Miami 3B Daniel Cuvet enters 2026 season with sky-high expectations

Daniel Cuvet, the Miami Hurricanes' third baseman, picked up another national nod this week after Baseball America named him a preseason third-team All-American and placed him on the preseason national award watch list.

Cuvet is also a Perfect Game preseason first-team All-American and a D1Baseball preseason first-team All-American, alongside the Baseball America third-team selection and watch-list mention.

Miami third baseman Daniel Cuvet named a preseason All-American

Cuvet is coming off a massive sophomore season in 2025, when he started 61 games and hit .372 with 84 hits, 18 home runs, 84 RBIs and 20 doubles. He also posted a .708 slugging percentage and a .450 on-base percentage.

Cuvet's 84 RBIs were the fifth-most in a single season in school history, and he enters 2026 with 42 career home runs, already tied for seventh all time at Miami.

Cuvet hit .385 in the NCAA Hattiesburg Regional, earned MVP honors, and helped push Miami to the Louisville Super Regional for the program's first super regional appearance since 2016. The Hurricanes finished the 2025 season 35-27 overall (15-14 in ACC play) after falling to Louisville in Game 3 of the super regional.

Cuvet was an All-ACC first-team pick in 2025 and one of 25 Golden Spikes Award semifinalists, while collecting multiple All-America honors after the season. Last summer, he was also named a first-team All-American by Baseball America following that impressive sophomore campaign.

Cuvet stands at 6-foot-3, 240 pounds and is a Fort Lauderdale native who played at Elite Squad Baseball Academy after two seasons at St. Thomas Aquinas. He was also drafted in the 17th round by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2023 before making it to Coral Gables.

Miami opens the 2026 season Friday, Feb. 13, against Lehigh Mountain Hawks at Mark Light Field, with first pitch scheduled for 7 p.m.