{"id":10233,"date":"2015-02-02T13:57:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T18:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=10233"},"modified":"2015-02-10T14:33:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T19:33:35","slug":"college-baseball-2015-previews-and-pre-season-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=10233","title":{"rendered":"College Baseball 2015 Previews and pre-season Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10235\" style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/KirbyNathan-uva-via-unk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10235\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10235\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/KirbyNathan-uva-via-unk.jpg\" alt=\"Kirby Jones leads the highly  regarded UVA baseball team in 2015.   Photo via unk\" width=\"274\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kirby Jones leads the highly regarded UVA baseball team in 2015. Photo via unk<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Believe it or not, its time to start thinking about College Baseball again.\u00a0 Most teams&#8217; schedules start on the 2\/13\/15 weekend and all the major outlets covering the sport have released pre-season rankings lists.<\/p>\n<p>College pre-season top-25 lists with local interests noted:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/college\/cws-champion-vanderbilt-1-2015-college-preseason-top-25\/\">Baseball America<\/a>.\u00a0 Defending champ Vanderbilt #1, UVA #4, Maryland #16, and Liberty #25.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspolls.usatoday.com\/ncaa\/baseball\/polls\/coaches-poll\/\">USA Today Coaches poll pre-season top 25<\/a>: Vandy #1, UVA #2, Maryland #20<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/baseballnews.com\/collegiate-baseball-div-poll-12-22-14\/\">Collegiate Baseball&#8217;s pre-season top 25<\/a>: Vandy #1, UVA #3, Liberty #23, Maryland #37<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.d1baseball.com\/rankings\/2015preseasont25\/\">D1 Baseball.com&#8217;s pre-season top 25<\/a>: Vandy #1, UVA #3, Maryland #14.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/college\/2015-college-baseball-season-preview-index\/\">BA link<\/a> has capsules to all the top 25 teams.\u00a0 And BA has released their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/college\/2015-college-preview-america-teams\/\">pre-season All-American<\/a> list, with local players of note <strong>Nathan Kirby <\/strong>and <strong>Mike Matuella<\/strong> (Duke&#8217;s #1 starter hailing from Great Falls) earning first team honors.\u00a0 This pre-season All-American list comes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegebaseballdaily.com\/2015\/02\/03\/2015-ncbwa-preseason-all-american-teams\/\">National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association<\/a> and is littered with UVA players.<\/p>\n<p>Vanderbilt returns its entire weekend rotation, including two lock 1st round picks in <strong>Walker Buehler <\/strong>and <strong>Carson Fuller<\/strong> as well as another presumed 1st round pick in shortstop <strong>Dansby Swanson<\/strong> and is inarguably the best returning team in the land.\u00a0 UVA&#8217;s <strong>Joe McCarthy<\/strong> earned pre-season 2nd team honors but just went down with injury (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/college\/virginias-mccarthy-12-weeks-following-back-surgery\/\">back injury, out 12 weeks ugh<\/a>), which seems like its going to really hurt that team.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting development for 2015: d1baseball.com has apparently been acquired, or has undergone a mass change in direction.\u00a0 Gone is the 1990-esque interface; now they have graphics and professional writers associated with it (namely, <strong>Aaron Fitt<\/strong>, formerly of Baseball America, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/college\/dear-ba-thanks-memories\/\">left BA in Nov 2014<\/a> and is now focused entirely on the d1 site.\u00a0 Most importantly, the site is now a pay-for site.\u00a0\u00a0 I visit this site constantly during the college and CWS seasons; we&#8217;ll see how much you can see w\/o paying for this season.<\/p>\n<p>2\/10\/15 post publish update: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minorleagueball.com\/2015\/2\/9\/8003585\/coming-soon-college-baseball-2015-edition\">Great preview of College season<\/a> from <strong>Chris Slade<\/strong> at minorleagueball.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, its time to start thinking about College Baseball again.\u00a0 Most teams&#8217; schedules start on the 2\/13\/15 weekend and all the major outlets covering the sport have released pre-season rankings lists. College pre-season top-25 lists with local interests noted: Baseball America.\u00a0 Defending champ Vanderbilt #1, UVA #4, Maryland #16, and Liberty #25. 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