GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The D1Baseball Podcast conducted an All-Quarter Century Team Draft on Wednesday night with four Florida Gators among those selected.
 
Highlighting college baseball’s top players from the last 25 years (2000-2025), the Gators chosen included first baseman/left-handed pitcher Jac Caglianone (UF 2022-24), outfielder Wyatt Langford (UF 2021-23), right-handed pitcher Brady Singer (UF 2016-18) and first baseman Matt LaPorta (UF 2004-07).
 

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Matt LaPorta
Holding status as the only person to claim sole SEC Player of the Year honors twice (2005, 2007), LaPorta’s four-year Gators career is among the best in team history. From 2004-07, he slashed .323/.459/.681 with 492 total bases, 74 homers, 33 doubles, 206 RBI, 197 runs scored and 140 walks. As a 2005 and 2007 First Team All-American, LaPorta held Florida’s all-time home run record for 17 years prior to being passed by Caglianone in 2024. Despite his last collegiate game being nearly two decades in the rearview, LaPorta’s name is littered across the UF record books: home runs (second), RBI (fourth), total bases (fifth), slugging percentage (fifth), walks (sixth), runs (eighth) and on-base percentage (10th).

Brady Singer

Claiming the 2018 Dick Howser Trophy and National Player of the Year awards from Baseball America and D1Baseball, Singer pitched to a 23-10 career record while helping Florida to the College World Series in all three seasons of his UF tenure. Making 60 appearances including 37 starts, the Eustis, Fla. product worked to a 3.22 ERA, .234 batting average against and 281-to-71 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 282 2/3 innings. Singer fired four complete games and one shutout in Orange & Blue. The 2018 SEC Pitcher of the Year and two-time All-SEC recipient wrapped up his career ranking seventh in strikeouts and 10th in innings pitched in program history.

 

Wyatt Langford

Across his three-year Gators career from 2021-23, Langford garnered virtually every honor possible. The Trenton, Fla. native was a Unanimous First Team All-American in 2023, also being named to the College World Series All-Tournament Team, a Golden Spikes Award Semifinalist and First Team All-SEC after hauling in All-American and All-SEC accolades as a sophomore in 2022. All told, Langford batted .363/.471/.746 across 134 career games. He totaled 47 home runs, 37 doubles, 156 runs, 120 RBI and 16 stolen bases. His .746 career slugging percentage sits second in UF baseball history behind Caglianone. Langford was also reliable in the field, making just one career error in 233 chances for a .996 fielding percentage. 

 

Jac Caglianone

From 2022-24, Caglianone slugged a program-record 75 home runs in just 165 career games and was a Unanimous First Team All-American in 2023 and 2024 while leading the Gators to back-to-back College World Series appearances. Highlighted by a 2023 SEC Championship, Caglianone finished his college career as a .355/.447/.760 hitter over 634 at bats, owning 225 hits, 189 RBI, 176 runs, eight stolen bases and the highest slugging percentage in team history. He made 34 starts on the bump from 2023-24, never missing his turn in the rotation and going 12-6 with a 4.55 ERA, .208 batting average against and 170 strikeouts in 148 1/3 frames. He also became the first SEC player ever to blast 30 home runs in multiple seasons while his 75 big flies rank third in SEC history.

 

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