{"id":4895,"date":"2013-01-24T19:02:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T00:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=4895"},"modified":"2013-01-24T19:02:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T00:02:49","slug":"tar-heels-ranked-no-1-in-baseball-america-preseason-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=4895","title":{"rendered":"Tar Heels ranked No. 1 in Baseball America preseason poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball America released its annual preseason top 25 on Thursday and North Carolina will open as the publication&#8217;s top team in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The top overall ranking by Baseball America is the first-ever for the Tar Heels. <\/p>\n<p>Carolina leads four Atlantic Coast Conference teams in the initial rankings with NC State checking in at No. 8, Georgia Tech at No. 16 and Florida State at No. 20.<\/p>\n<p>The Tar Heels return their entire weekend rotation from a year ago, a group that combined for 22 wins and all posted sub-2.00 ERAs in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Junior left-hander Kent Emnauel will anchor the rotation for the second straight year after winning eight games last year, while sophomore Benton Moss (7-2, 1.94 ERA) and junior Hobbs Johnson (7-1, 1-56 ERA) return as well.<\/p>\n<p>Junior third baseman Colin Moran will lead the Tar Heel offense in 2013 after posting a team-high batting average of .365 last year.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina opens the 2013 season on Friday, Feb. 15 against Seton Hall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; News release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball America released its annual preseason top 25 on Thursday and North Carolina will open as the publication&#8217;s top team in 2013. The top overall&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4896,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions\/4896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}