Ranking The Top 50 Names In College Baseball

As the only person on the Baseball America staff whose last name rhymes with a fruit, I took it upon myself to gather and rank the 50 most impressive names in all of college baseball.

It wasn’t easy.

Unlike other BA rankings, these rankings don’t reflect players’ skills, tools or stats—just names. There are hundreds of gems across the country, but these 50 stand out above the rest.

1. Itchy Burts, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
2. Lars Nootbaar, Southern California
3. Handsome Monica, Louisiana-Lafayette
4. Zach Boop, Lehigh
5. Kona Quiggle, Grand Canyon
6. Seth Beer, Clemson
7. Trenton Stoner, IPFW
8. Spencer Brickhouse, East Carolina
9. Tarik Skubal, Seattle
10. Drew Gooch, Texas-Arlington
11. Steele Walker, Oklahoma
12. Al Pesto, Duke
13. Rayne Supple, Wake Forest
14. Trevor Tinder, Georgia
15. Sam Tweedt, Oregon State
16. Travis Swaggerty, South Alabama
17. Brock Deatherage, N.C. State
18. Burl Carraway, Dallas Baptist
19. Layne Looney, Richmond
20. Spencer Torkelson, Arizona State
21. Shaddon Peavyhouse, Coastal Carolina
22. Blaze Bohall, Nevada-Las Vegas
23. Quinn Snarskis, Illinois
24. Cullen Kafka, Oregon
25. Emerson Hancock, Georgia
26. Raven Beeman, UMBC
27. Bobby Honeyman, Stony Brook
28. Channing Nesbitt, Washington
29. Declan Cronin, Holy Cross
30. Satchel Jerzembeck, North Carolina
31. Mojo Hagge, Nebraska
32. Storme Cooper, Southern Miss
33. Matt Frisbee, UNC-Greensboro
34. Chad Plant, UC Santa Barbara
35. Chandler Fidel, Arkansas-Little Rock
36. Brandon Bonanno, Stony Brook
37. Gunner Hellstrom, Nebraska
38. Gaudencio Lucca, Texas Southern
39. Rigsby Mosley, Troy
40. Boyd Vander Kooi, Arizona State
41. Logan Goodnight, Penn State
42. Dallas Tessar, North Carolina
43. T.J. Shook, South Carolina
44. Wendell Champion II, Houston
45. Harrison Goonewardene, Washington
46. Brison Cronenbold, Nebraska
47. Jason Ruffcorn, Texas A&M
48. Drake Maningo, Seattle
49. Octavien Moyer, Florida A&M
50. Cruz Daddario, Cal State Northridge