Defending champion Birmingham-Southern garnered all eight first-place votes to secure the top spot in the inaugural SAA baseball preseason poll. The Panthers earned 64 total points to best second-place Berry by 14 points in the ranking. Rhodes came in third with 48 points and Centre finished fourth with 43.
The league’s baseball coaches voted on the poll, each predicting the season’s eventual order of finish 1-8. A first-place vote garnered a team 8 points, a second-place vote netted them 7 points, a third-place vote 6, etc.
The 2022 baseball season gets started this month.
The full 2022 SAA baseball preseason rankings are as follows:
| 1 |
Birmingham-Southern (8 first-place votes) |
64 pts |
| 2 |
Berry |
50 |
| 3 |
Rhodes |
48 |
| 4 |
Centre |
43 |
| 5 |
Hendrix |
29 |
| 6 |
Millsaps |
24 |
| 7 |
Oglethorpe |
16 |
| 8 |
Sewanee |
14 |