''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 amateur baseball" 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''

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award is given to the best

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

Collegiate Baseball All-Americans

The ''Collegiate Baseball''

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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

''Louisville Slugger's'' Freshmen All-American Baseball Team

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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 – Mickey Storey (RHP, Florida Atlantic) *2006 – Alex Wilson (RHP, Winthrop) *2007 – Ryan Berry (RHP, Rice) *2008 – Chris Hernandez (LHP, University of Miami) *2009 – Trevor Bauer (RHP, UCLA) *2010 –

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(LHP, Texas Christian) *2011 – Corey Knebel (RHP, Texas) *2012 –

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(LHP, N.C. State) *2013 – Thomas Eshelman (RHP, Cal St. Fullerton) *2014 –

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(RHP, Ball State) *2015 – Alex Lange (RHP, LSU) *2016 – SP

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(RHP, Cal. St. Fullerton); RP Bryce Fehmel (RHP, Oregon State) *2017 – SP

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(RHP, St. John's); RP

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(RHP, Oregon) *2018 – SP

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(RHP, Minnesota); RP Max Meyer, (RHP, Minnesota) *2019 - SP Tyler Thornton (RHP, St. Mary’s); SP J. T. Ginn (RHP, Mississippi St.)

''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),

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(RHP Notre Dame),

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(2B, California) *1999 – James Jurries (2B, Tulane),

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(3B, Georgia Tech), Blair Varnes (RHP, Florida State) *2000 –

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(3B, Miami), Zane Carlson (RP, Baylor), Mike Fontenot (2B, Louisiana State) *2001 – Lane Mestepey (LHP, Louisiana State),

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(1B, Wake Forest) *2002 –

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(RHP, Rice), Vincent Sinisi (1B, Rice), Darryl Lawhorn (1B, East Carolina) *2003 – Mark Romanczuk (LHP, Stanford),

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(LHP, Minnesota), Jeff Clement (Southern California), Stephen Head (Mississippi) *2004 –

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(LHP, Alabama),

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(RHP, Washington), Blair Erickson (U.C. Irvine) *2005 –

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(Rice) *2006 – Pedro Alvarez (3B, Vanderbilt) *2007 –

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(1B, North Carolina) *2008 – Ryan Lockwood (OF, South Florida) *2009 –

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(3B, Rice) *2010 – Jeremy Baltz (OF, St. John’s) *2012 –

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(OF, Oregon State) *2013 –

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(SS, Louisiana State) *2014 – Jake Noll (2B, Florida Gulf Coast) *2015 – Brendan McKay (Louisville), J. J. Schwarz, (Florida) *2016 –

Seth Beer Seth Michael Beer (born September 18, 1996) is an American professional baseball outfielder and first baseman for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball for the Clemson Tigers. Beer made his MLB debut ...

(Clemson), Kevin Strohschein (Tennessee Tech) *2017 – Kevin Milam (DH/RHP, Saint Mary's), Braden Shewmake (2B, Texas A&M) *2018 –

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(1B, Arizona State), Ryan Ward (OF, Bryant)

References

External links

''Collegiate Baseball'' website
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