Today, it was announced that Illinois baseball was picked as the third best team in the Big Ten by conference coaches bested only by Minnesota and Michigan. From FightingIllini.com, here is how the top teams fared in the coaches poll: 2019 Big Ten Preseason Poll (top six teams and ties)1.…
Illinois Baseball can boast two freshman who are named to Baseball America’s Top 50 Freshman list. Let’s take a look at them. C Jacob Campbell At #25, Jacob Campbell is the top frosh in the Big Ten and the second in the country. Campbell hails from Janesville, WI and was…
The temps are dipping into the single digits here in Champaign-Urbana and it doesn’t look like there is much relief in the near future. That’s not preventing the Illinois baseball team from getting some practice in, though. They are enjoying the relative warmth of the Irwin Practice Facility to get…
The Illinois Baseball community continues to amaze me. The annual Illinois Baseball Hot Stove Banquet co-sponsored by the Dugout Club, was scheduled for last Saturday night. To be honest, I wasn’t sure if attendance would be high. We had a nasty winter storm roll in on Saturday and roads were…
Saturday night is Illinois baseball’s annual Hot Stove banquet officially kicking off the 2019 season. And yes, there actually is a hot stove. It is lit at the beginning of the banquet. Rumor has it that the organizers of the banquet have to get special permission from the City Fire…
It’s exciting to see college baseball news ramping up. It’s even more exciting to see Illinois baseball making the headlines. Illinois fans knew that we had had good team going into the 2019 season. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper agrees. They released their preseason Top 40 rankings yesterday and the Illini are…
You know we’re getting close to opening day when college baseball pundits begin weighing in on who’s hot. It should be no surprise that Illini second baseman Michael Massey is being singled out as one of top players of the country. The Collegiate Baseball Newspaper named Massey to their pre-season…
Illinois Baseball announced this week that the updated 2019 Illinois Baseball Record Book has been released! I always enjoy going through the Record Book and believe me, it takes a while. There is a lot of info packed in it. It’s a whopping 138 pages long! If it’s not in…
By the year 2021, the Illinois Field complex will look a lot different and we will have Susie Atkins to thank for that. With a $3 million donation earmarked for a new training facility, Illinois Baseball will have improved their overall program dramatically. According to FightingIllini.com, Susie Atkins is happy…
After dominating the Blue and Gray teams on Wednesday and Thursday, it looked like the Orange team might end the 2018 Orange and Blue World Series with a loss. That was not the case, as Kellen Sarver drove in two key runs with a base hit for a comeback win…