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Baseball America ranks Mississippi State baseball in preseason top 10

By Ethan Lee

Omaha, NE - JUNE 27: A general view of a baseball on the field prior to game two of the College World Series Championship Series between the Oregon State Beavers and the Arkansas Razorbacks on June 27, 2018 at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska. (Photo by Peter Aiken/Getty Images)
Omaha, NE - JUNE 27: A general view of a baseball on the field prior to game two of the College World Series Championship Series between the Oregon State Beavers and the Arkansas Razorbacks on June 27, 2018 at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska. (Photo by Peter Aiken/Getty Images) /
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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:

  1. Vanderbilt
  2. LSU
  3. UCLA
  4. Florida
  5. North Carolina
  6. Florida State
  7. Stanford
  8. Texas Tech
  9. Mississippi State
  10. Oregon State
  11. Louisville
  12. East Carolina
  13. Ole Miss
  14. Clemson
  15. Georgia
  16. Baylor
  17. Auburn
  18. Arkansas
  19. Texas
  20. Michigan
  21. Southern Miss
  22. Duke
  23. Coastal Carolina
  24. Minnesota
  25. 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:

  1. Vanderbilt
  2. LSU
  3. Florida
  4. Mississippi State
  5. Ole Miss
  6. Georgia
  7. Auburn
  8. 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.

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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.

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