NCBWA Preseason All-American Team Release
Dallas, Texas – (February 6, 2020) – With the start of college baseball season just around the corner, the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) released its 2020 Division I Preseason All-America teams on Thursday. Among those selected, Fordham junior pitcher
John Stankiewicz received Preseason All-America Second Team honors.
The Cherry Hill, N.J. native enters his junior campaign after an incredible 2019 season, which saw him earn Third Team All-America honors from the NCBWA, the ABCA, and
Collegiate Baseball.
One of the top prospects in the Atlantic 10 heading into the 2020 season by
Baseball America and D1Baseball.com, Stankiewicz was the 2019 Atlantic 10 Pitcher of the Year and a First Team All-Atlantic 10 selection, helping the Rams to their first conference title and first NCAA appearance since 1998. Stankiewicz recorded a team-high eight wins to go with a 1.47 ERA and 102 strikeouts in 92.0 innings. He has walked only 20 batters this season and held opponents to a .190 batting average.
He was the fourth Ram ever to record 100 strikeouts in a season, and ranked third on the Fordham single season list behind only Dick Egan (107 – 1909) and Hank Borowy (115 – 1939), while his 1.47 ERA tied for the fifth-lowest in program history with former MLB All-Star Johnny Murphy (1929).
A three-time Atlantic 10 Pitcher of the Week in 2019, he ranked in the top 20 in the NCAA in ERA (6
th) and WHIP (10
th).
