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Vols Baseball Picked to Finish 3rd In SEC East

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Baseball season is right around the corner and college baseball is even closer as the Vols baseball team will open its season next Friday, February 19th when they head to Statesboro, GA to face the Golden Eagles of Georgia Southern.

On Thursday, the SEC released its coaches poll for the upcoming 2021 season and the Vols were picked to finish in the top half of the East Division in third.

Here’s how both the East and the West shook out:

EAST:

1. Florida (13) – 91

2. Vanderbilt (1) – 79

3. Tennessee – 58

4. South Carolina – 55

5. Georgia – 51

6. Missouri – 28

7. Kentucky – 23

WEST:

1. Ole Miss (7) – 78

2. Mississippi State (3) – 73

3. Arkansas (2) – 72

4. LSU (2) – 63

5. Texas A&M – 36

6. Auburn – 32

7. Alabama – 31

 

It seems like there could be some amount of parody in the East but the West feels like it’s going to be more top-heavy.

The Preseason All-SEC teams were also named on Thursday in which only one Vol was named and it was the second baseman Max Ferguson who was named to the second team.

The Atlantic Beach, FL native is a junior this season and in the pandemic shortened 2020 season he hit .333 in 13 games with 12 runs scored, six RBI’s, two doubles, and two home runs. He was also named to D1baseball.com and Baseball America’s Preseason All-American First Teams.

Here’s how the SEC first and second teams shook out here for the preseason.

First Team

C: Casey Opitz, Arkansas

1B: T.J. Collett, Kentucky

2B: Robert Moore, Arkansas

3B: Rankin Woley, Auburn

SS: Ryan Bliss, Auburn

OF: Jud Fabian, Florida

OF: Christian Franklin, Arkansas

OF: Tanner Allen, Mississippi State

DH/UTL: Matt Goodheart, Arkansas

SP: Kumar Rocker, Vanderbilt

SP: Connor Prielipp, Alabama

RP: Devin Fontenot, LSU

Second Team

C: Hayden Dunhurst, Ole Miss

1B: Josh Hatcher, Mississippi State

2B: Max Ferguson, Tennessee

3B: Tim Elko, Ole Miss

SS: Josh Rivera, Florida

OF: Rowdey Jordan, Mississippi State

OF: Owen Diodati, Alabama

OF: Cade Beloso, LSU

DH/UTL: Wes Clarke, South Carolina

SP: Jack Leiter, Vanderbilt

SP: Tommy Mace, Florida

RP: Ben Specht, Florida

 

 

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