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BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU baseball’s most powerful hitter might be back for Friday’s season opener after all. Two days after taking a pitch to the face in a practice, junior outfielder Greg Deichmann underwent surgery to mend his fractured right cheekbone Sunday. According to a release issued by an LSU spokesperson, LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri lists Deichmann as “day-to-day” and didn’t rule out the possibility of the outfielder…

Feb 11, 2017 Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Let’s nerd out here for a few minutes and go through each team’s non-roster invitees to spring training. Some of these are prospects just hanging out for a couple of weeks until they get sent back down to minor league camp. Some are veterans with a chance to make the team, or at least impress enough to be an…

By Pete Ruden peter-ruden@uiowa.edu With the Iowa baseball season starting this week, there is a lot of buzz around the team and what it can accomplish this year. Coming off a Big Ten Championship game appearance last year, the Hawkeyes will seek to get maintain that level of play. While such leaders as Nick Roscetti, Joel Booker, and Tyler Peyton got picked in the MLB Draft this past summer,…

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For any follower of college baseball, it was something of an odd sight Friday as Jack Leggett stood on the top step of the dugout sporting a Florida ballcap while addressing the Gators before practice. Leggett was the face of Clemson baseball for more than two decades, leading the Tigers to 6 College World Series appearances and 955 wins from 1994-2015. Now entering his second season out of coaching,…

The Cubs will start the season with a healthy Kyle Schwarber.(Photo: Tommy Gilligan, USA TODAY Sports) Just 101 days ago, the Chicago Cubs rewrote history. Does it seem longer since the night a smiling, stumbling Kris Bryant tossed the ball across the diamond to Anthony Rizzo, capping a wild Game 7 that clinched the Cubs’ first World Series championship since 1908? Well, next year is here. Pitchers and catchers report…

Feb 11, 2017 Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Let’s nerd out here for a few minutes and go through each team’s non-roster invitees to spring training. Some of these are prospects just hanging out for a couple of weeks until they get sent back down to minor league camp. Some are veterans with a chance to make the team, or at least impress enough to be an…

It can always get worse, but the past week has certainly provided a bitter pill for the LSU baseball team to swallow. On Wednesday, the Tigers learned they would be without junior designated hitter Bryce Jordan for the entire 2017 season; he needs surgery after a knee buckled while he chased a foul ball in a Tuesday scrimmage. Two days later, their best power hitter, junior…

Webber International University scored in each of its six at bats, including two runs or more in five of the six frames, to post a 14-0 win and finish off a doubleheader sweep of the University of Rio Grande, Friday night, in non-conference baseball action at Heart of Florida Field. The Warriors, who outlasted the RedStorm, 7-6 in 11 innings, in the opener, improved to 5-0 with the twinbill sweep….

Mount Carmel junior Alek Thomas had to stop himself from laughing at the thought of playing three sports in college. Thomas, a three-sport starter in football, basketball and baseball for the Caravan, went on an unofficial visit to Texas Christian in late January. While in Fort Worth, Thomas, who was mulling offers from numerous schools to play football and baseball, made an unscheduled trip to a TCU basketball game. “I…

Feb 11, 2017 Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Let’s nerd out here for a few minutes and go through each team’s non-roster invitees to spring training. Some of these are prospects just hanging out for a couple of weeks until they get sent back down to minor league camp. Some are veterans with a chance to make the team, or at least impress enough to be an…

Mount Carmel junior Alek Thomas had to stop himself from laughing at the thought of playing three sports in college. Thomas, a three-sport starter in football, basketball and baseball for the Caravan, went on an unofficial visit to Texas Christian in late January. While in Fort Worth, Thomas, who was mulling offers from numerous schools to play football and baseball, made an unscheduled trip to a TCU basketball game. “I…

Baseball will implement a new, experimental rule this season in the very low minor leagues. When a game goes into extra innings, each extra half inning will begin with a runner on second base. This, of course, will make it easier for teams to score in extra innings and thus make it more likely that games will end sooner. How much more likely and how much sooner will be revealed…

This being America in 2017, I wouldn’t want to waste an opportunity to bring a political debate into the sports pages. So indulge me for the next few hundred words in the vetting of New York State Senate Bill S4288, introduced this past Wednesday by Jim Seward, a Republican from the 51st District. The bill proposes making baseball New York’s official state sport, a designation that wouldn’t carry any actual…

Mount Carmel junior Alek Thomas had to stop himself from laughing at the thought of playing three sports in college. Thomas, a three-sport starter in football, basketball and baseball for the Caravan, went on an unofficial visit to Texas Christian in late January. While in Fort Worth, Thomas, who was mulling offers from numerous schools to play football and baseball, made an unscheduled trip to a TCU basketball game. “I…

Feb 11, 2017 Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Let’s nerd out here for a few minutes and go through each team’s non-roster invitees to spring training. Some of these are prospects just hanging out for a couple of weeks until they get sent back down to minor league camp. Some are veterans with a chance to make the team, or at least impress enough to be an…

Baseball will implement a new, experimental rule this season in the very low minor leagues. When a game goes into extra innings, each extra half inning will begin with a runner on second base. This, of course, will make it easier for teams to score in extra innings and thus make it more likely that games will end sooner. How much more likely and how much sooner will be revealed…

This being America in 2017, I wouldn’t want to waste an opportunity to bring a political debate into the sports pages. So indulge me for the next few hundred words in the vetting of New York State Senate Bill S4288, introduced this past Wednesday by Jim Seward, a Republican from the 51st District. The bill proposes making baseball New York’s official state sport, a designation that wouldn’t carry any actual…

Mount Carmel junior Alek Thomas had to stop himself from laughing at the thought of playing three sports in college. Thomas, a three-sport starter in football, basketball and baseball for the Caravan, went on an unofficial visit to Texas Christian in late January. While in Fort Worth, Thomas, who was mulling offers from numerous schools to play football and baseball, made an unscheduled trip to a TCU basketball game. “I…

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