Baseball America Freshman of the Year

The Baseball America Freshman of the Year is an award is given annually to the best freshman (first-year) baseball player in the NCAA Division I. The award is sponsored by the Baseball America magazine and was first awarded in 1982.

Award Winners

Year	Player	School	Position
1982	Cory Snyder	Brigham Young	3B
1983	Rafael Palmeiro	Mississippi State	OF
1984	Greg Swindell	Texas	P
1985	Jack McDowell	Stanford	P
	Ron Wenrich	Georgia	OF
1986	Robin Ventura	Oklahoma State	3B
1987	Paul Carey	Stanford	OF
1988	Kirk Dressendorfer	Texas	P
1989	Alex Fernandez	Miami (Florida)	P
1990	Jeffrey Hammonds	Stanford	OF
1991	Brooks Kieschnick	Texas	P-DH
1992	Todd Walker	Louisiana State	2B
1993	Brett Laxton	Louisiana State	P
1994	R.A. Dickey	Tennessee	P
1995	Kyle Peterson	Stanford	P
1996	Pat Burrell	Miami (Florida)	3B
1997	Brian Roberts	North Carolina	SS
1998	Xavier Nady	California	2B-SS
1999	James Jurries	Tulane	2B
2000	Keith Howard	Miami (Florida)	3B-SS
2001	Michael Aubrey	Tulane	P-OF
2002	Stephen Drew	Florida State	SS
2003	Ryan Braun	Miami (Florida)	SS
2004	Wade LeBlanc	Alabama	P
2005	Joe Savery	Rice	UT
2006	Pedro Alvarez	Vanderbilt	3B
2007	Dustin Ackley	UNC	1B
2008	Chris Hernandez	University of Miami	P
2009	Anthony Rendon	Rice University	3B
2010	Matt Purke	Texas Christian University	P
2011	Colin Moran	University of North Carolina	3B
2012	Carlos Rodon	North Carolina State University	P
2013	Alex Bregman	Louisiana State University	SS
2014	Zack Collins	University of Miami	C
2015	Brendan McKay	University of Louisville	P/1B
2016	Seth Beer	Clemson University	OF/1B
2017	Matt Wallner	University of Southern Mississippi	OF/P
2018	Kevin Abel	Oregon State University	P
2019	Kumar Rocker	Vanderbilt University	P