Reese Tabbed Preseason First Team All-American
January 07, 2026 | Baseball
STARKVILLE – Mississippi State's Ace Reese wrapped up his 2025 season with five All-America honors and now begins his junior campaign with a first team Preseason All-America honor from Perfect Game.
Reese started 57 games at third base for the Diamond Dawgs last spring and led the team with a .352 batting average, 80 hits, 18 doubles, 21 home runs, 66 RBIs, 163 total bases and a .718 slugging percentage and ranked in the top seven in the Southeastern Conference in each of those categories. His homer total was also the eighth-most in a single season in school history.
Perfect Game named Reese a third team All-American last season. He received first team honors in 2025 from the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association as well as second team accolades from D1Baseball, Baseball America and the American Baseball Coaches Association.
The native of Canton, Texas was also tabbed as the SEC Newcomer of the Year, a first team All-SEC selection and produced 25 multi-hit games, 20 multi-RBI games and five multi-homer games during his first year at MSU.
It is Mississippi State's 166th All-America honor spanning across 58 student-athletes in the program's storied history.
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