For the third consecutive year, Arkansas baseball has an SEC-best four preseason first-team honorees.
Casey Opitz (catcher), Robert Moore (second base), Christian Franklin (outfield) and Matt Goodheart (designated hitter/utility) landed on the 2021 Coaches Preseason All-SEC First Team, which was released along with the annual preseason coaches’ poll on Thursday.
The Razorback foursome is the most of any program in the conference – a feat Arkansas also achieved ahead of the 2019 and 2020 campaigns. No other school has more than two first-team honorees on this year’s preseason All-SEC squads.
Arkansas, as a team, was predicted to finish third in the SEC Western Division, collecting two first-place votes from the league’s head coaches Ole Miss was picked 1st and Mississippi State 2nd.
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