Collegiate National Team
USA Baseball also fields a Collegiate National Team which has 22 members of top collegiate baseball players in the country, consists of five infielders, four outfielders, two catchers, nine pitchers and a pair of two-way players. The 2010 team has three veteran players returning from the 2009 National Team: pitchers Gerrit Cole (UCLA), Sonny Gray (Vanderbilt) and infielder Brad Miller (Clemson). The team is scheduled to compete in exhibition games across the U.S. and overseas against the world's top baseball talent, including teams from Canada, Chinese Taipei and the Netherlands. Their playing schedule begins on July 6 at Cary, North Carolina and ends on Aug. 8 in Meiji Jingu Stadium, Tokyo, Japan. The 2009 team won the World Baseball Challenge in Canada.
Players who taken the field for the Collegiate National Team and have gone onto Major League Baseball success include such notables as Jim Abbott, Troy Glaus, Todd Helton, Ryan Howard, Barry Larkin, Tino Martinez, Dustin Pedroia, David Price, Huston Street, Mark Teixeira, Troy Tulowitzki, Jason Varitek, and Ryan Zimmerman.
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