The CBB continues our countdown for the 2010 College Baseball season by checking in on the Top 100 Players in the country. We will be providing one player per day until we reach number 1.
We continue the list today with number 77 in our countdown with Arkansas junior first baseman Andy Wilkins. He is from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma and attended Broken Arrow High School. He had an outstanding high school career as a senior batted .538 (63 for 117) with 18 doubles, a triple and 12 home runs. He also scored 52 runs and drove in 53 his final year with a .635 on-base percentage and slugged 1.017. He also hit .496 as a junior with a school record 17 home runs and 16 doubles while scoring 30 runs and driving in 60. He finished the season with a 1.109 slugging and .519 on-base percentage. He was named a Louisville Slugger High School All-American twice and rated as the 11th best prospect out of Oklahoma by Baseball America. The Texas Rangers selected him in the 25th round but could not come to terms with him making him head to Fayetteville Arkansas to play for the Razorbacks.
Wilkins had a solid freshman season with the Razorbacks as he missed nearly a month with a rib cage injury but finished the season with a .331 for the season with 45
hits, 38 RBI, 11 doubles and eight home runs in 35 games. He was primarily used at first base but also appeared in six games at third and five as the DH. He spent the summer of 2008 with the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox in the Cape Cod Baseball League where he played in 40 games hitting .271 with five homers and 26 RBI.
Andy had a solid 2009 campaign as he hit .319 with a team high 19 homers and 58 RBI playing in all 65 Razorbacks games. He started 55 games at first, six at third, and the other four games at DH. He spent the summer of 2009 with the USA National Team where they went 19-5 with victories in the World Baseball Challenge and a trip to play the Japanese College All-Stars. He finished the summer with a .232 average with two homers and 16 RBI in 24 games.
You can check out the rest of our Top 100 by clicking here.
