hitters this season. Hopefully we see one of the freshmen have a Mangum type first season, too.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

maybe siphon off more of that football money to buy better bats to go with the stadium bought?**

 

[dickiedawg]

Haven’t seen it discussed but I think I saw on Twitter AC showing off some new adidas bats.

Cue the meltdown over that.

ETA: it was the official baseball account. https://twitter.com/hailstatebb/status/939181003666591745