Martes body and athleticism regressed in 2022, and he looked pretty rough in the Arizona Fall League. He makes up for mediocre twitch and range with outstanding instincts, elegant body control, lightning-fast hands and actions, and a plus arm. As both the Twins and Reds (Steer was drafted by Minnesota and came to Cincinnati in the Tyler Mahle trade) searched for a viable defensive position for Steer, he backed into valuable defensive versatility that should keep him on the field in all but a few game situations. Its still quite the arsenal, its just that the breaking balls arent all 60s and 70s anymore, or at least they werent at the end of 2022. He has had the most impressive BP session at each of the last two Futures Games, launching satellite-threatening baseballs to the very outer reaches of big league stadiums. Romo has a plus glove and plus-plus arm but likely wont make a huge offensive impact. You can really see his athleticism and remarkable hip/shoulder separation on his throws down to second. There might be more game power here than there is raw power, or at least more game power than youd expect from someone who has some approach-related red flags. Preseason All-American righthander/outfielder Nolan McLean earned the save in both no-hitters. National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, "Collegiate Baseball Div. He slashed .287/.388/.476 at High-A in 2022 and hit 43 extra-base hits during the year, but Carters game is much more about soft skills than premium tools. Jones is a great defensive center fielder with power that might require a swing tweak to unlock. Power and arm strength have been Cartayas headline tools since his amateur days, and despite missing lots of time in the 2020-21 window due to the pandemic and injuries, he has still developed on defense and managed his strikeout tendencies, and played enough in 2022 to reinforce industry confidence in his plate discipline across a larger sample of plate appearances. Miller spent his freshman year at Blinn College, then pitched out of the Texas A&M bullpen as a sophomore and junior. This wasnt a gradual increase, either it happened all at once in 2019. Combine that with your standard issue Astros breaking ball complement (a hard 90-mph cutter/slider and a slower knuckle curveball) and you very likely have an impact big league arm, if a somewhat inefficient one. Its prudent to bake this context into how one thinks about Marte, but there are also some statistical yellow flags evident in his regular season performance as well as some harsh realities to come to grips with regarding his trajectory on defense. He tends to work contact to center and right field, especially against fastballs, and he has a clear two-strike approach where he ditches his leg kick and takes a more conservative swing. Gonzaga; 36. He might have to augment his swing to get to all of that power, and the chase component threatens to drag the hit tool down, but guys who hit the ball this often and this hard tend to turn into good big leaguers. Wesneskis slider is really nasty and his entire repertoire fits nicely together. Whitaker went for both length and quality against Wagner, lasting seven innings and not allowing a run, striking out three. It has been his best in-zone bat misser thanks largely to the breadth of his arsenal. He has quick actions and his lateral agility is better than his long speed on the bases. There is some analytical fire to back up the smoke the scouts are smelling. There were reasons to be skeptical or apprehensive about declaring Chourio one of the games top prospects, especially at the onset of his breakout. Montgomery may provide a counterexample to the industrys obsession with hitters age in the draft room, as the former 19-year-old high schooler looks like he might be a star. His hands work with natural lift, but Busch keeps their path short and on time, and he can move the barrel all over the zone. Florida State enters the Top 25 after winning a series at TCU. Miller has huge stuff and has been hurt a lot. Its worth developing him at catcher for at least a while since that position is at the very top of the defensive spectrum, and Paradas other seemingly viable positions are at or near the bottom. A free swinger with huge pull power, Ramirez has performed in the low minors despite offering at just about anything. He may not have the power of a typical big league third baseman yet, but at a strapping 6-foot-4, its likely to come with time, physical maturity, and a good strength program. . In four games, Chatagnier owns a 1.792 OPS with two homers and five batted in. His power on contact is exceptional, and even though his hit tool has looked more average than above as hes traversed the minors, the combination of power and patience here belongs in the heart of a big league order. Perfect Game's baseball travel team rankings: 2022 End of Year Rankings (2026 Grads) The 2023 season is his 40-man roster evaluation year. And it doesnt take long before you start talking about players with warts that reduce confidence in the overall profile. By the time he was called up to Arizona in September, it was back into the mid-90s with Nelsons trademark angle and carry. Previous ranking: No. All of his swings components fire in a short period of time, which can be jarring to watch, but Mayo has been smoking liners and hitting huge pull-side homers with this swing since he was a high school underclassman. Unfortunately, his season was interrupted (and maybe compromised) by a back injury that cost him all of June and July, and he only played in 57 games throughout the season. Our interpretation of this is that its a result of rust from the prolonged layoff rather than an actual indication that Jung suddenly has terrible feel for the strike zone. He slid within this FV tier but his grade didnt change, and hes still a pretty good bet to be a no. The Aggies, who dropped two of three at home to the Pilots, dropped a whopping 10 spots from No. This guy hasnt had a clear defensive home for much of his life as a prospect. 16 Last Week: 2-2 Overall: 4-3, 0-0 in ACC (0-2 vs. Top 25) Weekend Record: 1-1 Results Feb. 21: Radford: W 14-2 Feb. 22: Longwood: W 10-0 Feb. 24-26: @/vs. He still isnt throwing a great many strikes with his fastball, but the improved command reinforces his viability as a starter, and he looks likely to make his big league debut this season. Because hes still so young, the chances are better that Marte can course correct in this area, and theres recent precedent for that path in Julio Rodrguez, who became sleeker and faster to stay in center field. Whats causing the swing-and-miss? Previous ranking: No. 50LibertyA-Sun1VA325758155 It plays as an above-average offering even though Allens raw arm strength is comfortably below average. If youre looking for the prospect most likely to hit 40 home runs in a season down the line, this is your player. Based on a combination of respecting the results, strength of schedule, and more than anything else, just how good these teams appear to be at the moment, here are our college basketball rankings for February 27th from 1 to 68. He can be beaten with high velocity more regularly than anything else, but if pitchers miss and catch too much of the meat of the zone, that mistake is going to get hit hard somewhere. Because his delivery is so elegant and consistent, Bradleys splitter has deep projection. Hes not a great defender right now, and probably wont ever be better than a 40-grade glove, but Davis frames high strikes well and has plus raw arm strength. In 2021, he had a 3.80 ERA, a .208 opponent batting average and 94 strikeouts in 71 innings. Some pre-draft medical question marks precipitated his fall to Minnesota. 64) and Georgia. 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. The quality of Millers outings improved throughout 2022 and after some early-season hiccups, he dominated Double-A in July and August and was promoted to Triple-A Oklahoma City for the final month of the season. He doesnt track pitches especially well (his head often flies all over the place) and he has mediocre barrel variability, so hes likely to swing and miss at an above-average clip in the big leagues, but hes going to get to an absurd amount of power for a catcher and produce at an All-Star offensive level for that position. And now, a few important things to keep in mind as youre perusing the Top 100. Volpes game power should routinely put him in the mix for All-Star teams for as long as he stays on the middle infield, and hell still be a productive everyday player if he moves later in his career. He spent the bulk of the 2022 season at High-A, where he slugged .513 with 20 home runs and 19 doubles, earning him an early-August bump up to Double-A, where his slugging remained roughly the same while he brought his strikeout rate down a couple ticks. He looked the part last week against Bucknell, going 6.1 innings, striking out nine, and allowing just one run. His swing is quite uphill from the left side and he can tend to swing underneath fastballs up and away from him, but overall he is very difficult to make whiff inside the strike zone despite his steep-launch style of contact. Texas A&M (2022 Preseason Rank: Not Ranked) Texas A&M went into the 2022 season not ranked and showed that was a mistake by year's end. 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. Were betting on Hassell in part because hes a very competitive guy who seems hellbent on maxing himself out. Legend [ edit] ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll [ edit] The USA TODAY Sports baseball coaches poll is conducted weekly throughout the regular season using a panel of 31 head coaches at Division I schools. He sure looked like it last weekend, slashing .400/.471/.933 with a pair of bombs. lvarez begins in an open set up and then straightens out upon swing initiation without taking a big step or needing a timing mechanism. 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. Priesters four-seamer is divisive. Added to the 40-man roster in November, De La Cruz is on pace for regular big league playing time in 2024. Greens swing is simple and direct, and he doesnt have an elaborate leg kick (he barely has a stride) or a complicated load; he just tends to swing inside fastballs on the outer third and expand the zone a little bit against fastballs up. 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. Most apparently, his batting stance is more upright now than in prior seasons, and as he was getting his feet wet in the big leagues late in 2022, Baty was better able to get his bat to fastballs up and away from him, which had been a problem in the minors. He will reach back and show you a plus arm when he needs to. UCLA now returns home for the Southern California College Baseball Classic, which concludes with a rivalry game against USC. He made six appearances with the big league squad (four of them starts) for a total of 33 innings and lasted at least five frames in all but one of them (his only shorter appearance was in relief, and he pitched the final 3.2 innings of the game). Even when he cuts his leg kick with two strikes, there is enough bat speed and power for Chourio to do huge damage. Parada has impeccable hitters timing, and batting stance aside, his swing is rhythmic and balanced. Turang is so defensively gifted that he is almost certain to have a significant and lengthy big league career, especially now that shifting is banned. If things click, hell be a star. But from June through mid-August, his two-strike fastball usage diminished to just 40%, with his curveball right behind it at 34%. At a time when everyone has a camera in their pocket and the internet exists, its almost impossible for an early-round prospect to be hidden in a true sense, though the 2020 shutdown contributed to Carters lack of notoriety. H: Home. That means Chourios surface level stats may have been significantly inflated. Hope that his many late-bloomer characteristics (multi-sport, Northeast background, reps lost due to a 2019 knee surgery and then the pandemic) would lead to an eventual breakout in the power department buoyed his draft stock into the middle of the first round. 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. He struggled to frame low pitches and one-hoppers would find a way through his wickets. Hes a plus rotational athlete, his hands are exceptionally strong, he can drive his top hand through contact to punish pitches at the top of the zone and he sometimes alters his footwork and the bend in his lower half to dip down and barrel low pitches. Defensively, he has mostly played second base so far in his professional career, with just a handful of starts at short. Lee is a skilled, switch-hitting shortstop (for now) with power. For the best pitching staff in the country, Beam picking up the slack will be key to a productive season. 7LSUSEC5LA1-3435 His patient approach and bat-to-ball skills are enough to make him a high-probability primary backstop. Synergy Sports has film of Collier seeing about 1,300 pitches since 2020, a gigantic sample for a teenage prospect. A core scouting rule of thumb is to take the long view with catchers who have impact offensive potential. And Chourio has that kind of power. His peak exit velocities are absurd for a teenager, and while his breaking ball recognition and overall plate discipline are both crude, his in-zone feel for contact is also very promising. Veen rotates with rare ferocity and his broad-shouldered, 6-foot-4 frame leaves room for immense strength as he matures. 1 in the D1Baseball Top 25 for the first time in the eight-year history of the rankings. Over the last year, Prez has added about 30 pounds, experienced a two-tick fastball velocity bump, and incorporated a second, harder breaking ball that has become his primary non-fastball weapon. A quality series against Charlotte is on tap this weekend. Gonzalez was dynamic from the jump as a freshman, hitting .355/.443/.561 with 16 doubles, 12 home runs, 55 RBIs and more walks (38) than strikeouts (34), a real testament to his plate discipline, which is not often a strength of a first-year hitter in the SEC. Even as he has become more and more muscular entering his 20s, he has maintained a freaky level of flexibility, which he attained by stretching four times per day. After that it seemed like Ramirez was asked to try to demonstrate better plate discipline. If he can consistently create that arm-side finish on the curveball, it will give him a weapon against lefties, though now that hes had to whip out his changeup against upper-level hitters, some of those have been quite good. Teams 51-60 His peak velocity has returned, and he has been sitting 94-97 and touching 99-100 with upshot angle and carry. Teams 91-100, Enter your information to receive emails about offers, promotions from NCAA.com and our partners. Even if thats the outcome, hes probably a good enough reliever that youd value him close to this range anyway, especially if his peak velocity returns with such a move. ), and this is true of Cartaya in most underlying statistical categories and proprietary stats that attempt to measure power output objectively. Make no mistake, Brown does not suddenly have Verlanders command. Theres still mid-rotation potential here, its just not as in focus as it seemed to be a year ago. Here's the full conference-by-conference breakdown: ACC (12 of 14 teams landed in the Top 100), Pac-12 (8 of 11), Big Ten (8 of 13), Big 12 (7 of 9), Sun Belt (7 of 14), American (5 of 8), Big West (4 of 9), Conference USA (4 of 8). 1 Ole Miss, outscoring the Rebels 26-7. Those metrics illustrate the way Manzardos skill set is tailored. 10 Teams With the Best Odds to Win the 2022 College World Series. Like Harper, Collier got his GED a year before he was originally set to graduate, went to a prominent junior college to play against older guys during his draft spring, and then (going beyond Harper) used the later timing of the draft to also play on Cape Cod against an even better collection of talent between the end of the JUCO season and the draft. Previous ranking: No. Obviously hes ranked here as if hes set to become a star player anyway. The Volunteers improved to 23-1 on the season. He was passed over in the 2020 draft despite sitting 94-97 mph in outings that were often seen by decision-makers who were in to scout Asa Lacy and Christian Roa, largely because Miller was very wild. . That represents more turnover than the last time we conducted this exercise, as just 11 new teams entered in 2019. 12 Last Week: 5-0 Overall: 7-1, 0-0 in ACC (0-0 vs. Top 25) Weekend Record: 2-0 Results Feb. 21: Stetson: W 11-2 Feb. 22: Indiana State: W 9-3 Feb. 24-26: Dartmouth: W 9-7, W 6-0, W 20-2 Upcoming Feb. 28: @ Florida Atlantic March 3-5: @ (2) FloridaMiami took care of business with a sweep of Dartmouth and the Hurricanes have won six straight. In its final tuneup before conference play begins, Florida State this week takes on South Florida and FGCU. The Tigers put together a 2-1 record at the event with the lone loss coming to Iowa. His strikeout rate improved upon promotion to Triple-A, albeit in a smaller sample. Mead has spent a lot of time at third and second base. Teams not listed above are: 31. The amount of power here is sensational. He has a cartoonish leg kick and his hands load similarly to Javier Bezs, and while Neto doesnt have quite the same all-world whip as Bez, he is a plus rotational athlete who hits some epic pull-side homers. A rookie more than he is a prospect, Sengas splitter and fastball velocity fit in the middle of a contenders rotation. 60Indiana StateMVC2IN31676NR94 The SEC also occupies six of the top eight spots, and nine of the top 20. Hes added a hard slider/cutter to his amazing-looking curveball, but his fastball still doesnt miss bats and his report reads like Aaron Sanchezs did. Among the high school prospects, he not only had perhaps the best chance to remain at shortstop, but he also had one of the better bat-to-ball track records in the class, accumulating a 3-to-1 ball in play-to-whiff ratio on the showcase circuit. Sheer unpredictability and velocity allow Miller to bully the strike zone without precision and still stay off barrels, while his well-executed pitches miss bats. 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