The National College Baseball Writers of America announced their pre-season All American teams today. I couldn’t find it posted anywhere online, so I decided to condense it down and post it here. So let the arguing beginnnnn… Now.
2012 Preseason NCBWA All-America Teams
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FIRST TEAM
C: Mike Zunino, Florida (Jr.) .371-19-67
1B: Adam Brett Walker, Jacksonville (Jr.) .409-13-75,14. 14SBs
2B: LJ Mazzilli, Connecticut (Jr.) .338-3-32, 11. 21SBs
3B: Stephen Piscotty, Stanford (Jr.) .364-3-40
SS: Bo Cuthbertson, Southern Utah (Sr.) .432-5-47, 15. 18SBs
OF: Victor Roache, Georgia Southern (Jr.) .326-30-84
OF: Daniel Aldrich, Coll. of Charleston (So.) .347-22-73
OF: Tyler Naquin, Texas A&M (Jr.) .381-2-44
DH: Brad Zebedis, Presbyterian (So.) .425-13-57
UTL: Brian Johnson, Florida (Jr.) .307-5-29
Pitching: 8-3/3.62. 72Ks, 15BBs
SP: Michael Roth, South Carolina (Sr.) 14-3, 1.06. 112Ks, 41BBs
SP: Tyler Ray, Troy (Jr.) 12-0, 2.34. 69Ks, 16BBs
SP: Ross Stripling, Texas A&M (Sr.) 14-2, 2.29. 113Ks, 18BBs
RP: Branden Kline, Virginia (So.) 4-1/1.88. 56Ks, 22BBs (18svs)
RP: Matt Price, South Carolina (So.) 7-3/1.83. 75K, 20BBs (20svs)
RP: Tony Bryant, Oregon State (So.) 3-2/1.52. 40Ks, 11BBs (12svs)
RP: Caleb Reed, Mississippi State (Sr.) 1-2/1.55. 66Ks, 23BBs (12svs)
RP: Cory Knebel, Texas (So.) 3-2/1.13 3-2 38. 60Ks, 12BBs (19svs)
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SECOND TEAM
C: Josh Elander, TCU (Jr.) .333-5-38
1B: Christian Walker, South Carolina (Jr.).358-10-62
2B: Tony Renda, California (Jr.) .332-3-44
3B: Colin Moran, North Carolina (So.) .335-9-71
SS: Alex Mejia, Arizona (Jr.) .335-0-42
OF: Kyle Wren, Georgia Tech (So.) .340-1-32. 16SBS
OF: James Ramsey, Florida State (Jr.) .364-10-67. 11SBs
OF: Landon Anderson, Dallas Baptist (Sr.) .356-7-58. 21SBs
DH: Preston Tucker, Florida (Sr.) .308-15-74
UTL: Marco Gonzales, Gonzaga (So.) .291-0-14
Pitching: 11-2/2.57. 90Ks, 21BBs
SP: Sean Tierney, James Madison (Sr.) 10-1/3.43. 47Ks, 25BBs
SP: Ty Blach, Creighton (Jr.) 10-3/2.65. 100Ks, 29BBs
SP: Kyle Kraus, Portland (Jr.) 10-3/3.30. 89Ks, 19BBs
SP: DJ Baxendale, Arkansas (Jr.) 10-2/1.58. 77Ks, 21BBs (3svs)
SP: Buck Farmer, Georgia Tech (Jr.) 11-3/2.82. 106Ks, 31BBs
RP: John Neely, Texas Tech (Sr.) 9-1/2.97. 56Ks, 21BBs (7svs)
RP: Austin Maddox, Florida (Jr.) 3-0/0.67. 21Ks, 3BBs (5svs)
RP: Tyler Smith, Rider (Jr.) 3-3/2.58. 41Ks, 7BBs (15svs)
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THIRD TEAM
C: Jeremy Schaffer, Tulane (Sr.) .338-6-37
1B: Joey DiMichele, Arizona State (Jr.) .368-9-51
2B: Devon Travis, Florida State (Jr.) .329-6-33
3B: Erich Weiss, Texas (So.) .348-4-45. 12SBS
SS: Deven Marrero, Arizona State (Jr.) .313-2-20. 10SBs
SS: Tyler Hannah, Troy (Sr.) .370-7-53
OF: Pablo Bermudez, FIU (Sr.) .373-5-37. 17SBs
OF: Andrew Rash, Virginia Tech (Jr.) .335-18-53
OF: Travis Jankowski, Stony Brook (Jr.) .355-2-38. 30SBs
OF: Thomas Pope, UNC Wilmington (Sr.) .396-5-46. 19SBs
DH: Zac Fisher, New Mexico State (Jr.) .398-8-56
UTL: Josh Dezse, Ohio State (So.) .332-4-42
Pitching: 4-2/5.53. 32Ks, 22BBs
UTL: D.J. Hicks, UCF (Jr.) .351-14-66
Pitching: 2-1/8.03. 14Ks, 2BBs
SP: Brady Rodgers, Arizona State (Jr.) 9-4/2.75. 87Ks, 9BBs
SP: Justin Jones, California (So.) 9-6/2.93. 81Ks, 31BBs
SP: Austin Kubitza, Rice (So.) 6-5/2.34. 102Ks, 24BBs
SP: Andrew Smith, Charlotte (Sr.) 10-4/1.81. 92Ks, 26BBs
SP: Justin Amlung, Louisville (Jr.) 10-2/2.31. 80Ks, 27BBs
SP: Karsten Whitson, Florida (So.) 8-1/2.40. 92Ks, 28BBs
RP: Jake Dyer, Georgia State (Sr.) 3-0/1.67. 23Ks, 7BBs (8svs)
RP: Nitt Wittgren, Purdue (Jr.) 2-3/3.18. 55Ks, 10BBs (12svs)
RP: Chris Overman, NC State (Jr.) 6-3/2.39. 45Ks, 7BBs (7svs)
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RSN says:
They must have left a certain 2B off their ballot cause how else can you explain how their 1st team 2B from last spring not being on any of the 3 teams??
Lonnie Kauppila says:
No Mark Appel from Stanford, get real, he’s better than all these pitchers especially after the first team roster. Get real!
RSN says:
Forgot to say who the 2B was. Ross Heffley from Western Carolina: .419-ave, 96-H, 18-2B, 2-3B, 11-HR, 65-RBI, 151-TB, .483-OB%, 30-BB, 22-K
Travis says:
What about Michael Wacha @ Texas A&M? I would have have thought First Team but to not even make the Third Team is just ridiculous. Wacha had 120Ks to 30BB, a 2.29 ERA and 9-4 record. Not to mention he had an outstanding freshman season followed-up with a dominating sophomore campaign. Plus he is 6′6″, with great stuff (he has more Ks than anybody on that list) and will likely be a first to second round pick.
KR123 says:
RSN – At least Louisville Slugger AA corrected this glaring omission – Heffley was first team there…thanks for repping the Catamounts……kind of odd, out of 10 position players on the first team, three were from the powerful SoCon, and only two from the apparently inferior SEC (2011 teams)
RSN says:
KR,
Yes it is rather odd seeing 30% of first team from the SOCON. Stat wise it is hard to argue against them being picked and most AA Teams are based on those with the exception of Baseball America’s teams. Ill bet Roache makes BA’s preseason team and maybe Heffley but not Aldrich.
But more shocking to me than the 3 from SOCON is no one from the ACC.