FROM COLLEGIATE BASEBALL PRESS RELEASE
The Collegiate Baseball NCAA Division I All-American baseball teams and National Player of The Year, powered by Diamond, have been announced.
The 17-man first team, chosen by performances up to regional playoffs and picked by the staff of Collegiate Baseball, features 12 conference players or pitchers of the year, including:
- LHP Ethan Small, Mississippi St. (Pitcher of Year Southeastern Conference).
- RHP Alek Manoah, West Virginia (Pitcher of Year Big 12 Conference).
- LHP Jake Agnos, East Carolina (Pitcher of Year American Athletic Conference).
- RHP Ryan Garcia, UCLA (Pitcher of Year Pac-12 Conference).
- RHP Noah Song, Navy (Pitcher of Year Patriot League).
- C Adley Rutschman, Oregon St. (Player of Year Pac-12 Conference).
- 1B Bobby Seymour, Wake Forest (Player of Year Atlantic Coast Conference).
- 3B Kody Hoese, Tulane (Player of Year American Athletic Conference).
- SS Joey Ortiz, New Mexico St. (Player of Year Western Athletic Conference).
- OF Jake Sanford, Western Kentucky (Player of Year Conference USA).
- OF JJ Bleday, Vanderbilt (Player of Year Southeastern Conference).
- OF Kevin Strohschein, Tennessee Tech. (Player of Year Ohio Valley Conference).
Adley Rutschman of Oregon St. is Collegiate Baseball’s National Player of The Year (.419, 17 HR, 9 2B, 57 RBI). The switch-hitting catcher for the Beavers has a rocket for an arm as he threw out 13 runners in 26 attempts over 55 games.
He has walked a nation-leading 73 times this season and also is No. 1 with a .580 on-base percentage.
Rutschman is expected to be the No. 1 overall pick in the upcoming MLB Draft. He was the 1,197th pick in the MLB Draft three years ago by the Seattle Mariners from Sherwood High School (Sherwood, Ore.) He was only 19 picks from being the last pick in the draft in the 40th round.
