In a typical year, wed have a couple more than that, and sometimes as many as five or six, but this year there are only two. The swing particulars of an 18-year-old arent especially important, and Colliers skill set gives him star-level ceiling, this is just a specific, key area to be sensitive to as he develops. The Big 12 has three teams and the Pac-12 two, while the American, Big Ten and Sun Belt each have one representative. It seemed as though he had potential landing spots in the 2022 drafts top 10 picks, but he ended up parachuting to 18, and signing for an over-slot $5 million. Carter looks like a high-OBP, table-setting center fielder in the Brandon Nimmo mold. Tech. He should be the Mets primary catcher as soon as most of the big league pitching staff feels confident and comfortable throwing to him. 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Flores will also show you an upper-80s cutter, which has more inconsistent shape but gives him a third viable weapon. He still hits the ball really hard for a player his age and looks the part in the uniform, but theres growing risk here, enough to reposition Lucianos FV into this tier. Leiter was wild in his first full season, but we dont want to come off him too severely since he has looked like a solid fourth starter basically every other year hes been on the prospect radar. Then, on the Cape, he hit .295 with four homers in 20 games between the regular season and playoffs. Some of Lawlars offensive performance has been inflated by his home parks hitting environments, especially Low-A Visalia and Double-A Amarillo. Hassells performance tanked after the Juan Soto trade, and he broke his hamate in Arizona after the regular season. For example, based on Craigs research, the average 60 FV hitter on a list becomes a perennial 5-plus WAR player over his six controlled years 26% of the time, and has a 27% chance of accumulating, at most, a couple of WAR during his six controlled years. DH Ian Petrutz Petrutz put up big numbers as a freshman, making him a mainstay in the Terps lineup. His wispy, 6-foot-3 frame has room for another 30 pounds at least, and with that weight and strength could come huge raw thunder. Now, after what might be a delayed start to his 2023, hell be asked to hit the ground running after only playing half of last year. He still has two years before he technically has to be added to the 40-man, and theoretically the Phillies could use all that runway to keep developing him as a starter in the hopes that things click, but going on age 24 that feels like a bit of a pipe dream. The 20-year-old finished the season having performed exactly at the Double-A league average over his 86 games there despite being about four years younger than the average player at that level. Neto dials down his footwork with two strikes and becomes even tougher to put away. 5 after sweeping a road series at then-No. 12TexasBig 122TX34162015 Abel has long thrown hard for his age, his velocity steadily climbing into its current 95-97 mph band up from the 90-94 range when he was first known to FanGraphs as a prospect. The floor here is XL Freddy Galvis with worse defense, but there will be some peak seasons where more of the power plays and he produces like a star. All UZR (ultimate zone rating) calculations are provided courtesy of Mitchel Lichtman. He also appears to have reshaped his body somewhat, which may have contributed to the uptick in arm strength. Born in Panama, Espino had the best arm strength among the high school pitchers in the 2019 draft, but concerns about his delivery and arsenal depth dropped him to the 24th overall pick. 98Ball StateMAC3IN4N/ANRNRNR Unfortunately, he did neither. If you would like to read a book-length treatment on the subject, one is available here. Previous ranking: No. THROWBACKS: Shane Bieber, UCSB | Adley Rutschman, OSU|Russell Wilson,NC State, Enter your information to receive emails about offers, promotions from NCAA.com and our partners. 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. at High-A Wisconsin for the last month of the season. Keith was a late-riser on 2020 draft boards and had teams debating whether to select him as a pitcher or a hitter, with some even considering developing him as a two-way talent. Here Berry projects as a DH. More than 51% of his contact comes off his bat at 95 mph or higher, and 21.1% of that is hit at a launch angle within the sweet spot range for power production. Most of Rafaelas underlying contact and power data is middling, and his peak exit velos arent what youd typically expect from a 20-homer threat, except he does seem to hit the ball fairly hard and in the air very frequently relative to his peak exits. 1 Last Week: 3-1 Overall: 6-1, 0-0 in SEC (0-0 vs. Top 25) Weekend Record: 2-0 Results Feb. 21: @ Southern: W 18-4 Karbach Round Rock Classic (Round Rock, Texas) Feb. 24: vs. Kansas State: W 7-3 Feb. 25: vs. Iowa: L 12-4 Feb. 26: vs. Sam Houston State: W 16-4 Upcoming Feb. 28: @ Texas March 3: Butler March 4-5: Central Connecticut StateLSU took its first loss of the season Saturday against Iowa, but bounced back to rout Sam Houston State to be named champion of the Karbach Round Rock Classic. 6 Last Week: 5-0 Overall: 6-2, 0-0 in SEC (0-0 vs. Top 25) Weekend Record: 1-1 Results Feb. 21-22: Alabama A&M: W 10-0 (8), W 23-1 (7) Feb. 24-26: Dayton: W 12-3, W 4-1, W 6-0 Upcoming Feb. 28-March 1: Charleston Southern March 3-5: GonzagaTennessee announced just before its series against Dayton that coach Tony Vitello would be suspended for the weekend due to an unspecified violation within the program. 32South CarolinaSEC10SC3-1418119 Hernandez has a great skill and athleticism foundation, and he already has incredible power for a shortstop his age, capable of hitting oppo lasers. LHP Xavier Rivas Delaware was no match for Rivas, who struck out eight and allowed just one hit. While injured, he was dealt to the Cubs, and when he returned in 2022, he wasted little time demonstrating why hed netted the Mets Javier Bez and Trevor Williams in return. A very skilled hitter with a career .313/.390/.488 line in the minors, Vargas made his big league debut in 2022 and is poised to play a more prominent role for the Dodgers this season after their many free agent departures, though probably not at third base. 33DukeACC8NC463982NR The offensive bar in left is at roughly the same level as third base and if we project Vargas to be able to play a neutral left field (hes below average right now but looks better than he ever has at third), it actually buoys his overall profile because his third base defense was pulling it down. Keith was on the SS/3B line as a high school defender, but his extra heft has pushed him down the defensive spectrum. 73IowaBig Ten5IA1-6676187 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. So Lawlar isnt quite as good as his cartoonish stats his present hit/power combination is actually closer to average but he does everything well and is a potential plus defender at short because of his acrobatics. Given the 2022 performance of some of their young 40-man occupants (strike-throwing issues for Ryan Pepiot, Andre Jackson), Miller might be Los Angeles most reliable in-season option to make a start if one or more of their projected starters goes down with injury. Winns huge arm is icing on a cake made mostly of plus bat-to-ball skills and viable shortstop defense. Cartaya presents the Dodgers with a good problem, as they already have one of baseballs best catchers in place ahead of him and the two are set to overlap on the active roster during the next three to four seasons. Some of the volatile characteristics of his profile are still here. Romos offensive performance is impressive considering he only turned 21 near the end of the 2022 season, though in another sense its troubling because hes such a physical guy and yet has such poor ball-striking power. RHP Nick Dean Dean will return to College Park for his senior season after starting 15 games in 2022. More striking than his velocity itself is the ease with which Espino generates it. On its own, the heater hasnt been much of a bat-misser, but it plays up thanks to two excellent secondaries a changeup and a slider both of which are plus or better, and both of which garnered whiff rates over 50% and chase rates over 40% in 2022. Sometimes the length of his slider is so ridiculous that its actually tough for him to control. A few factoids: (you might need to use the scrollbar at the bottom of the table, depending on your device), Teams1-5 When you consider that Miller lost a lot of developmental time to COVID and being buried on A&Ms depth chart, you can start to get excited about how much potential growth remains for him. He then spent all of 2022 at Double-A and punched out 33.1%, while trimming his walk rate down to just 7.5%. After he went second overall in the 2021 draft, Leiter rested for the remainder of that season, having racked up 110 innings on the mound for Vanderbilt. In the past, Ortizs high-effort delivery and sub-optimal fastball shape put him on the starter/reliever line, but hes thrown plenty of strikes across multiple seasons while simultaneously developing more velocity and comfortably projects as a starting pitcher now. He struggles to set up his slider with well-located fastballs, and even when he does its not a given that hell land the slider after its been set up. Kurtz was unstoppable, hitting four homers and driving in 11, along with a video-game-like 1.267 slugging percentage. NCSA analyzed over 257 four-year colleges with college baseball programs at the NCAA Division 2 level to develop a list of the Best Division 2 Baseball Colleges for Student-Athletes.. NCSA Power Rankings are based on proprietary analysis of NCSA Favorites data obtained from the college search activity of the over 3 million student-athletes on the NCSA recruiting . While most players on this list have experience at the college level, we also included some newcomers, with the expectation that those players will be among the favorites to win freshman of the year honors. He had his second straight fair offensive season as a pro, as he produced a 95 wRC+ at High-A, mostly thanks to his ability to put balls in play. With the college baseball season set to begin on Feb. 19, Athlon Sports is taking a look at the top 25 teams in the NCAA. The SEC also occupies six of the top eight spots, and nine of the top 20. Outfielder Dillon Carter went 9-for-14 with two home runs on the weekend to lead the Red Raiders. His slider tunnels better with the four-seamer, but its whiff and chase rates have been more pedestrian. He slashed .282/.429/.492 at North Carolina and is a .267/.374/.493 career hitter so far in the minors, spending most of 2022 at Triple-A and joining the 40-man roster after the season. Lewis chronic injuries have kept him on this list forever, but were still betting that his tools and personhood will eventually turn him into a good multi-positional big leaguer. Baty was an older draft prospect of considerable size, and there was worry hed have to move to first base in pro ball. The Tigers scored 27 runs on the weekend. Berry is similar to Dodgers prospect Michael Busch when he was coming out, and is one of the favorites to be the first to reach the big leagues from his draft class, producing like a 2-WAR hitter even as a DH. Theres still risk Rafaela walks the Cristian Pache path, as his issues are similar to the ones that have apparently undone the young Athletic, but more likely hes akin to Kevin Pillar, and there are scouts who think Rafaelas frame will continue to add strength such that he hits for more power than Pillar was able to. Painter overpowered low minors hitters with velocity then showed competent use of four pitches by the end of 2022. His arm angle makes it naturally tough on lefties but its utility is limited against righties, which is likely what caused Cleveland and Allen to work on a cutter that is still in the nascent stages of development. After an uptick in fastball velocity a couple of years ago, Olsons four-seamer is still resting comfortably around 94-95 mph. The Tigers put together a 2-1 record at the event with the lone loss coming to Iowa. His power combined with his speed and defensive fit in center field give him rare upside as a 30-plus home run center fielder hitting at or near the top of whatever lineup hes in. Historically, Mead has raked despite having a hyper-aggressive approach at the plate, and this is where he grew the most in 2022. Hes so long that this may be exposed as an issue as the level of velocity Wood sees increases. Abel has been the best pitching prospect his age since his sophomore year of high school, and hes continued to track like an impact starter early on as a pro, reaching Double-A in 2022. NC SOS: Non-Conference SOS. Suasc was part of a dynamic freshman one-two punch at Arizona last season alongside Berry. Hes going to be a middle-of-the-order anchor in Oakland fairly soon. With some of the best bat-to-ball skills in last year's draft Jackson, impressed in his senior year, slashing .685/.749/1.392 in 41 games. For instance, Dodgers 2B/LF Miguel Vargas and Marlins shortstop Yiddi Cappe are both 50 FV prospects, but other than them both being Cuban, they are nothing alike. He still has some relief risk. All count against the team's salary cap. This years crop of prospects has a relatively shallow high-impact group at the very top of the list. 55), Old Dominion (No. Vanderbilt heads North this weekend to take on a trio of Big Ten opponents in the Cambria College Classic at U.S. Bank Stadium, the home of the Minnesota Vikings. Even though Wood is quite big, he has feel for tucking his hands in and getting the barrel to softer pitches on the inner half of the plate, often staying inside them and driving them to the opposite gap. He slid within this FV tier but his grade didnt change, and hes still a pretty good bet to be a no. 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. lvarez has plenty of arm strength and will sometimes pop below 1.80 seconds (seriously) now that hes gotten better at starting to exit his crouch before the pitch has reached him, or just cutting it loose from his knees when thats not feasible. The Mariners drafted him in the fourth round and have deployed him as a starter so far. After playing some winter ball for Gigantes del Cibao, Marte saw 520 regular season plate appearances, changed organizations as the highest-profile prospect in the blockbuster Luis Castillo trade in the midst of those, went to Germany as part of Team Spains WBC qualifier roster, and then came back to the US and played for another six weeks in the Fall League. 40. 6LouisvilleACC1KY1-1566 Amador is one of those short-levered switch hitters who is so short to the ball that he gets an extra beat to diagnose pitches before he has to commit to swinging, and he takes advantage of this. He turned out to have a stress fracture in his lower back, which the Giants revealed as players reported to camp at the start of 2023. Because of the cancellation of the 2020 season, Barco has what counts as a lengthy track record among third-year pitchers in college baseball because he has been in the Florida rotation since arriving on campus. 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