As college baseball passes the halfway mark in its regular season, USA Baseball recognized many of the top amateur players in the game with the Golden Spikes Award midseason watch list on Thursday.
Once again, MLB Pipeline's top Draft prospects are heavily represented. In all, 21 of the 45 players on the watch list are also on the Draft Top 100 -- including each of the top five prospects and 16 of the top 30.
Many of the other players who didn't appear on the Draft rankings are just sophomores and aren't eligible to be drafted this July. Additionally, there are a pair of high school seniors, both of whom are expected to go high in the 2025 Draft: infielder Ethan Holliday and right-hander Seth Hernandez.
Regardless of when they're Draft-eligible, this year's winner will look to join 2024 Golden Spikes recipient Charlie Condon as a first-round pick as well. Seven of the past nine winners have become first-round picks -- all selected in the top 11 choices.
The midseason watch list includes its fair share of familiar faces, as 19 players return from the preseason edition and 26 newcomers worked their way onto the list. Additionally, Texas A&M's Ryan Prager was on the 2024 midseason watch list and Florida State's Jamie Arnold, Georgia Tech's Drew Burress and Texas A&M's Jace LaViolette were semifinalists last season.
USA Baseball will reveal its semifinalists on May 18, and fans can vote to help decide the finalists and winner, which will be announced in late June.
Here is the full list of players named to the Golden Spikes Award midseason watch list, as well as their Draft ranking:
Wehiwa Aloy, SS, Arkansas (No. 39 Draft prospect)
Kade Anderson, LHP, Louisiana State (No. 44 Draft prospect)
Jamie Arnold, LHP, Florida State (No. 3 Draft prospect)
Aiva Arquette, 2B/SS, Oregon State (No. 7 Draft prospect)
Max Bayles, RHP, Santa Clara
Trey Beard, LHP, Florida Atlantic
Tyler Bremner, RHP, UC Santa Barbara (No. 4 Draft prospect)
Drew Burress, OF, Georgia Tech
Alex Calarco, C, Maryland
Cam Cannarella, OF, Clemson (No. 15 Draft prospect)
Roch Cholowsky, SS, UCLA
Ethan Conrad, OF, Wake Forest (No. 23 Draft prospect)
Korbyn Dickerson, OF, Indiana
Liam Doyle, LHP, Tennessee (No. 75 Draft prospect)
Joseph Dzierwa, LHP, Michigan State
Hunter Elliott, LHP, Mississippi
Patrick Forbes, RHP, Louisville (No. 62 Draft prospect)
Dominic Fritton, LHP, NC State
Seth Hernandez, RHP, Corona HS (CA) (No. 5 Draft prospect)
Ethan Holliday, SS/3B, Stillwater HS (OK) (No. 1 Draft prospect)
Marek Houston, SS, Wake Forest (No. 16 Draft prospect)
Grant Jay, C, Dallas Baptist
Jared Jones, 1B, LSU
Gavin Kilen, 2B, Tennessee (No. 28 Draft prospect)
Aidan Knaak, RHP, Clemson
Jace LaViolette, OF, Texas A&M (No. 2 Draft prospect)
Justin Lebron, SS, Alabama
Logan Lunceford, RHP, Wake Forest
Maximus Martin, SS, Kansas State
Wes Mendes, LHP, Florida State
Mason Neville, CF, Oregon
Adam Paniagua, C/OF, Regis University (DII)
Liam Peterson, RHP, Florida
Ethan Petry, OF/1B, South Carolina (No. 29 Draft prospect)
Marcus Phillips, RHP, Tennessee
Ryan Prager, LHP, Texas A&M (No. 70 Draft prospect)
James Quinn-Irons, OF, George Mason
Nolan Schubart, OF, Oklahoma State (No. 30 Draft prospect)
Luke Stevenson, C, North Carolina (No. 13 Draft prospect)
Brendan Summerhill, OF, Arizona (No. 10 Draft prospect)
Devin Taylor, OF, Indiana (No. 20 Draft prospect)
Joey Volini, LHP, Florida State
Ryan Wideman, OF, Western Kentucky
Kyson Witherspoon, RHP, Oklahoma (No. 26 Draft prospect)
Ryland Zaborowski, 1B, Georgia