Courtesy of Nevada Athletics
RENO, Nev. – Nevada third baseman Sean Yamaguchi was named to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Freshman All-America Second Team Monday.
The honor makes Yamaguchi the 14th Freshman All-American in Nevada Baseball history, and first since Jake Jackson and Bobby Zamora were selected by Collegiate Baseball in 2018.
The 2025 NCBWA Freshman All-America Team features players from 33 different schools and 15 different conferences. Yamaguchi is also one of 10 conference “Freshman/Rookie of the Year” winners included among the two All-America teams.
Voted Mountain West Freshman of the Year by the conference’s head coaches, Yamaguchi became the third Nevada rookie to take home the honor, joining Zamora (2018) and Cal Stevenson (2015). He tied the conference’s 20-year-old freshman record for home runs in MW-only games (10), and for the overall season batted .324 and shared team leads in home runs (13) and RBIs (50), with 13 doubles, 51 runs scored and 18 walks. Yamaguchi also slugged a team-best .568 and paced the Wolf Pack with 126 total bases.
Yamaguchi not only captured Mountain West Freshman of the Week honors a conference-best four times in 2025, his numbers ranked among the conference’s best regardless of class. Over the Mountain West regular season he hit 10 homers, tying for third overall, and ranked sixth in RBIs (33) and eighth in total bases (77) while batting .330 with eight doubles.
Some of Yamaguchi’s hottest stretches came during conference play. He put together a nine-game hitting streak from April 6-22 over which he batted .457 with three homers, nine RBIs, and 16 runs scored, then bettered that over an eight-game streak where he hit four homers, drove in 12 runs, scored 12 more, and batted .471.
Nevada captured the program’s fourth Mountain West regular season title in 2025, going 34-23 overall and topping the standings with a 19-11 mark in conference play.
