Baseball America has given the Bulldogs plenty of respect heading into the upcoming 2019 Mississippi State baseball season.
There’s some hype building right now around the Mississippi State baseball team as we move closer and closer to the upcoming 2019 college baseball season. According to Baseball America, the Bulldogs are currently one of the 10 best teams in the country.
In Baseball America’s preseason top 25 rankings that were released today, the Mississippi State Bulldogs made it in at No. 9. That’s not too bad for a team that will be breaking in a brand new head coach moving into this coming season.
Here’s what the full rankings look like:
- Vanderbilt
- LSU
- UCLA
- Florida
- North Carolina
- Florida State
- Stanford
- Texas Tech
- Mississippi State
- Oregon State
- Louisville
- East Carolina
- Ole Miss
- Clemson
- Georgia
- Baylor
- Auburn
- Arkansas
- Texas
- Michigan
- Southern Miss
- Duke
- Coastal Carolina
- Minnesota
- UC Irvine
Also of note, as you can see, the SEC is incredibly well represented here. The Bulldogs are far from being the only team from the Southeastern Conference up on this list. There’s a total of eight SEC teams included in these preseason rankings and the Bulldogs are in the upper half of that list.
If Baseball America was just ranking teams from the SEC with this preseason ranking, it would look something like this:
- Vanderbilt
- LSU
- Florida
- Mississippi State
- Ole Miss
- Georgia
- Auburn
- Arkansas
Chris Lemonis has a lot of work to do and a tough task up ahead of him. But he’s got an experienced roster that has gone through just about anything (and everything) imaginable. This team has shown a remarkable level of resiliency and dealt with it all.
And, in the process, last season this group made it all the way back to Omaha to compete in the College World Series.
This year has a lot of potential and a lot of promise, but Lemonis and company might have a hard time living up to expectations. Still, the Bulldogs might just find another improbable way back to Omaha.