Alex SwensonRecruiting Advisor| This is a digital version of Alex

Here are the top 10 power-4 schools playing freshmen. Some surprises here…

7 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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Alex Swenson (YouTube) explains which Division I baseball schools in the Power-4 conferences give true freshmen significant playing time, presenting a ranked top-10 of schools by freshman plate appearances (position-player at-bats). He frames this as important for high-school recruits navigating the transfer portal era, credits 64 Analytics for the data, and invites viewer feedback.

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Which D1 baseball schools are giving freshmen an opportunity to play? That is important to know in this day and age with the transfer portal and all the changes in college athletics. And that's what we want as a high school baseball player going through this recruiting process. Which schools are giving opportunities to freshmen? All right. And we're going to be talking about the top 10 Power 4 schools for freshman plate appearance, which just means position players at bats. All right. And I'm going to do pitchers also going to be doing non power forward schools as well for position and pitchers. But you guys got to let me know if you like this information. So I'm not going to just do this and shout out to 64 analytics who gave me this information here. So give me a, like, give me a follow and I'll do more of this and let me know in the comments. Is this something you like? So number one, all right, top 10 power forward schools with freshmen plate appearances is Auburn University actually pretty surprised with this one. They went to the College World Series this year. They're obviously in the SEC. Number two, Indiana. Number three, Georgia Tech. Number four, Texas Christian University. Number five, Tennessee. Number six, Florida State. Number seven, Notre Dame. Number eight, Stanford. Number nine, Miami. And coming in at number 10, Wake Forest. Good luck.