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After winning six straight exhibitions last fall, Florida will kick off the 2023 season in less than a month. Schedule Overview The Gators will travel to Tampa for the USF Invitational set to begin on Feb. 10. They’ll face four opponents — Boston University, Boston College, Illinois State and USF — in just a three-day…
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The nation’s leading authority on college baseball, D1Baseball.com, has released their preseason Top 25 poll. Unsurprisingly, the Gators are once again ranked inside the top-ten, marking the third publication to place the Gators among the nation’s elite programs. Collegiate Baseball News (2) and Perfect Game (8) are the other publications that have announced their preseason…
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The Florida Gators announced the 2023 baseball schedule Wednesday. The program will be celebrating it’s 109th year of competition in it’s third season at state of the art Condron Family Ballpark. The Gators open the season February 17 with a three game series against Charleston Southern. Additionally, twenty of the first twenty two games will…
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Former Florida Gators infielder Dalton Guthrie was called up to the majors by the Philadelphia Phillies Sunday. The move was made as $100M slugger Nick Castellanos was placed on the 10-day IL with an obligue injury. The Phillies placed OF Nick Castellanos on the 10-day IL (retro to 9/3) with a right oblique strain and…
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Following his third round selection in the 2022 MLB Draft, Florida RHP Brandon Sproat has made the decision to return to UF for a fourth year. Sproat was drafted with the No. 90 overall pick by the New York Mets in July following a scorching end to the collegiate season. The value of the nintieth…
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After seeing three players selected on day one of the Major League Baseball Draft, Florida only saw one players drafted on day two. RHP Brandon Sproat was taken by the New York Mets with the 90th overall pick. With the 90th pick, the @Mets select @GatorsBB right-handed pitcher Brandon Sproat, No. 117 on the Top…
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Following the selection of Sterlin Thompson in the first round of the 2022 MLB Draft, the Florida Gators saw two more of their top prospects taken on the first day as LHP Hunter Barco and OF Jud Fabian were each drafted in the second round. Barco was selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates with the No.…
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The Florida Gators continue to be one of the top options for baseball players looking to continue their career into professional baseball. Outfielder Sterlin Thompson became the seventeenth player in program history drafted in the first round of the MLB Draft when Colorado snagged him with the 31st overall pick Sunday. With the 31st overall…
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The search is over. Following the retirement of long-time play-by-play broadcaster Mick Hubert, the University of Florida embarked on a national search for the next ‘Voice of the Gators’. Wednesday, the athletic department announced Sean Kelley as the new play-by-play broadcaster. Kelley, 50, is originally from St. Louis and has been the lead play-by-play broadcaster…
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Florida outfielder Wyatt Langford was officially named to the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team Tuesday. Langford spent the last week auditioning for the spot among the nation’s top retuning players. Langford was selected from a pool of fifty or so players that completed in five intra-squad scrimmages before the cuts came. Twenty six players made…
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