{"id":66994,"date":"2019-01-23T20:42:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T02:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=66994"},"modified":"2019-01-23T20:42:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T02:42:59","slug":"ole-miss-lands-at-no-13-in-baseball-america-preseason-top-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ole-miss-lands-at-no-13-in-baseball-america-preseason-top-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Ole Miss Lands at No. 13 in Baseball America Preseason Top 25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ole Miss<\/strong> baseball landed in the top 15 in a preseason poll for the fourth\ntime ahead of the 2019 season, earning a No. 13 ranking from <em>Baseball\nAmerica.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Rebels<\/strong> are one of\nsix Southeastern Conference teams in the top 15. Eight SEC squads in total made\nthe <em>Baseball America<\/em> rankings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Rolison_Ryan.jpg?resize=300%2C415\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66995\"\/><figcaption>Ryan Rolison<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Ole Miss will take on eight\nteams ranked in Baseball America\u2019s preseason poll: No. 2 <strong>LSU<\/strong> (May 3-5),\nNo. 4 <strong>Florida<\/strong> (April 5-7), No. 9 <strong>Mississippi State<\/strong> (May 10-12),\nNo. 11 <strong>Louisville<\/strong> (March 12-13), No. 12 <strong>East Carolina<\/strong> (March 6),\nNo. 17 <strong>Auburn<\/strong> (April 18-20), No. 18 <strong>Arkansas<\/strong> (March 29-31) and\nNo. 21 <strong>Southern Miss<\/strong> (April 9, May 1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Florida, Mississippi State and\nEast Carolina will all come to <strong>Swayze Field<\/strong>, while the Rebels must\ntravel to play LSU, Louisville, Auburn, Arkansas and Southern Miss. Ole Miss\nwill also meet MSU and USM at <strong>Trustmark Park<\/strong> in <strong>Pearl, Mississippi<\/strong>,\nfor neutral site battles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the Rebels take on a\nchallenging road, they\u2019ll do so with seven returning starters on the SEC\u2019s best\noffense from a season ago. They\u2019re the only team in the conference to return\nseven players on offense who started 48 or more games last season. Ole Miss\nwill have to replace three MLB Draft picks on the mound, including\nfirst-rounder <strong>Ryan Rolison<\/strong>, but a wealth of new young arms have lined up\nto fill the void.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Season tickets for the 2019 season are open for renewal and purchase now at OleMissTix.com. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ole Miss baseball landed in the top 15 in a preseason poll for the fourth time ahead of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":21926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[88,5294,7067,13823,700,11447],"class_list":["post-66994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-america","tag-ole-miss","tag-preseason-poll","tag-rebels","tag-ryan-rolison"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/OleMissBaseballFEAT.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}