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Baseball: best of the best

By Tim Kolehmainen, Breakdown Sports Media, 08/05/17, 11:30AM CDT

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Carlson named 2017 Breakdown baseball player of the year

The Breakdown is pleased to announce its 2017 Minnesota high school baseball players and coaches of the year. After a big senior season that culminated in a state tournament berth and No. 55 overall MLB draft selection by the Seattle Mariners, Burnsville's Sam Carlson was honored as the overall Breakdown player of the year. The full list of honorees is below:

Overall

  • POY — Sam Carlson, Burnsville
  • COY — Mark Grundhofer, Waconia

Class AAAA

  • POY — Sam Carlson, Burnsville
  • COY — John Buteyn, Eden Prairie

Class AAA

  • POY — Logan Aleshire, St. Cloud Tech
  • COY — Mark Grundhofer, Waconia

Class AA

  • POY — Hunter Malachek, Maple Lake
  • COY — Scott Glenn, Minnehaha Academy & Pat Schultz, Belle Plaine

Class A

  • POY — Andrew Johnson, Parkers Prairie
  • COY — Derek Denny, Parkers Prairie

Congratulations to our postseason players and coaches of the year for the 2017 Minnesota high school baseball season!

For the past 16 years, the Breakdown has covered the high school sports scene in Minnesota, naming both a preseason and postseason player of the year in each sport covered for each year (16 years of girls' and boys' basketball, 10 years of boys' hockey and girls' volleyball, and three years of boys' baseball).

We've complied that full list of players through the years, which is peppered with recognizable names from Minnesota's high school sports history. The full list may be found at: http://www.breakdownsportsusa.com/page/show/336134

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