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D1 baseball staff | January 31, 2024

2024 college baseball preseason All-Americans, according to D1Baseball

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D1Baseball’s editors and national writers select the preseason All-America teams with one guiding principle in mind: to identify the best and most valuable college baseball players for the 2024 season. Past performance and future potential factor into the deliberations, but the goal is neither to identify the best future major leaguers nor to reward the players who have put up the gaudiest numbers in past seasons (particularly since the level of competition varies significantly from one conference to another). The objective is to select the players who would provide the most value for a team that wanted to win the Men's College World Series in 2024 — the players who are best equipped to perform against elite college competition this spring.

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Preseason No. 1 Wake Forest leads all teams with five preseason All-Americans, including two players on the first team: ace lefty Josh Hartle and first baseman Nick Kurtz. Hartle’s two expected weekend rotationmates, righties Michael Massey and Chase Burns, made the second team, and Division II transfer Seaver King cracked the third team after starring for Team USA and in the Cape Cod League last summer.

The only other team to place multiple players on the first team is South Carolina, with catcher Cole Messina and outfielder Ethan Petry.

Duke, Tennessee and TCU landed three players apiece across the three teams. LSU, Texas A&M, Florida, NC State, Virginia, Texas Tech and UC Santa Barbara each have two preseason All-Americans across the three teams.

Fourteen All-Americans from the 2023 postseason teams are back in college baseball, and all of them made the preseason All-America teams. Four players who earned first-team All-America honors in 2023 are back on the 2024 preseason first team: Hartle, West Virginia dynamo JJ Wetherholt, Florida two-way superstar Jac Caglianone, and Kansas State’s electrifying closer Tyson Neighbors. Five other players moved up from the postseason second team in 2023 to the preseason first team in 2024: Kurtz, Georgia slugger Charlie Condon, LSU megastar Tommy White, Arkansas ace Hagen Smith and East Carolina ace Trey Yesavage. Messina, Petry, Oregon State’s Travis Bazzana, and Duke’s Fran Oschell jump from the 2023 postseason third team to the 2024 preseason first team. TCU’s Payton Tolle was a third-team All-American last spring and moves up to the preseason second team heading into 2024.

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Led by Wake Forest, the ACC leads all conferences with 17 preseason All-Americans in all, followed by the SEC (14), the Big 12 (nine), the Big West (three) and the Pac-12 and CAA (two apiece). The American, ASUN, Big Ten, Mountain West, Ohio Valley and Sun Belt have one All-American apiece, giving 12 different conferences representation on the three teams. The SEC leads all conferences with seven players on the first team, followed by the ACC (five) and Big 12 (two).

First team

Position Name School
C Cole Messina South Carolina
1B Nick Kurtz Wake Forest
2B Travis Bazzana Oregon State
3B Tommy White LSU
SS JJ Wetherholt West Virginia
OF Cam Cannarella Clemson
OF Jace Laviolette Texas A&M
OF Ethan Petry South Carolina
DH Charlie Condon Georgia
UT Jac Caglianone Florida
SP Matt Ager UC Santa Barbara
SP Brody Brecht Iowa
SP Josh Hartle Wake Forest
SP Hagen Smith Arkansas
SP Trey Yesavage East Carolina
RP Tyson Neighbors Kansas State
RP Fran Oschell     Duke

Second team

POS. NAME SCHOOL
C Jacob Cozart NC State
1B Gavin Kash Texas Tech
2B Sam Kulasingam Air Force
3B Billy Amick Tennessee
SS Griff O’Ferrall Virginia
OF Braden Montgomery Texas A&M
OF Nolan Schubart Oklahoma State
OF Mike Sirota Northeastern
DH Ethan Anderson Virginia
UT Payton Tolle TCU
SP Drew Beam Tennessee
SP Chase Burns Wake Forest
SP LeBarron Johnson Texas
SP Michael Massey Wake Forest
SP Jonathan Santucci Duke
RP Hudson Barrett UC Santa Barbara
RP Brandon Neely Florida

Third team

POS. NAME SCHOOL
C Caden Bodine Coastal Carolina
1B Anthony Martinez UC Irvine
2B Christian Moore Tennessee
3B Carson DeMartini Virginia Tech
SS Anthony Silva TCU
OF Vance Honeycutt North Carolina
OF Seaver King Wake Forest
OF Austin Overn Southern California
DH Kevin Bazzell Texas Tech
UT Cole Mathis College of Charleston
SP Evan Chrest Jacksonville
SP Dominic Fritton NC State
SP Ben Hess Alabama
SP Luke Holman LSU
SP Jackson Wells Little Rock
RP Ben Abeldt TCU
RP James Tallon Duke



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