Head coach George Horton and the Oregon baseball team has an elite incoming recruiting class for the 2016 season. It’s a class that Collegiate Baseball deemed the eighth-best in the nation.
Of the 17 ballplayers awaiting their PK Park debut this spring, the class is highlighted by infielders Travis Moniot and Matt Kroon, a 34-round and 38-round pick in the 2015 MLB Draft respectively. Both hit over .400 in their senior seasons.
Tualatin High School alumnus Jacob Bennett is another stand-out. The 6-foot-6, right-handed pitcher earned the 2015 Gatorade Oregon Baseball Player of the Year award, striking out 85 batters in 60.2 innings.
UCLA (6) is the only other Pac-12 program ranked higher than the Ducks, according to the Arizona-based newspaper. Oregon State ranked No. 12 and Stanford is at No. 17.
See the whole ranking below:
Collegiate Baseball’s 2015 NCAA Division I Recruiting Rankings:
- Florida
- South Carolina
- Mississippi State
- Georgia Tech
- Vanderbilt
- UCLA
- LSU
- Oregon
- South Florida
- Auburn
- Virginia
- Oregon State
- Louisiana-Lafayette
- Texas
- Rice
- North Carolina
- Stanford
- TCU
- Arizona
- Oklahoma
- Louisville
- Arizona State
- Mississippi
- Cal State Fullerton
- Oklahoma State
- Iowa
- Maryland
- Florida State
- Miami (Fla.)
- Texas A&M
- Clemson
- Dallas Baptist
- Indiana
- USC
- Missouri State
- UC Santa Barbara
- New Mexico State
- Alabama
- Illinois
- Kentucky
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