Washington State baseball landed the No. 28 recruiting class in the country for the 2016 cycle, according to D1Baseball.com ($). It’s the first time the Cougars have been nationally ranked by the college baseball service.
“This is a high quality and high upside class that has head coach Marty Lees very excited,” D1Baseball.com said of the second-year skipper’s second recruiting class. “[He’s] comparing his class to some of the powerhouse recruiting classes he had as an assistant at Oregon State and Oklahoma State.”
Seven of the 12 players Lees signed in the latest recruiting class hail from the junior college ranks, while two freshmen — LHP A.