Blake Gimbarti

Vitals: El Diamante, senior, pitcher

He’s qualified because: West Yosemite League Pitcher of the Year for the conference champion closed a 10-2, 1.24 ERA season with a two-hit, 13-strikeout performance in a 5-1 D-II quarterfinal win over Reedley.

Chris Herrera

Vitals: Kingsburg, senior, pitcher/infielder

He’s qualified because: Central Sequoia League Player of the Year went 12-1 with a 0.88 ERA and 127 strikeouts against 29 walks in 88 innings, and hit .400 with seven doubles, four home runs, 31 runs and 26 RBIs while powering the Vikings to a 21-5 record and the league title.

Nick Palacios

Vitals: Liberty-Madera Ranchos, senior, pitcher/infielder

He’s qualified because: North Sequoia League Pitcher of the Year punctuated an 11-2 season with semifinal and championship playoff wins for the D-V champion. He struck out 93 in 81.2 innings, and provided self-support by hitting .398 with 36 runs and 29 RBIs.

Kenny Travis

Vitals: Edison, junior, pitcher/outfielder

He’s qualified because: Many section coaches, given the choice, would build their team around the athlete who hit .413 with 29 runs and 32 RBIs and went 10-5 with a 2.37 ERA and 73 strikeouts in 82.2 innings for the D-II champion.

Bryce Barger

Vitals: Buchanan, senior, infielder

He’s qualified because: All-Tri-River Athletic Conference shortstop hit .312 and scored 24 runs while vacuuming his position and teaming with second baseman Brett Bishop as the section’s finest middle infield.

Nate Dalena

Vitals: Memorial, senior, infielder

He’s qualified because: The first baseman found few pitchers who caused discomfort for three years. This season he hit .426 with 40 runs, 34 RBIs, 10 doubles and six home runs for the D-II runner-up.

Skippy Ferreria

Vitals: Edison, junior, infielder

He’s qualified because: All-County/Metro Athletic Conference shortstop began scoring points for the 2010 major league draft by hitting .429 with 42 runs, 43 RBIs, five home runs, 16 steals in 18 attempts and only seven errors.

Eric Karch

Vitals: Clovis West, junior, infielder/pitcher

He’s qualified because: Playing in the shadows of headliners (see Salles, Silva and Koretoff), he nonetheless was no secret to college coaches by the time the season ended as the shortstop who hit .500 in the final month — and .295 with four home runs and 20 RBIs overall — while also finishing with a 2-0 record, three saves and 34 strikeouts in 17 innings pitched.

Adam McCurley

Vitals: Washington, junior, infielder

He’s qualified because: Turned heads in the fall as the quarterback who replaced Ebahn Feathers effectively, then held interest as the shortstop who hit .525 with 39 runs, 23 RBIs and 18 steals in 20 attempts, while also going 4-0 with a 1.96 ERA as a pitcher, for the state’s top-ranked D-IV team.

Aaron Weimer

Vitals: Bullard, senior, infielder

He’s qualified because: One of the section’s most consistent hitters for the past three years, the left-handed swinging shortstop batted .402, scored 24 runs and drove in 31 in the cleanup position as the Knights dominated the County/Metro Athletic Conference and reached the D-I semifinals as a No. 8 seed.

Pat Bariteau

Vitals: Liberty-Madera Ranchos, senior, outfielder

He’s qualified because: Author of virtually every Hawks major single-season offensive record, he batted .490 with 17 doubles, eight triples and five home runs, had a slugging percentage of .961 and hit safely in 41 of his last 42 career games, including the final 14 as a senior.

Seth Batty

Vitals: Buchanan, senior, outfielder

He’s qualified because: Setting the table, and sometimes cleaning it up, batting leadoff for Tri-River Athletic Conference-champion Buchanan, he hit .373, scored 31 runs and delivered the section’s most dramatic blast of the season — a walk-off grand slam for a 4-3 TRAC victory over the state’s-then No. 3 Clovis West and Bee All-Star Sean Silva.

T.J. McDonald

Vitals: Edison, senior, outfielder

He’s qualified because: A football scholarship to USC didn’t discourage the Toronto Blue Jays, who drafted him in the 30th round after seeing the major league body (6-3, 215) hit .418 with 39 runs, 31 RBIs and 17 steals in 19 attempts.

Erik Casida

Vitals: Hanford, senior, designated hitter

He’s qualified because: Capped a .430 and 35-RBI season by going 3 for 3 with three runs, a double, home run and four RBIs in an 11-7 conquest of Madera South for the section D-III championship.

Steven Ramos

Vitals: Redwood, senior, designated hitter

He’s qualified because: Batting fourth in the lineup and protecting No. 3-hitting All-Star Blake Proctor, he hit .398 with 12 doubles and three home runs, drove in 33 runs and compiled a slugging percentage of .539.