Here is College Baseball Daily’s annual look at the top players in college baseball. The list is based on personal observations from CBD Editor Brian Foley, CBD Senior Writers Kat Cornetta and William Knox. We have also used many prospect lists from around the country to help out with our rankings. When possible, we included videos so our readers can get a glimpse of the player in action. Feel free to leave your comments in the comment section of each post and if you want to discuss the entire list use the section below.
1. Mark Appel (Stanford)
2. Mike Zunino (Florida)
3. Deven Marrero (Arizona State)
4. Michael Roth (South Carolina)
5. Victor Roache (Georgia Southern)
6. Marcus Stroman (Duke)
7. Stephen Piscotty (Stanford)
8. Peter O’Brien (Miami, Fl)
9. Hudson Randall (Florida)
10. Kurt Heyer (Arizona)
11. Brian Johnson (Florida)
12. Richie Shaffer (Clemson)
13. Kenny Diekroeger (Stanford)
14. Kyle Hansen (St. John’s)
15. Bo Cuthbertson (Southern Utah)
16. James Ramsey (Florida State)
17. Taylor Dugas (Alabama)
18. Daniel Aldrich (College of Charleston)
19. Barrett Barnes (Texas Tech)
20. Buck Farmer (Georgia Tech)
21. Austin Maddox (Florida)
22. Branden Kline (Virginia)
23. Kevin Plawecki (Purdue)
24. Chris Beck (Georgia Southern)
25. DJ Baxendale (Arkansas)
26. Michael Wacha (Texas A&M)
27. Kevin Gausman (LSU)
28. Robert Refsnyder (Arizona)
29. Daniel Palka (Georgia Tech)
30. Brett Mooneyham (Stanford)
31. Jeremy Baltz (St. John’s)
32. Matt Boyd (Oregon State)
33. Bobby Wahl (Ole Miss)
34. Tony Bucciferro (Michigan State)
35. Matt Price (South Carolina)
36. Logan Vick (Baylor)
37. Adam Plutko (UCLA)
38. Tyler Naquin (Texas A&M)
39. Jason Monda (Washington State)
40. Chase McDonald (East Carolina)
41. Christian Walker (South Carolina)
42. Sam Stafford (Texas)
43. Max Muncy (Baylor)
44. Adam Brett Walker (Jacksonville)
45. Josh Elander (TCU)
46. John Simms (Rice)
47. Nick Wittgren (Purdue)
48. Jordan John (Oklahoma)
49. Chris Overman (NC State)
50. Corey Knebel (Texas)
51. Colin Moran (UNC)
52. Taylor Ard (Washington State)
53. Dietrich Enns (Central Michigan)
54. Kent Emanuel (UNC)
55. Steve Nyisztor (Rutgers)
56. Joe Bircher (Bradley)
57. Ryne Stanek (Arkansas)
58. Connor Harrell (Vanderbilt)
59. Trevor Gott (Kentucky)
60. LJ Mazzilli (UConn)
61. Michael Lorenzen (Cal State Fullerton)
62. Dillon Overton (Oklahoma)
63. Kyle Zimmer (San Francisco)
64. Austin Kubitza (Rice)
65. E.J. Encinosa (Miami, FL)
66. Justin Amlung (Louisville)
67. Karsten Whitson (Florida)
68. Brian Ragira (Stanford)
69. Nolan Fontana (Florida)
70. Tony Bryant (Oregon State)
71. Jared King (Kansas State)
72. Scott Firth (Clemson)
73. Bryan Radziewski (Miami, Fl)
74. Joey Rickard (Arizona)
75. Dominic Ficociello (Arkansas)
76. Ryan Dalton (UTSA)
77. Tom Murphy (Buffalo)
78. Erich Weiss (Texas)
79. Nick Vander Tuig (UCLA)
80. Anthony Gomez (Vanderbilt)
81. Jason Coats (TCU)
82. Tommy Coyle (North Carolina)
83. Travis Jankowski (Stony Brook)
84. Austin Wilson (Stanford)
85. Eric Anderson (Missouri)
86. Ryon Healy (Oregon)
87. Jeff Thompson (Louisville)
88. John Neely (Texas Tech)
89. Ronnie Freeman (Kennesaw State)
90. Justin Jones (Cal)
91. Tony Kemp (Vanderbilt)
92. Joey DeMichele (Arizona State)
93. Zack Weiss (UCLA)
94. Andrew Stumph (Texas State)
95. Cole Swanson (San Diego State)
96. Krey Bratsen (Texas A&M)
97. Brian Holmes (Wake Forest)
98. Trey Mancini (Notre Dame)
99. Patrick Cantwell (Stony Brook)
100. Joe Sclafani (Dartmouth)
Remember to check out last year’s countdown by clicking here.