Ranking College Baseball’s Top 50 Names In 2022

Image credit: Dub Gleed (By Matt Brown/UC Irvine Athletics)

The four-time winner of the award for the top name in college baseball, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi’s Itchy Burts, graduated at the end of last season, leaving a void at the top of this list. 

Also departed is the No. 2 name from each of the last three iterations of this list, Presbyterian’s Zacchaeus Rasberry, so suffice it to say that there has been quite a shakeup among the best names in the sport. 

The top returner from last season’s list is Arkansas righthander Zebulon Vermillion, who was No. 3 in each of the last three years. He moved up in this year’s list, but not all the way to the top spot. That distinction belongs to freshman UC Irvine infielder Dub Gleed. 

Note that this list is not any sort of ranking of talent or productivity or value to a team. It’s strictly a list of the best names. Also, to qualify, a name does not have to be a player’s given name. It just needs to be the name listed on the team’s official roster. 

 

1. Dub Gleed, UC Irvine
2. Zebulon Vermillion, Arkansas
3. Boon Fay, Nevada
4. Rojo Prarie, William & Mary
5. Shugy Klein, George Washington
6. LuJames Groover III, North Carolina State
7. Sebastian Mexico, Fordham
8. Dakota Duffalo, Utah
9. Hambleton Oliver, Baylor
10. Vinny Bologna, Fresno State
11. Roman Phansalkar, Oklahoma State
12. Revy Higgins III, Mississippi State
13. Dominick Madonna, North Florida
14. Couper Cornblum, Wichita State
15. Scotty Scott, Hawaii
16. Trevor Beer, UC Santa Barbara
17. Tiger Borom, Lipscomb
18. Zander Darby, UC Santa Barbara
19. Socrates Bardatsos, Rider
20. Aristotle Peter, Western Kentucky
21. Maui Ahuna, Kansas
22. Fenwick Trimble, James Madison
23. Duke Brotherton, Washington State
24. Shaddon Peavyhouse, North Carolina
25. Monray Van Der Walt, Lamar
26. Tonzie Cannon II, Prairie View A&M
27. Coltrane Rubner, Eastern Michigan
28. Max Hitman, St. Joseph’s
29. Seth Sweet-Chick, Kansas
30. Zeus Ponder, UNC-Asheville
31. Paddy McKermitt, Northern Illinois
32. Canyon McWilliams, Arkansas-Little Rock
33. Towns King, Samford
34. River Ridings, Texas Christian
35. Bash Randle, Abilene Christian
36. Peter O’Toole, Dartmouth
37. August Haymaker, Lipscomb
38. Saxon Marr, New Mexico State
39. Cassius Shy, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
40. Padraig O’Shaughnessy, Youngstown State
41. Kavares Tears, Tennessee
42. Bay Witcher, Troy
43. Tyler Rando, Gonzaga
44. Jack Rando, Belmont
45. Tucker Bougie, California
46. Jabronski Williams, Alabama State
47. Thaxton Berch, Louisiana Tech
48. Orion Kerkering, South Florida
49. Jett Jackson, Purdue
50. Sky Duff, Pittsburgh