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(03/11/13 1:17am)
While the rest of the student body was off enjoying spring break, MSU athletes stayed in action, with teams traveling all across the country to compete. Here are some of the highlights from the last 10 days that might have snuck by during break.
(02/25/13 1:57am)
The MSU baseball team split four games this weekend at the First Pitch Invitational in Greenville, S.C., putting the Spartans at 3-3 overall less than two weeks into the season.
(02/22/13 1:50am)
The opening weekend of game action yielded a few lessons for the MSU baseball team.
(02/18/13 2:58am)
After spending several weeks practicing indoors, a trip to South Carolina was supposed to mean warm weather and sunny skies for the MSU baseball team.
(02/14/13 3:33am)
With each swing of Jimmy Pickens’ bat at MSU’s indoor hitting facility, you can tell he’s ready.
(02/13/13 12:15am)
After two consecutive standout seasons, the MSU baseball team has been picked to finish third in the Big Ten by the conference’s coaches.
(02/11/13 2:29am)
With the start of another collegiate baseball season less than a week away, many teams are getting reacquainted to the familiar sights and smells of a new year.
(02/04/13 2:40am)
With the start of the MSU baseball season less than two weeks away, the program kicked off another campaign Sunday with its eighth-annual First Pitch Dinner.
(11/28/12 2:02am)
The Crosstown Showdown, a baseball game between the MSU baseball team and the minor league Lansing Lugnuts, officially has been extended for the next three years, according to a release by the MSU athletics department.
(10/25/12 11:37pm)
Although yesterday’s performance was one of the least optimistic ways a team could start out the World Series, you can’t be too quick to sell your Miguel Cabrera Fathead and look at the situation from a different angle.
(10/25/12 3:05pm)
MSU head baseball coach Jake Boss Jr. named his captains for the 2013 season on Wednesday. Following a vote by members of the team, seniors outfielder Jordan Keur, pitcher Andrew Waszak and catcher John Martinez have been selected to lead the Spartans a season after the program earned its first NCAA Tournament berth since 1979.
(10/24/12 3:35am)
If there is one thing Mario Impemba remembers from when he was a student at MSU, it was getting together with friends to watch the 1984 Detroit Tigers sail through the playoffs and win the World Series.
(07/30/12 11:26pm)
Few MSU athletic programs currently are riding a wave of positive momentum comparable to Jake Boss Jr.’s MSU baseball team.
(06/25/12 8:42pm)
Former MSU second baseman Ryan Jones has been named to the All-Mideast Region First Team, the the American Baseball Coaches Association announced Monday.
(06/17/12 11:19pm)
Although his name is firmly engraved in MSU baseball lore, former center fielder Brandon Eckerle opted to return to the classroom rather than fight his way through the ranks of a sport he lost a little bit of passion.
(06/14/12 12:19am)
Tony Bucciferro has seen his life go through a whirlwind of changes in the last month.
(06/11/12 2:52am)
The MSU baseball team will have a new look in the infield in 2013, as it is tasked with replacing three players who started all 60 games this season.
(06/07/12 12:10am)
Less than a week after MSU’s baseball season concluded in the NCAA Tournament, four Spartans earned the opportunity to play at the highest level by being selected in this week’s 2012 Major League Baseball, or MLB, First-Year Player Draft.
(06/06/12 12:32am)
Three MSU players were selected Tuesday in day two of the 2012 MLB First-Year Player Draft.
Junior third baseman Torsten Boss was the first Spartan off the board as he was chosen with the fourth pick in the eighth round, No. 252 overall, by the Baltimore Orioles. Boss is coming off of a third-team All-Big Ten junior year following a sophomore season that earned him first-team honors. He finished the season with a .302 batting average, five homers and a team-high 43 RBI.
In the 13th round, junior Ryan Jones became the highest drafted Spartan second baseman in history when he was selected No. 418 overall by the San Francisco Giants. Jones led the Spartans in total hits, doubles and runs scored while batting .352 on the year, which was good enough for a second-team All-Big Ten selection.
Jones and Boss started all 60 games for MSU in 2012.
One round after Jones, senior pitcher Tony Bucciferro was drafted No. 441 overall to the Chicago White Sox. A third-team All-Big Ten performer in 2012 as the Spartans’ Friday starter, Bucciferro finished with a 6-4 record and a 3.07 ERA, including two complete games.
The draft will resume tomorrow at noon with rounds 16-40 and can be seen live on MLB.com.
(06/05/12 10:25pm)
As the MSU baseball team returns home after a quick exit from the NCAA Tournament, head coach Jake Boss Jr. is forced to look ahead.