''Collegiate Baseball Newspaper'' (also known as ''Collegiate Baseball Magazine'' and ''Collegiate Baseball'') is an American publication based in

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that considers itself the "voice of

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" which has been published for over 40 years. The publication gives out several awards: ''Collegiate Baseball'' Player of the Year, ''Collegiate Baseball'' Coach of the Year, and ''Collegiate Baseball'' All-Americans. It is published twice a month from January until June, and then once each in September and October. The "Collegiate Baseball" newspaper poll is college sports' oldest baseball poll. A ranking of the top 30 teams is released prior to the season, weekly throughout the season, and after the conclusion of the

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. It started with the 1957

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season.

Collegiate Baseball Player of the Year

The ''Collegiate Baseball'' Player of the Year award is given to the best player in

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Division I. It was first awarded in 1984.

Collegiate Baseball Coach of the Year

The ''Collegiate Baseball'' Coach of the Year award is given to the best

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in NCAA Division I. It was first awarded in 1980.

Collegiate Baseball All-Americans

The ''Collegiate Baseball'' All-Americans award is given to the best players at various positions in NCAA Division I. It was first awarded in 1981.

Collegiate Baseball Freshmen All-Americans

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''Collegiate Baseball'' Freshman Pitcher of the Year

Beginning in 2016, the magazine began awarding honors to freshman starting pitchers and freshman relief pitchers. *2005 –

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(RHP, Florida Atlantic) *2006 – Alex Wilson (RHP, Winthrop) *2007 – Ryan Berry (RHP, Rice) *2008 –

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(LHP, University of Miami) *2009 – Trevor Bauer (RHP, UCLA) *2010 – Matt Purke (LHP,

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) *2011 – Corey Knebel (RHP, Texas) *2012 – Carlos Rodon (LHP, N.C. State) *2013 – Thomas Eshelman (RHP, Cal St. Fullerton) *2014 – Zach Plesac (RHP, Ball State) *2015 –

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(RHP, LSU) *2016 – SP

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(RHP, Cal. St. Fullerton); RP

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(RHP, Oregon State) *2017 – SP Sean Mooney (RHP, St. John's); RP Kenyon Yovan (RHP, Oregon) *2018 – SP Patrick Fredrickson (RHP, Minnesota); RP Max Meyer, (RHP, Minnesota) *2019 - SP

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(RHP, St. Mary’s); SP

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''Collegiate Baseball'' Freshman Player of the Year

Before 2005, there was not a specific award known as the "Freshmen Pitcher of the Year." Rather, there were multiple Players of the Year awarded each season. *1998 – Hayden Gliemmo (LHP, Auburn), Aaron Heilman (RHP Notre Dame), Xavier Nady (2B, California) *1999 – James Jurries (2B, Tulane), Mark Teixeira (3B, Georgia Tech), Blair Varnes (RHP, Florida State) *2000 – Kevin Howard (3B, Miami), Zane Carlson (RP, Baylor), Mike Fontenot (2B, Louisiana State) *2001 – Lane Mestepey (LHP, Louisiana State), Jamie D'Antona (1B, Wake Forest) *2002 – Philip Humber (RHP, Rice),

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(1B, Rice), Darryl Lawhorn (1B, East Carolina) *2003 –

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(LHP, Stanford), Glen Perkins (LHP, Minnesota), Jeff Clement (Southern California), Stephen Head (Mississippi) *2004 – Wade LeBlanc (LHP, Alabama),

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(RHP, Washington), Blair Erickson (U.C. Irvine) *2005 – Joe Savery (Rice) *2006 – Pedro Alvarez (3B, Vanderbilt) *2007 – Dustin Ackley (1B, North Carolina) *2008 – Ryan Lockwood (OF, South Florida) *2009 – Anthony Rendon (3B, Rice) *2010 – Jeremy Baltz (OF, St. John’s) *2012 – Michael Conforto (OF, Oregon State) *2013 –

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(SS, Louisiana State) *2014 –

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(2B, Florida Gulf Coast) *2015 – Brendan McKay (Louisville),

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, (Florida) *2016 – Seth Beer (Clemson), Kevin Strohschein (Tennessee Tech) *2017 –

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(DH/RHP, Saint Mary's),

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(2B, Texas A&M) *2018 – Spencer Torkelson (1B, Arizona State), Ryan Ward (OF, Bryant)

References

External links

''Collegiate Baseball'' website
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