In addition to all-conference, all-region and all-America honors earned in the last three weeks, Lee can now call himself a second-team All-American, an honor bestowed upon the second-year shortstop Thursday by Baseball America.
Three teams were selected by Baseball America. Besides Lee, the only other player from a Big West Conference school was pitcher Rodney Boone of UC Santa Barbara, joining Lee on the second unit.
Lee is the first Mustang honored by Baseball America since 2014 when infielder Mark Mathias also made the second team. Outfielder Grant Desme was a first-team selection in 2007.
On Wednesday, Lee became Cal Poly's first American Baseball Coaches Association All-West Region first-team honoree in seven years.
Other honors already earned by Lee are Big West Conference Co-Field Player of the Year and Co-Freshman Field Player of the Year as well as first-team Collegiate Baseball All-American and Freshman All-American. He also was named one of five National Co-Freshman Players of the Year by Collegiate Baseball.
Lee is one of six finalists for the Brooks Wallace Award as the nation's top shortstop and also was a semifinalist for the Golden Spikes Award, presented to the player of the year.
Baseball America's 2021 College All-America teams include 13 players competing in the College World Series, which opens this weekend in Omaha, Nebraska.
East Carolina, Mississippi State and Vanderbilt all produced two first-team All-Americans. Mississippi, Stanford and Tennessee also had two players honored across the three teams.
This year marks a return of Baseball America's postseason All-America teams, as none was awarded in 2020 following the cancellation of the season. The staff of Baseball America selected the teams.
Lee has one of the highest fielding percentages in the nation among shortstops with a .974 average, committing just six errors on the season. He finished second in the Big West among regular shortstops in fielding percentage.
Lee hit a team-leading .342 this spring and also led the Mustangs in home runs (10), RBIs (57), hits (76), triples (3), total bases (139) and sacrifice flies (8). He broke the school single-season record for doubles with 27, tied for fifth place in the Big West record book.
Lee earned Big West Field Player of the Week honors three times this season and is the 54th Mustang to earn first-team All-Big West honors. He was first in the Big West in doubles, slugging percentage, RBIs, sacrifice flies and total bases, third in home runs and hits, sixth in runs scored and ninth in batting average.
Nationally, Lee ranks No. 2 in doubles and sacrifice flies, 16th in total bases, 33rd in RBIs and 36th in hits.
Lee claimed back-to-back Big West Player of the Week awards in March after going 7-for-12 against Utah Valley and 7-for-14 versus UCLA, driving in 14 runs in the two series, and earned his third after the Cal State Fullerton series in mid-May (9-for-18, four doubles, grand slam, five runs scored, seven RBIs).
He produced hitting streaks of 12 games (stopped by UC Irvine), 11 games (snapped by Hawai'i) and nine games (halted by CSUN) this season and compiled a team-leading 25 multiple-hit games and 16 multiple-RBI contests (most in the Big West).
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