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The above was my placeholder until I could add to this, but I’m leaving it because I forgot about it and find it funny just sitting there all alone. The players ranked two through nine on this list are all outfielders. That’s crazy. I’ll have more on the conference’s potentially historic class soon. I dislike that I have so many players lumped up by school — Rooker and Robson, Robinson and Blackman, three A&M players in a row followed soon after by four A&M players in a row — but it’s honestly how things shook out. Makes the list feel inauthentic, but whatever. I find it interesting looking at some of the top names in the conference how little in the way of breakout performances we’ve had this year. Senzel is the only player who came into the year on the “good with the hope he’d be great” range who actually delivered. Maybe Woodman. Lots of guys have continued to be good, some have taken a half-step back, and others have had really nice years without much in the way of pre-season pressure. I would listen to an argument that Grier has had that good to great breakout, but many of the same red flags in his game that existed before 2016 — namely his plate discipline — remain open questions going forward, increased production otherwise or not. Lots to consider with this group…

1. Tennessee JR 3B/2B Nick Senzel
2. Vanderbilt JR OF/1B Bryan Reynolds
3. Florida JR OF Buddy Reed
4. LSU JR OF Jake Fraley
5. South Carolina JR OF Dom Thompson-Williams
6. Auburn JR OF Anfernee Grier
7. Mississippi JR OF JB Woodman
8. Texas A&M JR OF Nick Banks
9. Auburn JR OF Josh Palacios
10. Florida JR 1B Pete Alonso
11. Kentucky JR 2B/OF JaVon Shelby
12. Georgia JR OF Stephen Wrenn
13. Missouri JR SS/3B Ryan Howard
14. Mississippi State JR C Jack Kruger
15. LSU SO 3B/2B Greg Deichmann
16. Mississippi State rSO OF Brent Rooker
17. Mississippi State rJR OF Jacob Robson
18. Mississippi JR SS/2B Errol Robinson
19. Mississippi SO SS/2B Tate Blackman
20. Tennessee SR OF/LHP Vincent Jackson
21. Texas A&M JR 2B/OF Ryne Birk
22. South Carolina JR OF Gene Cone
23. Missouri JR OF Jake Ring
24. Mississippi JR C Henri Lartigue
25. LSU JR C Jordan Romero
26. LSU JR 2B/SS Kramer Robertson
27. Arkansas SO OF Luke Bonfield
28. Texas A&M JR 3B/C Ronnie Gideon
29. Vanderbilt SO 3B/SS Will Toffey
30. Arkansas rSO 3B/C Carson Shaddy
31. Mississippi JR 3B/1B Colby Bortles
32. Texas A&M SR 3B/OF Boomer White
33. Vanderbilt JR C Jason Delay
34. Mississippi State JR C/3B Gavin Collins
35. Auburn SR OF/2B Jordan Ebert
36. Auburn JR C Blake Logan
37. Mississippi State JR 1B Nathaniel Lowe
38. Auburn JR 1B Niko Buentello
39. Kentucky rSO 1B Joe Dudek
40. Tennessee SO C Benito Santiago
41. Tennessee SR 3B/2B Jeff Moberg
42. Alabama rSO OF Keith Holcombe
43. Arkansas SR 2B/SS Rick Nomura
44. Arkansas rSR 2B/SS Mike Bernal
45. LSU JR 2B/3B Cole Freeman
46. Texas A&M SR OF JB Moss
47. Texas A&M SR 1B/RHP Hunter Melton
48. Texas A&M SR C Michael Barash
49. South Carolina SR SS Marcus Mooney
50. Kentucky JR 1B Gunnar McNeill
51. Georgia rJR 3B Trevor Kieboom
52. Arkansas SR C Tucker Pennell
53. Vanderbilt JR OF/2B Ro Coleman
54. Texas A&M JR OF Walker Pennington
55. Mississippi State rJR OF Cody Brown
56. Arkansas JR 3B/1B Clark Eagan
57. Alabama SR 3B/SS Chance Vincent
58. Vanderbilt JR C Karl Ellison
59. Texas A&M JR OF/1B Joel Davis
60. Texas A&M JR SS Austin Homan
61. Texas A&M JR OF/ SS Nick Choruby
62. Texas A&M SR OF/1B Jonathan Moroney
63. Kentucky SR OF Dorian Hairston
64. Auburn SR SS/3B Cody Nulph
65. Auburn JR 2B/OF Damon Haecker
66. Mississippi State rSR 2B/3B John Holland
67. Kentucky JR OF Marcus Carson
68. Mississippi State JR OF Tanner Poole
69. Mississippi SR OF Cameron Dishon
70. Tennessee SR OF Chris Hall
71. Tennessee SR OF Derek Lance
72. Kentucky JR OF Zach Reks
73. Mississippi State JR 3B Luke Reynolds
74. Auburn SR 2B/SS Melvin Gray
75. Mississippi SR OF Connor Cloyd
76. Mississippi State SR OF/C Michael Smith
77. Tennessee JR 3B Jordan Rodgers
78. Georgia SR 1B Daniel Nichols
79. Georgia JR C/OF Skyler Webb
80. Auburn JR OF JJ Shaffer
81. Alabama SR OF Ryan Blanchard
82. Arkansas SR 1B Cullen Gassaway
83. Alabama SR OF Georgie Salem
84. Alabama JR C Will Haynie
85. South Carolina SR 2B/SS DC Arendas
86. Missouri SR 3B/1B Zach Lavy
87. Kentucky rJR OF Storm Wilson
88. Kentucky SR C Zach Arnold
89. Georgia SR SS/2B Nick King
90. Auburn rJR 2B/C Kyler Deese
91. Kentucky JR SS Connor Heady
92. Auburn JR 1B/OF Daniel Robert
93. Florida JR OF Ryan Larson
94. LSU JR OF Cody Ducote
95. Tennessee JR OF Dathan Prewett
96. Vanderbilt rSO OF/1B Tyler Green
97. Vanderbilt SR 1B/OF Kyle Smith
98. Vanderbilt JR OF/INF Nolan Rogers
99. Georgia JR 3B/2B Mike Bell