2021 D1Baseball First-Team Preseason All-Americans

Season Preview D1Baseball Staff - January 25, 2021

SEE ALSO: 2021 D1Baseball Third-Team Preseason All-Americans
SEE ALSO: 2021 D1Baseball Second-Team Preseason All-Americans

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The top five teams in the 2021 D1Baseball Preseason Top 25 rankings dominate D1Baseball’s Preseason All-America teams. No. 2 UCLA and No. 4 Vanderbilt are the only schools to produce multiple first-team Preseason All-Americans this year, as shortstop Matt McLain and ace Zach Pettway represent the Bruins, while rotationmates Kumar Rocker and Jack Leiter represent the Commodores.

The Bruins also tied for the most All-Americans overall (three), with reliever Kyle Mora landing on the second team. The only other clubs with three Preseason All-Americans are No. 1 Florida (first-team outfielder Jud Fabian plus second-team pitchers Tommy Mace and Hunter Barco) and No. 5 Louisville (first-team catcher Henry Davis, second-team outfielder Levi Usher and second-team third baseman Alex Binelas).

The following teams landed two players apiece on the All-America teams: Boston College, Miami, NC State and Virginia from the ACC; Arkansas, LSU, Tennessee and Vandy from the SEC; and Oklahoma from the Big 12.

The SEC leads all conferences with seven players on the first team and 16 All-Americans overall. The ACC is next in both categories with five members of the first team and 15 All-Americans overall. The Big 12 is next with five All-Americans overall, followed by the Pac-12 and Big Ten with four apiece. The American Athletic, Big East, Big West, Missouri Valley, Southern and Sun Belt each landed one player on the 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 2021 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 2021 — the players who are best equipped to perform against elite college competition this spring.

First Team Preseason All-Americans

Pos.	Name, School	Year	AVG/OBP/SLG	OPS	AB	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB
C	Henry Davis, Louisville	3YR SO	.372/.481/.698	1.179	43	5	0	3	13	8	4	1
1B	Maxwell Costes, Maryland	3YR SO	.432/.620/.750	1.370	44	2	0	4	15	16	7	3
2B	Max Ferguson, Tennessee	3YR SO	.333/.462/.524	.986	42	2	0	2	6	8	9	9
3B	Cody Morissette, Boston College	3YR SO	.448/.522/.655	1.177	58	6	0	2	11	9	6	3
SS	Matt McLain, UCLA	3YR SO	.397/.422/.621	1.043	58	4	0	3	19	4	13	1
OF	Jud Fabian, Florida	3YR SO	.294/.407/.603	1.010	68	6	0	5	13	13	18	2
OF	Christian Franklin, Arkansas	3YR SO	.381/.467/.619	1.086	63	4	1	3	11	10	14	3
OF	Chris Newell, Virginia	2YR FR	.407/.545/.729	1.274	59	5	1	4	20	13	21	8
DH	Adrian Del Castillo, Miami	3YR SO	.358/.478/.547	1.025	53	2	1	2	15	11	8	1
UT	Davis Sharpe, Clemson	3YR SO	.311/.436/.622	1.058	45	2	0	4	10	8	14	1

Pos.	Name	Year	W	L	ERA	G	SV	IP	BB	SO	OBA
SP	Jack Leiter, Vanderbilt	2YR FR	2	0	1.72	4	0	15.2	8	22	.098
SP	Ty Madden, Texas	3YR SO	3	0	1.80	4	0	25	4	26	.196
SP	Zach Pettway, UCLA	4YR JR	3	0	1.05	4	0	25.2	1	29	.141
SP	Connor Prielipp, Alabama	2YR FR	3	0	0.00	4	0	21	6	35	.077
SP	Kumar Rocker, Vanderbilt	3YR SO	2	1	1.80	3	0	15	8	28	.118
RP	Devin Fontenot, LSU	4YR JR	1	0	0.90	7	4	10	4	17	.143
RP	Jason Ruffcorn, Oklahoma	5YR SR	1	0	0.00	7	5	8	1	12	.115
UT	Davis Sharpe, Clemson	3YR SO	1	1	3.93	4	0	18.1	4	20	.270