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Toby Gerhart has a tough decision coming his way. A star baseball player for Stanford, Gerhart is also making a lot of noise as a running back for the Cardinal football team this season. Gerhart ranks near the top in touchdowns and rushing yards so far this season, with whispers about a chance at the Heisman, but he has also finished the 2009 spring as one of Stanford’s top baseball players.

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Tags: Football, MLB Draft, Pac 10, Stanford

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Justin Milo has made an interesting journey in going from playing hockey and baseball as a high school senior in Minnesota to becoming a minor league player for the Yankees and a forward for the University of Vermont hockey team.

Tags: America East, Cornell, Hockey, Ivy League, MLB Draft, Vermont

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The CBB continues our countdown for the 2010 College Baseball season by checking in on the Top 100 Players in the country. We will be providing one player per day until we reach number 1.

We continue the list today with number 76 in our countdown with Clemson junior outfielder Kyle Parker. He is from Jacksonville Florida and Bartram Trail High School where he played four years of baseball and football. He was named All-State and All-County as a junior as he skipped his senior season of baseball to enroll in the winter of 2008 as he accepted a football scholarship to play for the Tigers.

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Tags: 2010 Top Players, ACC, CBB 2010 Top 100 Players, CBB Column, Clemson, MLB Draft

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Andrew Oliver and the NCAA have come to a settlement in their lawsuit for $750,000. Oliver had sued the NCAA for the right to have representation in his MLB contract negotiations out of high school. The NCAA became aware of him using a lawyer and suspended him at the beginning of the 2008 NCAA Tournament. Oliver brought the case to court and got an injunction so he could play during the 2009 season. The case continued throughout the season including a judge saying that the NCAA violated the law by not allowing representation of the players.

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Tags: MLB Draft, NCAA, NCAA Violations

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If you have been following this site for over a year, then you have heard me talk about the Andrew Oliver case at least a few times. The main issue in the case is whether or not drafted players could use legal counsel to help them negotiate a contract. The NCAA has been very strict that these advisers violate the amateurism rule if they are paid like they were in the Oliver case. This is very interesting as MLB teams have lawyers helping negotiate contracts but the drafted player can’t? Don’t you think something is wrong there?

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Tags: MLB Draft, NCAA, NCAA Violations

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Baseball America recently put out their Top 25 College Baseball and High School Prospects for the 2010 MLB Draft. The college rankings are led by Bryce Harper who has received national attention for skipping his final two years of high school to play college baseball with Community College of Southern Nevada. The rest of the top five is Anthony Ranaudo from LSU, Deck McGuire from Ga Tech, Levon Washington from Chipola JC, and Chris Sale from Florida Gulf Coast. The rest of the top 25 is available below.

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Tags: 2010 Top Players, ACC, Arkansas, Atlantic Sun, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Big West, Cal State Fullerton, CC of Southern Nevada, Chipola (Fla), Conference USA, Florida Gulf Coast, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Jacksonville State, Kentucky, LSU, Middle Tennessee, MLB Draft, NJCAA, Ohio State, Ohio Valley Conference, Ole Miss, Rice, SEC, South Carolina, Sun Belt, Tennessee, Texas, Texas Tech, UC-Riverside, University of San Diego, Virginia, Virginia Tech, West Coast Conference, West Virginia

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The NCAA is currently looking into cracking down on the Advisers/Agents in the MLB Draft negotiations. The reason for this comes from the Andrew Oliver case where he was deemed ineligible because he had an advisor (agent) representing him out of high school during his negotiations. MLB is also not happy with the current situation with how drafted players are receiving outrageous money from some of the large market clubs.

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Tags: Big 12, MLB, MLB Draft, NCAA, NCAA Violations, Oklahoma State

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I know we are technically a college baseball blog but these two articles are about some players that decided to skip college to head to the minor leagues. Both of them have had good results but reaching them in much different ways.

The first article focuses on number 2 pick in the 2007 MLB Draft Mike Moustakas who is currently on pace to make the Kansas City Royals in a few years. He was selected ahead of some current MLB players in Matt Wieters and Rick Porcello just to name two of them.

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Tags: MLB Draft

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Pitchfork Nation reporter Michael Kossett recently sat down with Arizona State senior pitcher Josh Spence to discuss his decision to return to Tempe for his final season of eligibility. Spence had a solid 2009 season which saw him go 10-1 with a 2.37 last season including a solid outing at the College World Series. You can check out the full video below.

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Tags: Arizona State, MLB Draft, Pac 10

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Kendall Rogers of Rivals.com has put out his biggest surprises from the MLB signing deadline on Monday evening. His two biggest surprises that signed are Texas A&M two-way player Brooks Raley and Rice RHP Ryan Berry. Each of them fought through issues during the 2009 season with Raley tiring at the end of the season while Berry was injured during the season which dropped his stock. He also goes over some of the biggest surprises that came back to school with LSU’s Blake Dean and Arizona State’s Josh Spence.

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Tags: 2010 Top Players, Arizona State, Big 12, MLB, MLB Draft, Pac 10, Rivals, Texas AM

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Arizona State who made the 2008 College World Series this past season received a major boost in the arm with Josh Spence deciding to return for his senior season while third round selection Jake Barrett decided to attend ASU over signing with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. The Sun Devils only lost two signees to the MLB Draft this year in Nolan Arenado (second round/Cleveland) and pitcher Chad Thompson (17th/New York Yankees).

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Tags: 2010 Top Players, Arizona State, MLB Draft, Pac 10

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Randy Rosetta of The Advocate has a good article looking at how LSU’s Paul Mainieri ended up losing two key recruits near the signing deadline in Slade Heathcott and Brody Colvin. Heathcott was expected to sign as he was the 28th overall selection by the Yankees but coach Mainieri expected Colvin to end up on the field at Alex Box Stadium. Colvin actually made it all the way to campus as he was taking part in freshman orientation but the Philadelphia Phillies sent a scout to see him and put in a last ditch effort which caused Colvin to sign. These two players join three other recruits who backed out of their commitments to the National Champions. We should see how these loses affect the program in the coming years.

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Tags: 2010 Recruits, LSU, MLB Draft, SEC