Thursday, February 11, 2010

MACON, Ga. - College Baseball Insiders.com  takes look at the top players in the Atantic Sun while yahoosports.com takes a look at how the conference may end up and who are the top players at each position.

YahooSports.com - Conference Previews: Atlantic Sun  

Another fantastic season is around the corner and we take an inside look at the Atlantic Sun Conference and Horizon League in our latest conference previews.

Florida Gulf Coast is postseason eligible at the Division I level for the first time ever this season and is the favorite to win the Atlantic Sun title. Jacksonville, though, hopes to find a way to give the Eagles a run for their money.

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College Baseball Insider.com - FGCU is favorite in Atlantic Sun Conference

CollegeBaseballInsider.com asked college coaches around the country to preview the 2010 college baseball season by sharing their insights on the teams and players to watch in their conferences. CBI compiled their answers to provide a sneak peek for the season ahead. click here for CBI Conference Previews

Today, we take a look at the Atlantic Sun Conference

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YahooSports.com - FGCU Ready for Regional Contention

It doesn’t seem as if former San Diego State pitcher Stephen Strasburg and Florida Gulf Coast junior pitcher Chris Sale have much in common.

Strasburg is from California, while Sale calls Florida home. Strasburg was the top pick of the MLB draft last summer. Sale, though a great prospect and likely first-round pick, won’t quite be the No. 1 pick in the upcoming draft.

But there is one thing the outstanding pitchers do have in common: They are both the faces of their respective programs.

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College Baseball Insider.com - Best Sale Under the Sun

The defining quality of pitcher Chris Sale is competitiveness.

Sale, a junior at Florida Gulf Coast University, said that whether he was pitching, golfing or playing checkers, he always competed as hard as he could. He becomes a different person on the mound, he said.

“Off the field, I kind of like to think of myself as a nice guy,” Sale said. “But when I get on the field, I look at the person standing in the batter’s box and I just want to do everything in my power to make him fail. The competitiveness in me doesn’t want to let anyone get a hit off me, let anyone get on base."

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