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College World Series Players to Watch

The College World Series (CWS) should be regarded as one of the premium events on the baseball calendar, and it is certainly the best single opportunity to see a lot of prospects in action. Until the last few years, the draft happened before the CWS, so it might have been the first opportunity people got to see a player their team had just drafted. The current draft calendar is better, particularly since great performances in the CWS can give players some helium, while poor performances could cause a player to drop, and of course teams do not have to worry about a player they just drafted getting injured (or throwing 120 pitches on three days of rest.