Baseball is getting close - First pre-season poll out !!!

BOF - Thanks for posting.  Truthfully, you could have pulled this list from any random year, and it would be the same top 20 suspects.  

Once you get past #20 then you see some of the strong mid-majors appear (Liberty, CoC, Kennesaw, St Johns, Kent St). These are the schools I'm going to be watching this year along with my usual ACC, SEC, Stanford and Ivy schools for D1.  I'm really hoping for Virginia Tech to make some noise in the ACC this year.

I think the one team to pay particular attention to is UVA.  They were national runners up and very young. last year.  That is enough of an East Coast bias to carry me through the day.

Thanks for posting.  Nice to have the list on this site.

Nice to see four of the top ten from Texas.  Fun to follow "local" teams (even though Tech is 520 miles away).  Did Lousiana Lafeyette lose that many players to be outside the top 25?  They ended the season at 9....

My son and I will see at home games for at least Texas, Houston, Rice, TAMU and Sam Houston State.

That was the first question that came to my mind when I read the poll, too.

Regardless of how the season turns out, though, I have to credit the pollsters for having the guts to avoid just recycling last year's standings, the way football polls seem to do.  They have 9 40-win teams outside of the top 40, a sub-.500 team in the top ten, and several big moves up or down within major conferences. 

Could spark a few conversations.

Can't remember ever seeing my "alma mater of a nation" (William & Mary) on any pre-season list in the past.  Go Tribe! 

(Actually, in my day, we were the Indians. But you can guess what happened to that!)

I think they had seven drafted and lost two 1st team All Americans in that group. They still have a 1st Team All American SS, Team USA and consensus early 2015 pick Blake Trahan and freshman AA Reagan Bazar, who hit 100 in his first college outing.

The bench last year was very strong with a few LSU cuts, who will play well. Pitching will be a little young, so Like most better mid majors they have to get some players weathered for another run. They will be a very good team. 

I watched Mississippi State last year, know who they lost and they are ranked 20. We will be at least as good as MSU.

The recent success has helped recruiting a bunch. 2014 Signings include a former LSU commit at SS and two local guys, Hogan Harris and Nick Lee who could be drafted in the first few rounds in June.

I don't know about you guys but i'm going down to South Carolina to see Vanderbilt vs South Carolina.

Midlo - I'm right there with you.  My alma mater is also pre-season listed (Bryant) for the first time ever, and we used to be the Indians.  Tribe is actually cool and unique IMHO. .    

Polls are fun.

I put zero stock in them (unless teams I root for are on top of course).

Here is 1 websites preseason poll and final poll from last year.  You could say a little bit changed between December & June.

http://baseballnews.com/polls/...e-season-div-i-poll/

http://baseballnews.com/polls/...-div-i-poll-6-26-14/

Rich

www.PlayInSchool.com

All divisions are here:

http://baseballnews.com/every-...aseball-poll-listed/

A couple of things struck me with the poll. 

A number of Big West teams are in the poll, you expect Cal State Fullerton, but UCSB, and Cal Poly both ranked above them, Good to see USC mentioned, and I agree with Fenway a lot of mid major teams. 

Out of this polls top 10, who do you think will actually make it to the CWS this season.  I know there is alot that goes into it, just wanted to have some fun and see thoughts.

I can see 

UVA

TCU

Texas

Vandy

But not really seeing the rest get to Omaha. 

I will make one guarantee, it'll end up a lot different...