Ranking The Top 50 Names In College Baseball In 2019

Image credit: Stanford's Maverick Handley (Photo by Bill Mitchell)

For the second year in a row, Baseball America has compiled a list of the 50 most impressive names in the country. Unlike other BA rankings, these don’t reflect a player’s tools or performance, instead focusing simply on their names.

Itchy Burts, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi’s all-Southland Conference second baseman, tops the list for the second year in a row, followed by debutant Zacchaeus Raspberry from Presbyterian.

1. Itchy Burts, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
2. Zacchaeus Raspberry, Presbyterian
3. Zebulon Vermillion, Arkansas
4. Bear Bellomy, Wright State
5. Kona Quiggle, Grand Canyon
6. Mason Studstill, Florida Gulf Coast
7. Cross Factor, Oklahoma State
8. Mojo Hagge, Nebraska
9. Alaska Abney, Coastal Carolina
10. Maverick Handley, Stanford
11. Roman Phansalkar, Oklahoma State
12. Patrick Tomfohrde, Wisconsin-Milwaukee
13. Dai Dai Otaka, Yale
14. Kragen Kechely, Dallas Baptist
15. Gunner Leger, Louisiana-Lafayette
16. Blake Beers, Michigan
17. Blake Deatherage, UNC Wilmington
18. Scotty Scott, Hawaii
19. Handsome Monica, Louisiana-Lafayette
20. Spencer Brickhouse, East Carolina
21. Kumar Rocker, Vanderbilt
22. Cyrillo Watson, Illinois
23. Shaddon Peavyhouse, Coastal Carolina
24. Sawyer Jacksick, Nevada
25. Conagher Sands, Cal Poly

26. Fox Semones, James Madison
27. Johnny Hawk, Alabama
28. O’Neal Lochridge, Louisiana-Lafayette
29. Burl Carraway, Dallas Baptist
30. Orynn Veillon, Louisiana-Lafayette
31. Chesdin Harrington, Virginia
32. Wendell Champion, Houston
33. Skylar Pichardo, Marist
34. Javin Drake, Western Illinois
35. Braxton Cottongame, Kentucky
36. Carson McCusker, Oklahoma State
37. Al Pesto, Duke
38. Cullen Kafka, Oregon
39. Milan Walla, Oklahoma
40. Tuck Tucker, Maryland
41. Ace Felder, Grambling State
42. McCarthy Tatum, Fresno State
43. Declan Cronin, Holy Cross
44. Octavien Moyer, Florida A&M
45. Cruz Daddario, Cal State Northridge
46. Konnor Zickefoose, UC Irvine
47. Rainer Ausmus, Kansas State
48. Spencer Steer, Oregon
49. Rush Hixon, Troy
50. Ripken Reyes, San Diego