BALTIMORE, MD – The Johns Hopkins baseball team checked in at number six in the D3baseball.com/NCBWA Preseason Poll and a pair of Blue Jays, graduate student catcher Caleb Cyr and senior third baseman Shawn Steuerer, landed a spot on the D3baseball.com Preseason All-America Team it was recently announced.  The Blue Jays will open the season at home on Friday, February 21 when they welcome Rutgers-Newark to Babb Field
 
D3baseball.com/NCBWA Preseason Top 25
1-Wisconsin-Whitewater, 2-Salve Regina, 3-Endicott, 4-Misericordia, 5-Denison, 6-Johns Hopkins, 7-Salisbury, 8-Pomona-Pitzer, 9-Lynchburg, 10-East Texas Baptist, 11-Christopher Newport, 12-Wisconsin-La Crosse, 13-Baldwin Wallace, 14-Case Westerns, 15-Cortland, 16-Randolph-Macon, 17-Trinity (TX), 18-La Varne, 19-Claremont Mudd-Scripps, 20-Adrian, 21-Rowan, 22-Chapman, 23-Ramapo, 24-Rhodes, 25-Penn State-Harrisburg
 
Strength of Schedule
Johns Hopkins will play six games against teams that appear in the D3baseball.com/NCBWA Preseason Top 25 (Endicott, Denison, Salisbury, Cortland (2), Penn State-Harrisburg) and three others against teams listed as receiving votes in the poll (Catholic, Mitchell, TCNJ).
 
Cyr, Steuerer Honored
Cyr and Steuerer were both named to the D3baseball.com Preseason All-America First Team.  Johns Hopkins and Wisconsin-Whitewater were the only two programs to place two players on the first team.
 
Cyr was a Second Team All-America selection by both the ABCA and D3baseball.com a year ago.  He hit .341 with a team-best 20 home runs and 63 RBIs while making 41 starts in 42 games played.  He led Division III in slugging percentage (.899) and ranked fifth overall – and first among catchers – with his 20 home runs.  He enters his final season with 37 home runs, 114 RBIs, 91 runs scored and a career slugging percentage of .801; 59 of his 90 career hits have gone for extra bases.
 
Steuerer is a two-time D3baseball.com All-American (2023-2^nd Team | 2024-3^rd Team) and was also a First Team CSC Academic All-American in 2024.  He hit .363 with 17 home runs and 52 RBIs last season while leading the team in hits (57) and runs scored (57).  With one season remaining, he counts 42 home runs, 37 doubles, 202 hits, 149 runs scored and 149 RBIs to his credit with a career batting average of .388 and a career slugging percentage of .727.