Outside The Confines: College baseball begins

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We had real baseball over the weekend, albeit the kind with aluminum bats. Jacob Rudner has 12 takeaways from NCAA baseball’s opening weekend.

Rudner also has 18 college pitchers who stood out this weekend.

A college baseball preview roundtable.

Michael Baumann has seven college teams he thinks you should be watching this year.

If all you care about college baseball is which players are going in the first round, R. J. Anderson has the top 30 draft prospects for 2025.

And for those really into the draft, David Gerth has 11 top prospects for the 2026 MLB draft.

For those of you who are more interested in Spring Training, Mike Axisa has the most…