Maryland outfielder Marty Costes (Maryland Athletics)

Prospect Rundown: Cal Ripken League

This is an important summer for North Carolina. The Tar Heels have been one of college baseball’s best programs over the past dozen years — no other program can match their six trips to Omaha during that span — but they have missed regionals in back-to-back seasons, and now they must replace recruiting coordinator Scott Jackson, who took the head coaching job at Liberty. UNC desperately needs to reverse its negative momentum and reaffirm its position as a national power, which means its returning players need to get better. And this summer, that is just what several of them[…]