College: Awards

2012 Midseason College All-America Team
Apr. 4, 2012
Our midseason picks for college baseball's best players [...] Continue Reading »

2012 Preseason All-America Team
Feb. 13, 2012
The 2011 college class was the type that comes around maybe once a decade. It was loaded with quality pitchers, starting with the first three picks in the draft (Gerrit Cole, Danny Hultzen, Trevor Bauer) and a total of 11 first-rounders. Far from one-sided, it had a number of gifted position players, including an elite hitter (Anthony Rendon) and an exceptional athlete (George Springer). That group was the exception that proves the rule: Big league teams usually weaken the college crops by persuading high school players to turn pro rather than continue their educations. The 2012 college draft pool pales in comparison to last year's. [...] Continue Reading »

2012 Preseason All-America Teams Chart
Feb. 13, 2012
Scouting directors helped picked our preseason All-America Team. [...] Continue Reading »

2011 Assistant Coach Of The Year: South Carolina's Chad Holbrook
Nov. 22, 2011
Chad Holbrook is the 2011 American Baseball Coaches Association/Baseball America Assistant Coach of the Year. [...] Continue Reading »

2011 College Coach Of The Year: Florida's Kevin O'Sullivan
Jul. 7, 2011
In four years at the helm, Kevin O'Sullivan has transformed the Gators into a college baseball powerhouse. After missing regionals in 2006 and '07, Florida exceeded expectations to make a regional in O'Sullivan's first season in 2008. The next year, the Gators won a regional. The year after that, they made it to Omaha. And this year, they earned a preseason No. 1 ranking, ended the regular season atop the rankings and advanced all the way to the CWS Finals. For constructing a model program with a rock-solid foundation, O'Sullivan is Baseball America's College Coach of the Year. [...] Continue Reading »

North Carolina's Colin Moran Earns Freshman Of The Year Honors
Jul. 5, 2011
Like Dustin Ackley before him, Colin Moran was under the radar and undrafted out of high school. Like Ackley, Moran is a gifted lefthanded hitter who went to North Carolina and earned a starting job immediately as a corner infielder. And like Ackley, Moran became Baseball America's Freshman of the Year. [...] Continue Reading »

2011 College All-Freshman Team
Jul. 5, 2011
Colin Moran leads the way on our listing of the best college freshman for the 2011 season. [...] Continue Reading »

2011 College Player Of The Year: Trevor Bauer
Jun. 15, 2011
UCLA's Trevor Bauer is our 2011 College Player of the Year. [...] Continue Reading »

2011 College All-America Team
Jun. 15, 2011
We present our 2011 College All-America teams. [...] Continue Reading »

2011 Midseason All-America Team
Apr. 6, 2011
Our picks for the best in college baseball at the halfway point. [...] Continue Reading »

2011 All-America Team Is Loaded
Feb. 4, 2011
The consensus among scouting directors is that this year's draft talent pool is the best since 2005. Driving that optimism is an outstanding group of college pitchers. [...] Continue Reading »

2011 Preseason All-America Team
Feb. 4, 2011
The 2011 Baseball America Preseason All-America Team as selected by a vote of MLB scouting directors. [...] Continue Reading »

Vanderbilt's Johnson Knows Pitching
Nov. 24, 2010
Derek Johnson is our 2010 Assistant Coach of the Year. [...] Continue Reading »

Title Helps Tanner Win Coach Of The Year
Jul. 9, 2010
South Carolina's Ray Tanner has won his second Baseball America College Coach of the Year award [...] Continue Reading »

2010 College Freshman All-America Team
Jul. 7, 2010
Here are the selections for our 2010 College Freshman All-America Team. [...] Continue Reading »

Freshman Of The Year Purke Lifted Program To New Heights
Jul. 7, 2010
Jim Schlossnagle still remembers the moment his program changed forever: Aug. 17, 2009. It was the deadline for major league teams to sign their drafted players or lose their rights, and the Texas Christian coach was nervously awaiting word from his prized recruit, Matt Purke—the No. 14 overall pick by the Rangers. [...] Continue Reading »

2010 College Player Of The Year
Jun. 16, 2010
For the first time in a decade, Baseball America's College Player of the Year is an underclassman. In the 30-year history of the award, underclassmen won just three times before this year, and all three were special talents who went on to long, successful big league careers: sophomores Robin Ventura of Oklahoma State (1987), John Olerud of Washington State (1988) and Mark Teixeira of Georgia Tech (2000). Rice sophomore third baseman Anthony Rendon fits the same mold. [...] Continue Reading »

2010 College All-America Team
Jun. 16, 2010
Stats for all three of the 2010 College All-America teams. [...] Continue Reading »

2010 College All-America First Team
Jun. 16, 2010
Our 2010 College All-America first team. [...] Continue Reading »

Pitchers Lead The Way On All-American Team
Feb. 5, 2010
For the second straight year following a 2008 bumper crop of hitters that included Pedro Alvarez, Buster Posey, Gordon Beckham and Justin Smoak, the college pitching talent significantly dwarfs the position players available in the draft. The disparity is even more glaring on our preseason All-America team selected by major league scouting directors, which includes only NCAA Division I players and thus excludes CC of Southern Nevada catcher Bryce Harper, the top overall prospect and best power hitter in the 2010 draft. Furthermore, the top D-I position player is Rice sophomore third baseman Anthony Rendon, who won't be draft-eligible until 2011. [...] Continue Reading »

2010 College Preseason All-Americans
Feb. 5, 2010
Our preseason 2010 College All-American team as picked by MLB scouting directors. [...] Continue Reading »

Baseball America Assistant Coach Of The Year
Nov. 27, 2009
Virginia's Kevin McMullan is the 2009 American Baseball Coaches Association/Baseball America Assistant Coach of the Year, not only because he's a gifted talent evaluator and an accomplished hitting coach, but also because he knows how to bring out the best in his players. [...] Continue Reading »

College Freshman Of The Year
Jun. 30, 2009
After becoming the first player to garner Conference USA player of the year and freshman of the year honors in the same season, Anthony Rendon has new hardware for the trophy case. To go along with being a second-team All-America selection, Rendon is Baseball America's Freshman of the Year. [...] Continue Reading »

2009 Freshman All-America Team
Jun. 30, 2009
Our 2009 picks for the best freshmen. [...] Continue Reading »

College Coach Of The Year
Jun. 29, 2009
Paul Mainieri has managed to follow in his dad's legendary footsteps. [...] Continue Reading »

College Player Of The Year
Jun. 12, 2009
As time passes, Stephen Strasburg might be remembered as the greatest pitcher in college baseball history, and his 2009 junior campaign as the most dominant season ever. Strasburg, San Diego State's 6-foot-4, 220-pound righthander, went 13-1, 1.32 with 195 strikeouts and 19 walks in 109 innings to lead the Aztecs to regionals for the first time since 1991. His 16.1 strikeouts per nine innings ranks third on the NCAA's single-season list. [...] Continue Reading »

2009 College All-Americans
Jun. 12, 2009
Our first team of 2009 College All-Americans. [...] Continue Reading »

2009 College All-Americans
Jun. 12, 2009
Stats for Baseball America's first, second and third-team All-Americans. [...] Continue Reading »

2009 Preseason All-American Team
Feb. 16, 2009
The top college players as picked by scouting directors. [...] Continue Reading »

2009 Preseason All-Americans
Feb. 16, 2009
This year's hitting talent can't compare to the 2008 crop, but it looks to be a great year for college arms. [...] Continue Reading »