Arizona infielder Nick Quintana (13) charges a bunt and fires to first during the fourth inning at the Arizona Wildcats vs. Oregon Ducks college baseball game on April 15, 2017, at Hi Corbett Field in Tucson, Ariz. Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star

Tucson-based Collegiate Baseball magazine, which has for more than 50 years been a heavyweight in coverage of all things college baseball, last week named UA freshman third baseman Nick Quintana to its Freshman All-American team. It’s a much-deserved honor for Quintana, who hit .293 with 38 RBI. The magazine, however, named 14 third basemen as “freshman All-Americans.” I suspect after a summer playing for the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox in the Cape Cod League, Quintana will play to a higher level in 2018. 


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