2020 Stanford Cardinal baseball team

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2020 Stanford Cardinal baseball
Stanford Cardinal logo.svg
Conference Pac-12 Conference
Record5–11 (0–0 Pac-12)
Head coach
Assistant coaches
  • Thomas Eager (3rd season)
  • Tommy Nicholson (3rd season)
  • Steve Rodriguez (1st season)
Home stadium Klein Field at Sunken Diamond
Seasons
  2019
2021  
2020 Pac-12 Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
No. 5 UCLA  00 132 .867
No. 9 Arizona State  00 134 .765
Arizona  00 105 .667
USC  00 105 .667
Washington  00 96 .600
Washington State  00 97 .563
Oregon  00 87 .533
Utah  00 67 .462
Oregon State  00 59 .357
Stanford  00 511 .313
California  00 511 .313
Conference champion
y Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of March 12, 2020 [1]
Rankings from D1Baseball

The 2020 Stanford Cardinal baseball team represents Stanford University in the 2020 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Cardinal play their home games at Klein Field at Sunken Diamond under third year coach David Esquer.

Contents

Previous season

The Cardinal started February off hot winning the 2019 Angels College Classic and kept going through March winning the series against ranked Cal State Fullerton and ranked Texas five of the seven games. They continued winning when they got into the conference season but would stumble against #1 ranked UCLA losing two of three to them.

Stanford finished second in the Pac-12 conference and got their own Regional beating Sacramento State twice and then would take two of three against Fresno State. Next, the Cardinal went to the Starkville Super Regional and lose in double elimination to Mississippi State.

2019 MLB draft

The Cardinal had nine players drafted in the 2019 MLB draft. [2]

PlayerPositionRoundOverallMLB Team
Kyle Stowers Outfield271 Baltimore Orioles
Erik Miller Pitcher4120 Philadelphia Phillies
Jack LittlePitcher5161 Los Angeles Dodgers
Maverick HandleyCatcher6168Baltimore Orioles
Will MatthiessenOutfield6184 Pittsburgh Pirates
Andrew DaschbachFirst Base11318Baltimore Orioles
Brandon WulffLeft Field17521Los Angeles Dodgers
Duke KinamonSecond Base24728 Tampa Bay Rays
Daniel BakstShortstop28857 Boston Red Sox
Kody HuffCatcher32968Tampa Bay Rays
Owen CobbShortstop371103 San Diego Padres

Players in bold are signees drafted from high school that will attend Stanford.

Personnel

Roster

2020 Stanford Cardinal roster [3]
 

Pitchers

  • 18 - Cody Jensen - Sophomore
  • 20 - Brendan Beck - Junior
  • 26 - Quinn Mathews - Freshman
  • 27 - Carson Rudd - Junior
  • 28 - Alex Williams - Sophomore
  • 30 - Zach Grech - Senior
  • 34 - Luke Sleeper - Redshirt.svg Junior
  • 36 - Jonathan Worley - Senior
  • 37 - Jackson Parthasarathy - Redshirt.svg Senior
  • 38 - Nathan Fleischli - Freshman
  • 39 - Jacob Palisch - Junior
  • 40 - Nicolas Lopez - Sophomore
  • 41 - Matt Swartz - Freshman
  • 42 - Austin Weiermiller - Junior
  • 45 - Max Meier - Freshman
 

Catchers

  • 16 - Vincent Martinez - Sophomore

Infielders

  • 1 - Owen Cobb - Freshman
  • 4 - Carson Greene - Freshman
  • 5 - Austin Kretzschmar - Sophomore
  • 6 - Zach Sehgal - Redshirt.svg Sophomore
  • 10 - Adam Crampton - Freshman
  • 24 - Nick Brueser - Junior
  • 31 - Nick Bellafronto - Redshirt.svg Senior
  • 33 - Brett Barrera - Freshman
 

Outfielders

  • 11 - Brock Jones - Freshman
  • 15 - Grant Burton - Sophomore
  • 21 - Tim Tawa - Junior
  • 23 - Nickolas Oar - Redshirt.svg Senior
  • 44 - Christian Robinson - Junior

Utility

  • 2 - Christian Molfetta (OF/INF/C) - Redshirt.svg Senior
  • 7 - Brandon Dieter (INF/P) - Sophomore
  • 13 - Justin Moore (INF/P) - Sophomore
  • 19 - Henry Gargus (INF/OF) - Freshman
  • 25 - Kody Huff (C/INF) - Freshman
  • 29 - Cole Hinkleman (OF/INF) - Freshman
 

Coaching staff

2020 Stanford Cardinal coaching staff [3]
NamePosition
David Esquer Clarke and Elizabeth Nelson Director of Baseball
Thomas EagerAssistant coach
Tommy Nicholson Assistant coach
Steve RodriguezAssistant coach
Jeanette MorgantiDirector of Baseball Operations
Sky ValenzuelaVideo Coordinator

Schedule and results

Legend
 Stanford win
 Stanford loss
 Postponement
BoldStanford team member
2020 Stanford Cardinal baseball game log
Regular season (5–11)

Rankings

Ranking movements
Legend:██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
— = Not ranked.
Week
PollPre123456789101112131415161718Final
Coaches' [4] 1515*15
Baseball America [5]
Collegiate Baseball^ [6] 25
NCBWA [7] 1626
D1Baseball1725

^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season.
NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season.
* New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.

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