2015 College Baseball Daily Preseason All-Americans

by Tyler Freeman February 11, 2015

by Tyler Freeman February 11, 2015 0 comment

CBDonWhite3 The 2015 Preseason All-American teams are selected based on past performance and MLB draft potential. The list is made up of 18 players each, with three full teams listed below.

Vanderbilt leads all schools with five College Baseball Daily Preseason All-American selections, including two on the first team. Miami comes in at number two with four Preseason All-American nominations, with two, first team selections. At number three with three selections is Virginia, followed by LSU, TCU, Oklahoma, UCLA and Clemson with two Preseason All-American selections each.

Dallas Baptist, Stanford, Florida Gulf Coast, College of Charleston, Duke, Michigan, Liberty, Georgia State, Maryland, Alabama, Texas Tech, Illinois, Rice, Houston, Missouri State, Tennessee, Louisiana-Lafayette, San Diego State, Mississippi, Fresno State, Cal State Fullerton, Louisville, Florida, Cal Poly, Cincinnati, Boston College, Florida State, NC State, Arizona and Nevada each have one player selected to a Preseason All-American Team.

First Team

Pos.	Name	School	AVG	OBP	SLG	R	H	HR	RBI
C	Zach Collins	Miami	.298	.427	.556	31	62	11	54
1B	Austin Byler	Nevada	.326	.420	.624	51	72	14	47
MIF	Scott Kingery	Arizona	.354	.456	.467	41	69	1	26
MIF	Alex Bregman	LSU	.316	.397	.455	35	77	6	47
3B	Andrew Knizner	N.C. State	.330	.373	.450	34	69	4	47
OF	D.J. Stewart	FSU	.351	.472	.557	45	68	7	50
OF	Chris Shaw	Boston College	.329	.393	.502	25	68	6	45
OF	Ian Happ	Cincinnati	.320	.443	.497	32	55	5	19
DH	Mark Mathias	Cal Poly	.386	.455	.490	48	81	2	39
UT	A.J. Puk	Florida	.222	.319	.270	4	14	0	6

Pos.	Name	School	ERA	W-L	SV	IP	H	SO	BB
SP	Kyle Funkhouser	Louisville	1.94	13-3	0	120.1	85	122	65
SP	Nathan Kirby	Virginia	2.06	9-3	0	113.1	68	112	33
SP	Carson Fulmer	Vanderbilt	1.98	7-1	10	91	61	95	41
SP	Walker Buehler	Vanderbilt	2.64	12-2	0	102.1	85	111	31
SP	Thomas Eshelman	Cal State Fullerton	1.89	8-3	0	123.2	100	99	8
RP	Bryan Garcia	Miami	1.75	7-4	15	51.1	40	56	19
RP	Riley Ferrell	TCU	0.79	3-1	15	45.1	20	70	14
UT	A.J. Puk	Florida	3.19	5-2	1	42.1	33	46	18

Second Team

Pos.	Name	School	AVG	OBP	SLG	R	H	HR	RBI
C	Taylor Ward	Fresno State	.320	.395	.438	29	70	6	41
1B	Sikes Orvis	Mississippi	.294	.397	.540	40	69	14	53
MIF	Dansby Swanson	Vanderbilt	.333	.411	.475	63	94	3	34
MIF	Blake Trahan	Louisiana-Lafayette	.355	.455	.465	58	91	4	49
3B	Ty France	San Diego State	.356	.450	.498	55	18	5	45
OF	Christian Stewart	Tennessee	.330	.386	.541	45	72	5	39
OF	Tate Matheny	Missouri State	.330	.421	.528	42	72	10	37
OF	Bryan Reynolds	Vanderbilt	.338	.395	.480	53	95	4	54
DH	David Thompson	Miami	.278	.368	.352	15	30	0	15
UT	Sheldon Neuse	Oklahoma	.304	.369	.521	43	73	7	47D

Pos.	Name	School	ERA	W-L	SV	IP	H	SO	BB
SP	James Kaprielian	UCLA	2.29	7-6	0	106	76	108	35
SP	Jake Lemoine	Houston	2.87	6-8	0	106.2	98	87	29
SP	Andrew Suarez	Miami	2.95	6-3	0	109.2	108	87	15
SP	Blake Fox	Rice	1.46	12-0	0	104.2	88	69	27
SP	Preston Morrison	TCU	1.32	9-4	0	129.2	90	95	21
RP	David Berg	UCLA	1.50	3-2	11	48	34	35	8
RP	Tyler Jay	Illinois	1.94	4-1	10	41.2	28	47	13
UT	Sheldon Neuse	Oklahoma	2.25	1-0	1	12	11	11	4

Third Team

Pos.	Name	School	AVG	OBP	SLG	R	H	HR	RBI
C	Chris Okey	Clemson	.248	.311	.350	27	56	4	41
1B	Eric Gutierrez	Texas Tech	.302	.399	.539	46	74	12	58
MIF	Mikey White	Alabama	.300	.399	.443	50	71	7	33
MIF	Brandon Lowe	Maryland	.348	.464	.464	35	63	1	42
3B	Matt Rose	Georgia State	.312	.358	.535	33	63	11	34
OF	Andrew Stevenson	LSU	.335	.393	.419	41	68	0	32
OF	Joe McCarthy	Virginia	.301	.417	.449	55	77	6	49
OF	Steven Duggar	Clemson	.294	.368	.378	45	70	1	36
DH	Alex Close	Liberty	.323	.370	.512	36	70	9	46
UT	Jacob Cronenworth	Michigan	.268	.391	.366	41	55	2	28

Pos.	Name	School	ERA	W-L	SV	IP	H	SO	BB
SP	Michael Matuella	Duke	2.78	1-3	0	58.1	40	69	15
SP	Bailey Ober	College of Charleston	1.52	10-3	0	106.2	73	85	19
SP	Brandon Waddell	Virginia	2.45	10-3	0	114	98	73	19
SP	Michael Murray	Florida Gulf Coast	1.85	13-1	0	107	92	79	14
SP	Cal Quantrill	Stanford	2.68	7-5	0	110.2	90	98	34
RP	Brandon Koch	Dallas Baptist	0.64	8-1	9	42.1	25	70	22
RP	Hayden Stone	Vanderbilt	1.71	4-0	3	58	41	80	14
UT	Jacob Cronenworth	Michigan	1.75	2-3	12	25.2	21	27	13

Tyler Freeman

Tyler Freeman was born and raised in the Philadelphia area. He attended "The" LaSalle College High School where he excelled on the baseball field under legendary skipper, Joe Parisi. Tyler, currently is a freelance writer, traveler, coach and for the time being resides in Philadelphia. To see other work and heckle Tyler, follow his Twitter account @freemanRtyler and his personal site www.1wayblogspot.wordpress.com

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