College baseball regular season awards, from top pitcher and MOP to best mustache

After an action-packed college baseball regular season, Michella Chester has sent in her top honors for teams and players from this year.

• Top Pitcher: Hagen Smith — Arkansas
  • Named SEC Pitcher of the Year and is a consensus top-10 MLB draft pick for 2024
  • Semifinalist for the Dick Howser and Golden Spikes awards
  • Two strikeouts away from breaking David Walling's single-season program record (155 strikeouts)
• Top Freshmen: Drew Burress — Georgia Tech
  • Led Georgia Tech in batting average, home runs and RBI
  • Has a chance at becoming the 12th Yellow Jacket to win the team triple-crown. Burress would be the first to accomplish the feat since Matt Gonzalez in 2016
  • Eight RBI away from breaking Matt Wieters’ freshman RBI record, 69, set in 2005.
  • Semifinalist for the Dick Howser Trophy and the ACC Freshman of the Year
  • One of the top freshmen nationally, hitting a team-best .379 with 14 doubles, two triples, 22 home runs and 62 RBI. Burress' OPS is 1.311, slugging .803 with an on-base percentage of .508,
  • Leads all DI freshmen in six statistical categories (home runs, home runs per game, slugging, total bases, walks, and walks per game), ranks top-3 nationally in 11 categories and leads ACC freshmen in eight categories
• Top Catcher: Cole Messina — South Carolina
  • Named to all-SEC tournament team
  • Broke SEC Tournament record for RBI with 16 in the five games played by the Gamecocks
  • Went 9 for 16 with nine runs scored, a double, four home runs and eight walks, good for a .680 on-base percentage
• Most Feared Hitter: Charlie Condon — Georgia
  • Led the nation in batting average (.451) and home runs (35)
  • 2024 SEC Player of the Year and Golden Spikes semifinalist
  • Set the NCAA single-season home run record (BBCOR era) while notching an 8-game homer streak in the process

Charlie Condon has homered in 7 straight games 😤🔥

— SEC Network (@SECNetwork)

• MOP: Charlie Condon — Georgia
• Top Infielder: Travis Bazzana — Oregon State
  • Hit .423 with 82 hits, 16 doubles and 26 home runs this season, has stolen 15 bases (36 steals in 2023)
  • Semifinalist for Golden Spikes Award, lone representative from the Pac-12 Conference.
  • First nationally in on-base percentage (.587), second in slugging percentage (.963) and walks (68), and fourth in runs scored (80)
  • Broke Oregon State single-season records for home runs and total bases (183) 
• Top Outfielder: Braeden Montgomery — Texas A&M
  • Golden Spikes semifinalist
  • Started all 55 games, batting .325 with 26 homers, SEC-best 80 RBI
  • Nationally, ranks fourth in RBI, seventh in homers, ninth in RBI per game (1.45), 15th in total bases (163) and 16th in walks (51)
  • No. 5 MLB Draft prospect. 

• Most Fun Team/Drip: Wake Forest
  • 105 Demon Deacon home runs mark the third consecutive season Deacs have hit 100-plus (fourth-highest home run total in program history)
  • Reached the 30-win mark for the third straight season
  • David F. Couch Ballpark in 2024: season attendance of 76,888 fans set a new program record
  • Set a weekend attendance record of 10,542 with sellouts in all three games against North Carolina
  • Finished the 2024 regular season home slate with a program-record eight sellouts

• Best two-way player: Jac Caglianone — Florida
  • Top candidate for the Golden Spikes Award
  • Homered in an NCAA-record nine-straight games from April 6-19
  • 66-consecutive plate appearances without a strikeout from April 7-27
  • Posted a 30-game hitting streak from March 23 through May 12 to tie the all-time program mark set by Jacob Young in 2021
  • Two most-prolific home run seasons in Gators history, setting the team record with 33 last season. His 29 bombs this year rank second
• Top reliever: Charlie Beilenson — Duke
  • Made ACC all-tournament team
  • Perfect Game Third Team Midseason All-American honors and a spot on the Midseason Stopper of the Year Watch List
  • 11 saves this season, tying him for fourth nationally (one shy of Duke’s single-season record)
  • Season-high of four innings on April 14 in a win against Virginia Tech
  • Regular-season numbers: 1.89 ERA, 0.92 WHIP over 52.1 innings
  • Picked up a save in his first eight appearances while allowing zero runs

• Best Mustache: Nick Lopez —  Kentucky
  • Named first team all-Southeastern Conference 
  • Regular season. stats: .380 batting average, 52 runs, 70 hits, two triples, six home runs, 22 walks and 47 RBI
• Dug Out Celly: Coastal Carolina
  • The Chanticleers win this competitive category with an astronaut helmet
  • The helmet gets placed on anyone who hits a homerun as they enter the dugout

• Most hype/Electric player: Chase Burns — Wake Forest
  • Career-high 16-strikeout performance against Clemson on May 10 to set the Wake Forest record for most strikeouts in a season
  • High-90s fastball, putaway slider, big curve and solid changeup
  • 10 double-digit strikeout games in his first 13 starts with five games of 14 or more strikeouts
  • Been at or near the top of the Division 1 strikeout rankings all year, ranks among the leaders in batting average against and WHIP