2025 preseason All-Americans, according to D1Baseball

Editor’s note: The following article was published first on d1baseball.com. 

Top-ranked Texas A&M and No. 2 ranked Virginia lead all programs with four players each on D1Baseball’s 2025 Preseason All-America teams. The Aggies and Cavaliers also place two players each on the first team (outfielder Jace LaViolette and ace Levi Prager for A&M, catcher Jacob Ference and second baseman Henry Godbout for UVa), which is tied for the most first-teamers, along with Clemson and UC Santa Barbara.

No. 6 North Carolina is the only other team to place more than two players across D1Baseball’s three All-America teams. The Tar Heels have three All-Americans, led by first-teamer Jason DeCaro, an ace right-hander.

Programs with two All-Americans include Arkansas, Duke, LSU, Oklahoma State, Texas, Vanderbilt and Wake Forest.

The ACC leads all conferences with 10 first-team All-Americans, followed by the SEC (three) and Big West (two). The ACC and SEC are tied for the most All-Americans overall with 17 apiece, followed by the Big 12 (four), Big Ten and Big West (three apiece). Overall, 12 different conferences are represented on the three 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 2025 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 2025 — the players who are best equipped to perform against elite college competition this spring.

First team