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d1baseball.com | January 21, 2025

2025 preseason All-Americans, according to D1Baseball

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Editor's note: The following  

Top-ranked Texas A&M and No. 2 ranked Virginia lead all programs with four players each on D1Baseball’s 2025 Preseason All-America teams. The Aggies and Cavaliers also place two players each on the first team (outfielder Jace LaViolette and ace Levi Prager for A&M, catcher Jacob Ference and second baseman Henry Godbout for UVa), which is tied for the most first-teamers, along with Clemson and UC Santa Barbara.

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No. 6 North Carolina is the only other team to place more than two players across D1Baseball’s three All-America teams. The Tar Heels have three All-Americans, led by first-teamer Jason DeCaro, an ace right-hander.

Programs with two All-Americans include Arkansas, Duke, LSU, Oklahoma State, Texas, Vanderbilt and Wake Forest.

The ACC leads all conferences with 10 first-team All-Americans, followed by the SEC (three) and Big West (two). The ACC and SEC are tied for the most All-Americans overall with 17 apiece, followed by the Big 12 (four), Big Ten and Big West (three apiece). Overall, 12 different conferences are represented on the three All-America teams.

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 2025 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 College World Series in 2025 — the players who are best equipped to perform against elite college competition this spring.

First team 

Position Name, School Class AVG/OBP/SLG PA 2B HR RBI BB-K SB
C Jacob Ference, Virginia RS SR .350/.465/.710 245 13 17 43 33-47 12
1B Jared Jones, LSU JR .301/.454/.747 295 14 28 61 59-76 2
2B Henry Godbout, Virginia SO .372/.472/.645 217 18 9 47 29-20 6
3B Daniel Cuvet, Miami SO .351/.429/.736 266 15 24 75 26-63 2
SS Marek Houston, Wake Forest JR .326/.433/.516 264 16 8 39 38-33 4
OF Drew Burress, Georgia Tech SO .381/.512/.821 285 15 25 67 58-37 8
OF Cam Cannarella, Clemson JR .337/.417/.561 283 16 11 60 34-44 0
OF Jace LaViolette, Texas A&M JR .305/.449/.726 334 16 29 78 64-81 7
DH Nolan Schubart, Oklahoma State JR .370/.513/.838 226 10 23 68 49-62 0
UTIL DJ Newman, Bowling Green JR .371/.455/.664 167 6 10 37 21-36 10
Pos. Name, School Class Throws W-L ERA SV APP GS IP K-BB
SP Jamie Arnold, Florida State JR LHP 11-3 2.98 1 19 18 105.2 159-26
SP Tyler Bremner, UC Santa Barbara JR RHP 11-1 2.54 0 19 9 88.2 104-21
SP Jason DeCaro, North Carolina SO RHP 6-1 3.81 0 18 18 90.1 78-44
SP Aidan Knaak, Clemson SO RHP 5-1 3.35 0 15 15 83.1 108-29
SP Ryan Prager, Texas A&M RS JR LHP 9-1 2.95 0 19 19 97.1 124-20
RP Jacob Dudan, NC State SO RHP 4-2 4.50 5 27 0 47.2 56-34
RP Cole Tryba, UC Santa Barbara SO LHP 3-2 3.64 3 27 1 47 65-14
UT DJ Newman, Bowling Green JR RHP 4-2 3.61 0 8 8 42.1 42-10

 Second team

Position Name, School Class AVG/OBP/SLG PA 2B HR RBI BB-K SB
C Caden Bodine, Coastal Carolina JR .328/.411/.523 285 20 9 71 31-23 3
1B Tanner Thach, UNC Wilmington JR .324/.406/.700 289 11 27 75 30-54 4
2B Wyatt Henseler, Texas A&M SR .360/.465/.755 245 9 22 56 28-28 0
3B Gavin Grahovac, Texas A&M SO .298/.390/.596 328 16 23 66 36-95 4
SS Justin Lebron, Alabama SO .338/.429/.546 254 9 12 37 20-53 7
OF Nick Dumesnil, Cal Baptist JR .362/.440/.702 271 19 19 45 20-35 9
OF Ethan Petry, South Carolina JR .306/.471/.639 289 8 21 53 51-73 4
OF Devin Taylor, Indiana JR .357/.449/.660 285 11 20 54 37-38 5
DH Grant Jay, Dallas Baptist JR .300/.414/.653 261 12 21 57 34-82 7
UTIL Austin Smith, San Diego JR .309/.425/.466 257 11 7 39 31-26 3
Pos. Name, School Class Throws W-L ERA SV APP GS IP K-BB
SP Evan Blanco, Virginia JR LHP 8-3 3.62 0 18 18 99.1 99-27
SP Gabe Gaeckle, Arkansas SO RHP 3-3 2.32 7 22 0 42.2 57-19
SP Grayson Grinsell, Oregon JR LHP 7-2 4.08 0 17 14 79.2 99-44
SP Dominic Voegele, Kansas SO RHP 6-2 4.30 0 15 15 81 80-29
SP Kyson Witherspoon, Oklahoma JR RHP 8-3 3.71 1 17 11 80 90-40
RP Brian Curley, Georgia JR RHP 6-0 2.87 3 19 0 78.1 78-35
RP Matthew Matthijs, North Carolina JR RHP 12-4 3.72 0 36 0 58 56-18
UT Austin Smith, San Diego SR LHP 7-0 3.77 3 17 9 57.1 51-27

 Third team

Position Name, School Class AVG/OBP/SLG PA 2B HR RBI BB-K SB
C Luke Stevenson, North Carolina SO .284/.420/.535 269 8 14 58 48-55 2
1B Anthony Martinez, UC Irvine JR .312/.417/.485 312 18 9 75 36-31 1
2B Daniel Dickinson, LSU JR .367/.469/.661 295 14 18 53 34-28 32
3B Ben Miller, Duke RS SR .360/.438/.645 260 18 15 49 17-47 2
SS Jalin Flores, Texas JR .340/.408/.656 278 22 18 56 21-56 2
OF Max Belyeu, Texas JR .329/.423/.667 249 15 18 53 27-44 3
OF Ethan Conrad, Wake Forest JR .389/.467/.704 260 18 9 52 27-32 16
OF AJ Gracia, Duke SO .305/.440/.559 278 14 14 58 48-55 5
DH Ike Irish, Auburn JR .319/.403/.627 218 11 14 59 23-29 4
UTIL Chris Arroyo, Virginia JR JC transfer            
Pos. Name, School Class Throws W-L ERA SV APP GS IP K-BB
SP Kenton Deverman, Evansville SO LHP 9-2 4.22 0 18 16 111 83-23
SP Ben Jacobs, Arizona State JR LHP 7-3 4.75 0 20 10 66.1 102-36
SP Mason McConnaughey, Nebraska JR RHP 9-3 3.45 0 17 11 73 91-24
SP Zach Root, Arkansas JR LHP 6-2 3.56 0 13 12 68.1 76-21
SP JD Thompson, Vanderbilt JR LHP 5-2 4.15 0 14 12 52 74-18
RP Gabe Davis, Oklahoma State JR RHP 2-4 4.17 3 20 5 45.1 55-25
RP Miller Green, Vanderbilt SO LHP 2-4 2.97 3 20 0 31.1 34-8
UT Chris Arroyo, Virginia JR LHP JC transfer

 



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