Category Archives: baseball
TOP 10 MLB Players As Gridders
Here’s a fun list of the top 10 current players from Major League Baseball who are from California high schools and who were standouts in football. We thought upon starting that the San Francisco Giants and New York Yankees would have the most with two, but we have three on the list for the Seattle […]
State School of Year: Harvard-Westlake
For the first time in its history, the San Fernando Valley private school has piled up enough championships and high national/state rankings in various sports to top all schools in California for the 2020-21 school year. It all started with an unbeaten football team and ended with a celebration on a baseball field at Cal […]
All-State Baseball: First Team
We’re so glad to be able to honor these 30 elite California players after not being able to do the same for 2020. We had done it for 38 years in a row. This 39th edition had many challenges and it’s much later than a “normal” season, but the players deserve the accolades. The big […]
All-State Baseball: 2nd & 3rd Teams
The 39th installment of the Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams selections for baseball concludes with 30 players named second team overall and approximately 30 more who are third team. Any player from any school regardless of class or school size can be on second team. The third team, however, is only for seniors and only for...
All-State Baseball: Medium & Small
The 39th edition of the Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams rolls on with these players named from schools that were in CIF section or regional playoffs during the 2021 season that made them medium or small school in class. Colusa is the only team from the last season to have three players on these teams […]
Baseball/Softball Coach Milestones 2021
State record coaching lists for baseball and softball have now all been updated through the 2021 season and here’s a look at the most significant milestone wins that were celebrated. For baseball, it would have to be Lakewood’s Spud O’Neil reaching 900 victories while in softball it was a 600th victory for Westlake Village Oaks […]
Mr. Baseball 2021: Marcelo Mayer
Eastlake of Chula Vista makes it two in a row for state’s most prestigious and longest-running baseball honor. Mayer follows 2019 winner and former teammate Keoni Cavaco from 2019 after no one could be selected for 2020 (pandemic). Mayer had one of the best high school seasons for a top five MLB Draft pick that […]
More Baseball State Players of Year
Stanford and Cal are both represented among this group of five players as a Stanford-bound player is tops for the juniors while a Cal-bound player is the same for medium schools. We also have one player named for sophomores, freshmen and small schools.