(Photo: Gabrielle Mercer/WCSN) Arizona State baseball has flown under the radar this season while the team’s national stock continues to discreetly climb. Now at 10-3 fresh off of a road series sweep over No. 23 Cal State Fullerton, Tracy Smith’s team might just find itself ranked within the top 25 heading
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ASU Baseball: Sun Devils squeak by Eastern Michigan in extras
(Photo: Dominic Cotroneo/WCSN) There's something about Colby Woodmansee and late-inning heroics at Phoenix Municipal Stadium. An 11th inning game-tying double by Woodmansee helped Arizona State (7-3) defeat the Eastern Michigan Eagles (4-7) 4-3 in 11 innings. Head coach Tracy Smith saw more than one's fair share of hard-fought games and walk-off wins in
ASU Baseball: Tabling four Cronkite Sports writers for 2016 predictions
Happy Opening Day! Like Presidents Day, today is not considered a public holiday. That’s okay though because our baseball coverage team here at cronkitesports.com has a gift to lift your spirits. Seven free-response questions, 10 end-of-season awards and four contributors to culminate in our 2016 Arizona State baseball roundtable. Let’s have some
ASU Baseball: Woodmansee looking to continue meteoric rise in 2016
(Photo: Dominic Cotroneo/WCSN) The date was February 13, 2015. Phoenix Municipal Stadium was hosting its first Arizona State baseball game since 1974 and Tracy Smith was coaching in his first ever Sun Devil game. Sophomore shortstop Colby Woodmansee, who was batting eighth in the game, was at the plate in a tie
ASU Baseball: Woodmansee, Bueno, Serven all earn top-300 prospects nod
(Photo: Dominic Cotroneo/WCSN) Regardless of the fact that nine members of last year’s team heard their name called in June’s MLB Draft, Sun Devil baseball is still in some reliable hands. Juniors Colby Woodmansee, Hever Bueno and Brian Serven were all ranked within the top 100 of D1Baseball.com’s annual top-300 prospects list. Woodmansee
ASU Baseball: Exploring 2016 storylines with season two weeks away
(Photo: Dominic Cotroneo/WCSN) The Arizona State baseball team has championship expectations going into every season, but the road to Omaha, Neb. and the 2016 College World Series will be treacherous for second-year head coach Tracy Smith. The tradition of Sun Devil success in the MLB Draft continued in 2015—a boost from a
ASU Baseball: Hot start plenty for Devils in game one win
(Photo: Dominic Cotroneo/WCSN) USC starter Kyle Davis came into Friday's match-up only allowing one home run in his 38 innings this season. ASU didn't get the memo. Thanks in large part to back-to-back home runs in the first inning by Colby Woodmansee and Joey Bielek, Arizona State (34-19, 18-10) kept things interesting
ASU Baseball: Sun Devils, Wildcats conclude season series
(Photo: Dominic Cotroneo/WCSN) The final game of the Territorial Cup series for baseball will commence on Tuesday in Tucson. No. 6 Arizona State (28-12, 13-5) will take on Arizona (24-17, 9-12) in the fifth game of the season between the rivals. ASU currently leads the season series 3-1 and has claimed the
ASU Baseball: Applying Sabermetric Stats to Sun Devil Offense
(Photo: Dominic Cotroneo/WCSN) For as rapidly as sabermetric stats have infiltrated Major League Baseball, the college baseball landscape has gone largely untouched. A number of factors go into why this is the case, ranging from the absence of expensive data tracking technology to a general satisfaction with the status quo. Still, that’s not
ASU Baseball: Providing protection and finding bench depth critical for Tracy Smith
(Photo: Dominic Cotroneo/WCSN) If there’s one thing we’ve learned by now about Arizona State baseball coach Tracy Smith, it’s that he’s a perfectionist. His team is 9-5 and has beaten some high-caliber opponents, and yet he still echoes two constant displeasures in post-game press conferences. The first, “We’re thin right now,” Smith succinctly