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Despite a lack of major leaguers, Duke baseball has not failed to deliver some quality talent to the professional ladder. With two recent promotions and the draft finished, the Blue Zone takes a look at former Blue Devils impressing at all levels in professional baseball.
Five Blue Devils heard their names called in the MLB Draft.
With Duke baseball out of the NCAA tournament and the July draft looming, the Blue Zone takes a look at how some former Blue Devil stars are faring in the professional ranks.
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The dark clouds and ominous rain hinted at a tragic ending for the Blue Devils, but no one could have imagined the extent to which Duke would suffer.
Elimination games are starting to look like they aren't a challenge for Duke, which delivered a brutal knockout punch to keep itself alive another day.
Duke had its 12-game win streak snapped Friday.
Prince said to party like it’s 1999, but 1961 seems to be a more fitting year for Duke.
It’s full steam ahead for Duke as it goes into uncharted territory: the ACC Championship game.
Duke’s late-season magic just keeps coming, and its lead magician Michael Rothenberg just keeps delivering.
As the legendary boxer Mike Tyson once said, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth,” and that’s really the only way to describe Duke’s performance against Florida State.
Baseball may now be a game of spin rate, launch angle and exit velocities, but to this day there’s still not a quantifiable measurement to appropriately value getting hot at the right time.
If the late-season comeback hasn’t been storybook enough for Duke, a team who used a similar run in 2019 to go all the way to the Super Regionals, the names and faces leading this surge makes it almost trite and contrived.
We’ve gotten to the part of the baseball season where things start to get extra interesting.
The right pitch. Batters search for it. Hitting coaches harp on it. Analysts discuss it ad nauseam. No matter the level, getting runners on base is ultimately all about one thing—waiting for the right pitch.
Duke had two options heading into its last home series of the year: crumble and watch its postseason wishes fade away or find a way to get a much-needed series win. The Blue Devils chose the latter.
The Blue Devils can compete with anybody—wins against now-No. 2 Notre Dame and Louisville, two of the top teams in the robust ACC prove that—but they just cannot seem to play their best baseball reliably.
The Blue Zone has you covered with prop bets for the Blue Devils' series against one of the conference's top teams.
Peter Matt, one of Duke’s purest talents, had long envisioned a path without Duke, but now he leads the Blue Devils with 142 at bats, 44 hits and a slugging percentage of .570, putting him in position to begin a fruitful professional career.
The importance of pitching was never more obvious than in Duke's three-game series against Virginia.
With the professional season now in full swing, let's take a look at how former Blue Devils are faring in the MLB.
