2019 MWC Baseball.

[Bronco22]

On 1/14/2019 at 10:14 AM, TheTedfordTrain said:

One month away. 

Fresno’s Schedule. 

https://gobulldogs.com/news/2018/12/18/baseball-diamond-dogs-release-challenging-2019-schedule.aspx?path=baseball

Can't wait until we play next year!!! More BSU vs FSU smack talk!!!

[wolfpack1]

I was just coming in to see for the baseball thread to get started.

Baseball starts a week from Friday

Nevada is the defending regular season champs looking to capture another title however the jaggernut is San Diego St who has won 5 of the last 6 conference tournaments to get into the NCAA Regionals.

The MWC tournament will be making a return trip to Reno, NV for this year.

For our Big West folks, Irvine and Fullerton are teams in preseason Top 25 lists. Also we are seeing a lot of games against Pac-12 teams on the Mountain West schedules for this year. 

[wolfpack1]

February 15^th:

Santa Clara @ San Jose St                   Seattle @ UNLV

San Francisco @ San DIego St             Utah Valley St @ Fresno St

Oregon St vs. New Mexico In Surprise AZ

Missouri St vs. Nevada in San Marcos TX

Army vs. Air Force in Baton Rouge LA

February 16^th:

San Jose St @ Santa Clara (2)             Seattle @ UNLV

San Francisco @ San Diego St             Utah Valley St @ Fresno St

Nevada @ Texas St

Minnesota vs. New Mexico in Surprise AZ

Louisiana Monroe vs. Air Force in Baton Rouge LA

February 17^th:

Santa Clara @ San Jose St                    Utah Valley St @ Fresno St

Seattle @ UNLV                                      San Francisco @ San Diego St

Air Force @ LSU                                    New Mexico vs. Gonzaga in AZ; Nevada vs. Utah in San Marcos

[East Coast Aztec]

The Carolinas are freaking stacked in the pre-season polls.  

[wolfpack1]

They kind of disappointed last year so it will be interesting to see if they recover this year East Coast.

With the changes up at Oregon St kind of interesting to see them so high.

Also it will be interesting to see if Big West bounces back from the bad year they had last year.

But truth is, the most important question is will someone other than San Diego St win the MWC Tournament.

[bsu_alum9]

Boise's stadium isn't going to be ready for the inaugural season in 2020.  I guess they will likely play first season's home games at the Boise Hawks (single A) stadium (6 miles from campus).

 

 

[wolfpack1]

On 2/8/2019 at 1:52 PM, bsu_alum9 said:

Boise's stadium isn't going to be ready for the inaugural season in 2020.  I guess they will likely play first season's home games at the Boise Hawks (single A) stadium (6 miles from campus).

 

 

I wonder if if was more of wishful thinking they would have one built in time for next season?

[East Coast Aztec]

Just build a big blue monster at the softball stadium. 

[doggystyleu2]

Should be ready in time?doesn't take much time to put up a fence.

[TheTedfordTrain]

On 2/8/2019 at 1:52 PM, bsu_alum9 said:

Boise's stadium isn't going to be ready for the inaugural season in 2020.  I guess they will likely play first season's home games at the Boise Hawks (single A) stadium (6 miles from campus).

 

 

Why not just do what SJSU did with softball? They didn’t have the funds to build it, so they put the field and dirt out there, then asked the fans to bring their own lawn chairs. 

[crixus]

On 2/4/2019 at 9:52 AM, wolfpack1 said:

February 15^th:

Santa Clara @ San Jose St                   Seattle @ UNLV

San Francisco @ San DIego St             Utah Valley St @ Fresno St

Oregon St vs. New Mexico In Surprise AZ

Missouri St vs. Nevada in San Marcos TX

Army vs. Air Force in Baton Rouge LA

February 16^th:

San Jose St @ Santa Clara (2)             Seattle @ UNLV

San Francisco @ San Diego St             Utah Valley St @ Fresno St

Nevada @ Texas St

Minnesota vs. New Mexico in Surprise AZ

Louisiana Monroe vs. Air Force in Baton Rouge LA

February 17^th:

Santa Clara @ San Jose St                    Utah Valley St @ Fresno St

Seattle @ UNLV                                      San Francisco @ San Diego St

Air Force @ LSU                                    New Mexico vs. Gonzaga in AZ; Nevada vs. Utah in San Marcos

Good to see you back Wolfpack1. SJSU finished at 16-14 in the MW last season and I think we'll improve on that this year. Santa Clara is our oldest and closest rival and a good test to start off the season.

[wolfpack1]

17 hours ago, crixus said:

Good to see you back Wolfpack1. SJSU finished at 16-14 in the MW last season and I think we'll improve on that this year. Santa Clara is our oldest and closest rival and a good test to start off the season.

Thank you Crixux. Last year SJSU surprised many people especially playing with an interim coach. I don't think they can sneak up on anyone this year however unless they win the MWC. If MWC can have a good OOC season maybe we can raise some eyebrows to get more than one team into the Regionals. My lookout is will someone other than SDSU win the tournament though.

[wolfpack1]

There is a lot of weather moving into the West Coast this week and into the weekend so wouldn't be surprised to see some schedule shifts or cancellation of games but we will see.

[wolfpack1]

MWC Coaches have done their preseason picks

1. SDSU with 32 Points and 4 first place votes

2. Nevada with 29 Points and 2 first place votes

3. Fresno St with 28 Points and 1 first place vote

4. UNLV with 24 Points

5. Air Force with 14 Points

6. New Mexico with 12 Points

7. San Jose St with 8 Points

 

2019 MOUNTAIN WEST BASEBALL PRESEASON ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM

Name	Class	Position	Institution
Nic Ready	Sr.	1B	Air Force
Zach Ashford	Sr.	OF	Fresno State
Carter Bins	Jr.	C	Fresno State
Kaleb Foster	Sr.	C	Nevada
Jake Jackson	So.	RHP	Nevada
Joshua Zamora	So.	3B	Nevada
Jared Mang	Sr.	OF	New Mexico
Logan Boyer	Jr.	RHP	San Diego State
Julian Escobedo	Jr.	OF	San Diego State
Casey Schmitt	So.	RHP	San Diego State
Andrew Mitchel	Sr.	LHP	San José State
Max Smith	Sr.	OF	UNLV
Bryson Stott	Jr.	SS	UNLV

 

https://themw.com/news/2019/2/12/baseball-coaches-pick-san-diego-state-to-win-2019-mountain-west-title.aspx

[wolfpack1]

PRESEASON ALL-AMERICAN HONORS
Nic Ready (Air Force) – Collegiate Baseball News Second Team
Casey Schmitt (San Diego State) – NCBWA Second Team; Collegiate Baseball News Third Team
Bryson Stott (UNLV) – Perfect Game/Rawlings First Team; Baseball America Second Team; D1Baseball Second Team; NCBWA Second Team; Collegiate Baseball News Third Team

 

• UNLV junior shortstop Bryson Stott was named to the Golden Spikes Preseason Award watch list, which is given to the top amateur baseball player in the nation.
• Fresno State LHP Nikoh Mitchell and San José State’s Fineas Bonta-Smith were named to the 2019 National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Stopper of the Year Preseason watch list. This annual award is given to the top relief pitcher in NCAA Division I Baseball.

https://themw.com/news/2019/2/13/mountain-west-baseball-season-begins-on-friday.aspx

[bigd]

On 1/15/2019 at 6:06 AM, brillio said:

I really wish we’d stop doing the tourney at the end of the season. We’re  not getting multiple bids, it takes away an OOC weekend, and it makes the regular season pointless. 

Yeah, we've already been screwed twice by that after winning the regular season, but I guess it makes sense to send the hottest team to the regionals when we're such a bad baseball league.

It's been so long since Nevada has made the regionals, it would be fun to be good in baseball again.

[wolfpack1]

4 hours ago, bigd said:

Yeah, we've already been screwed twice by that after winning the regular season, but I guess it makes sense to send the hottest team to the regionals when we're such a bad baseball league.

It's been so long since Nevada has made the regionals, it would be fun to be good in baseball again.

I think it was really the year we won the regular season title with Johnson I think we got screwed a bit but at the same time we did choke in the tournament losing the first two games.

Last year, pretty much everyone knew Nevada had to win the tournament to get in so. But its just like in basketball, the tournaments at the end of the season matters more than the regular season for most of the conferences.

[East Coast Aztec]

Does it seem like there are less games being streamed?  The Aztec schedule looks sparse, including a couple conference weekends with no games.  

Feel like with the plethora of stream options nowadays, we would have dang near every game available.  Now it seems fewer.

[wolfpack1]

1 hour ago, East Coast Aztec said:

Does it seem like there are less games being streamed?  The Aztec schedule looks sparse, including a couple conference weekends with no games.  

Feel like with the plethora of stream options nowadays, we would have dang near every game available.  Now it seems fewer.

During the week you probably won't see that many games streamed however during the OOC I think it also runs into who is playing where. However sometimes it is getting harder and harder across the board to find some college baseball games unless you are part of the SEC

[East Coast Aztec]

59 minutes ago, wolfpack1 said:

During the week you probably won't see that many games streamed however during the OOC I think it also runs into who is playing where. However sometimes it is getting harder and harder across the board to find some college baseball games unless you are part of the SEC

Your first sentence would be similar to last year.  I am seeing it being less than that.  Even though we have MWN deals with Stadium, Facebook, and the teams would even stream last year.  I am just not seeing that.  Hopefully I am wrong.