Baseball America Freshman of the Year

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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.

[edit] 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