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Over the last few weeks, we have released our 2018 Preseason All-PBR Team. We focused on recognizing players that we thought were poised to have big seasons as well as an underclassmen team of freshman and sophomores that we expected to provide a major contribution. 

Today we are going to go a step farther and give you a Player of the Year Pre-Season Watch List. The players on this list are the early candidates to follow in Jake Agnos (2016) and Andrew Abbott's (2017) footsteps and earn recognition as our 2018 Player of the Year in June.

One thing that you may notice in common about most of our early Player of the Year candidates is that they are two-way contributors for their teams. In 2016 and 2017, Agnos and Abbott had dominant performances on the mound, but they also were everyday players and important pieces to their teams' lineups during those seasons. While it is possible for a player who just hits or just pitches to have a dominant enough statistical season, being able to contribute on the mound and at the plate certainly helps a player stand above his peers.

Also, while we think that this list includes the most likely candidates to win the PBR Virginia Player of the Year award this spring, its very possible that the player who ends up earning the award is not on this list. Last year's winner of this award, Andrew Abbott, was not on our Preseason Watch List for Player of the Year last year.

 

Preseason VA/DC Player of the Year Watch List

Name	School	Position	Class	Committment
Zach Agnos	Battlefield	SS/RHP	2019	East Carolina
Wilson Ayers	Briar Woods	LHP/OF	2018	Naval Academy
Nick Biddison	St. Christopher's	SS	2018	Virginia Tech
Trey Boll	Collegiate	LHP/OF	2020	Virginia
Trey Carter	Carlisle	OF/RHP	2020
Wesley Clarke	Liberty Christian	C	2018	South Carolina
Derek Domecq	Western Albemarle	LHP/OF	2018	Radford
Jack Dragum	Hanover	RHP/SS	2018	Virginia
Riley Eikhoff	Patriot	RHP/SS	2020	Virginia
Adam Hackenberg	Miller School	C/RHP	2018	Clemson
Cade Hungate	Abingdon	3B/RHP	2018	Florida State
Matthew Kleinfelter	Lancaster	RHP/3B	2019	James Madison
Cortland Lawson	Paul VI Catholic	SS/RHP	2019	Tennessee
Ethan Murray	Miller School	RHP/1B	2018	Duke
Kyle Novak	James Madison	2B	2018	James Madison
Rojo Prarie	Lake Braddock	OF/RHP	2018	William & Mary
Geo Rivera	Lafayette	RHP/3B	2019	Old Dominion
Will Schroeder	Freedom-South Riding	SS/RHP	2018	North Carolina
Jacob Steinberg	St. John's College	RHP/3B	2018
Ethan Williams	Cosby	C/RHP	2018	Harford CC