I hope you’re enjoying the snow, New England readers. I’m home for the Holidays in less snowy but still cold Kentucky.
Back to the countdown soon, but I wanted to make note of two things. One, the Brewster roster is out. I haven’t had time to look at it in detail, but I’ll do that soon and offer up some first impressions. I can tell you now that catcher Rob Brantly is real good. Top prospect in the Northwoods League last year.
Second, college baseball preseason stuff is starting to trickle in. Louisville Slugger announced its Preseason All-America Teams.
LSU’s Anthony Ranaudo, who played for Y-D in 2008, has been picked as the preseason Player of the Year. Kyle Roller, Yasmani Grandal, Cody Hawn, Danny Muno and Jarrett Parker are all on the first team. Alex Wimmers, Chris Sale, Matt Harvey, Cameron Rupp, Micah Gibbs, Jedd Gyorko and Blake Dean are on the second team, along with Troy Channing (Brewster ’10) and Danny Hultzen (Hyannis ’10).
The third team doesn’t seem to be so much a team — we’re looking at something like 40 players — as it is a list of everyone else who’s kind of deserving. Many Cape Leaguers are on that list.
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