Texas A&M baseball once again included in high-level postseason predictions
It wasn't too long ago that it looked like Texas A&M baseball may miss the postseason altogether. The Aggies were in a really bad way: one conference win through nine SEC games and dragging along a subpar out-of-conference slate.
However, things since then have been all but a complete turnaround. The Aggies have taken series from no. 1 Tennessee, no. 2 Arkansas, and South Carolina and remained undefeated in the midweek to put together an extremely impressive stretch here recently.
That is not a span of baseball that has gone ignored by the national media, either. The Aggies came into this year as the number one team in the nation, so even though they fell right out of the polls following some subpar play, they're going to be a point of interest throughout the season for college baseball fans— one way or another.
Given the magnitude of some of these victories and the complete 180 the team appears to have done, it's unsurprising that the Aggies would be popping back up in postseason predictions at this point. What is surprising, though, is the stratosphere in which the Aggies are now being projected by some of the most respected entities in the sport.
D1Baseball, likely the premier outlet covering college baseball, just released a field of 64 prediction, and they have the Aggies all the way up on the two-seed line in the TCU regional— a far cry from where they've been for most of the season.
After a lot of what we've seen this year, such a result would really not be all that bad for the Aggies. Much better would be getting all the way up to a one-seed, which— while still a ways off— is still in the cards for the Aggies.
If they were able to take this weekend's series against another top-ranked team, I think the conversation of the Ags being a regional host becomes a very real one. If not, then we probably need to table that for now. Even so, though, the depths out of which this Aggie squad has climbed are dizzying— here's hoping the trend continues.