🚨COMMIT NEWS🚨 Eric Woodley has committed to Lenoir-Rhyne (LR... BEARS BASEBALL) from Arkansas Tech, per his Instagram. Woodley, a 1st-team all-Central Region reliever, had a 2.10 ERA over 25.2 innings (19 appearances) with 11 saves last season. #D2Baseballshow more

🚨UPSET ALERT🚨 Limestone Baseball RUN RULES a Top 5... Team in the country! Sion Barnette had a homer and 3 RBI. Cody Hodierne and Ben Partridge had 2 RBI each. Colt Wilkins lowers his ERA to 2.33 after throwing 7 shoutout innings, allowing 2 hits while striking out 5. #D2Baseballshow more

🚨UPSET ALERT🚨 Arkansas Tech Baseball takes down No.3 UCM... in extras by the score of 4-3! Sawyer Duddleston and Cole Dawson had 2 hits each. Jack Rector allowed just 3 hits and a run with 8 Ks over 5. The Arkansas Tech bullpen gave up just 2 hits and 1 earned run in their 7 innings of work. Doubleheader scheduled for tomorrow, we'll see who comes out on top. #D2Baseballshow more

Linn-Benton CC ace Connor Mendez (Connor Mendez) has committed... to Oregon State. Mendez made 12 starts, posting a 0.69 ERA, 0.67 WHIP, 77 K's in 78 innings earning First Team All-NWAC, South Region Pitcher of the Year, and NWAC Tournament MVP last season.show more

The Northwest Baseball had a great week of MIAA... action this week, going 3-1, beating Washburn in a midweek and taking a HUGE series victory over No.3 MSSU. Connor Polli was nails out of the Bearcat bullpen today, going 5 shutout innings in relief to get the win. Polli hasn't allowed a run in his last 3 appearances. Speaking of great, Ryan Williams has been great with a 9-game hit streak and a 6-game RBI streak. Williams is the team leading hitter at .400 (3rd in MIAA) Trey Morris had 7 hits and 6 RBI over the week, now at a team lead 45 RBI (3rd in MIAA). #D2Baseballshow more

Andrew Abbott has a 6.59 ERA over 28 IP... this season.. He had a 2.87 ERA over 166 IP last season… Andrew threw the ball with the muscles of motor tract 1 last season… He’s using motor tract 5 muscles this season… Watch how differently his left arm and left pec region move through his delivery… Consciously, he’s just throwing the ball….subconsciously his vestibulospinal tract (and others) are signaling different muscles to move his body…. MT5 on left vs MT1 on rightshow more

🚨WALK OFF ALERT🚨David Hernandez walks it off for Erskine... College Baseball (24-20, 15-11) as they SWEEP Top 10 Barton at home and cap off a 4-0 week! Hernandez went 9-for-15 with 2 HR and 6 RBI on the week, he’s hitting an impressive .384 on the year. Josean Sánchez went 5-for-11 and is hitting .410 with a nine game hit streak. Jared Guell collected two saves across 3 innings over the weekend. With the sweep, most importantly, Erskine has catapulted to 5th in the conference, which as of now keeps them out of the single elimination play-in game. #D2Baseballshow more

No. 15 YHC Baseball completes the sweep of AUM... in one of our series to watch picks, winning today's game 11-4. The Preseason All-American duo of Jack Enrico and Jeremy Begora each homered today, but the real star of the weekend is Freshman Carlos Martans, who went 7/13 with a homer and 5 RBI. Martans went 3/5 today. That's not to mention the combined 12 shutout innings between the starts by Zach Hart and Drew Howard over the weekend. The Mountain Lions will play a total of 4 games next weekend between Columbus State and Lenoir-Rhyne. #D2Baseballshow more

#24 Lander Baseball (31-11, 16-5) impressed with a road... sweep of GCSU to take sole possession of 1st in the Peach Belt and continue their win streak to 11 games. Gary Garrett set the school record for single season stolen bases with his 26th. He had 4 on the week and has a stolen base in 5 of his last 6 games. Anson Merrick threw a complete game to complete the sweep, allowing just 2 earned runs with 3 strikeouts. Ethan Wilder went 8-for-18 with 5 RBI on the week, extending his hit streak to 16 games. Connor Droze has a 7-game hit streak, as he homered to put his HR total to 18, tied for the most in D2. #D2Baseballshow more

Ben McCollum was hired by Drake less than a... full year ago and has already delivered the school its first regular season Valley title since 2008. With a group of D2 players and transfers from all over the country, he knew early that his team had a chance to be special KCCI News Drake Basketball Drake Universityshow more

Easton Elam (Uncommitted 2027 RHP) has had a strong... start to his high school season, throwing over 17 innings while allowing zero runs, just five hits, and five walks, and striking out 24 hitters. Dating back to last year, he allowed just six earned runs and 20 total hits over 55 innings. Elam has done this while sitting 85-88 mph, but with some very unique traits to his fastball and the rest of his arsenal. A thread from Sam Grace 🧵 1/show more

LHP Zach Root (Arkansas Baseball) is one of the... best college lefthanders in this year's Draft class. After splitting time between the bullpen and rotation as a Freshman, Root last year was a full time starter and pitched his way to a 3.56 ERA with 76 Ks to 21 BB across 68.1 IP. Slightly undersized at 6'1" and 186-pounds, but there's present strength and physicality in his lower-half. Natural funk and deception in his delivery that includes a high leg lift and some tilt in his upper-half. Average arm stroke with a slight wrist coil, attacks from a mid-three quarter (maybe a tick lower) slot with a bit of cross fire. Root's FB will sit in the 91-94 range, but it was up to 97. Will flash arm side life through the zone and is best when located on either third (arm or glove side) of the plate or in the top-half. Not a real bat-misser right now, so refining its shape should be a point of focus both this spring and beyond. Bread and butter offerings are his secondaries. Root's low-80s CH gets averaged almost 10 MPH of separation off his heater and it's a pitch he throws with conviction. Consistently flashes fade to the arm side as well as late diving life. Generated a 46% miss rate last spring, would stick a plus grade on it. High-70s-to-low-80s CB flashes big-time depth with some sharpness. 11-to-5 shape against RHH, but will be longer than it is deep against LHH. Has a decent feel for the pitch, and last season it held opposing hitters to a minuscule .048 average while generating a 48% miss rate. Rounds out his arsenal with a mid-to-upper-80s CUT/SL that against LHH will flash sweeping life with some late bite. Potentially average offering. Would like to see his strike-throwing improve this season. Day 1 profile this July. (📽️: ECU Baseball)show more

While he won't toe the rubber this spring for... the Hoosiers, RHP Luke Sinnard (Indiana Baseball) is an arm to be familiar with come July. Began his college career at Western Kentucky, but blossomed last year as a Sophomore at Indiana and pitched his way to a 4.27 ERA with 114 Ks (led the Big Ten) to just 25 BB across 86.1 IP. Earned a Second Team All-Big Ten selection. Towering, workhorse frame at 6'8" and 230-lbs. Sinnard attacks from an ultra high-three quarter slot and possesses an outlier release height north of 7-feet. Somewhat of a deep pull here, but his arm slot is a little reminiscent of former College of Charleston RHP William Privette, though not as sling-shotty or true OTT. His FB sits in the 91-94 range (T96) but it plays up thanks to the carry Sinnard is able to get on it through the zone. Last year, it averaged over 2,500 RPMs and over 19" of IVB. Sinnard's low-80s CB is a true bat-misser. Flashes immense depth and almost true 12-to-6 shape with some teeth. He has good feel for the pitch and it is effective against both right and lefthanded hitters. Held opponents to a .118 average and generated a 46% miss rate last spring. Also features an effective high-80s Cut/SL hybrid. Boasts late lateral life with a touch of depth. Gets under the hands of LHH. Another pitch that Sinnard has plus control of. Lastly, Sinnard throws a low-80s Split/CH. Feel for it is inconsistent, but it gets good separation off the FB and at times flashed tumbling life. It's an okay 4th offering. Sinnard has pro-level starter written all over him and even though you won't see him this season, he profiles as a potential 4th-7th round pick in this year's Draft. (📽️: Indiana Baseball)show more

Before the boardrooms, before the towers, before the presidency,... Donald Trump was a legitimate baseball prospect good enough to draw scouts from a major league franchise while playing first base at the New York Military Academy. The media has spent a decade painting a one-dimensional portrait of this man, and stories like this remind real Americans that they are dealing with someone who has excelled at virtually everything he has ever put his hand to throughout his entire life. Military school, elite athletics, billion-dollar business empire, and now the most consequential presidency of the modern era - the left can mock him all they want but the resume speaks for itself. There is a reason this man connects with working class Americans who love sports, competition, and winning because at his core, long before politics, that is exactly who Donald Trump has always been. Comment WOW if you had no idea Trump was scouted by a professional baseball team and love learning the real story behind the man the media refuses to show you.show more

Robinson Ortiz...Atta Baby! Ortiz had a HUGE year this... past season, and got rewarded by being placed on the Dodgers' 40-man roster. Ortiz posted an ERA of 2.73, an average against of just .207, and had 72 Ks in 59.1 innings. And ALL of that is great. And, while the "execution" piece is still THE focus, keep in mind, he, in essence, hadn't pitched since 2021, due to Tommy John. Ortiz was a HIGHLY thought of prospect back in 2021, before his Tommy John, and came back to start 2024, but was shut down after just 6 outings and 11 innings in May of 2024. So, for him to be able to post 59.1 innings and have 48 appearances was HUGE in terms of showing that he's BACK. Then, to have the success on top of that, after such a long layoff, just goes to show how good his stuff is. Ortiz features a HUGE sweeping slider that starts well behind the back of a left-hander, and breaks from one side of the earth to the other. Trying to decipher whether that pitch is going to land "in the zone" or not is VERY difficult, even for hitters that have a LOT of MLB experience like he faced at OKC. His fastball is firm, and he can hit 6s and 7s, so those 2 pitches play well off of each other. Welcome aboard, Robinson. It's been a LONG road, one you've navigated successfully. Keep killin' it, my man. #dodgersshow more

1B Anthony Martinez (UCI Baseball) is an intriguing college... bat to keep an eye on this season. Was one of the best Freshmen in the country in '23 and posted a gaudy .394/.471/.619 slash line with 19 2B, 11 HR and 60 RBIs. Enjoyed another productive season last year and hit .316/.422/.492 with 18 2B, 9 HR, 74 RBIs and more BB (36) than Ks (29). This summer he did what very few players do nowadays, which is start on the Cape, leave for Team USA and finish out the summer on the Cape. At 6'3" and 230-lbs Martinez is plenty physical with present natural strength. Stands upright in the box with a slightly open front side and a medium-high handset. Relaxed setup. Martinez has a rhythmic load that includes a small barrel tip. Minimal drifting of his hands and is a small-strider. It's a compact operation in which he consistently takes a direct path to contact. Real hitterish look. Martinez has a bit of an interesting profile for his position in that he's a hit-over-power guy. He has a highly advanced feel for the barrel and double-plus contact skills. Martinez in '24 worked an 86% overall contact rate and an eye-popping 96% overall IZ contact rate. All-fields approach and sprays line drives from foul pole to foul pole. Advanced pitch recognition skills and swing decisions, will sometimes expand the zone against secondaries down. However, it's far from a hindrance. Not afraid to get aggressive early in counts. Comfortably 55 hit for me. While it's hit-over-power, Martinez isn't without some thump. He can drive the baseball into either gap, though the vast majority of his HR power is to the pull side. Posted a Max EV last spring of 104.3. More XBH power than HR power. Would give it a 50. Martinez is without a doubt a 1B/DH type professionally, so you're buying the bat. Finished product physically, but I believe in the hit tool. 4th-6th round type for me this July.show more

INF Gavin Kilen (Tennessee Baseball) will be a key... piece within a loaded Tennessee lineup this season. Earned the starting 2B job as a Freshman and contributed, but broke out last spring to the tune of a .330/.361/.591 slash line with 23 2B, 3 3B, 9 HR and 41 RBIs. Kilen is slightly undersized and has an average build at 5'11 and 180-lbs. Some room to fill out and add ~10 pounds or so. Relaxed, slightly crouched stance in the box with a medium high handset. Minimal load in which his hands drift slightly, leg lift leads into a small stride. Short, compact swing and takes a direct path to contact. Above-average hand speed, it's an operation that's tailored towards spraying line drives all over the yard. Kilen is a hit-over-power profile with an aggressive approach in the box. He has plus bat-to-ball skills and his feel for the barrel is evident. Last spring, Kilen worked a 93% IZ contact rate, including 95% against FB. His aggressive approach and somewhat free-swinger mentality does lead to some chase up against FB and secondaries down, but it hasn't been a hindrance to his production. Kilen pounces on pitches in the zone and steps in the box ready to hit. Would give his hit tool a 55. It's more gap power than it is over the fence power for Kilen, but he did tap into some more impact last season. Part of that is due to getting the ball up in the air more: between '23 and '24 he increased his FB+LD% from 44% to 51%. It will always play as slightly below average (fringy), but he did post a Max EV of 108.5 during the spring and 101.4 this summer. Kilen's HR impact and highest quality of contact comes to the pull side. Vast majority of his XBH power comes on pitches in the bottom-half of the zone, which makes sense given his bat path. Has shown the ability to work from gap-to-gap. Kilen was Louisville's every day SS last spring, but he'll slide over to 2B this season for Tennessee. I actually think that's where he profiles best defensively as a professional, where he has an average arm with some range. After seeing him at SS for a couple of summers, his actions and clock translate better at 2B. Kilen is a day 1 type this July with top-55 overall upside.show more