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For as many legitimate options as there were for the 2017 Perfect Game/Rawlings Midseason Player, Pitcher, Freshman and Coach of the Year awards, the PG college staff pretty quickly and unanimously agreed on the four eventual winners.
The Player of the Year honor goes to Louisville's
Brendan McKay
, who has somewhat of an "unfair" advantage in that he hits and pitches at a high level, and up until a couple of weeks ago his batting average was higher than his ERA, which is hard to even conceive. However, that rare talent is the reason why he is the best player in all of college baseball, which we don't believe is an opinion but rather a statement of fact, and he has led the second-ranked Cardinals to an impressive start to open 2017 by dominating both on the mound and at the plate.
Luke Heimlich
, the Midseason Pitcher of the Year, has been equally dominant as the staff ace for the top-ranked Beavers. He has delivered numerous key outings so far this season, mixing and matching between his low-90s fastball and the rest of his four-pitch repertoire to successfully navigate through dangerous lineups, including an impressive start to the Pac-12 schedule the past three weeks. The competitive lefthander has only allowed three runs in seven starts, as four of the games he started (none of which he finished) resulted in a shutout and he went the distance last Friday in a 3-1 win over Stanford.
The Midseason Freshman of the Year is
Braden Shewmake
, who stepped onto Texas A&M's campus in College Station with quite a bit of fanfare, and lived up to his promise with a strong showing in the fall. He opened this year as the starting second baseman for the Aggies and has continued to hit at a high level, picking up where SEC Player of the Year Boomer White left off from a season ago. With a lightning quick bat and rangy defensive skills that likely will allow him to slide across the second base bag to shortstop in the years to come, Shewmake could be a college baseball star in the making.
Dave Tollett of Florida Gulf Coast was one of the easiest choices as the PG/Rawlings Midseason Coach of the Year. Tollett has guided the Eagles, who opened the season unranked, to a 24-6 overall record and are ranked 16th as of Monday, April 3. FGCU went 17-1 in the month of March, which included series sweeps of UNC Wilmington, Rutgers and Jackson State, as well as midweek victories over Florida (twice), Florida State, South Florida and Miami. Tollett is the only coach FGCU has ever had (baseball began in 2002), and he has guided the Eagles to the Atlantic Sun Championship four times in 15 years.
The Midseason Team of the Year is the most obvious as Oregon State is currently ranked No. 1 with a near-flawless 25-1 record heading into their fourth Pac-12 series of the year as they host the reigning conference champion Utah Utes. Head Coach Pat Casey has kept his squad hungry (and probably a little bit mad) looking for redemption after missing the 2016 postseason despite positing a respectable 35-19 overall record. The Beavers loudest statement thus far came two weeks ago when they swept the 2016 College World Series runner-up Arizona Wildcats.
Midseason Perfect Game/Rawlings College Baseball Awards:
Player of the Year:
Brendan McKay
, lhp/1b, Louisville
Pitcher of the Year:
Luke Heimlich
, lhp, Oregon State
Freshman of the Year:
Braden Shewmake
, 2b, Texas A&M
Coach of the Year: Dave Tollett, Florida Gulf Coast
Team of the Year: Oregon State Beavers
Midseason
Perfect Game/Rawlings
College Baseball All-American Teams
Statistics for games played through Monday, April 3
First Team
Pos.
Player
School
AVG
OBP
SLG
R
H
2B
3B
HR
RBI
SB
C
Joey Bart
Georgia Tech
.345
.419
.727
24
38
9
0
11
31
2
1B
Ben Fisher
Eastern Kentucky
.412
.500
.895
43
47
10
0
15
44
0
2B
Jake Scheiner
Houston
.415
.467
.821
21
44
11
1
10
33
1
3B
Jake Burger
Missouri State
.387
.473
.774
30
41
8
0
11
31
2
SS
Kevin Merrell
South Florida
.427
.504
.641
29
44
7
3
3
18
16
OF
Brent Rooker
Mississippi State
.422
.511
.890
24
46
18
3
9
43
14
OF
Keston Hiura
UC Irvine
.391
.505
.759
23
34
14
0
6
21
1
OF
Jared Oliva
Arizona
.349
.421
.613
30
37
12
2
4
35
6
DH
Ryan Flick
Tennessee Tech
.393
.475
.718
36
46
17
0
7
32
1
UT
Brendan McKay
Louisville
.417
.532
.679
24
35
5
1
5
20
0
Pos.
Player
School
ERA
W-L
CG
SV
IP
H
SO
BB
BAA
SP
Luke Hemlich
Oregon State
0.52
5-0
1
0
52
26
55
10
.145
SP
J.B. Bukauskas
North Carolina
0.96
5-0
0
0
47
24
70
11
.151
SP
Steven Gingery
Texas Tech
0.92
6-0
0
0
48.2
26
54
13
.156
SP
Jared Poche
Louisiana State
1.15
6-1
1
0
47
29
31
10
.178
SP
J.C. Cloney
Arizona
1.75
6-0
0
0
46.1
33
34
9
.195
RP
Nick Sandlin
Southern Miss
0.00
5-0
0
3
24
9
37
10
.114
RP
T.J. Sikkema
Missouri
0.47
5-0
0
3
38
18
49
8
.143
UT
Brendan McKay
Louisville
1.18
4-1
0
0
38
25
57
9
.187
Second Team
Pos.
Player
School
AVG
OBP
SLG
R
H
2B
3B
HR
RBI
SB
C
Grant Koch
Arkansas
.319
.423
.604
20
29
6
1
6
27
3
1B
Gavin Sheets
Wake Forest
.310
.387
.621
30
36
7
1
9
43
0
2B
Braden Shewmake
Texas A&M
.365
.397
.563
24
46
12
2
3
34
8
3B
Taylor Schwaner
Southeastern Louisiana
.390
.500
.740
27
39
6
4
7
39
8
SS
Nick Madrigal
Oregon State
.406
.470
.574
25
41
8
0
3
17
8
OF
Jeren Kendall
Vanderbilt
.325
.418
.667
33
39
5
3
10
29
10
OF
Griffin Conine
Duke
.322
.430
.619
33
38
10
2
7
34
7
OF
Tyler Adkison
San Diego State
.437
.544
.859
20
31
7
1
7
28
3
DH
Charlie Madden
Mercer
.312
.445
.752
33
34
12
0
12
34
0
UT
Adam Haseley
Virginia
.398
.500
.704
31
43
7
1
8
25
7
Pos.
Player
School
ERA
W-L
CG
SV
IP
H
SO
BB
BAA
SP
David Peterson
Oregon
2.14
6-1
0
0
46.1
41
66
4
.233
SP
Jake Irvin
Oklahoma
1.16
5-0
0
0
31
21
42
8
.189
SP
Kutter Crawford
Florida Gulf Coast
1.04
5-0
0
1
34.2
20
49
11
.163
SP
Jared Janczak
Texas Christian
2.05
5-0
0
0
48.1
22
50
12
.135
SP
Gunner Leger
Louisiana
1.27
5-1
0
0
42.2
27
48
11
.186
RP
Nate Harris
Louisiana Tech
0.76
3-0
1
7
35.1
21
50
3
.163
RP
Logan Salow
Kentucky
0.41
0-2
0
6
22
11
31
6
.151
UT
Adam Haseley
Virginia
3.43
4-1
0
0
42
42
31
10
.264
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