BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU junior shortstop Alex Bregman and sophomore left-handed pitcher Jared Poche’ were named 2015 second-team preseason all-Americans Friday by Collegiate Baseball magazine.
Bregman, a product of Albuquerque, N.M., was the National Freshman of the Year in 2013, and he received the Brooks Wallace Award as the nation’s best shortstop.
Last season, Bregman earned second-team all-SEC honors after hitting .316 with 16 doubles, six homers and 47 RBI. He batted .451 (23-for-51) in the last 12 games of the 2014 season with six doubles, three homers, 16 RBI and 12 runs.
Bregman was named to the 2014 NCAA Regional All-Tournament team, hitting .533 (8-for-15) with two doubles, three RBI and two runs, and he was voted to the SEC All-Tournament team after batting .412 (7-for-17) with two doubles, one homer, five RBI and three runs.
Bregman has played for the U.S. Collegiate National Team over the past two summers – he collected five doubles, one homer, 17 RBI, 20 runs and 10 steals in 10 attempts for Team USA in 2014 with a schedule that included games against Cuba, Japan and Chinese Taipei. He batted .361 in 18 games for the United States in 2013 , helping the squad post a 20-3 record.
Poche’, a native of Lutcher, La., was 9-3 last season with a 2.45 ERA in 16 starts, and he recorded 26 walks and 52 strikeouts in 91.2 innings. He was named a 2014 Freshman all-American by Collegiate Baseball and by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.
Poche’ was voted to the 2014 SEC All-Tournament team after defeating Vanderbilt on May 21, allowing one run on five hits in seven innings with one walk and three strikeouts.
Poche’ defeated Mississippi State on April 5, limiting the Bulldogs to one unearned run on three hits in six innings with two walks and six strikeouts, as he fired a season-high 108 pitches in the outing.
He recorded his first career SEC victory on March 22 with an exceptional performance against Georgia, earning SEC Freshman of the Week honors. Poche’ worked 8.2 innings, limiting UGA to one run on three hits with two walks and six strikeouts.