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Mr. Baseball 2024: Seth Hernandez

It’s rare for a junior to get the state’s top individual honor and it was going to be really hard this year for one senior in particular to be topped, but Corona’s big-time pitcher who also led the State Team of the Year in home runs and RBI just had too much to be denied. […]

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Mr. Baseball 2022: Malcolm Moore

The 2021 State Junior of the Year had an outstanding season behind the plate and at the plate as his team from McClatchy of Sacramento had one of its best seasons in school history. Moore is only the fourth player ever from the Capital City region to gain baseball’s state player of the year honor […]

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Mr. Baseball 2021: Marcelo Mayer

Eastlake of Chula Vista makes it two in a row for state’s most prestigious and longest-running baseball honor. Mayer follows 2019 winner and former teammate Keoni Cavaco from 2019 after no one could be selected for 2020 (pandemic). Mayer had one of the best high school seasons for a top five MLB Draft pick that […]

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Mr. Baseball 2019: Keoni Cavaco

There are a lot more reasons than where he was picked in the MLB Draft that the Eastlake of Chula Vista standout has earned the Mr. Baseball State Player of the Year selection for the 2019 season. Cavaco has become the second straight Mr. Baseball for California from the CIF San Diego Section after Joe […]

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Mr. Baseball 2018: Joe Magrisi

Call us suckers for a great story to go with a player of the year resume, but Joe Magrisi of San Diego Torrey Pines just had too much of a spectacular season to be denied as the winner of the state’s longest-running high school baseball honor. This is the one with roots back to the […]

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Mr. Baseball 2017: It has to be Hagen

It was a situation of competing precedents in this year’s race for the state’s longest-running State Player of the Year honor for baseball, making it one of the most difficult decisions ever in perhaps the most talent-laden season ever for Southern California. In the end, local consensus carries Hagen Danner of Huntington Beach over the […]

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Mr. Baseball & Ms. Softball Finalists

There are more than one from Orange County for both baseball and softball as post-season honors begin with a look at top candidates for the only baseball and softball State Player of the Year honors that have more than 100 years of history behind them. We hope you like this free post on CalHiSports.com. Please […]

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Mr. Baseball 2015: Joe DeMers

With terrific combination of pitching and hitting and leading team to state’s final No. 1 ranking, it’s not too tough of a call (unlike last year) for College Park of Pleasant Hill graduating senior to snag state’s most prestigious postseason honor (the only one that has more than 100 years of tradition behind it). For […]

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