Rosters announced for second annual Sun Devil Baseball Alumni/Celebrity Softball Game

Team Arizona State
Spencer Torkelson, Baseball, 2018-20
The No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 MLB Draft by the Detroit Tigers, Spencer Torkelson became the first position player undrafted out of high school to be the top pick since 1995. Recorded his second 30-home run season in 2025 while helping to lead the Detroit Tigers to their second consecutive MLB Playoff appearance. He is second in ASU history with 54 career home runs and would easily have set the career record (57) if the 2020 season had not been cut short after 17 games. He batted .337 in his career with 130 RBIs, 152 runs scored, 33 doubles and 54 long balls. He slugged an incredible .729 over his career, also just shy of Mitch Jones’ school record .731 from 1999-2000. He struck out just 104 times in his career while walking 110 times.

Cam Skattebo, Football, 2023-24
One of the most beloved Sun Devils in recent memory, Skattebo led the Arizona State Football program to the 2024 Big 12 Championship and a spot in the College Football Playoffs in his final season. The fifth-place finisher in the Heisman Trophy voting, Skattebo was selected by the New York Giants in 2025’s NFL Draft, where he took the league by storm with his gritty and old-school running style. Skattebo averaged nearly four yards per rush and 10 yards per reception in his debut season at running back with the Giants before suffering a season-ending injury in Week 8. 

Ryan Burr, Baseball, 2013-15
Most recently played for the 2025 MLB runner-up Toronto Blue Jays, though his season was cut short with an injury. Burr finished his Sun Devil career with a school-record 38 saves and was a three-time All-Pac-12 honoree, including a first-team selection in 2015. He was also a 2015 Capital One Academic All-America Second Team, two-time Pac-12 All-Academic, including first team in 2015 and second team in 2014. He tallied 94 career appearances, the fifth-most in school history. He collected 12 saves in each of his first two seasons, including the freshman single-season record in 2013. Burr made at least 30 appearances in three straight seasons, one of three pitchers in school history to do so. He went 15-7 with a 2.79 ERA and 190 strikeouts in 94 appearances across 135.1 innings.

Jake Sheffield, Football, 2012-13
Sheffield joined the Sun Devils after serving as a corporal in the United States Marine Corps, where he was assigned to Golf Battery, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marines and did two combat tours in Iraq. As a Sun Devil, Sheffield played in 22 games, including 13 in his senior year. He recorded nine tackles, eight of which were solo.

Michael Benjamin, Baseball, 2011-13
A Collegiate Baseball third team All-American following his junior season in 2013, where he batted .335 with eight homers, 20 doubles and 47 RBIs, Michael Benjamin finished his career with a .324 average over 134 games with 124 starts. He was selected in the 13th round of the 2013 MLB Draft by the Colorado Rockies. He is also the son of former Sun Devil All-American and 13-year Big Leaguer Mike Benjamin, who served as an Assistant Coach for the Sun Devils.

Chip Gosewisch, Baseball, 1996-99
Currently the head strength and conditioning coach at the Fischer Institute in Phoenix and Co-Founder of PMR Performance, Gosewisch finished his Sun Devil career with a .338 career average with 103 RBIs over 160 games. He was selected in the 30th round of the 1999 MLB Draft by the Anaheim Angels. He was a teammate of Sun Devil Head Coach Willie Bloomquist and brother of former Sun Devil and Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Tuffy Gosewisch.

Mickey Mitchell, Basketball, 1999-2003
Currently the Director of Operations for Sun Devil Men’s Basketball, Mitchell was originally added to the staff as the Player Personnel/Recruiting and Analytics Special Assistant in 2022. Mitchell battled back from injuries in the 2019-20 season and played in 23 games, starting in 11, averaging 15.6 minutes per game and grabbing 22 offensive rebounds. He also spent three seasons playing professional basketball in Japan and Bosnia and received his Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in May of  2019.

Kyle Williams, Football, 2006-09
Williams played professionally in the NFL for the 49ers, Jets and Broncos. As a Sun Devil, he played in 41 games, making 15 starts and set career highs for receptions, receiving yards and touchdowns as a senior. In his career, he totaled 109 receptions for 1,626yards (14.9 avg.) and 18 touchdowns, 74 punt returns for 768 yards (10.4 avg.) and 31 kickoff returns for 709 yards (22.9 avg.). He was also one of the most dynamic high school athletes in the country as a senior at Scottsdale’s Chaparral High School, earning Arizona State Player of the Year Honors by The Arizona Republic.

Amber Freeman, Softball, 2012-15
Freeman was a standout catcher at Arizona State from 2012-15, earning NFCA All-American honors three times and being named the 2013 Pac-12 Player of the Year. She remains fourth in ASU history with 56 career home runs and fifth with 197 career RBI and 46 career doubles. Freeman also earned 2015 Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors and was a two-time Academic All-American.  Freeman was picked by the USSSA Pride as the 11th overall pick in the 2015 NPF Draft. She was also a member of the 2010 Pan-American U-18 gold medal team, the 2011 ISF Junior World Champion team, and the 2013 World Cup silver medal team with USA Softball.

Blake Stauffer, Wrestling, 2011-16
A four-time NCAA qualifier and 2015 All-American at 184 pounds, finishing fourth, Stauffer won back-to-back Pac-12 titles at the weight as a junior and senior. He recorded more than 100 victories in his career, and his 37 victories in 2014-15 are 17th in program history; his 106 career victories are 22nd. His 44 bonus point wins are 15th in program history, and his 14 tech falls are sixth.

Makenna Marsh (Harper), Softball, 2019-23
Marsh finished her Sun Devi Softball career with 111 hits, 89 RBIs, 18 home runs, 17 doubles and 59 walks. She started in all 45 games for the Sun Devils in the outfield as a graduate in 2023, tying a career high with 120 at-bats. She started in 150 games in her ASU career and appeared in 178. She also helped guide ASU to hosting the Tempe Super Regional in 2022, in which she hit a home run. She’s the wife of Sun Devil Baseball alumnus Alec Marsh, who pitches for the Kansas City Royals.

Laura Bradley, Softball, 2012
Played one season for the Sun Devil Softball team, serving as a back-up catcher and helping ASU advance to the Women’s College World Series. Bradley is now a firefighter for the Phoenix Fire Department.

Justin Pollnow, Sun Devil Compliance
Pollnow oversees the day-to-day compliance office operations for Sun Devil Athletics. He has been at Arizona State University since July 2012. Before taking over the day-to-day operations, his primary focus was on rules education, financial aid, and rules interpretations. Justin came to ASU after spending three years at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where he served as the Assistant Athletics Director for Compliance and Student Services. Justin graduated from Marquette University Law School and obtained the National Sports Law Institution certificate.

Zach Lind, Professional Drummer
Lind is a founding member and drummer for Jimmy Eat World, an American rock band formed in 1993 in Mesa, Ariz., which produced the Platinum-award winning album “Bleed American” in 2001 and the Gold-certified "Futures" in 2004. The band’s hit song “The Middle” charted at No. 1 in 2001. Lind’s father, Jack, played for legendary Sun Devil Baseball Head Coach Bobby Winkles in the 1960s.

Team Sun Devils
Dallas Escobedo, Baseball, 2002-05
A 2025 inductee into the Sun Devil Athletics Hall of Fame, Dallas Escobedo burst onto the scene in Tempe and led the Sun Devils to the 2011 NCAA championship as a freshman. During the run to the title, Escobedo went 37-3 with a 1.51 ERA and 326 strikeouts. At the Women’s College World Series, Escobedo went 5-0 with 38 strikeouts. In each of her four seasons at ASU, she accumulated more than 200 innings pitched while never winning fewer than 24 games. She ended her career as one of two players in program history with 100 wins and 1,000 strikeouts and her career totals placed her, at the time, second in program history in strikeouts per seven (9.02), wins (155), appearances (173), starts (140), complete games (116), shutouts (39), innings pitched (950.1) and strikeouts. She is a local product out of Saint Mary’s High School, and competed for Team Mexico in the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Aaron Simpson, Wrestling, 1995-98
A two-time All-American with the Sun Devils, Simpson placed fourth at the 1998 NCAA meet and eighth in 1996, both at 177 pounds. During his Sun Devil career, he collected 110 career wins for 12th on the ASU all-time chart. Simpson also ranks eighth in career dual victories with 53. Simpson concluded his ASU career with a stellar senior season in 1997-98, posting a 34-4 slate that included a perfect 20-0 dual mark. He was also ranked second in the nation for much of the year. He was an assistant coach for Sun Devil Wrestling for a decade, leading the likes of Ryan Bader, C.B. Dolloway and Cain Velasquez to All-America honors. At the MMA level, Simpson posted a 12-5 record, including in the UFC. He was a silver medalist at 187 pounds in the 1997 Pan-American Games, and competed at the 2000 and 2004 U.S. Olympic Team Trials.

JJ Van Niel, Sun Devil Volleyball Head Coach
In three seasons as the head coach at Arizona State, JJ Van Niel has made history by leading the Sun Devils to back-to-back Big 12 Championships (2024-25), which are the only two conference titles in team history. Additionally, he has been named the conference coach of the year in each of his three seasons as a head coach, one of just three coaches in NCAA Volleyball history to achieve this. He also has two AVCA Region Coach of the Year honors. He was the fastest coach in team history to 50 wins and has the top three seasons in team history for winning percentage. Under his tutelage, ASU has had eight All-Americans and three players win a major year-end Big 12 award.

Jeff Larish, Baseball, 2002-05
Larish was selected by the Detroit Tigers in the 5th round of the 2005 MLB Draft and spent nearly a decade in professional baseball. He finished his ASU career as one of the most prolific power hitters in school history. Larish ranks third in the ASU record books with 51 career home runs. He amassed 223 career games played and 221 starts. He combined to hit .333 (283-for-849) with 57 doubles, six triples, 235 RBI and 200 walks. He also recorded at least one hit in 170 of 223 career games (76%) and amassed 87 career multi-hit games. He was a 2003 Consensus All-American. 

Rudy Burgess, Football, 2003-07
One of the most versatile athletes and one of the top all-purpose threats in the nation during his Sun Devil career, Burgess was ASU’s “jack-of-all-trades”, having played wide receiver, tailback, cornerback, kickoff and punt returner and has also thrown a touchdown pass during his Sun Devil career. At the conclusion of his career, he was one of only 14 players in FBS history to record over 1,000 rushing, receiving and return yards. He earned honorable mention All-Pac-10 honors twice (2005 and 2007). He accumulated 4,379 career all-purpose yards with 19 total touchdowns on 446 total touches (229 carries for 1,093 yards and six touchdowns; 125 receptions for 1,536 yards and 12 touchdowns; 68 kickoff returns for 1,517 yards and one touchdown; 31 punt returns for 233 yards). He also averaged 9.8 yards every time he touched the ball over his career and averaged 97.3 all-purpose yards per game for his career.

Jake Borup, Baseball, 2003-07
Borup is making his return to the diamond after suffering a nearly fatal heart attack in 2023 and recently receiving a heart transplant. At ASU, Borup began his sophomore season in the starting rotation and never left, making 15 starts and one relief appearance. He was named Honorable Mention All-Pac-10 and finished the season 11-1 with a 4.08 ERA. He threw 81.2 innings, striking out 63. He was selected by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 23rd round (711th overall) of the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft. Borup was also a host of the Legends of Packard podcast alongside longtime Sun Devil Randy Policar.

Doug Schutt, Baseball, 2002
Played one season for the Sun Devils in 2002 before spending several seasons at Indy Ball, where he racked up 178 stolen bases between 2003-06 and reached base at a .374 clip.

Kyle Williams, Football, 2016-19
Kyle Williams, a 2020 Bill Kajikawa Award Winner, finished his career with a reception in 41 consecutive games, which was tied for the third-longest streak in ASU history. He finished with the sixth-longest streak of games with a reception in the Pac-12 since 1996. Williams’ 161 catches in his career put him in seventh place on the ASU career receptions list at the time. Williams stepped away from football to enroll in medical school in 2022.

Mike Jones, Football/Baseball, 2004-08
One of ASU’s last true two-sport athletes, Jones totaled 1,853 yards on 131 receptions (14.1 avg.) with 17 touchdown catches over his career for the Sun Devil Football team. He played in 49 games and started 33 in his career, including every game during his junior and senior seasons. He spent three seasons on ASU’s baseball team, appearing in 94 games with 34 starts. While playing for the Sun Devil baseball team, he recorded the final out in ASU’s 8-5 victory over Arizona to clinch the 2007 Pac-10 Conference Championship. He was selected by the New York Yankees in the 29th round of the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft.

Kyle Dodd, Basketball, 1999-2003
Dodd played more minutes than any other Sun Devil from 1999-2003, averaging 20.7 minutes per game in his four seasons and 122 games. He had 306 assists and just 105 turnovers, a 2.91-to-1 ratio and averaged only one turnover every 24.1 minutes. Dodd participated in the 2003 NABC Slam Dunk Championship at the Final Four and had eight dunks. He led the Pac-10 in assist-to-turnover ratio (4.72) in overall games and also led the loop in the 18 Pac-10 games (5.85) in his senior year. He has also served as a color analyst for the Sun Devil Men’s Basketball team since 2011.

Breanna Peterson (Macha), Softball, 2015-18
Peterson is a local product who ended her ASU career with 54 wins while striking out 384 batters. The 54 wins moved Macha ahead of Carrie Breedlove (1995-98) for 11th in ASU career wins at the time, while her 387 strikeouts ranked 10th in Sun Devil Softball history upon graduation. An All-Pac-12 selection her junior season, she posted a 2.87 ERA and 2.72 ERA in her junior and senior seasons with just a .222 OBA in her final year. She returned to her alma mater, Mesa Red Mountain, where she is currently head coach of the softball team and a strength and conditioning coach for the school after earning her bachelor’s degree from ASU in exercise and wellness.

Kyle Luckham, Baseball, 2022
Kyle Luckham led the team in innings pitched (86.2), ERA (4.36) and WHIP (1.40) in his one season with the Sun Devils. He had six starts in which he went 7.0+ innings, recording quality starts in five of those. He easily led the team with six quality starts over the year, including capping off the season with a 6.0 IP effort with just two runs allowed against third-ranked Stanford in the Pac-12 Tournament. Luckham induced a team-best 13 double-play balls. Ultimately, he was selected in the 15th round of the 2022 MLB Draft by the Washington Nationals.

Eric Sim, Social Media Influencer
Colloquially known as the @KingOfJuco, Sim is a South Korean–born baseball YouTuber and former baseball player for the San Francisco Giants’ minor league teams and the independent league Winnipeg Goldeyes. He was drafted by the Giants in the 27th round of the 2010 MLB Draft out of the University of South Florida. Following his pro career, Sim became a social media sensation in the baseball scene, where his content consists of videos containing different challenges, accomplishments, collaborations, recreations, as well as other topics. His TikTok @KingofJuco features 1.5 million followers, while his YouTube channel @KingOfJuco has nearly 1 million subscribers, and he regularly receives over a million views on his videos while also posting six-digit followers on X and Instagram.

Cole Tucker, a former MLB player and husband of a Hollywood celebrity
A Phoenix native and alumnus of Mountain Pointe High School, Tucker was the 24th overall pick of the 2014 MLB Draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates. He posted a career 0.00 ERA, tied for the lowest in MLB history. He appeared for the Pirates, Rockies and Angels throughout his professional career. He is the husband of actress and singer Vanessa Hudgens, who starred in “High School Musical,” which celebrated the 20th anniversary of its release this year...Tucker was a bat boy for the Sun Devils in the late 2000s, where he helped lead the Sun Devils to a pair of College World Series appearances in 2007 and 2009...