Pair of LSU players named preseason All-Americans by D1 Baseball

BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU junior first baseman Jared Jones and junior infielder Daniel Dickinson have been named 2025 Preseason All-Americans by D1Baseball.com.

A native of Marietta, Ga., Jones was voted to the first team, and Dickinson, a product of Richland, Wash., received third-team recognition. Full list from D1 Baseball here.

Jones hit .301 (69-for-229) for LSU last season with 14 doubles, two triples, 28 homers, 59 RBI and 56 runs. His 28 home runs marked the most by an LSU player since first baseman Matt Clark also hit 28 in 2008.

A 2023 Freshman All-American, Jones finished the 2024 season No. 2 in the SEC in walks (59), No. 5 in home runs, No. 5 in slugging percentage (.747) and No. 9 in total bases (171). He was named to the 2024 NCAA Chapel Hill Regional All-Tournament team after hitting a team-best .538 (7-for-13) with two homers, four RBI, five runs, nine walks and a .739 on-base percentage.

Jones was also rated in December as the No. 39 Top College Prospect for the 2025 MLB Draft by D1Baseball.com.

Dickinson, who transferred to LSU last summer from Utah Valley, posted a .369 career batting average in two seasons at UVU with 27 homers, 95 RBI and a .457 on-base percentage. He was a First-Team All-WAC selection in 2024, batting .363 (90-for-248) with 14 doubles, two triples, 18 homers, 53 RBI and 32 stolen bases.

Dickinson was rated in December as the No. 31 Top College Prospect for the 2025 MLB Draft by D1Baseball.com.

*LSU press release

D1 Baseball press release

Top-ranked Texas A&M and No. 2 ranked Virginia lead all programs with four players apiece on D1Baseball’s 2025 Preseason All-America teams. The Aggies and Cavaliers also place two players apiece on the first team (outfielder Jace LaViolette and ace Levi Prager for A&M, catcher Jacob Ference and second baseman Henry Godbout for UVa) which is tied for the most first-teamers, along with Clemson and UC Santa Barbara.

No. 6 North Carolina is the only other team to place more than two players across D1Baseball’s three All-America teams. The Tar Heels have three All-Americans, led by first-teamer Jason DeCaro, an ace righthander.

Programs with two All-Americans include Arkansas, Duke, LSU, Oklahoma State, Texas, Vanderbilt and Wake Forest.

The ACC leads all conferences with a whopping 10 first-team All-Americans, followed by the SEC (three) and Big West (two). The ACC and SEC are tied for the most All-Americans overall with 17 apiece, followed by the Big 12 (four), Big Ten and Big West (three apiece). Overall, 12 different conferences are represented on the three All-America teams.

D1Baseball’s editors and national writers select the preseason All-America teams with one guiding principle in mind: to identify the best and most valuable college baseball players for the 2025 season. Past performance and future potential factor into the deliberations, but the goal is neither to identify the best future major leaguers nor to reward the players who have put up the gaudiest numbers in past seasons (particularly since the level of competition varies significantly from one conference to another). The objective is to select the players who would provide the most value for a team that wanted to win the College World Series in 2025 — the players who are best equipped to perform against elite college competition this spring.