End-of-the-Month Roundup: December

Before officially closing the book on 2018, let’s take a look back at all of the news and notes that made waves in the state by compiling them into one big post. We’ve condensed December’s stories, both from a local and national perspective, into a bulleted list below. While this may be the offseason for some, baseball hardly ever sleeps for our team. PBR made national headlines within the game when we announced a long-term partnership with LakePoint, the country’s preeminent baseball facility.

More locally, we updated our Class of 2021 Rankings and broke down all of the 2019 prospects who have made commitments in the state – from those headed to NAIA programs all the way up to the Division-I-bound players.

For links on the aforementioned stories, in addition to plenty more news and notes, keep on reading.

PBR WISCONSIN ADDS PREP TOURNAMENTS

• The Rock Sports Complex in Franklin, Wis., just south of Milwaukee, is slated to host four tournaments throughout 2019: 13U/14U | 15U | 16U | 17U

• In addition to our activity at The Rock this summer, we’ll also be making our return to Mauston for the annual Badger State Battle. Registration details can be found here.

STATE CLASS OF 2021 RANKINGS

• Top-10 Story

• Risers

• Newcomers

• Just Missed

• Noah Miller makes an appearance on the Hot List: 2021s On the Rise.

WISCONSIN’S 2019 SIGNING PERIOD

• There are 30-plus prospects from our state headed to the D-I level next fall, we broke them down in full detail here.

• Even more of the state’s top prospects are headed to the D-II and D-III levels, with the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) being a frequent local landing spot. Our breakdown of the prospects headed to play D-II and D-III ball can be found here.

• It’s possible that the top in-state collegiate recruiting class belongs to Madison JC. Plenty more prospects from around the state are headed to JUCO destinations; complete breakdown of those prospects here.

• And there were plenty of prospects who committed to play at the next level in December: Recruiting Roundups: 12/1 to 12/14 | 12/15 to 12/31.

TOP-10 PLAYER PROFILES OF 2018

1. Jarred Kelenic

2. Alex Binelas

3. Connor Prielipp

4. Vincent Trapani

5. Jack Washburn

6. Jacob Campbell

7. George Klassen

8. Max Wagner

9. Nathan Stevens

10. Max Alba

TOP-10 STORYLINES OF 2018

1. Kelenic's historic season, pro debut

2. 54-year-old summer season ends

3. Waunakee, a first-time D-1 champ

4. Back-to-back D-4 titles for Athens

5. Webster debuts in D-3, wins State

6. Muskego earns final summer title

7. Waupun returns to state, wins D-2

8. Banner Year: Wisconsin prospects thrive in the pros

9. PBR Wisconsin POTY Jack Washburn

10. PBR Partners with Rimrock/Bullpen Tournaments

NATIONAL POV

• PBR announced a long-term partnership with Rimrock Capital Management and the LakePoint baseball facility in Emerson, Ga., where we’ll be hosting some of the country’s top prep tournaments throughout 2019. You can find the press release here and the complete list of all of PBR’s 2019 tournaments here.

• National Crosschecker Shooter Hunt has been laying out 2019 recruiting classes, conference by conference: ACC (Atlantic) | ACC (Coastal) | Big Ten (East) | Pac-12 (North) | Pac-12 (South)

• Our PBR National team released the first version of its 2019 PBR Draft Board.

• More Draft notes: D1baseball.com’s Kendall Rogers bylined the college prospects rising headed into the spring.

• Nathan Rode, with the help of the country’s scouting directors, published lists of on-the-rise prep prospects in both the 2020 and 2021 classes.

• The national team also updated the Class of 2020’s overall rankings, too.

PBR DRAFT HQ

• Coffee & Curveballs has been further detailing the college recruiting classes and their 2019 commits.

• The same goes for the Official PBR Podcast, outlining the Big 12 and Big Ten conference in-depth.

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