[RicFlair]

Corbin. They should return to the top for the obvious reasons. They won the 13th region the last two years.

Let’s look at some of the teams I have in the upper rankings with how many upperclassmen they have:

⚾️ Clay has 9 juniors and 4 seniors

⚾️ Corbin returns 11 seniors and 8 juniors,

⚾️ Knox Central has 4 Seniors and 3 juniors that made up a good team.

⚾️ North Laurel only has 1 senior, but 8 juniors.

⚾️ South returns 6 Seniors with 5 juniors.

⚾️ Whitley has 8 seniors and only 1 junior.

1) Corbin should be loaded with Pitching having about 3 throwing in the low 80’s and 2 mid 80’s. They have a good junk pitcher, some big lanky left, solid defense, good hitting and Good Coaching.

2) Knox has solid pitching with 1-2 in the low 80’s with one of those possibly being the top pitcher in the Region.

3) Whitley some nice hitters, two solid pitchers and a good leader behind the plate with experienced Coaching.

4) North Laurel will need to lean heavily on key Coaching and a pretty solid junior class.

5) Clay hit, hit, hit and hit!! Clay can always hit! Their big question is pitching.

6) South Laurel. This team has been used to winning with a lot of good tradition of winning and good Coaching.

7) Middlesboro has been down since the SS and ACE graduated in 2018.

8) Jackson Co. is the team that can sneak up on some folks! They will beat some teams that overlook them!

9) Barbourville lost a lot and needs to reload.

10) Harlan County’s New Coach will need to dig deep and develop some younger players to get the Bears back on the map.

11) Lynn Camp has some of the best Coaching most knowledgeable players they have had in a while, but not sure if they will have enough athletes to play this year.

12) Williamsburg Lost a lot, but will surprise some teams. They have a very solid lefty senior on the mound with good velocity and great leadership. He is quite possibly the best freshman in the Region.

13) Pineville has just not had much.

14) Harlan been down for a while.

15) Bell County has lost so much baseball interest among the players.

16) OBI

17) Red Bird

No disagreement here other than ranking of Bell Co. To be blunt, Pineville is and will continue to be horrible for the foreseeable future. Harlan had one thing they could hang their hat on last year and now that is gone. Bell beat HC 2/3 games last year as well as run ruled Lynn camp last year, and not only that but they split with Barbourville, who lost practically all of their players.