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UVA’s Connor Jones kicked off this year with a gem. Photo via UVA sports<\/p><\/div>\n

Welcome to the 2016 College Baseball Season!\u00a0 Despite there still being snow on the ground here,\u00a0 D1 programs all over the country played their first series this past weekend.<\/p>\n

I know; I’m one of the few guys out there (at least in DC blogger-land) covering the College game.\u00a0 So i’m ok if you keep moving on.\u00a0 I probably got really turned onto the College game as I started to really look at the college arms the Nats were drafting, and the focus the Mike Rizzo<\/strong> establishment puts on college players.\u00a0 Its a very “Billy Beane<\/strong>-esque” strategy; college players have more ABs, more consistent stats and more experience playing against “known quantities” of talent (especially those guys in the top baseball leagues like the SEC and ACC).\u00a0 Now with two very good local programs (UVA and UMD) and a ton of local guys who i’ve been following long enough to track them from HS draft prospect to College draft prospect, I continue coverage of the College game.<\/p>\n

Quick rundown of the top local prospects first weekend in action;<\/p>\n