Nationals Arm Race

Last post covering local baseball for 2019; this one tries to summarize all the various “Player of the Year” announcements from various shops, both local and national.

I kind of ran out of gas on this one; fighting through a dozen different paywalls and I never could find the official announcements of Virginia regional all-player lists.   But this is still a pretty good summary of the various POTY lists.

Individual Player Accolades Announced

In addition to being playoff-baseball time, this is also the time of the year that we start to see player awards.  I’ll put these in as they publish, but we won’t expect most of these until the end of June.

National Lists and State breakouts as available.

• Gatorade Player of the year awards.  National POTY was Bobby Witt Jr., drafted 2nd overall in the 2019 baseball draft.
  • Maryland:  Jack Bulger, Jr. C from DeMatha.  Early commit to Vanderbilt.
  • Washington DC: Collin Bosley-Smith, Jr. RHP from Wilson.   Early commit to Duke.
  • Virginia: Nate Savino, Jr. LHP from Potomac Falls.  Early commit to UVA.

• MaxPreps High School All-Americans: Bobby Witt Jr. National POTY.   Local players: Jack Bulger (DeMatha), Lyle Miller-Green, RHP/1B from Lake Braddock named to 2nd team.
• Baseball America High School All-Americans: no POTY declared.  No local players on 1st, 2nd or 3rd teams.
• USA Today/American Family All-USA teams: Bobby Witt Jr. National POTY.  Local players: Jack Bulger (DeMatha) named to 1st team, Brett Cook from Benedictine 2nd team.  Jamari Baylor HM.
• American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings 2019 High School All Americans:  Bobby Witt named POTY.  local players Jack Bulger C DeMatha and Joe Clancy RHP Westfields named to 3rd team.
  • (Index of all ABCA/Rawlings all-american lists, High School and College, dating to 1949 (!) is at this link, and all POTYs for all levels historically at this link).
• Collegiate Baseball High School All-Americans: Bobby Witt Jr. National POTY.   Local players on 1st team: Jose Torres, SS Calvert Hall HS in Baltimore (NC State commit.).  2nd team: Jack Bulger (DeMatha), Parker Landwehr C Calvert Hall (Boston College commit).
• Perfectgame.org/Rawlings All-Americans: (unclear if they’re still doing these lists).
  • Maryland:
  • Washington DC:
  • Virginia:
• PrepBaseballReport; Brett Bady national POTY.  12th overall pick by NY Mets.
  • All Maryland Team: Ryan Calvert, RHP/1B from LaPlata HS POTY as a junior.
  • All Virginia/DC Team:  Lyle Miller-Green, RHP/1B from Lake Braddock POTY.  George Mason commit.

DC/MD/VA Local

• Washington Post All-Met team 2019: Lyle Miller-Green, RHP/1B from Lake Braddock POTY.  George Mason commit.
  • (here’s a great list of every All-Met team named since 1990 in all sports; fantastic resource for local prep sports fans).
• The Baltimore Sun’s All-Metro Team: Jose Torres, SS Calvert Hall HS in Baltimore.  NC State commit.
• Richmond Times-Dispatch All-Metro Team: (behind a paywall)
• Virginian Pilot All-Tidewater team: Mason Dunaway, SS Hickory is POTY.  JMU commit.
• Virginia Class 6 All Region Teams
  • Region A (Tidewater) All Regional team:
  • Region B (Richmond) All Regional team:
  • Region C (Northern VA, inner suburbs) All-Regional team: Lyle Miller-Green, RHP/1B from Lake Braddock POTY.  George Mason commit.
  • Region D (Northern VA, Western Suburbs) All Regional team: Zach Agnos, RHP from Battlefield HS POTY.  ECU commit like his brother ahead of him.
• Virginia Class 5 All Region Teams
  • Region A (Tidewater area) All-Regional team:
  • Region B (Richmond) All Regional team:
  • Region C (Northern VA) All Regional team: Ben Williamson, SS Freedom-South Riding.  William & Mary commit.
  • Region D (Northwest and Western VA) All Regional team: Drew Harlow, RHP/SS Halifax county POTY.  Undecided/no commit as of 6/8/19
• Virginia Class 4 All Region Teams
  • Region A (Tidewater area) All-Regional team:
  • Region B (Richmond) All Regional team:
  • Region C (Northern VA) All Regional team: Joe Vogatsky, jr RHP/3B from Kettle Run HS POTY.   early commit to JMU.
  • Region D (Northwest and Western VA) All Regional team:
• Other Virginia All-Regional teams: harder to come by:
  • Class 3 Region B (Culpepper/Warrenton area) All Regional team: Jake (Jakob) Dudley, 1B/3B from Culpeper County HS is POTY.  No college listed.
  • Class 2 Region B (NorthWest VA) all Region Team:  T.R. Williams, Sophomore RHP from Page County POTY.
• Northern Virginia All-District teams:

• NovaBaseballMagazine Nova Nine top 100 list: Joey Kamide‘s top 100 players from the 85 high schools in the NoVa coverage area.
• NovaBaseballMagazine Nova Nine:  Lyle Miller-Green, RHP/1B from Lake Braddock POTY.  George Mason commit.
• VHSL All-State Teams: all 6 teams available from this link.
  • 6-A: Lyle Miller-Green, RHP/1B from Lake Braddock POTY.  George Mason commit.
  • 5-A: Michael Tolson RHP/oF from Stafford POTY.   Western Carolina U commit.
  • 4-A: Quade Tomlin, SS jr from Liberty Christian Academy POTY.  Liberty U commit.
  • 3-A: Jacob Critzer, C Fluvana County HS POTY.    No college commitment known.
  • 2-A: Andrew Potojecki, RHP Chatham HS (Danville) POTY.  Longwood College commit.
  • 1-A: Matthew Kleinfelter, RHP Lancaster HS POTY.   JMU commit.
• VISAA’s All-State teams
  • Division III All State Team: Tanner Schobel, SS Walsingham Academy  (Williamsburg) POTY as Junior.  Early Virginia Tech commit.
  • Division II All State Team: Jeremy Wagner, OF/RHP from the Miller School (Albemarle) POTY as Junior.  Early Austin Peay commit.
  • Division I All State Team: Aiden Kuhle, RHP/1B from Cape Henry Collegiate (Virginia Beach) POTY.  Roanoke College commit.
• Maryland All-MIAA All-State teams:
  • MIAA A division: behind a paywall
  • MIAA B division: behind a paywall
  • MIAA C division: behind a paywall
• Maryland State Association of Baseball Coaches (MSABC) All-Maryland teams: four regional all-star teams picked for exhibitions.
  • here’s a great history of the MSABC games, including past rosters.
• Maryland Brooks Robinson All-Star game rosters
• Anne-Arundel County All-Baseball team: unknown
• Montgomery County All-Baseball Team: unknown
• All Baltimore-City Baseball team: behind a paywall
• All Fredericksburg Baseball team:  Michael Tolson RHP/oF from Stafford POTY.   Western Carolina U commit.
• All WCAC: unknown
• All IAC: unknown
• All MAC: unknown

If I missed an award, or if you know of something I don’t, don’t hesitate to post.

Past awards that no longer seem to be in existence:

• Louisville Slugger All-Americans: last awarded in 2016.
• National High School Coaches Association (NHSCA) POTY: last awarded in 2017.
• Under Armor All-Americans: perhaps there used to be selections, but now there’d just a game mid-July of mostly rising senior all stars.
• USA Today/American Family All-State Teams and POTYs: stopped doing state-level all-state baseball teams for 2019.

Welcome to my DC Area Prep Baseball Tourney coverage for 2018.

Here’s the rough schedule of posting and what we’ll cover:

• #1: DC/MD/VA District High School Tournament Report: post-season kickoff .  Covers: MD regionals, VA district brackets, Private school tourney updates.  Usually publishes the week before Memorial day tournament finals.
• #2: Maryland State Champs, Virginia District and Regional Champs crowned.   Covers: MD state finals, VA regionals tourneys, DC regular season results.  Usually publishes after the Memorial Day weekend tournaments finish up.
• #3: Virginia State Champions crowned.  Covers: VA state tourneys, recaps MD, DC, Private School results.  Publishes mid-June once the Va state tourney wraps up.
• #4: Players of the Year/All-State lists and final rankings (this post); publishes early July once all the all-state lists are published

We now should be through the “All-Everything” lists start getting published.  Here’s my tracker of them.  I try to note the player of the year in each case.  If i’m missing something, please let me know.  I’ve put results in red that I either cannot find or are behind a paywall or seem to have been discontinued.  I realize this is kind of anti-climactic at this point; lots of these players mentioned were drafted weeks ago and may already be playing.  But it takes some of these orgs til late June/early July to announce.

Individual Player Accolades Announced

In addition to being playoff-baseball time, this is also the time of the year that we start to see player awards.  I’ll put these in as they publish, but we won’t expect most of these until the end of June.

• Gatorade announced their player of the year awards.  National POTY is LHP Ryan Weathers from Loretto HS in Loretto Tennessee.  Vanderbilt commit, went 7th overall in the 2018 draft.  None of our local 3 players were drafted.
  • Maryland: Ryan Archibald, RHP/SS from John Carroll HS (Bel Air).  Committed to Arizona.
  • Washington DC: Zach Tsakounis, LHP/OF from St. Johns.  committed to William & Mary.
  • Virginia: Cade Huntgate, RHP/SS for Abingdon HS (Bristol).  Committed to Florida State.

• Louisville Slugger All-Americans: not sure if being named any longer.
• National High School Coaches Association (NHSCA) All Mid Atlantic Region:
• MaxPreps High School All-Americans: Nolan Gorman POTY from Phoenix AZ.  19th overall pick to St. Louis.  Local players selected include LCA’s Wesley Clarke to 1st team, Adam Hackenberg, Kody Milton to 2nd team.
• Baseball America High School All-Americans:
• Under Armor All-Americans:
• USA Today/American Family All-USA teams: J.T. Ginn, Brandon HS (Miss) is POTY.  Mississippi State commit, 1st round draft pick (30th overall) in 2018 draft.  Riverdale Baptist’s Corey Rosier was named to the 2nd team.
• USA Today/American Family All-State Teams and POTYs:
  • Maryland: Kody Milton, Inf Severna Park MD is POTY.  UMaryland commit
  • Washington DC: Collin Bosley-Smith, RHP from Wilson HS, a sophomore (!).
  • Virginia:  Wesley Clarke, C for Liberty Christian Academy is POTY.    South Carolina commit, 40th round draft pick 2018.
• American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings High School All Americans:
• Collegiate Baseball High School All-Americans:
• Perfectgame.org/Rawlings All-Americans:  Jeremiah Jackson, St. Luke’s Episcopal HS (Ala.) is PG National POTY.  Mississippi State commit, 2nd round 2018 pick by Angels.   Matthew Libratadore is national pitcher of the year, Ryan Weathers is national 2-way player of the year.
  • Maryland:  Ryan Archibald, RHP/SS from John Carroll HS (Bel Air).  Committed to Arizona.
  • Washington DC: (not named)
  • Virginia: Adam Hackenberg, C from the Miller School is POTY.  Clemson commit, 39th round draft pick 2018.
• Washington Post All-Met teams:  Kody Milton, Inf Severna Park MD is POTY.  UMaryland commit.
  • (here’s a great list of every All-Met team named since 1990 in all sports; fantastic resource for local prep sports fans).
• The Baltimore Sun’s All-Metro Team:
• Richmond Times-Dispatch All-Metro Team:
• Virginian Pilot All-Tidewater team:
• Virginia Class 6 All Region Teams
  • Region A (Tidewater) All Regional team:
  • Region B (Richmond) All Regional team:
  • Region C (Occoquan) All-Regional team: Lake Braddock’s Matt Thomas (W&M commit) named POTY.
  • Region D (North) All Regional team: Madison’s Kyle Novak (JMU commit) named Region POTY.  Marshall’s Patrick Halligan (GMU commit) and South Lakes’ Josh Taylor (uncommitted) named co-pitchers of the year.
• Virginia Class 5 All Region Teams
  • Region A (Tidewater area) All-Regional team: Hickory RHP Drew Stanley (a sophomore) named Region POTY.   Link behind a pay-wall for full team.
  • Region B (Richmond) All Regional team:
  • Region C (Northern VA) All Regional team: Potomac Falls LHP Nate Savino (a sophomore) named Region POTY.
  • Region D (Northwest and Western VA) All Regional team: Potomac LHP Brody Mack (a junior) named Region POTY.
• Virginia Class 4 All Region Teams
  • Region A (Tidewater area) All-Regional team:
  • Region B (Richmond) All Regional team:
  • Region C (Northern VA) All Regional team: Riverside Jr SS Carson Swank co-POTY along with Blaze O’Saben, SS for Fauquier HS (UMBC commit).
  • Region D (Northwest and Western VA) All Regional team:
• Other Virginia All-Regional teams: harder to come by:
  • Class 3 Region B (Culpepper/Warrenton area): Max Harper, 1B for Spotsylania is POTY.   Uncommitted as of this writing.
• Northern Virginia All-District teams: Available at this link at Novabaseballmagazine.com, thanks to Joey Kamide for all his hard work.
• NovaBaseballMagazine Nova Nine: Madison’s Kyle Novak (JMU commit) named NovaNine POTY.
• PrepBaseballReport
  • All Maryland Team: 5/29/18 team released, POTYs announced June 11th-14th.  Jacob Zebron, RHP Colonel Richardson HS POTY, NC State commit, 18th round draft pick.
  • All Virginia/DC Team: Wesley Clarke, C for Liberty Christian Academy is POTY.    South Carolina commit, 40th round draft pick 2018.
• VHSL All-State Teams:
  • 6-A: Matt Thomas, C Lake Braddock is POTY.  William & Mary commit.
  • 5-A: Tevin Tucker, SS Prince George HS is POTY.  West Virginia commit.
  • 4-A: Wesley Clarke, C for Liberty Christian Academy is POTY.    South Carolina commit, 40th round draft pick 2018.
  • 3-A: Max Harper, 1B for Spotsylania is POTY.   Uncommitted as of this writing.
  • 2-A: T.R. Williams, a *freshman* RHP from Page County, is POTY.
  • 1-A: Carson Bell, SS from Washington & Lee HS POTY.
• VISAA’s All-State teams: named in early may and announced for all three divisions here.  Players of the Year;
  • Division I All State Team.  Nick Biddison, SS St. Christophers in Richmond is POTY.  Virginia Tech commit.
  • Division II All State Team.  Adam Hackenberg, C from the Miller School is POTY.  Clemson commit, 39th round draft pick 2018.
  • Division III All State Team
• Maryland All-MIAA All-State teams: behind a paywall that i’m tired of fighting 🙂
  • MIAA A division: behind a paywall
  • MIAA B division: behind a paywall
  • MIAA C division: behind a paywall
• Maryland State Association of Baseball Coaches (MSABC) All-Maryland teams: four regional all-star teams picked for exhibitions played over Memorial Day weekend.
  • here’s a great history of the MSABC games, including past rosters.
• Maryland Brooks Robinson All-Star game rosters: announced 5/31/18.
• Anne-Arundel County All-Baseball team:
• Montgomery County All-Baseball Team: Michael Bouma, 1B from Sherwood player of the year (UMaryland commit), Ben Vok, RHP Sherwood (a junior) Pitcher of the year.
• All Baltimore-City 2017 Baseball team: behind a paywall
• All WCAC 2018: Thomas Russell, RHP from Paul VI.  Navy commit.
• All IAC 2018: Clark Klitenic, LHP from St. Albans was POTY as a junior.  Duke commit.
• All MAC 2018:

If I missed an award, or if you know of something I don’t, don’t hesitate to post.