USA Baseball’s Golden Spikes Award has reached its penultimate stage.
Coinciding with college baseball entering the postseason, the race for the 47th edition of the award is down to 25 names.
When USA Baseball released its 45-player midseason list on April 4, it included 21 players ranked among MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 Draft prospects. This time around, 13 players land on Pipeline’s list -- which has now expanded to the Top 150. Seven of the unranked semifinalists are either freshman or sophomores and therefore not Draft eligible this year.
Florida State’s Arnold joins Georgia Tech sophomore Drew Burress as the only two players to be named Golden Spikes Award semifinalists for a second consecutive year after being named to the list in 2024. Arnold is also one of five players tabbed as a semifinalist after making the preseason and midseason lists this year. Additionally, there are 10 new faces in the group that weren’t in either of the prior editions.
The Golden Spikes Award is given to the top amateur baseball player in the country. Last year, Rockies first-rounder Charlie Condon – No. 27 on MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 Prospects list – was crowned the winner after slugging a BBCOR-era record 37 big flies and posting a NCAA leading .443 batting average and 1.565 OPS in 60 contests.
Fan voting for the 2025 version of the award is officially open and will run until May 28. The finalists will be announced on June 4, at which point voting will re-open for the winner, who will be crowned on June 21.
Here is the full list of players named as Golden Spikes Award semifinalists, as well as their Draft ranking:
Wehiwa Aloy, SS, Arkansas (No. 24 Draft prospect)
Kade Anderson, LHP, Louisiana State (No. 9 Draft prospect)
Jamie Arnold, LHP, Florida State (No. 3 Draft prospect)
Aiva Arquette, SS, Oregon State (No. 5 Draft prospect)
Robbie Burnett, INF/OF, Georgia
Drew Burress, OF, Georgia Tech
Roch Cholowsky, INF, UCLA
Kerrington Cross, INF, Cincinnati
Daniel Cuvet, INF, Miami
Liam Doyle, LHP, Tennessee (No. 10 Draft prospect)
Joseph Dzierwa, LHP, Michigan State (No. 70 Draft prospect)
Ike Irish, OF/C, Auburn (No. 20 Draft prospect)
Jake Knapp, RHP, UNC
Justin Lebron, INF, Alabama
Kade Lewis, INF, Wake Forest
Alex Lodise, SS, Florida State (No. 53 Draft prospect)
Kyle Lodise, SS, Georgia Tech (No. 71 Draft prospect)
JB Middleton, RHP, Southern Mississippi (No. 31 Draft prospect)
Jacob Morrison, RHP, Coastal Carolina
Mason Neville, OF, Oregon (No. 62 Draft prospect)
Jack Ohman, RHP, Yale
James Quinn-Irons, OF, George Mason
Devin Taylor, OF, Indiana (No. 23 Draft prospect)
Dylan Volantis, LHP, Texas
Kyson Witherspoon, RHP, Oklahoma (No. 8 Draft prospect)