The Arizona State baseball team believed all season it had some of the best players in the conference sitting in their clubhouse. On Thursday, voters for the Pac-12 regular season awards agreed.
Ethan Long and Drew Swift were named All-Pac-12 first team selections.
Long finished with a scorching-hot second half of the season to become the best freshman baseball player in Tempe since Spencer Torkelson. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper also named him a second team All-American.
Swift, the best two-way player on the team, also collected Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year honors.
The rangy infielder moved from second base over to shortstop this season, but didn’t miss a step as he led a trio of freshmen to become a defensive infield ground balls rarely exited.