By R.L. Bynum

D1 Baseball hadn’t named a North Carolina player to its All-American team until it honored center fielder Vance Honeycutt. Now a Tar Heel has made the team for the second consecutive season.

Jake Knapp became the first UNC pitcher to make the team, announced Thursday. That marked the fourth first-team All-American honor for the graduate right-hander after earlier making the College Baseball Foundation (the first Tar Heel to make that team since 2009 and the first pitcher since Andrew Miller in 2006), the American Baseball Coaches Association and the NCBWA teams.

Other ACC players to make the D1 Baseball first team were Florida State junior DH Alex Lodise, the ACC Player of the Year, and Georgia Tech sophomore outfielder Drew Burress. FSU junior pitcher Jamie Arnold made the second team, and Notre Dame sophomore catcher Carson Tinney earned third-team honors.

Knapp, who went 14–0 with a 2.02 ERA, and is the ACC Pitcher of the Year, was named to Perfect Game’s second team and Baseball America’s third team. His 0.86 WHIP was the third-best in the country, missing the program record by .03.

Sophomore catcher Luke Stevenson earned Perfect Game third-team honors.

Making second-team all-freshman teams were right-handers Ryan Lynch (Baseball America and Perfect Game) and Walker McDuffie (Baseball America, NCBWA and Perfect Game).

UNC transfer commitments

Player	Pos.	Class (next season)	Career statistics	Former school
Macon Winslow	C	Junior	.267, 13 HRs, 65 RBI	Duke
Trace Baker	RHP	Senior	5–1, 2.24 ERA 5 saves	UNCW
Jake Schaffner	SS	Junior	.353, 37 RBI 34 steals	North Dakota State
Colin Hynek	C	Senior	.228, 33 HRs, 91 RBI	Georgia State
Michael Maginnis	OF	Senior	.295, 26 HRs, 111 RBI, 40 SBs	Georgia State
Erik Paulsen	1B	Junior	.330, 13 HRs, 68 RBI, 8 SBs	Stony Brook