South Alabama baseball earned a spot in the Baseball America preseason rankings, while center fielder Travis Swaggerty picked up All-America honors from D1Baseball.com.
The Jaguars, who are coming off a 40-21 season and a Sun Belt Conference tournament championship, are ranked No. 24 in the Baseball America poll. USA was No. 20 in D1 Baseball's preseason rankings released last week.
Swaggerty, a junior from Mandeville, La., is a first-team preseason All-American, the lone Sun Belt Conference representative among 54 honored by D1 Baseball. Last season, he led the Sun Belt and ranked 12th nationally in on-base percentage (.