Baseball has highest ranked recruiting class in team history

Fresno State baseball has another notch they can put in their belt, this time, being ranked 10th in the nation with their current recruiting class according to Collegiate Baseball.

The Bulldog baseball team lost 12 players to graduation or the major league draft, majority of those were their pitching staff. So, the Fresno State coaching staff brough in 23 incoming freshman for the 2009 squad, 12 of those are pitchers.

Among the players players brought in by Head Coach Mike Batesole and the Bulldog coaching staff were Josh Poytress (Fowler High School), Derek Benny (Roseville High School), Charlie Robertson (Bella Vista High School), and Terrance Buchanan (Mt. Carmel High School) who were all drafted in the 2008 MLB Amateur Draft. You can read some background on all four players here.

So, with their highest ranked recruiting class in team history, the Bulldogs will come into the 2009 season the defending National Champions and should be poised to make another run in Omaha. If you've never been to Beiden Field, it's one of the best venues to watch a college baseball game. So as Pat Hill painted the valley red and got Fresno to support that team, why not bring the same support for Mike Batesole and the defending 2008 National Champions? If that happens, it would make Beiden Field one of the toughest places to play in the country.