CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Ball State baseball team was recently picked to finish third in the Mid-American Conference preseason poll as voted upon by the league's head coaches.
Ball State has won at least 30 games each of the last five seasons. There are 15 newcomers on the roster this spring, the most in coach Rich Maloney's tenure at Ball State. The new-look Cardinals will have to replace 78.8 percent of their home runs (26 of 33), 61.0 percent of their RBIs (188 of 308) and 60.5 percent of their runs scored (207 of 342) from a year ago.