BB America Top 50 - Who is missing?

08Dad ...

Great reminder of a great tourney. They had a few down years with some quality teams having to drop out at the last minute and the space being filled with local teams who were available (the better teams had already committed elsewhere). But it is a fun tourney of high school teams, a bit different than when the 'elite' and/or travel teams compete in the summer. When a school team competes, it is most often done with the 'team' it was dealt, boys playing for the school they are assigned to attend. (Hopefully the recruiting topic won't come up.) It is great to see what these coaches can do with their own local talent.

As a side note, just to voice my opinion, I find these types of topics interesting and yet painful because people start guestimating who is the best etc. There is no level playing field when publications like BA select the top 50 teams, because we have no way to see what the competition is like for each school. Kind of like looking at a player's high school stats ... how do we really compare him to others when we can't tell what his competition was (other than in general terms because of the league he is in).

I always liked this idea: It isn't where a team starts the season (i.e., these 'lists'), it's where they finish at the end of the season.

Take care all. Sure am glad this part of baseball is behind me ... so much easier to watch from a distance (... yeah, right !!!)

The LA times posted their rankings. Crespi was their #1 for the greater LA area. I don't think the San Diego schools were included. One interesting point was that Royal and Westlake were ranked ahead of Thousand Oaks. Should be interesting. I remember seeing it in the paper this morning but I don't see it on latimes.com so I might have the wrong paper.

They also posted their list of players to follow on latimes.com/preps

Did a search on LA times and found this dated Feb 11th by division.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/varsitytimesinsider/files/baseball_poll.pdf

No mention of Westlake, Royal, or Chatsworth. FWIW from your area I saw T.O., Saugus, Oxnard, Santa Barabara, Camarillo, St Bonnie...

Whatever I read was from one sportswriter and not a coaches poll. Could have been from a different paper.

It was the Times. Dan Arrit's preseason baseball top 25 rankings.

1. Crespi
2. Cypress
3. Mater Dei
4. Wilson
5. Saugus
6. Los Al
7. Orange Lutheran
8. Vista Murrieta
9. Los Osos
10. Royal
11. Westlake
13. TO
14. Simi
21. Chatsworth

I think he's a Marmonte league fan.

BOF,
Chatsworth wouldn't be in the poll since they are city section and not southern section.

It all starts today. Have a good season.