Scouts are putting Carlos Gonzlez comps on his body and swing, and think hell be an everyday corner guy in a few years. Theres an All-Star-caliber hit and power combination here, and while a bigger pro data sample might reveal some approach-related issues, Johnson has been one of the best hitters his age for going on a half decade and feels like a relatively high-probability high school hitting prospect. Hes competing for a D-backs rotation spot. Velocity, repertoire depth, and fastball control have Miller poised to be an impact, mid-rotation starter in the near future, while long-term secondary projection could eventually pull him into a different stratosphere. 84IllinoisBig Ten7IL1-34506636 They all won their weekend series. The 6-8 righty struck out ten Omaha batters over 6 innings, earning him the win. Thanks to his looseness and flexibility (again, think a lankier Gerrit Cole), not only does Abel project to maintain this level of velocity, but perhaps hell add to it as his frame fills out. Previous ranking: No. Barger then went to the Arizona Fall League, where his left-handed bat speed stood out among lots of other good hitting prospects. Marte had a long and eventful 2022 that culminated in him looking absolutely gassed during the Arizona Fall League. While he can ambush high pitches, especially up-and-in, and show you close to average peak pop, Turang had not slugged over .400 in any pro season until he saw Triple-A in 2022. His huge strides enable him to cover a ton of ground in center field and he is a not only a viable defender out there right now, but he looks like a future plus glove. Long Beach State; 47. During that stretch, he was also swinging and missing within the strike zone a ton. 30. RankProgramConferenceRank in Conf.StateRank in StateChange from 20192019 Rank2017 Rank2015 Rank When he can get the barrel out there, though, hes a threat to do extra-base damage the other way because of his bat speed. Lesko hasnt thrown a pro pitch yet due to TJ rehab, but his changeup and pre-injury velocity and fastball playability demand he be one here toward the back. window.FGWebsite_head_section.buildProspectsListTop100Controls(); If he can consistently locate his stuff Abels pitch execution is behind that of the typical Double-A starter but okay for a still-growing pitcher his age then Abel will be a front-end arm. His feel for contact and for the zone already gave him a high floor. Initially considered a contact-first prospect, the effort level in Chourios swing ratcheted up in 2022 and he now takes a monster hack, whipping the bat through the zone with all his might, often needing the dirt of the batters box behind him to stop his rotation. Teams not listed above are: 31. The identifiable visual tweak to the swing, the shift in batted ball profile, and Batys dramatic uptick in home runs are all indications that hes dialed in the details that have kept him vacillating between several FV tiers for the last couple of years. 64) and Georgia. The A-Sun, CAA, MVC, MWC, WAC and WCC landed two teams apiece in the Top 100. It comes out of his hand from a high arm slot that looks like the kind optimized for data-friendly ride, but the pitchs downhill angle makes it less of a weapon at the letters and actually makes it very vulnerable within the strike zone. He dealt with a litany of issues as an amateur, as benign as a fractured finger and as severe as back issues that had some teams drop him from their draft boards. Collegiate Baseball's 2022 College Baseball Preview Edition (Jan. 7, 2022) has just been published and features all the top teams and players on all levels of college baseball plus a look at the top 93 college baseball players for the 2022 MLB Draft, All-American teams and much more. Ellys tools are big enough to stand with those guys, but if hes striking out at a 30% clip at Double-A, its likely hell do so more often against big league pitching, which puts him in a dangerous area. Major League and Minor League Baseball data provided by Major League Baseball. Southern Miss; 32. Feb. 28-March 1: vs Virginia Commonwealth. In keeping with the fast track hes been on ever since he was drafted, he was promoted straight to the majors after that, skipping over Triple-A entirely, and held his own with the big-league squad, reaching base safely in each of his five games there to close out the season. His fastball velocity is down, in the 92-94 mph range, a far cry from Priesters upper-90s peak. Copyright 2023 Baseball America Enterprises. As of list publication, Rodriguez is one of just two catchers on Pittsburghs 40-man roster, and while its possible hes beaten out by a veteran non-roster invitee like Tyler Heineman or Kevin Plawecki, Rodriguezs defensive chops and versatility give him a shot to break camp with the big club, split time with Austin Hedges, and moonlight at one or two other positions before eventually seizing the primary catcher job. In that case, were talking about a rock solid everyday player in the Mark Canha mold, and in fact Vargas career has tracked in a similar fashion, especially as we stand on the precipice of a likely position change. His stolen base total itself is not an indication of speed, but Naylor is running home-to-first as fast as 4.10, which is a plus run time, and he should swipe double-digit bases in his physical prime, relevant for fantasy-playing readers. He then spent all of 2022 at Double-A and punched out 33.1%, while trimming his walk rate down to just 7.5%. Ortiz put up some silly offensive numbers as an amateur, including a .422/.474/.697 line as a junior at New Mexico State that was caricatured by the elevation of Las Cruces, which is one of the most hitter-friendly environments in college baseball. Cal Poly; 48. After a blazing-hot end to the 2021 minor league season and a dominant Fall League performance, White rode a lot of hype into last season. (24) East Carolina: L 6-5, L 6-5 Upcoming Feb. 28-March 1: Virginia Commonwealth March 3-5: Stony BrookUNC lost a pair of close games to ECU, first in Greenville and then in Chapel Hill for the first time since 2019. 65Georgia SouthernSun Belt6GA3N/ANR9284 Before he got hurt, there were folks in baseball who considered him a top 30 prospect, so his ceiling is big enough to include him on the top 100 now even though hes coming off injury. Already armed with plus-plus velocity after coming out of a Division-II school in Michigan, Brown has added a plus-plus curve and slider since turning pro. He is otherwise a major league-ready fourth starter. Hes only ever played shortstop in affiliated ball but saw time at third base in LIDOM, where he understandably looked uncomfortable at times. Florida hosts rival Miami this weekend. This is where we value a contending teams plug-and-play third or fourth starter. For an offense that lost a ton over the offseason, Bazzana must step up, and he is off to a good start, producing a 1.147 OPS in 17 at-bats. Arizonas relatively new Amarillo affiliate is especially extreme relative to the rest of the Texas League. RHP Billy Oldham The Golden Eagles allowed just three runs across four games to get their season underway and Oldham was impressive. His numbers backed up in 2022, but thats typical of pitchers who go to work in Reno. Hendersons hard-hit rate (52%), average exit velocity (92 mph), max exit velo for his age (116 mph), barrel rate in the minors, and anything else that measures power and contact quality are all a 60 or 70 on the scouting scale, and so is his plate discipline. Parada has impeccable hitters timing, and batting stance aside, his swing is rhythmic and balanced. The Diamond Dogs (5-3) claimed their first win against a top-5 ranked opponent since 2004, sending the defending national champions home with their second loss of the season. Teams 1-5Teams 6-10Teams 11-20Teams 21-30Teams 31-40Teams 41-50Teams 51-60Teams 61-70Teams 71-80Teams 81-90Teams 91-100, D1Baseball Top 100 Programs: 2022 If you would like to read a book-length treatment on the subject, one is available here. Mauricios measurable power is already plus (45% hard-hit rate, 114 mph max exit velo), and at a strapping 6-foot-4 or so, he might still grow into more. Bibees velocity ticked way up in pro ball, and he has command of a mid-rotation starters four-pitch mix. Built at age 16 like Maurice Jones-Drew or a late-20s Mike Trout, nobody was totally sure how Domnguezs body and physicality would develop as he entered his 20s, and this (plus the internet hype) is where the Zion comp came from. Bleis has some of the planets sexiest bat speed and produces shocking power for a young hitter his size. 2023 NCAA | Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. Every MCWS Most Outstanding Player from 1995-2022, article was published first on d1baseball.com, Louisiana Tech upsets No. Late in 2022, the Cardinals started giving Walker reps in the outfield, mostly in right, and he looked fine out there. McGarry still has below-average control and only throws his pitches for strikes at a 60% clip, but hes come a long way since his days at Virginia, when he was walking a batter per inning and was passed over in the 2020 draft. After hitting .352/.439/.676 with 17 home runs as a freshman at Arizona, Berry followed coach Jay Johnson from Tucson to Baton Rouge, becoming the highest-profile transfer in the first offseason in over a decade in which players were able to transfers between Division I schools without sitting out a year. His time on the Twins roster was too short-lived to put much stake in, but was just as brilliant more so, given his ability to translate those above-average across-the-board numbers to the highest level. His rare raw thump has already begun to manifest in games, as Cartaya clubbed 22 homers in 2022, a season after he dealt with multiple injuries that severely limited his playing time. His traditional crouch can be a little high and make it tough for him to get to the ground to block balls, which he often tries to do with his hands rather than his whole body, and hell cost you a base now and then because of this. The scouting summaries were compiled with information provided by available data and industry sources, as well as from our own observations. 64) and Georgia Southern (No. Its no surprise, then, that his introduction to pro ball came with a reduced workload, which Graceffo combined with a clear commitment to hitting the gym, resulting in an immediate velocity increase across his repertoire. Scouts who saw him after Labor Day thought the quality and utility of his breaking balls (while still good) had also backed up a bit. Our 36th-ranked draft prospect as a high schooler in 2019, Lee is a switch-hitting shortstop with above-average power who walked nearly twice as often as he struck out as a junior. 49GonzagaWCC1WA1247379NR Keith was on the SS/3B line as a high school defender, but his extra heft has pushed him down the defensive spectrum. On paper, Cappe has performed well from a bat-to-ball standpoint early in his career, and he has very exciting raw power projection because of his wide receiver-ish frame. On paper, Amador is still generating flat, groundball and line drive contact a lot of the time, but we think his feel for the barrel and for the zone together will enable him to hit for average power at maturity, maybe more as a left-handed hitter. NC SOS: Non-Conference SOS. Davis plate crowding helps enable his pull-heavy approach. For example, the gap between Padres shortstop Jackson Merrill (No. Out over the plate, he has a tendency to stay inside fastballs and lift them toward the opposite field gap. Rodriguezs changeup, which falls through a trap door just as it approaches the plate, is among the best secondary pitches in the minors, garnering a 42% chase and whiff rate in 2022. Jung had a rough 2022 that were chalking up to injury-related rust rather than severe skill regression. D1Baseball editors and national writers determine the Top 25 rankings. Hes begun to solve the former problem by occasionally catching on one knee with one leg splayed out, la Carlos Ruiz, which allows him to be lower to the ground and present low pitches moving back toward the zone. Whether or not Cartaya does this depends on the pitch hes called, and sometimes hell start from a crouch and drop to a knee as the pitch is in mid-flight. Even after a wildly successful 2021, Mead still cut down on what was already a very modest in-the-box stride and now derives all of his power from the rotation of his hips and the strength of his hands, which have a setup akin to vintage Evan Longoria. Hes a young, switch-hitting catcher with cartoonish offensive numbers (especially from a bat-to-ball standpoint) and uncommon defensive versatility, as hes played a bunch of second base and left field as well. Auburns biggest concern coming out of the weekend is the status of righthander Joseph Gonzalez, who was held out due to shoulder tightness. Hes adept at dropping it into the top of the strike zone, around the hands of left-handed hitters who think its a fastball above the zone until it cuts down onto the corner. Except Ortiz hit 19 homers and had 60 total extra-base hits in the upper-minors last year, and while he doesnt project to produce that kind of power against big league stuff, its enough damage to project Ortizs offense above the median bar at shortstop. He debuted with Boston late in the season and flashed the titanic power that promises to make him a valuable big league regular, while also running the high walk and strikeout rates that readers should expect from him going forward. All of the prospects below also appear on The Board, a resource the site offers featuring sortable scouting information for every organization. If he can throw strikes in Allentown, hell likely crack the Phillies bullpen in 2023, and he has closer ceiling if he can throw strikes consistently. After hitting .278/.373/.556 with San Jose, he was promoted to High-A and struck out at a 37% clip during the final month of the season. Graham has been a consistent producer in the Oklahoma lineup each of the last two seasons, and he was one of the countrys hottest hitters in 2020 at the time the season was canceled. Lee played short at Poly, but based on his size (Brad Miller is a fair body comp), straight line speed (hes heavy-footed from home to first, in the 4.5s) and his medical, clubs tend to have him projected to third base. Forty-two of the 57 games he played in the Carolina League came at ballparks with park factors of 116 or more, per research conducted annually by Baseball Americas Matt Eddy. Jobes stuff has more spin than the 24-hour news networks, but he had a rough first season in pro ball. LSU lost its first game of the year, but still posted a winning weekend with victories against Kansas State and Sam Houston State. The Aggies, who dropped two of three at home to the Pilots, dropped a whopping 10 spots from No. He hardly threw his changeup at all (just 6% usage), and his numbers against lefties were particularly affected by its omission. He worked out in Panama during the offseason and the Guardians thought he was a full-go for spring training 2023, the start of his 40-man evaluation year. Dallas Baptist; 33. He has a big frame, a mature approach, and a left-handed stroke so gorgeous that its now rumored to be dating Pete Davidson. Still, the quality of Martes contact, as much as he might make, is not consistent or authoritative, and this was true in the regular season when he looked twitchier and looser than he did in the fall. Miller will occasionally show you good secondary stuff. 2021 SEASON:Mississippi State takes down Vanderbilt to win program's first title| Full CWS bracket |Top 2021 MLB draft prospects He continued to play well as a junior, showing better barrel feel from the left side than he did as a sophomore. Williams has a prototypical baseball frame at a strapping 6-foot-2, and has the range, actions, and internal clock to remain at shortstop long-term, as well as a great infield arm. Cleveland added him to their 40-man toward the end of last year but never optioned him, which means he still has three option years left for those defensive skills to percolate. Despite being rough around the edges (remember Cappe waited an extra year to sign so he could get more money from the Marlins and has played a full season less than the typical 20-year-old prospect), he has a great tools and projection foundation that is now being reinforced by early-career performance, most notably from a bat-to-ball standpoint. Teams 21-30 Flores velocity tapered off some in 2022 but he threw more strikes than expected, enough to now project as a starter. His innings were limited an effort to keep his workload light as he focuses on adding size and muscle to his frame. 1 team in the land in the latest D1Baseball Top 25 Rankings. In the three years since the trade, Mead has become one of the more dangerous hitters in the minor leagues and as soon as he becomes a suitable defender, he should provide a well-rounded offensive threat in the middle of Tampa Bays order. Carroll has evolved in some surprising ways as a hitter. The switch-hitting Quero demonstrated improved feel for getting his barrel on the ball from both sides of the plate, bopping 17 homers and 35 doubles. 89CreightonBig East2NE2-12779677 Hes shown the ability to induce significant swing and miss across all four offerings, both in and out of the zone, aided largely by his funky arm action. It would be an above-average pitch were it simply in the low-to-mid-80s, but at this velocity, its a 70-grade weapon, and Espino has consistent feel for locating it down and to his glove side. Hes now a bounce back prospect. 40. He certainly continued that success, lasting five innings against Indiana, allowing just two hits. Nelsons velocity was down early in 2022 but picked up late in the year. Hes short, he gets way down the mound (which helps create shallow angle on the pitch), and even though he has a three-quarters arm slot, his hand position is more north/south on release, which helps him create backspin and ride on the fastball. Our annual Top 150 College Players list is an attempt to give readers an all-encompassing view of the best players in college baseball. Previous ranking: No. 1, Florida State surges into D1Baseball's top 25 after Week 2, 2023 Round Rock Baseball Classic: Schedule, how to watch LSU, Iowa, K-State, Sam Houston, First No. Texas Tech faces stiffer competition this week, starting with a midweek series against Air Force and then a trip to Houston for the Shriners College Classic, highlighted by a Sunday showdown with Texas A&M. Hes a well-rounded star and franchise cornerstone. Previous ranking: No. The toolset to profile as a 50 in right is arguably already in place, and theres a chance Mayo ends up with 70 raw at peak and becomes a star out there. On last look, it was stuff that profiled in the middle of a contending teams rotation, rather than at the very front. 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