HS BASEBALL: The class of 2016

Valley View’s Max Kranick

This is the unofficial start of the baseball-offseason-blogpost season. It starts with a look at the class of 2016.

Max Kranick, JP Walsh, Sean Homenchak and Zach Campbell were all members of last season’s All-Region team. Those four and Abington Heights’ Zach Spangenberg, North Pocono’s Matt Fisch and Mark Cicerini, Delaware Valley’s Trevor Bertsch and Lawrence Cicileo, Honesdale’s Adam Kelly, Wallenpaupack’s David Eckert, Lakeland’s Sean Pittack, Mid Valley’s Cody Petcavage, Holy Cross’ Gannon Palmiter, Old Forge’s Joey Gutowski, Forest City’s Mitchell Blake and Montrose’s Hunter Traver were Lackawanna League coaches all-stars. There are plenty more talented players that weren’t first-teamers, too.

Here are the career leaders in the stats we track on Varsity570.

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As for the class of 2015 …

Abington Heights’ Tyler Ksiazek earned Times-Tribune Player of the Year honors after helping the Comets reach the PIAA championship game. Scranton’s Jake McCarthy put together arguably the best year of his high school career, and was selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 23rd round of the MLB Draft in June. Ksiazek, McCarthy, Abington Heights’ Zach Manasek and Jimmy Fayocavitz, Mid Valley’s Zach Nemitz, Lakeland’s Shane Rivenburgh and Montrose’s Matt Benninger were named to the Times-Tribune All-Region team.

Here’s the final career numbers for the class of 2015.

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