Metro baseball Top 10: Is the east side the best side in high school baseball?

Half of the teams in the rankings are from schools east of Minneapolis, while the west side has the metro’s most dominant squad in our first baseball poll of the spring.

The Minnesota Star Tribune
April 23, 2024 at 8:22PM
East Ridge coach Brian Sprout and the Class 4A defending state champion Raptors land at No. 7 in the first Metro Top 10 baseball rankings of the 2024 season. (Cheryl A. Myers/Cheryl Myers)

Wayzata has been dominant from the outset of the season.

The undefeated Trojans (5-0) are averaging 11.6 runs per game and have thrown three shutouts, climbing to No. 1 in the Metro Top 10 baseball rankings. Farmington, also unbeaten at 7-0, lands in the No. 4 position.

The powerful Suburban East Conference makes up half of the Metro Top 10 with five teams that took turns knocking off one another. They are No. 2 Stillwater (5-1), No. 3 Woodbury (4-2), No. 5 Mounds View (5-1), No. 6 Cretin-Derham Hall (3-1-1) and No. 7 East Ridge (3-3). East Ridge is the Class 4A defending state champion.

Rounding out the rankings are No. 8 Shakopee (5-2), No. 9 Champlin Park (3-1) and No. 10 Prior Lake (5-2).

Metro Top 10

Records through Monday

1. Wayzata (5-0)

2. Stillwater (5-1)

3. Woodbury (4-2)

4. Farmington (7-0)

5. Mounds View (5-1)

6. Cretin-Derham Hall (3-1-1)

7. East Ridge (3-3)

8. Shakopee (5-2)

9. Champlin Park (3-1)

10. Prior Lake (5-2)

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