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CSTV editor Doug Kroll checks in with an article previewing the top freshmen in the country. He ranks Matt Harvey of North Carolina as the best freshmen entering the season. Harvey was rated as a first round pick before the 2007 MLB Draft but his stock slipped when his ties with Scott Boras came up. He ended up getting drafted in the third round by the Angels but decided to head to Chapel Hill to play with Mike Fox. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2008 Top Players, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big West, Cal State Fullerton, CSTV, Doug Kroll, GT, Kent State, Miami (FL), Notre Dame, Oregon State, SEC, Tennessee, Texas, UNC

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CSTV Editor Doug Kroll checks in with his weekly article about some of the off-season coaching moves.  The biggest move was George Horton heading to Oregon to restart the Duck program. This set off a chain reaction as UC-Irvine head coach Dave Serrano went to Fullerton while former USC coach Mike Gillespie came out of retirement to take over the UC-Irvine job. He also talks about Kevin O’Sullivan who took over Florida after being an assistant with Clemson, Turtle Thomas went down to Florida International from Arizona State where he was a longtime assistant, and finally with Todd Raliegh taking over Tennessee after being the head coach at Western Carolina. The full article is available here.

Tags: ACC, Arizona State, Big West, Clemson, CSTV, Doug Kroll, FIU, Florida, Oregon, SEC, Southern Conference, Tennessee, UC-Irvine, Western Carolina

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Eric Sorenson of CSTV recently checked in with one of our favorite baseball coaches in Paul Mainieri of LSU. He discusses many different topics including how much influence his father Demie Mainieri the legendary coach of Miami-Dade North Community College for over 30 years. Sorensen gets Mainieri to discuss how difficult it was to coach at Notre Dame with the strong academic standards and the horrible weather in the Northeast. There are some other suprises in the interview like how Tommy Lasorda is the godfather to Paul’s youngest son and how former ND assistant Brian O’Connor of UVA hit it off with Mainieri. The full interview is available here.

Thanks to CSTV and Eric Sorenson for the great picture of Mainieri with former closer Ryan Doherty.

Tags: Big East, CSTV, Interviews with Coaches, LSU, Notre Dame, SEC

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CSTV editor Doug Kroll checks in this week with an article about the top transfers for the 2008 season. He discusses how the Winthrop Eagles have been devastated with their ace pitcher in Alex Wilson as he got injured in the Cape Cod League this summer which he had Tommy John surgery to correct. When he gets healthy, he will be suiting up for Texas A&M in 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Big 12, Big South, CSTV, Doug Kroll, Oklahoma State, Transfers, Winthrop

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CSTV Editor Doug Kroll checks in with his weekly article on the top college baseball players. The position in which he focuses on this week is the closer. He lists Cole St. Clair of Rice in the top spot. He has struggled throughout his career with the Owls as he tends to be injured every season. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, Arizona State, Atlantic Sun, Big 12, Big Ten, Big West, CAA, Conference USA, Creighton, George Mason, Georgia, Kansas State, Missouri Valley, NC State, Ohio State, Pac 10, Rice, SEC, Stetson, UNC, University of San Diego, West Coast Conference

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Doug Kroll of CSTV.com and has compiled a list of the top five second baseman for the 2008 season. His top five 2nd Basemen are;

1) David Adams from Virginia, batted .372 for the season and his fielding % was a slick .973 with only 7 errors on the season.

2) Brandon Turner play for the Bulldogs of Mississippi State. He played in 55 games and started in 51. Brandon batted a cool .399 and had a fielding % 937 with 11 errors last year.

3) Aaron Luna seems like he has been at Rice forever. Aaron is entering his 3rd year at Rice and last year he batted .315 and had a fielding % 976 with only 4 errorrs.

4) Jemile Weeks plays for the Miami Hurricanes. Jamile batted .298 and had a fielding % of .974.

5) Alden Carrithers led the UCLA Bruins in batting with a .352 batting avg. His fielding % was a .964 with 9 errors for the season.

For the the full articles from Doug Kroll click HERE.

Tags: 2008 Top Players, ACC, Conference USA, CSTV, Miami (FL), Mississippi State, Pac 10, Rice, SEC, UCLA, Virginia

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Vanderbilt Coach Tim Corbin took questions from fans via VUCommodores.com this past week. Here’s the results. See if you can guess which three came from me. I’m sure Brian can nail at least one of ‘em.

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Tags: SEC, Vanderbilt

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So why is it that the fellow posters on the CBB have had full inboxes since the NCBWA All America team was released? It all comes down to snubs… one in particular, but four have gotten me jazzed up.

It’s no secret to my fellow publishers at the CBB that this Commodore has a favorite player who goes by the name of Flash. Ryan Flaherty is the consummate John Olerud clone at the plate, lacing singles and doubles all over the field. He is the undisputed top bat at Short Stop (according to CBB partner StatStud.com) when looking at statistical measures and is riding an SEC record 35 game hitting streak into 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: All-American, CBB Column, Pre-season All-Americans, SEC, Top Players, Vanderbilt

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Doug Kroll of CSTV checks in this week previewing the top third basemen in the country. Pedro Alvarez is listed as the top prospect which is expected since he has been one of the top players in the entire nation for his first two seasons with Vanderbilt. He also talks about Logan Forsythe of Arkansas, Matt Hague of Oklahoma State, and a few other players from around the nation. The full article is available here.

Tags: Arkansas, CSTV, Doug Kroll, SEC, Vanderbilt

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Coastal Carolina had a very successful season in 2007 where they were named as a Regional host for the first time in school history. They also accumulated 50 wins for the second time in the last three seasons. Doug Kroll of CSTV recently checked in with head coach Gary Gilmore about his expectations for the upcoming season and including some of the challenges facing the program . The full article is available here.

 

Tags: Big South, Coastal Carolina, CSTV, Doug Kroll

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Doug Kroll of CSTV checks in with an article about the top power hitters for the 2008 season. He discusses Pedro Alvarez, Justin Smoak, Kyle Russell to just name a few. It is an excellent read and can be found here.

 

Tags: Big 12, CSTV, SEC, South Carolina, Texas, Vanderbilt

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Cstv.com has started posting a series of articles previewing the 2007 NCAA Baseball season. The first article posted was a vote taken by CSTV on the Pre-season player of the year. The projected player of the year is Wes Roemer of Cal-State Fullerton. The full list is available here.

The second article is about players who are solid in the pitching and hitting departments like Virginia’s Sean Doolittle and GT’s Matt Wieters. The article is written by CSTV writer Glenn Tanner and can be read here.

 

Tags: CSTV, Player of the Year, Virginia, Wes Roemer