Neil Devlin From the Colorado Dugout: A Look at Where Colorado's Top Recruits are Headed

The recruiting rules have changed, Colorado’s population keeps growing and the game remains loved in Rocky Mountain area.

So where are in-staters going to play in college?

In a nutshell, all over the place, although Colorado schoolboys realize they play in a cold-weather-state and usually take hard looks at heading west, where it’s warm nearly all of the time.

Break it down, look at the top prospects of Prep Baseball Report-Colorado’s 2019 class and keep in mind we are moving away from the stigma of being a state that previously supplied pitchers and only pitchers.

Pine Creek’s Riley Cornelio, for example, is bound for TCU. Legend’s Justin Boyd will be off to Oregon State. All-arounder and 2018 player of the year Sam Ireland of Mountain Vista will be a Minnesota Gopher. It will be Wichita State for Grand Junction’s Derek Shaver, coming off an ACL injury. And Mountain Vista’s Drew Stahl is set for Washington State.