2026 preseason All-Americans, according to D1Baseball

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Reigning D1Baseball Player of the Year Roch Cholowsky leads the 2026 D1Baseball Preseason All-America teams. Cholowsky, a junior shortstop, is one of three Preseason All-Americans for No. 1 ranked UCLA, which placed three-quarters of its infield on the teams. Corner infielders Mulivai Levu and Roman Martin earned third-team honors.

Five other teams tied UCLA with three Preseason All-Americans: Coastal Carolina, Georgia Tech, Louisville, North Carolina and Texas. The Chanticleers, coming off a run to the College World Series Finals last spring, are the only team with two players on the first team: ace Cameron Flukey and reliever Dominick Carbone. Fellow CCU bullpen star Ryan Lynch made the second team.

Programs with two All-Americans include LSU, Miami, Oregon State, TCU, Tennessee, Texas A&M and Wake Forest. All 13 teams with multiple Preseason All-Americans enter the spring ranked in the D1Baseball Top 25.

The ACC leads all conferences with five players on the first team, edging the SEC (four). But the SEC leads the way with 18 Preseason All-Americans in total across the three teams, edging the ACC (17). Other conferences with multiple All-Americans include the Big 12 (four), Big Ten and Sun Belt (three apiece). Independent Oregon State has two Preseason All-Americans. The ASUN, CAA, American, Ivy League and Big West have one apiece.

Cholowsky, the 2025 D1Baseball Player of the Year, is one of four players who earned first-team All-America honors after the 2025 season and returned to earn first-team Preseason All-America honors in 2026. He is joined by Miami third baseman Daniel Cuvet, Georgia Tech outfielder Drew Burress and Florida Gulf Coast two-way star Evan Dempsey. Arizona closer Tony Pluta moves up from the second team at the end of last spring to the first team heading into 2026. Kansas slugger Brady Ballinger, Oregon State ace Dax Whitney and Coastal’s Flukey all jump from the third team last June to the first team in the 2026 preseason.

Other returning All-Americans include Louisville’s Lucas Moore and Mississippi State’s Ace Reese, both of whom captured second-team honors in the 2025 postseason as well as in the 2026 preseason. Texas lefty Dylan Volantis earned first-team honors as a reliever last spring but lands on the second team this preseason as a starter, a new role for him. LSU’s Casan Evans is also making the transition from a reliever (where he earned third-team honors last spring) to a starter (where he joins Volantis on the second team). And Yale’s Jack Ohman returns to the third team.

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 2026 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 2026 — the players who are best equipped to perform against elite college competition this spring.

First Team

 Second Team

Third Team