California didn’t get the No. 1 overall position for the second straight year and ended the night with a lower total than usual, but there was still plenty of highlights from the first night of the 2021 MLB Draft. Chula Vista Eastlake struck again with Marcelo Mayer’s selection at No. 4 while the intrigue of […]
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Baseball: State Records Updated (1)
A little more than two weeks after all of our all-time state baseball records in team categories were added to this site, it’s now time to do the same for the much more complicated and more massive individual categories. For this post, we are going over the leaders for all hitting & offensive categories. California […]
State’s All-Time MLB 1st Round Picks
As a prelude to the 2020 MLB Draft and to run in conjunction with a couple of feature stories we have coming up on significant California players, here’s as complete a list as possible of high school players and former high school players from the state who have been chosen in the first round of...
All-Time All-Area Baseball Teams
Want more proof that California has no equal for the past 100 years at having had the best baseball talent in the world? Here’s an updated version of a series of all-area all-region teams from throughout the state that shows elite players have come from everywhere. We did these teams initially seven years ago for...
MLB Draft: Top two are SoCal preps
It’s the first time two players from CIF Southern Section schools go 1-2 in the MLB Draft after Royce Lewis and Hunter Greene are selected in those positions during Monday’s MLB Draft. It’s not the first time it’s happened for California. Go inside to read about the 1980 and 2000 MLB Drafts and for a […]
Mr. Baseball 2016: Mickey Moniak
It became just too hard not to add the Mr. Baseball State Player of the Year selection to a player who was just chosen No. 1 overall in the annual MLB Draft. Of the seven previous No. 1 picks in the draft who were California prep players at the time, all seven also are State […]
SoCal Baseball: 25 Best, 25 Years
To match a NorCal feature that we presented on this site in April and first produced for our partners at SportStars Magazine (it was their idea), here’s a list of the 25 best high school baseball players from the last 25 years for Southern California. Many of these 25 have been MLB All-Stars, one got […]
