The Florida Gators boast one of the best college baseball teams in the entire country, and at the heart of the lineup is none other than [autotag]Jac Caglianone[/autotag].
Expectations were high for the two-way star as he entered his first full collegiate campaign after taking the first half of 2022 to heal from Tommy John surgery. Caglianone has yet to disappoint. He currently leads the nation with 17 home runs, is slashing .400/.462/.971 and is one of the first names mentioned whenever the Golden Spikes Award comes up.
For those reasons and many more, Jac Caglianone sits at the top of D1Baseball‘s positional rankings for first baseman after Week 6 of the season.
The best part about all of this is that he’s only a sophomore and won’t be eligible for the draft until next summer. That means the Gators get him for two whole seasons at 100% and that this could only be the beginning of one of the greatest runs in Orange and Blue of all time.
Perhaps that sounds like hyperbole, but it’s the truth. His 38 RBIs pace all first basemen as well, and the only area of his game that could use some work is drawing walks. Strikeouts aren’t a major issue because he hits the ball so often.
Caglianone’s crowning as the top first baseman in the country might have been a formality to some degree for D1Baseball, but now he has to stay on top, which can be much harder to accomplish.
An 0 for 11 run against Alabama showed that he is indeed human, but a four-homer weekend against Ole Miss suggests that he was just making some adjustments at the start of SEC play.
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