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https://www.warrennolan.com/college-baseball/strength-of-schedule/rankings-rpi/_/season/2026 18th GA TECH 28th UCLA

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FanGraphs BaseballBrandon Crawford | SS | FanGraphs BaseballBrandon Crawford baseball statistics, splits, graphs, game logs, and more. Comprehensive player stats on FanGraphs.30.9 career fWAR 6.2/4.3/4.1 three peak years....exactly 47% of his fWAR across those three seasons 29.6 and counting fWAR through age 32 season 6.6/4.8/4.2 fWAR three highs 53% of his fWAR across those three peak seasons FanGraphs BaseballDansby Swanson - Chicago Cubs | SS | FanGraphs BaseballDansby Swanson statistics, splits, graphs, game logs, and more for Chicago Cubs. Comprehensive baseball stats on FanGraphs.

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/ucla-stunned-no-1-national-seed-eliminated-from-ncaa-tournament/ Even BA is pushing the Brandon Crawford parallel/SFG angle now. Now comes a month and a half of waiting. Cholowsky entered the season as the consensus favorite to be selected first overall in July’s MLB Draft. He’s still a strong candidate. But whether he ultimately hears his name called first remains one of the most fascinating storylines in the class. Momentum around players such as Grady Emerson and Vahn Lackey has only intensified as draft day approaches, and the debate at the top of the board feels more open than it did a few months ago. That discussion will play out over the coming weeks. What won’t change is what Cholowsky accomplished at UCLA. There is an odd historical parallel that now feels impossible to ignore. Brandon Crawford and Cholowsky are the only two shortstops in UCLA history to play for Bruins teams that entered a season ranked No. 1 in the Baseball America Top 25. Neither team escaped its own regional. Crawford went on to build an accomplished MLB career and is one of the most beloved players in San Francisco Giants history. Maybe fate has another connection in store. Maybe the Giants will find a way to make Cholowsky the latest Bruin shortstop to head north to the Bay Area.

Bright Side Of The SunThe Suns and Mercury double down on their promise to make...Ishbia continues to make basketball free and fans across Arizona are the ones who benefit.Reinsdorf giving away games for free for seven years (2023 through 2030) to fans like Ishbia? That lasted about a month with the CHSN bunny ears antennaes before capitulating to inclusion in the highest Comcast pricing tier. Ishbia's goal has been to reshape the fan experience in Phoenix, now adding tacos and ice cream sandwiches to a menu that already includes hot dogs, chips, popcorn, fountain soda and bottled water for just $2 each. The initiative has made the Suns' offerings among the most affordable concession options in the NBA. https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/phoenix-suns-owner-mat-ishbia-174124520.html&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiYg92_1OWUAxXJlSsGHX8sFU0QFnoECBoQAw&usg=AOvVaw0T0BT58_M1ACirmHXpeYe- Suns owner Mat Ishbia recently announced that concessions will take a steep discount for all home games: Hot dog: $9 —> $2 16 oz Dasani water $8.50 —> $2 16 ox fountain soda $8.50 —> $2 Bag of chips $7 —> $2 Bag of popcorn $7 —> $2 According to Ishbia, he wanted to make food more affordable for families who don't want to pay outrageous concession prices. Adding superstars in Durant and Beal to go along with Booker. Completely transforming the team this year around an ethos of hard work/defense/togetherness/scrappy play and hustling for loose balls when the three superstars approach failed. Always prioritizing/optimizing the fan experience... What a total jerk!!!

The Sooners and Yellow Jackets meet for a trip to the Supers on Monday at 2 p.m. CT. The game can be seen via ESPN+ and heard on The REF 99.3 FM/1400 AM or nationwide on The Varsity network app. The winner awaits Big 12 champion Kansas after the Jayhawks (45-16) swept through their Lawrence Regional. With an OU win, the Sooners would head to Kansas for its 11th Super Regional appearance in program history and first since 2022.

Talk about Stockholm Syndrome. JR is winning when the fanbase doesn't want the payroll doubled because it MIGHT mean signing declining vets...as if that's the only possible option. How about actually signing star quality players like Mune or Sato? Not crazy enough to think Skubal, but imagine how much better this team would be with Michael King as the second starter? Benintendi Grandal Dunn Keuchel M.Cabrera LaRoche has everyone running in fear just because those signings all failed ignominiously. Under the Hahn/Haber/Hostetler HHH Regime. If we do trust Getz now....why don't we trust him yet with bigger signings?

Zen Buddhism/yoga lol?

Somehow it's going to be pretty deflating if both Ga Tech on Monday and ofc UCLA are already eliminated. The excitement level has been dampened by at least 50%...especially going into this long waiting/speculation period. Now it's more of a feeling of let's not mess THIS one up, please!!! Just can't blow 3/4 Top 4 picks in a ten year period.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/who-is-teruaki-sato-and-why-are-the-phillies-scouting-him/ar-AA23EG5i?apiversion=v2&domshim=1&noservercache=1&noservertelemetry=1&batchservertelemetry=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1 Have a feeling the Sox will pass based on left handedness and similar high K numbers to Mune Colson B.Montgomery Bonemer. Then you Teel/Antonacci as well. That said...Mune gets extended (by someone miracle) and all bets are off as teams race to at the very least get up to the $135-150 million range. That very well might end up as the payroll floor more realistically than the originally suggested $171.4 figure. "As you may be able to tell from that video, Sato’s power is his best trait despite his smaller frame. But that power comes with some prolific strikeout numbers. He owns a career 27.5% strikeout rate and his 27.3% mark from 2025 would have tied him with Byron Buxton for the 12th highest in MLB last season. He typically swings often and does not make a high degree of contact, with a swinging strike rate of 15.3% last year that would have tied him with Eugenio Suárez for the seventh highest among qualified hitters in MLB. However, those strikeout numbers are coupled with a walk rate that is improving, as Sato’s 9.5% walk rate last season would have placed him slightly above the MLB average of 8.4% and was up from his 7.3% mark in 2024. There isn’t much to gleam from Sato’s 13.1% walk rate through 175 plate appearances in 2026 so far, but it does open the possibility that he may well end up finishing at or near his previous career high of 9.9% in 2023."

Not even sure where or how you get $600+ million of new spending across those 12 teams. Skubal Murakami Sato (if posted) Peralta, Bichette (player option, likely he stays in NY) Chisholm, M.King, Imanaga MLB Trade Rumors2026-27 MLB Free Agent Power Rankings: April EditionIt's never to soon to look ahead to next winter's free agency! Find out who joins Tarik Skubal and Freddy Peralta at the top of the class.

Lackey intentionally walked (after two strikes, 0-2 count TLR style) to put tie runner at the plate with two outs but next batter K'd. 11-8 Oklahoma leading late

@Philly series 6/5 Kay Luzardo 6/6 Burke Painter 1-6 6/7 Sandlin Nola HOME 6/9 Martin vs. Sale*** 6/10 Fedde vs. G.Holmes 6/11 Kay vs.M.Perez*** 6/12 Burke vs. Sasaki 6/13 Sandlin vs. Yamamoto*** 6/14 Martin vs. Sheehan miss Wrobleski if schedules hold/no rainouts @NYY

To put it in one sentence, he was an insufferable jackass way too full of himself.

Lackey 0/3 R Burress the better game so far today.

Easiest thing is 1B/DH...harder would be 2B or CF/LF. Or you trade Teel for more pitching. No real reason to believe JR will pay Murakami big bucks, either.

Who are the last two Sox picks from CWS-winning teams, Jacob Gonzalez/Ole Miss and Jared Mitchell/LSU? Watching UCLA highlights...aluminum bat one bounce single. Crazy. Fifth seed in the WCC tourney. First time #1 seed in extras in a regional since 2013 UNC FAU. Even crazier Cal Poly beat St.Mary's 14-1 on Saturday night. Hawk was probably pushed too hard...three apearances each of the last two weekends. https://www.ncaa.com/game/6599690/boxscore 10-8 OU over GA TECH in 5th inning "Oklahoma looked like it was on its way to a quick loss. Georgia Tech, which owns the best offense in the country, was well on its way to a blowout win with an 8-2 lead in the top of the fourth inning. Then, the Sooners' bats got hot." Will play again Monday if OU somehow holds on to win...

Didn't he also have an error or a play that he should have made on a bouncer? To make the score 3-2 UCLA? Big Ten baseball not faring well. Oregon still alive?

Whatever you want to say about how much of the talent was Getz vs. Hahn in origin....there really does seem to be so much more of a positive clubhouse environment and team chemistry. A lot of this can be attributed to Venable and the coaching staff...for helping each and every player understand their role and how to maximize their contributions. Guys like Peters Romo Antonacci Meidroth and Nishida (has to get ops to at least 600) immediately come to mind...basically the entire bench as well. The biggest concern right now after Mune/Teel getting back to 100% is still the back end of that starting rotation and the bullpen, although Taylor, Davis and that lefty have stabilized it nicely. The real question is whether a team now held together by duct tape and baling wire can negotiate that June schedule while remaining in touch with CLE and the mediocre WC field.

What have those 12 small/mid market team owners said so far publicly about projected payroll raises? https://www.cleveland.com/guardians/2026/05/guardians-payroll-structure-could-be-drastically-reshaped-by-labor-negotiations-paul-hoynes.html Found an article that explains it well from Guardians' perspective. "Meyer, the union’s acting executive director and lead negotiator, responded to the owners’ salary cap proposal by saying, “For generations, our members have fought against cap systems because they harm players at all levels, erode or eliminate contractual guarantees, pit player against player, lead to more work stoppages, not less, and get worse for players over time.” He added, “Caps don’t lower ticket prices for fans, eliminate tanking or ensure teams are run with equal competence. They suffocate competition by offering owners an all-purpose excuse for inaction and mediocrity.”

Are they proposing to get rid of the revenue sharing completely for small markets? And the aggregating of media rights for RSN's across all thirty teams with an equal split versus the Dodgers being hundreds of millions ahead of the field on an individual basis? That was supposed to be a 2-3 year timeframe to wind down where all the teams could be bundled together through ESPN.

Who's the last first rounder the Sox started out wanting to change his swing? Burger had that arm bar thing going at Missouri State, t or h bar, whatever... Can't remember much about Madrigal or Vaughn at draft time...those flaws would later be exposed. Levu continues to look like the best overall UCLA hitter...ofc a power hitting RBI machine vs. middle infielder. Also can't remember the last time the White Sox took a position player that wasn't drafted for need at the big league level...obviously Colson and Teel already in place, not to mention Bonemer/Carson. Everyone and their mother expects a position change for Bonemer, though.

UCLA definitely feeling the pressure. Only up 3-2 vs. StMary's in the fourth. Cholowsky had a ball play him at SS. Nebraska getting rolled today by ASU after losing yesterday.