Perfect Game’s 11u Preseason National Top 100 was another strong showing for teams in the region with 5 teams from North Carolina (Park Sharon Nationals – Pirro, SBA Futures, SBA Nationals, West Raleigh Blue, and Dirtbags Black), 1 from South Carolina (Team 24 Gamecocks – Ashley), and 1 from Virginia (Stars Baseball – Colangelo) included. Park Sharon continues to be the fast riser in this age group, going from unranked nationally 1 year ago, to #36 in the End-of-Summer rankings in 2019, to #5 in the preseason rankings. Here we take a look at Perfect Game’s Preseason Top 100 and how the teams in our region fit in.

Perfect Game recently posted their 12u preseason national top 100 rankings. While there were a few changes, these rankings look strikingly similar to their End-of-Summer rankings from August of 2019. 4 teams from North Carolina (Rawlings Prospects NC, Canes Baseball NC – Foster, Dirtbags Black, and SBA Futures), 2 from South Carolina (Charleston Revolution – Whittle and East Coast Snipers -Clark/Hill), and 3 from Virginia (Virginia Stars – Camp, VA Seminoles – Fletcher, and Rip City) were all included in the preseason top 100. Here we review some of the highlights of these rankings as it relates to teams in our region.

On January 13th, Perfect Game published what now appears to be their annual preseason rankings for the 13u age group. 6 teams from North Carolina were ranked in the top 100, which is the same number of teams that were included in the final rankings this past summer. In addition, the same 6 teams – SBA Futures, Canes Baseball Eastern NC, Canes Baseball NC – Simpson, Five Star Carolina – Neyra, Mission Vipers Gold, and Dirtbags Legends – were included in both rankings. While Perfect Game does a fairly decent job at putting these rankings together, here we offer some thoughts about the rankings as it relates to North Carolina and the states in our region.