The College Baseball Report

⚾️ Which @SunBelt baseball team made the biggest improvement in team batting average from 2024 to 2025? Which team had the worst improvement? 📈 --> @HerdBaseball | @SouthAlabamaBSB stand out 🔥🔥

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Another college coach leaving the ranks and joining a major league organization.

⚾️ Pre-season Top 25 ranking ⚾️ Ace is Hunter Elliot who already has some Preseason All-American accolades ⚾️ The lefty only surrendered 59 hits over 85 2/3 innings while striking out 102 across 16 starts (17 appearances)

- Ton of travel early - Looks like 60% of their game are away - Facing off against ECU, Louisville and Arkansas to start the year is an absolute GAUNTLET @XavierBASE wants all the smoke. You have to respect it.

❓❓❓ Has there been a college baseball equivalent of the current Lane Kiffin situation?

⚾️ Which @MACSports baseball team made the biggest improvement in team batting average from 2024 to 2025? ⚾️ Which team had the worst improvement? 📈📈 --> @KentStBaseball | @ZipsBB stand out amongst MAC teams 🔥🔥

⏭️ Other conferences we will be reviewing include; ⚾️ @HorizonLeague ⚾️ @OVCSports ⚾️ @MACSports

⚾️ 3B @DreyBarrett makes the list

🚨 TRANSFER ALERT ⚾️ Former Mississippi St. pitcher @Jacob_Pruitt_30 is taking his talents to @MizzouBaseball ⚾️ Pruitt spent two years at Indiana State throwing 63 innings across 27 appearances (6 starts) ⚾️ In 2025, Pruitt worked 18 2/3 innings for Mississippi State striking out 23. ⚾️ Pruitt will be joining a revamped pitching staff that struggled with a 9.19 team ERA giving up 458 ER in 448 1/3 innings ➡️ Pruitt will be a big part of the staff in 2026.

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New drainage system and new turf / grass for @CoastalBaseball heading into 2026

TRANSFER ALERT: Rice Owls raid the Volunteers and pick up their second pitcher from the Tennessee Volunteers in 2025. P Tanner Wiggins joins a Rice baseball staff that took a step backwards in 2025. @TWiggins_18 spent 2024 with the Volunteers appearing in 4 games striking out 33% of the batters he faced. @RiceBaseball staff struggled last year in most meaningful stats but they've focused on this weakness in the portal. Along with Wiggins, Rice also picked up 6'4'' Wichita State transfer pitcher Jeremiah Arnett (23 G, 6 GS in 2025), Tennessee transfer Brayden Sharp (11 games in last two years), and TCU transfer Jax Traeger (13 games in 3 years at TCU) - solidifying their pitching staff going into 2026 with more experience than they've had in quite awhile.

🔥🔥The Frogs pick up a pitcher as @Lance_Davis23 takes his talent to @TCU_Baseball

This might seem like a lot but according to @64Analytics the Volunteers are losing 27 players to the portal. Thus, they must have a robust transfer class to make up for the crazy amount of players who have entered the portal.

🚨 Bears add junior college catcher via transfer portal @MaineBaseball recruits @barter_will from Pensacola State College, where he played 39 games, hitting .345/.448/.445 in 119 ABs. Barter recorded 32 RBIs with a 22/19 K/BB ratio. He joins a Maine team where West Chester, PA native Dean O'Neill took most starts at catcher. Maine finished 20-31 last year, mid-tier in the America East conference. Seeking offensive improvement after an average season, they acquired a catcher with offensive prowess in Will Barter.

🚨TRANSFER ALERT ⚾️The 6'3'' pitcher from DIII Wisconsin Whitewater is making the jump to @BaylorBaseball ⚾️Cade Hansen spent three years at Wisconsin Whitewater but truly showed out last year in 14 starts (16 appearances). Hansen threw 3 complete games and ended the year with a spectacular 84/13 K/BB ratio. ⚾️In 84 IP, @CadeHansen9 allowed 74 hits and 27 runs - completely dominating the competition. Opponents hit .233/.275/.571 against the righty. ⚾️His 1.04 WHIP puts him in the 95th percentile of all 2025 NCAA pitchers making this an absolutely fantastic pick up for the Baylor Bears pitching staff.

⚾️Western Michigan University picks up a 2B @drew_howard23 makes his way to @WMUBaseball from Evansville University. Howard is a 5'11' second basemen who saw most of his action last year accumulating 162 plate appearances compared with 29 total PA's in his first two years. Howard will look to compete for the starting role for a team that finished middle of the pack in the MAC.