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From SI: Clemson Baseball Team Rankings and Player Accolades Entering 2025
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Jan 14, 2025, 11:06 AM
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From Sports Illustrated:
"The Clemson Tigers baseball team received another top national ranking on Monday, as D1Baseball.com released its preseason Top 25.
While Texas A&M occupied the top spot, the Tigers came in at No. 15."
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"Last week, Baseball America ranked them No. 4 after they went 44-16 with a 20-10 record in the ACC. Perfect Game, meanwhile, has Clemson at No. 8."
Regarding Players:
OF Cam Cannerella:
"Perfect Game ranked outfielder Cam Cannarella as the No. 5 junior in the country.
In his two-year collegiate career, Cannarella has batted .363 with 32 doubles, six triples, 18 homers, 107 RBI, 130 runs, with a .440 on-base percentage and 24 steals in 117 games. During his first year he was named All-ACC Freshman of the Year."
P Aidan Knaak:
"Pitcher Aidan Knaak is also back after an all-America campaign and ranked among Perfect Game’s Top 25 sophomores.
He was named national freshman pitcher of the year by NCBWA after he went 5-1 with a 3.35 ERA in 15 starts. He struck out 108 and walked 29 in 83.1 innings, giving up just 67 hits and allowing batters to hit just .221 against him.
He was second in the nation among freshmen in ERA, strikeouts, strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.72) and WHIP (1.15)."
Freshman P Talan Bell
"Among freshmen, left-hander Talan Bell was ranked No. 15 by Baseball America.
The Oviedo, Fla., product played at Hagerty High School, where he was Perfect Game’s No. 6 player and No. 2 left-handed pitcher in the state. He was also named the Gatorade Player of the Year for the state and was named his conference’s player of the year.
In his final season at Hagerty he went 7-1 with a 0.99 ERA and 78 strikeouts. He also batted .379 with 28 RBI."

https://www.si.com/college/clemson/baseball/clemson-tigers-baseball-makes-cut-d1-baseball-preseason-rankings
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Re: From SI: Clemson Baseball Team Rankings and Player Accolades Entering 2025
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Jan 14, 2025, 12:44 PM
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Really curious what the baseball followers think of the pitching rotation and bullpen. I personally expect the hitting and fielding to be just as good or even better than last year, but have no idea on the pitching.
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Re: From SI: Clemson Baseball Team Rankings and Player Accolades Entering 2025
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Jan 14, 2025, 2:55 PM
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I expect the bullpen to take a step forward. We were injured last year, and had a lot of freshmen look good out of the pen, so hopefully they continue to improve. As for the starters, it’s just a matter of who joins Knaak and Darden in the 4 man rotation. Knaak will definitely start weekends, while I could see Darden being a midweek starter and bullpen arm on weekends, depending on how others perform
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Re: From SI: Clemson Baseball Team Rankings and Player Accolades Entering 2025
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Jan 15, 2025, 6:02 AM
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Yes!!!
Thanks for posting!
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