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We’re past the mid-season mark of the 2023 Major League Baseball season, and as you might imagine, there’s been a lot of changes to our postseason predictions even since our first release of the season two weeks ago.
LSU, Wake Forest, and Vanderbilt once again lead the most recent postseason predictions, while two changes in terms of the top eight national seeds. Oklahoma State and Boston College are out of the mix for the top eight, and Arkansas and East Carolina enter the group at No. 4 and No. 8. The Hogs continue to defy the odds despite injuries and have an SEC record of 11-4. 30-7 overall mark and an RPI of 5. As for the Pirates, they are in clear control of the American and have an RPI of 9.
As for the rest of the top 16 hosts, Boston College and Oklahoma State are completely out of the mix for those as well, while three teams entered as hosts this week: Coastal Carolina, Connecticut, and Indiana. Coastal currently ranks in the top 5 in the Sun Belt RPI league, has an RPI of 11 to go with an 11-8 mark against the RPI Top 100. UConn is an amazing 13-6 on the road, 10-7 against the RPI Top 100 and has an RPI of 16 Indiana rose to 14 in RPI with a 26-11 overall mark and a 9-3 Big Ten record. For those wondering, BC is still in the mix for a host so far with an RPI of 17, while Oklahoma State is all the way to 32 in RPI after a recent scrimmage. Other teams considered for hosts include Southern Miss, NC State, Dallas Baptist, Louisville, UCLA, Campbell, and Indiana State.
In terms of total postseason bids, the SEC leads all conferences with ten bids, while the ACC trails with nine bids. The Big 12 and Pac-12 each have five bids in our projections, while four are coming from the Sun Belt and three are from the Big Ten. Finally, at least two bids come from the Big West, Conference USA, and the Colonial Athletic Association.
Mark Etheridge, Kendall Rogers, and Aaron Fitt compiled postseason projections.
last five in: Mississippi State, Troy, Iowa, Texas State, University of Southern California
first five: Auburn, Xavier, Rutgers, Long Beach, Louisiana