I have great news. College baseball content is going to be unreal in 2022. The granddaddy of us all, D1Baseball, has made incredible strides in the ever changing world of NIL, our friends at the 11.7 podcast are growing at an incredible rate, and we here at CWS247 have made some exciting changes. Last year, I invited two dear friends, Reggie and Mitch, to join the team. You guys learned to love Reggie and tolerate Mitch. This year we’ve expanded even more, growing from 3 contributors, to now over 20. Our goal is to provide consistent, quality, and entertaining content to you all on a weekly basis. Times are changing for the better, and I can’t wait to see what the future of CWS247 holds.
I asked all of our new writers, and old friends Reggie and Mitch to provide me with 3-5 bold predictions for the 2022 season. We all know you guys keep receipts, and there is no better initiation process than the slow burning embarassment of being wrong about a prediction. Just ask Mitch, who felt the wrath of Starkville after he said Mississippi State didn’t deserve to be a national seed. I’m sure a little piece of Mitch is engraved on the Bulldogs national championship rings. Today, we breed the next Mitch.
I went ahead and provided you all with everyone’s Twitter username so you can easily track them down when their predictions fall well short of reality.
1. Robert Moore will have the best fielding % among 2B in D1.
2. NC State makes back to back trips to Omaha.
3. Landon Sims wins the Golden Spikes.
4. Texas misses Omaha.
1. Ole miss leans on new names on the mound, pitching gets hot late, and the Rebels finally get back over the hump and make it to Omaha.
2. Ole Miss has the best attendance in the country.
3. The state of Mississippi hosts 3 regionals and 2 super regionals.
1. Florida edges out Vanderbilt and Tennessee and wins the SEC East.
2. Tre Morgan will have a season worthy of SEC player of the year, potentially a Golden Spikes Candidate.
3. Oklahoma State bests Texas in the Big 12.
4. Notre Dame will produce one of the top offenses in the country
And not really a bold prediction.. but between Hayden Dunhurst and Logan Tanner, folks are gonna be watching the two best catchers in the country compete in the same division.
1. Jacob Gonzalez wins the Golden Spikes.
2. Texas finishes the season outside the top ten.
3. Derek Diamond bounces back and has a sub 3 ERA as the Friday starter.
4. Ole miss finally wins the season series against Mississippi State.
1. Mississippi State loses 2 out of 3 to LBSU but loses only one more out of conference all year.
2. Brooks Lee will be a Golden Spikes finalist.
3. LSU lives up to the hype and is a top 3 seed in June.
1. Tennessee wins the east.
2. LSU finishes the season ranked below Texas A&M after a disappointing season.
3. Texas loses in their regional.
4. Ole Miss wins the SEC tournament but loses in their regional as a national seed.
5. ECU hosts a super regional.
1: Vandy misses Omaha.
2: Arkansas’ pitching staff finishes with a sub 2.0 ERA.
3: Tennessee struggles and misses the NCAA tournament.
1. Mississippi State will have 6+ players with 10 or more HRs
2. Texas doesn’t make it back to Omaha.
3. Logan Tanner will be a top 5 pick in this year’s draft.
1. Landon Sims will not drop a single Friday game this season.
2. The SEC West will have 4 teams in supers and 3 teams in Omaha.
3. Mississippi State will repeat.
1. Will Bolt’s Nebraska squad will make a super regional with potential for Omaha.
2. NC State makes it back to Omaha.
3. A Non-SEC team wins the national championship.
1. NC state will return to Omaha purely by determination, not talent.
2. Arkansas loses a major SEC series but will not lose another game until the SEC Tournament.
1. USM will return to Conference USA supremacy, capturing the 2022 regular season crown.
2. Flame-throwing righties Hurston Waldrep and Garrett Ramsey will prove to be one of the best 1-2 bullpen punches in the country.
3. Sophomore outfielder Matt Cedarburg will develop quickly and become one of the most dynamic bats in the young USM lineup.
4. Starting pitchers Tyler Stuart, Ben Etheridge, Dalton Rogers, and Chandler Best will fill the void of departed aces Hunter Stanley and Walker Powell.
5. USM will finish as a top 20 ball club and be in the conversation as a regional host.
- I predict a four way tie for the SEC West between Arkansas, LSU, Mississippi State, and Ole Miss. It will take a coin flip to decide some of the SECT seeding. Or is that two?
1: Bold: Mississippi State has 6 players with double-digit home runs, hit 90+ as a team.
2: Bolder: Landon Sims has an SEC/national pitcher of the year type season.
3: Even Bolder: Pitching woes knock Ole Miss and LSU out of a hosting situation despite potent offenses.
4: Bolder still: Florida, not Vanderbilt, rises out of the SEC East with UGA and UT giving Vandy a real run for 2nd.
5: Boldest: MISSISSIPPI STATE REPEATS AS NATIONAL CHAMPIONS.
1. Christian Little will one-up Kumar Rocker from last year.
2. Tennessee and Oregon State make it back to Omaha.
3. Jay Johnson wins the National Championship in his first season.
- Jacob Berry wins a national player of the year award.
2. Vandy misses Omaha.
3. Ole Miss will be the best team in the SEC.
It wouldn’t be fair to subject everyone else to later exposure if I didn’t volunteer my own bold predictions for the 2022 season.
1. Jacob Gonzalez wins the Golden Spikes.
2. LSU plays for the national championship.
3. Kirk Saarloos wins the Big 12 in his first year at TCU.
4. Dallas Baptist makes the College World Series.
5. CWS247 surpasses 10,000 followers this year.
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