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State’s All-Time MLB 1st Round Picks

There were only two players from the state who heard their names called at the 2023 MLB Draft in Texas, but that was an all-time low as there are usually between five and eight. Here’s as complete a list as possible of high school players and former high school players in college from California who...

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Schools With The Most All-State Players

With the MLB playoffs coming to a close, we’re matching a previous project for boys and girls basketball in counting up schools with the most all-state first team honorees in baseball. We’ve got these teams going back to 1980, just in time to get a promising outfielder from Serra of San Mateo chosen twice. The […]

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40 Greatest Baseball Teams (11-24)

This group of all-time state squads is led by Lompoc of 1970, which went 27-1 and had two first-round MLB draft picks. We also have last season’s State Team of the Year from De La Salle of Concord debuting in the all-time list at No. 15. To check out teams selected from No. 1 to...

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State’s All-Time MLB 1st Round Picks

As a prelude to the 2020 MLB Draft and to run in conjunction with a couple of feature stories we have coming up on significant California players, here’s as complete a list as possible of high school players and former high school players from the state who have been chosen in the first round of...

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State Baseball Coaching Leaders

Welcome to the online Cal-Hi Sports State Record Book & Almanac. This state record list is for most varsity career coaching wins in baseball. These totals are for California wins only and do not include out-of-state wins. These records have been updated through the 2024 season. Forfeit wins or losses also are not included. For more...

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NEW Baseball State Top 20

Huntington Beach takes over as the No. 1 team in the state thanks to Clovis West getting a win last week over previous No. 1 Buchanan. Rancho Bernardo also moves up to No. 2. Newcomers this week are La Costa Canyon of Carlsbad, Christian Brothers of Sacramento and Stockdale of Bakersfield. The only unbeatens still...

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First Baseball State Top 20

These aren’t preseason rankings because games have begun, but this is the first look and our starting point of the Cal-Hi Sports state baseball rankings for the 2017 season. We have done rankings of the state’s top baseball teams for more than 35 years and are going with 2016 State Team of the Year Buchanan […]

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State Coaching Records Updated

All five California high school sports that we primarily cover on this web site – football, boys hoops, girls hoops, baseball and softball – now have all of its coaching records updated through the 2015-16 school year. We started doing these updates earlier last week and got word that one of the winningest coaches in […]

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Preseason Baseball State Ranks

With just about everyone back from a team that won the CIF Southern Section Division I title, it’s a bit of a no brainer for Huntington Beach to be No. 1 to start the 2016 season in California. The Oilers also were at the top of most preseason national rankings. Orange County also gets the […]

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UPDATED All-Time Baseball (13-30)

Based on reader input and research at the state library, Grant of Sacramento 1969 gets added this time. Three West Catholic Athletic League schools also all get onto the list as part of expansion from 25 teams from two years ago to 30 as of now. To check out teams selected from No. 1 to...

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