Gamecock Baseball Preseason Rankings - Carolina @ #17 in D1 Poll

That's higher than I thought we would be ranked, although if D1 Baseball looks at the Perfect Game and other recruiting services team rankings the past 4 years, they would probably think we're ranked too low.

We are stacked with talent that most teams would give their left nut for. I just hope we find some really solid weekend starters and a clutch reliever. Expecting Braden Webb to step up this year, he is built like Jordan Montgomery.

I'm not worried about hitting this year, I looked at some of the guys coming back averages and performance from the summer and fall ball. We had a lot of young guys last year who didn't crack the lineup, but who will get a shot this year. Plus we have 5 new players who were drafted this past year, but didn't sign, 3 of which were PG Top 100 players.

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I don't follow baseball recruiting much, but hasn't our recruiting been really good lately?

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I'll expand on this more in another thread, but yes. Here are the Perfect Game Class Rankings since Holbrook took over in '12.
https://www.perfectgame.org/rankings/Recruiting/Rankings.aspx
(By the way, these are AFTER MLB rankings as well, so they don't count the players signed by MLB.)

'16 - #4
'15 - #8
'14 - #3
'13 - #3
'12 - #9

Let it be known, I never said Holbrook can't recruit. 5 consecutive years of Top 10 Classes and 3 years in that span with a Top 4 Class. Honestly, just looking at those class rankings, you would think we were going to be a Top3 team in the polls.