No. 5 Virginia 2025 College Top 25 Preview – Baseball America

Image Credit:
Henry Godbut (with the kind assistance of Virginia’s athletics)

• Last season: 46-17 (18-12 ACC); Reached from college World Series
• Ranking of final 2024: No. 8
• Coach (school record): Brian O’Connor (885-370-2, Season 22nd)

You can find our overall chart for pre -season since 2025 here.

The good news

Omaha base, Virginia has reached three times in the World College Series in the last four years, including in 2024. The program returns the bigger part of its high -producing range of this season with six beginners back in the basket, including leading striker Henry Godbut, Slugger Harrison Didawick, hunter Jacob Ferens and freshman All-American Henry Ford, who will change his position. CAVS also return home steels Evan Blanco And Jay Wolfolk, both will go up on weekends. While Cavaliers’ core is built with players who joined the program as real freshmen, one of their potential stars of breakthrough, two -way player Chris AriyoIt comes from the ranks of Junior College. Virginia again must have one of the best crimes in the country, supported by deeper staff to make its list better rounded.

Bad news

Virginia was detained at times in 2024 with a mound mismatch. Although his staff seems more appropriate to provide more stability in 2025, the group still lacks proven production. Things clicked on Blanco in the second half of 2024, which reinforced it as an ace of 2025 by Cavaliers. Wulfolk and Arojo, who are expected to join Blanco in the Virginia Rotation over the weekend, have only seven combined divisions I between them, which means that both will have to quickly adapt to new CAVS roles to meet the their very sublime standards. Virginia will also need multiple weapons to appear in Bulpe, which have lost two key participants since 2024, Righty Chase Hungate (Transfer to Mississippi State) and Leuti Angelo Tonas (graduation).

Player to know

Virginia’s composition is well reserved with players to follow this year, especially from a black point of view, but it is difficult not to focus on the two -way player Chris Aroyo, given its potential impact on his new team. Transfer from the Pasco-Hernando State College, Ariyo began his college career as a liberator in Florida in 2023 before gathering an explosive campaign from 2024 on both sides of the ball at the junior college, where he beat .40 with 60 runs . O’Connor told Baseball America that he expects Ariyo to be represented in the heart of the order of his team as well as in his rotation.

Omaha road

Virginia jumped aggressively from the back tournament in 2018 and 2019 with three trips to Omaha for four years, including each of the last two. But the cavaliers fought after they got there by losing in their last six games in the world series of college, dating from 2021, the relentless crime of Virginia should keep it in most games and give him a chance in the after -season after the season S How well does his staff are ultimately determined the depth of this impetus of the tournament.

Designed 2025 composition