
10 true sophomores that are building upon strong freshman seasons
10 true sophomores that are building upon strong freshman seasons
Great season of newcomers always gets buzzing at baseball at university. It is a sign that there is a new child in the block and a new player you can watch out for a diamond.
Rookie and The Sophomore season has an even heavier weight. It will double the potential of the player and prove that they can maintain any success they have cultivated in the first year.
Here are 10 real Sophomores – five players of position and five jugs – after a strong first year it assembles excellent Sophomore campaigns.
ROCH Cholowsky – ucla, shortstop
There is no larger climber on this list than Bruins’s shortstop.
In 2024, Cholowsky had a strong newcomer campaign for UCLA, which led them on average tabs (0.308) and hits (61) in the middle of the season spoiled by the injury of the team. Won the second team Freshman All-American honors Perfect game.
Somehow he took his game to an even higher height. He launches 0.359 with 15 doubles and 18 domestic runs, leads Bruins in more than eight hit categories and holds the best war (winning-over-requicement) in the country by country 643Charts. He was the catalyst of the rise of UCLA on the second best record in the big ten and is expected to take the program for the first time since 2022 to the NCAA tournament.
The highest view at high school, more all-American honors calls Cholowsky’s name.
Friday: hr
Saturday: HR
Sunday: hrStar SS Roch Cholowsky went deep in every game @Clabaseballsweeping over penn state 💥#B1GBaseball pic.twitter.com/2tyoclyvoq
– Big Ten Baseball (@B1GBaseball) 28 April 2025
Kade Anderson – LSU, LHP
Anderson had a small sample that he could work with as a newcomer, divide his time as an appetizer and a bull with 38.1 shifts, but the flashes of the potential were there. He had 3.99 Era and shone in the regional round of SEC and NCAA.
Left -hander met these expectations and became one of the best appetizers in SEC.
Tigers’ Friday Night Starter has the second most strikes (124) in the nation and set out at least 10 Hitters in eight of its 13 starts. 3.66 Era at 76.1 shifts, Anderson’s Must-See Moment was in April a complete shutdown of the games versus Oklahoma.
ACE LSU received no awards after its first year, outside the academic role. His hardware case should look much different by July.
Justin LeBron – Alabama, Shortstop
Shortstop was so electric in its first year that it was appointed to PSEEASON ALL-AMERICAN Team by Ncwba and Perfect game before the season 2025.
And he lived until the title.
The diameter of the tab Miramar, FL is lower than last year, but Pop in his bat has strengthened. With 15 fewer bats than its total 2024, LeBron has twice twice (16), 17 home runs and 65 RBI-comparison with 38 a year ago. Captain Crimson Tide of the Infield has so far gathered several conference and national prizes and does not seem to be stopping soon.
Ricky Ojejeda – UC Irvine, LHP
Between D1baseball’s 2024 First and Second Team Freshman All-AmericansOjeja explained the fourth best era on the 3.46 in the group as a newcomer.
The left -hand lightener could overcome the whole group this season.
Ojeja was lit from Bullpen Anteatters and sits in 1.95 Era-Third Best in University Baseball. It is 12-0 in 23 performances, held enemy Hitters with a diameter of a branding of 0.176 and gave up more than one run throughout the year.
Garrett Wright – Bowling Green, catcher
Bowling Green Catcher produced a hard-to-top newcomer after the launch of 0.380 in the season and won the title Mac Freshman of the Year.
However, the use of the term “dominant” may not be enough to describe the Wright Sophomore season. In an interview, I stamper my name for the best player at the conference.
Mac leads on average batting (0.412) and the percentage at the base (0.519) among players with more than 100 AT-Netopýs and ranks in the first five hits, runs, three times and percentage percentage. Wright violated the program career and record in the one-time season for hit-po-Pitches.
Massivillon, Ohio, a native, not take off his foot from the pedal from arrival on BGSU.
Tommy Lapour – TCU, RHP
Lapour was the second best starter Wichita State as a newcomer. Although his era was not the lowest (4,25), he held the third best opposite tab (0.225) at the conference and secured the AAC Newcomr Pitcher of the Year to support it.
Flamethrower, who now dresses purple and white for TCU, is even more polished in the second year.
Lapour has the highest place in the horned rotation of Horned Frogs with Era 2,70-Druhý best among the Big 12 Starters. In almost the same amount of shifts compared to 2024, the right -hander shaved on interventions, running and home runs gave up and increased the number of strokes. Has been named Ncwba jug of the moon At the beginning of May.
The right -hander caused the jump from AAC to Big 12 to look hassle -free.
straight fire from @Lapourtommy
100 mph to complete 1-2-3 first 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/id1dzyxqjb
– TCU baseball (@tcu_baseball) April 11, 2025
Kade Lewis – Wake Forest, Infielder
Lewis entered the scene in Butler with an authority as a newcomer and secured the Big East Freshman of the Year behind the average batting of 377.
After Lewis took his talent down to Winston-Salem, Ante increased. The third best Baseman hit 0.405, the second best in ACC, did not let the batting diameter dropped under 0.400 throughout the year. It has 31 RBIs in 51 competitions, a total of 55 and the third most hits (75) and the third best OPS (1.170) at the conference.
Lewis has been appointed D1baseball’s Midseason first-team all-American list And due to the Demon deacons one of the best left sides of Infield on a college baseball with Shortstop Marek Houston.
Jason Decaro – North Carolina, RHP
Decaro made D1baseball’s Freshman All-American First Team In 2024 and compiles another strong campaign.
Rightman started the Red Hot season and gave up only one run over 18 shifts in February, but at the beginning of the ACC game he went through a rough spot, resulting in nine days in early April.
From Hiatus, however, he got his boasting back and produced four consecutive trips that reminded Tar Heel’s fans of Starý Jason. Era 3.55 Era and the fifth most victory in ACC, Decaro was crucial when returning UNC to the national highest team.
Chris Hacopian – Maryland, usefulness
Hacopian had big shoes to come true when he came to College Park in 2024. His older brother Eddie launched every game for Terrapins in 2023 and their father Derek was a player of the ACC of the year in 1992.
Maryland Shortstop stepped out of the shadows of his older in the first year, started all 55 games and received the second All-Big team ten nod. He now made a statement in his second area.
Hacopian was one of the best hitters at the conference, let alone Terrapins, hit 0.374 with 12 doubles and homery and 57 RBI – better than last season in three categories. At the beginning of May he lit and in the team series he got against Penn State for 19 years and in a game with six games for the record program for hits in the game.
Jacob Dudan – NC State, RHP
Dudan took Raleigh Storm in 2024, did not allow the earned run in his first eight collegial performances and recorded the second most savings (6) in the team. Earned D1baseball First Team Freshman All-American honors.
The Wolfpack recall turned it in the second year of a notch with Era 2,77 on 19 trips, including nine direct performances without giving up the run. He struck at least two out of nine trips.
Dudan prospered in the role of a late game and became one of the most reliable weapons on the NC State.
Jacob Dudan with a strike to end the game 🔥 pic.twitter.com/Dahrbvmnj2
– #Pack9 ⚾ (@NCSatebaseball) March 7, 2025