His swing is already geared for lift, but he doesnt currently have the raw juice to make the most of it. Ideally hell play a few different positions based on the game situation. Hes performed as a young-for-the-level hitter at each stop despite a raw approach at the plate and uncertainty around his defense, with his third base fit in question due to middling arm strength. So far that looks to have been the correct assessment, as Williams hit 19 homers, tallied 51 extra-base hits, stole 28 bases and solidified shortstop as his future defensive home during his 2022 foray into full-season ball. LSU had a successful weekend at the Karbach Round Rock Classic and remains the No. Hassells performance tanked after the Juan Soto trade, and he broke his hamate in Arizona after the regular season. Other Teams Receiving Votes: Clemson (25-27), Baylor (31-20), Washington St. (26-23), California (29-26), Grand Canyon (39-21-1), California Baptist (40-16), Brigham Young (23-27), Abilene Christian (36-21), Sam Houston St. (30-25), San Diego (33-12), Auburn (25-27), Texas A&M (29-27), Kentucky (29-23), Coastal Carolina (27-24), Georgia Southern Carroll has evolved in some surprising ways as a hitter. In 2021, he hit .288/.400/.502 with 11 home runs. To see all the great stories in this issue, CLICK HERE. He has some outfield experience but very little in pro ball, and he doesnt exactly look like a fish in water out there. Now on the 40-man roster, Cartaya is poised to be a power-hitting All-Star catcher who gets eased into the big league waters in 2024 and 2025, toward the back end of Will Smiths arbitration years. 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. This is one of the toolsiest prospects in all the minors and one of the players on the Top 100 who has a chance to Chourio, i.e. Certainly from a velocity and spin (about 200 rpm) standpoint they had, though each is still capable of missing bats. 1 or 2 starter. You can really see his athleticism and remarkable hip/shoulder separation on his throws down to second. Hes now a career .303/.394/.533 hitter and has had meaningful statistical success up through Double-A, where he spent about a month toward the end of 2022. 6 overall and places behind only Phillies righty Andrew Painter among the game's top pitching prospects. With that in mind, here are the top 100 fantasy baseball players for the 2023 MLB season. While his peak exit velocities have long been tops among his peers, college and pro, he didnt really start launching homers until after he was drafted, when it appears his swing and approach changed. DeLauter only got to play 28 games for JMU in 2021 thanks to an already limited scheduling becoming more limited due to cancellations, but he made them count, hitting .386/.508/.723. Ramos has performed in the minors even though scouts consider him raw in many respects. That represents more turnover than the last time we conducted this exercise, as just 11 new teams entered in 2019. Of course, Nolan Arenados presence through 2027 dictates a move regardless of how Walker looks over there. His long speed gives him a shot to stay in center field, but his routes to balls can be a bit of an adventure. 40. Hes not quite as deft a hitter from the right side, but hes still plenty dangerous. His changeup is only fair right now, and his command still comes and goes, and even though he didnt walk nearly as many hitters in 2021 as he did in college, there was still relief risk here even before his elbow blew out. He also features a looser breaking ball in his high-70s curveball, and his changeup flashes plus, but he hasnt yet maintained his feel for it, which may ultimately represent the difference between his future as a back-end starter and his viability as a solid number three. Hassell went to the Fall League, where he broke his right hamate; he had surgery and was shut down. Manzardo hasnt hit a single speed bump in pro ball and moved into the Top 100 during the middle of 2022 on the strength of his statistical performance and visual feel to hit. 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. This is mind blowing when you consider that Rafaela has only been playing the outfield for two years. Below is our list of the top 100 prospects in baseball. Cartayas exchange is absurdly fast for a player his size, and he actively hunts baserunners when they reach, a threat to throw to the bases at any time. He hardly threw his changeup at all (just 6% usage), and his numbers against lefties were particularly affected by its omission. 10 Teams With the Best Odds to Win the 2022 College World Series. 8 Last Week: 5-0 Overall: 9-0, 0-0 in ACC (0-0 vs. Top 25) Weekend Record: 2-0 Results Feb. 21: UNC Greensboro: W 20-2 Feb. 24: Mount Saint Marys: W 18-2 Feb. 24: Binghamton: W 6-0 Feb. 25: Towson: W 18-1 Feb. 26: Mount Saint Marys: W 15-1 Upcoming Feb. 28: UNC Wilmington March 3: Purdue-Fort Wayne March 4: Ball State March 5: CornellWake Forest continued to batter teams last week, outscoring its opponents, 77-6, on the week. The play clock was ticking down and Riley leaned over to the official and signaled for a timeout with a second left on the play clock. A somewhat frustrating blend of exciting elements, Liberatore features a four-pitch mix and each of his offerings is at least average, which presents as an obvious starters foundation. A draft-eligible sophomore in 2022 and a career .360/.450/.655 hitter, his numbers improved in his sophomore year even though he faced SEC pitching, and he was considered one of the more bankable prospects in the 2023 draft despite lacking a true defensive home. Hes competing for a D-backs rotation spot. 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. Davis skills and offensive style are tailored like those of Evan Gattis. Hes now a bounce back prospect. Arizonas relatively new Amarillo affiliate is especially extreme relative to the rest of the Texas League. His patient approach and bat-to-ball skills from both sides of the plate inspire confidence in his ability to eventually become a reliable starter. He didnt throw a ton of strikes and the visual quality of his stuff was closer to average overall than plus or better, which is how it looked in high school. His delivery is freaky loose, particularly in his upper back and shoulders, which we think portends better future command than hes shown so far in Oakland. He has an ideal pitchers frame, his gorgeous delivery generated mid-90s velocity with huge riding life at the top of the zone, his changeup is one of the better amateur changeups most scouts have ever seen, and before his elbow blew out during his draft spring, his curveball looked like it had gotten better. 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. Unless hed throwing on the run, he just sort of lollipops the ball over to first. If you dropped him into the 2022 draft class (with high schoolers Bleis age), hes going in the top five picks. stunned the reigning national champs, 2023 NC skiing championship selections announced, LATEST COLLEGE BASEBALL NEWS In fact, this marks the first time the Longhorns have ever been ranked No. The tailing shape on his heater is suboptimal but at times helps him miss a bat. For a further explanation of the merits and drawbacks of Future Value, please read this and this. He seems the most likely to start the season as the As fourth or fifth starter. After initially showing feel for opposite field-only contact on the complex, Wood began to turn on balls more frequently in 2022 and started hitting line drive lasers to all fields, with his peak exit velocity topping out at 114 mph off the bat. He is similar to Henry Davis and Kyle Schwarber, in that he may have to move out from behind the plate due to poor receiving, ball-blocking, and his raw arm strength, though he is pretty accurate. He boasted one of the lowest walk rates (5.1%) among minor leaguers who notched at least 130 innings in 2022 and looks poised for a starter role in the near future. Hes able to pull his hands in and get the barrel on inside pitches, but he swung underneath a ton of fastballs during his 2022 season on the complex, which is why he struck out at a very scary 30% clip. 24ArizonaPac-124AZ13272222 The following human polls make up the 2022 NCAA Division I men's baseball rankings. That represents more turnover than the last time we conducted this exercise, as just 11 new teams entered in 2019. Here hes projected as a bat-only player. Waldichuk came to Oakland as part of the return for Frankie Montas, bringing with him a nicely shaped four-seamer and an intimidating, sweepy slider with tons of horizontal movement. Big league sliders might force Davis to make an adjustment, but so far his contact performance has been solidly average. By virtue of this precision, he might have peak years with 20 homers or so, very similar to Brantley. 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. 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. Ideally, hell have a four- and two-seam variant at peak and be able to work both north/south and east/west with his fastball, but as of 2022, his fastball command was still quite crude. Alabama; 41. The staff of Baseball America determines the Top 25 rankings. Meads feel to hit and power on contact will make him an impact everyday player no matter what position he ends up playing. Youve probably seen big league hitters use a toe tap, or heard broadcasters use that phrase. His strikeout problems stem from poor breaking ball and offspeed recognition, as he chases those pitches a fair bit (about a 40% rate against sliders and curveballs at Double-A per Synergy) while also swinging through lots of them in the zone (75% Z-Contact% versus non-fastballs). However, Priester makes up for it with his preferred secondaries a huge, arcing curveball that Priester has had forever, and a more recently developed mid-80s slider both of which have garnered swing-and-miss rates well above the big league average. It shows above-average arm-side action on occasion, but hes only throwing it 12% of the time. Lawlar is a slick shortstop defender with big power and a somewhat shaky hit tool. 55), Old Dominion (No. at High-A Wisconsin for the last month of the season. Weekend Record reflects a teams weekend results as a collective unit in an effort to incorporate tournament results and not just reflect a teams record in weekend series. He has the prototypical starters frame at a broad-shouldered 6-foot-6, and the pacing and look of his delivery evoke Gerrit Cole. So far in pro ball, Wood has been incredible. Now fully healthy again, Elko should be one of the best run producers in the country in 2022. He was working with low-90s velocity and a shapely, low-80s breaking ball at that time. Hes a career .291/.388/.534 hitter with 18 home runs in 77 games, in fact. Previous ranking: No. After beginning his career as a reliever, Senga moved into the Fukuoka Hawks rotation in 2017 and has spent the last half decade as one of the better starters (and hardest-throwing pitchers) in all of NPB. 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. 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He had a somewhat rocky first full season in pro ball, running a FIP near 5.00 across 18 starts with Lakeland before finishing up with three fair outings at Western Michigan. His fastball has sufficient action that it still plays at 92-93, and it pairs nicely with his curveball, which is a traditional power pitchers yakker in the upper 70s. 45BaylorBig 126TX6-11346259 R: Road. Powerful and explosive, the exciting Caminero was among the DSLs home run leaders in 2021 before coming over from Cleveland in a 40-man roster deadline trade for pitcher Tobias Myers that offseason. Carter has plus soft skills but doesnt have the power for stardom. The gap between Peraza and Guardians pitcher Tanner Bibee (No. Montgomery raked his way to Double-A, where he spent the last couple weeks of his first full pro season as part of Project Birmingham, a de facto instructs and evaluation period for Chicagos best mid- and upper-level prospects. Veteran stalwarts Omar Narvez and Toms Nido are both at least a year removed from a good offensive season, and so while lvarez will reportedly start his year at Triple-A Syracuse, he may mash his way into the primary catcher role during the season. D1Baseball editors and national writers determine the Top 25 rankings. 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. Acua slashed .317/.417/.483 at High-A before finishing the season at Double-A, where his numbers deflated across the board, though that did include his strikeout rate, which he brought down to 21% at the more advanced level. 11 to No. The Seminoles jump into the No. But the meal ticket here is still Ramos hit and power combination. He definitely has a starters mix, but just one of his three pitches is truly plus, giving Stone the look of a no. He was also one of the better rotational athletes available, with one of the loosest, most beautiful swings in the class. Since joining the Dodgers system, Stones changeup has come out of nowhere to become his best pitch, while his breaking ball was split into two distinct pitches a mid-80s slider/cutter and a slower curveball the latter of which was scrapped in 2022. He gets a lot of swing and miss on his slider, both in and out of the zone, and commands it well. His frame is maxed out, and Marte is not currently mobile enough to project as a big league shortstop defender. 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. Hes coming off another terrific offensive year, slashing .257/.336/.420 as a 21-year-old at Akron with about a month of Columbus thrown in, and setting a career-high in homers (18) for the second straight season. In 2021, he moved into the Aggies rotation, and while his fastball would peak at 95-98 mph, hed typically settle in at 92-94 as a starter and still had issues with walks. RHP Jack OConnor The 6-5 righty lasted five innings on Saturday, allowing just one hit and striking out seven. Allens fastball has other traits that help it punch above its weight, and he commands it with machine-like regularity to the locations in which it is most effective. In a 2022 split evenly between Double-A Akron and Triple-A Columbus, he slashed an impressive .263/.392/.496 with 21 homers and 20 steals, walking nearly as much as he struck out while with the Rubber Ducks. 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. He actually looks more comfortable and accurate making max-effort throws from deep in the hole than he does when moving toward the first base line. His on-paper whiff and chase rates are about average, while his peak power and hard hit rates are at the top of the scale for a hitter his age. At some point during the next two seasons, Chicago will have to hit the gas on his promotion schedule to avoid burning all of Alcantaras option years before he establishes himself on the big league roster; he cant just climb one level each year now that hes on the 40-man. 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. This is another potential homegrown star for the Sox. Abel is a prototypical power pitching prospect with huge arm strength, a plus breaking ball, and the frame to not only hold his velo all year but to perhaps keep throwing harder and harder until hes a No. 1 Ole Miss, outscoring the Rebels 26-7. Fall League pitchers were working him in on the hands, then getting him to swing over the top of back-foot breaking balls once Veen would start to cheat on heaters in that spot. 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. 98Ball StateMAC3IN4N/ANRNRNR By the time he was called up to Arizona in September, it was back into the mid-90s with Nelsons trademark angle and carry. Best D2 Baseball Schools. 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. Its long been seen as a potential, maybe even an obvious move, due to both Soderstroms below-average defense as a backstop, and as a way of protecting his offensive performance from the dings and scratches that are part and parcel with everyday catching. His frame makes him pretty likely to slow down with age, but as he fills out hell probably grow into elite raw power. He has lost some range as his compact, ovular frame has filled out and matured, and shockingly his hands and arm accuracy (even from second base) were both concerningly bad in Venezuela. Minor injuries kept Whisenhunt from carrying as heavy a load as he otherwise would have at ECU last season, but he still put up good numbers, including a 3.77 ERA and 79 strikeouts in 62 innings. The Aggies, who dropped two of three at home to the Pilots, dropped a whopping 10 spots from No. The swing changes that helped enable his breakout created a bat path built to lift the ball to the extreme, and Volpes average launch angle was a whopping 24 degrees last year. Hilariously, Mayos swing is perhaps well-suited for the current metagame because so many contemporary fastballs ride to the top of the strike zone, which is where Mayos barrel hunts. Its possible some of this is simply the growing pains of a teenage pitcher, and its also possible that this is what Jones stuff will be under the stress of a pro seasons worth of innings. His heater is only generating about a 14% swinging strike rate, per Synergy Sports, which is above the big league average but not elite. The SEC also occupies each of the top four spots in the rankings for the second time in a row, although the order of that top four has shuffled a bit since our 2019 update. The son of two-time Pro Bowl tight end Eric Green, Elijah became Draft Famous during his junior year, homering a couple of times in high school tournaments held in big league parks and looking much toolsier than all but a couple of the prospects who were a year older than him. These dominant results paved the way for a late-August call-up to the big-league squad, where he made a single start before being shut down for the remainder of the season with shoulder inflammation. June 25 : The best-of-three CWS finals begins and concludes on either June 26 or June 27 with the crowning of the 2022 national champion. 81San DiegoWCC2CA8191007145 The upright nature of this adjusted swing has impacted Meads plate coverage a bit, and he swung through lots of high fastballs and sliders that finished on the outer third of the zone in 2022. His amateur look was that of a slash-and-dash leadoff man with doubles power and a great idea of the strike zone. While hes taken groundballs at shortstop in the past and is arguably athletic enough to develop there in pro ball, Jones is such a savant in center field that scouts wont typically entertain that notion; he projects as a 70-grade defensive center fielder. 31ClemsonACC7SC2-8232424 by Retrosheet. It can be found here. Bleis has some of the planets sexiest bat speed and produces shocking power for a young hitter his size. It isnt pretty, but some of the proof is in the data. He has three potential plus pitches and front-end upside. DI indoor T&F championship selections revealed, How La. He doesnt have to be put on the 40-man until after the 2024 season, but the rate at which he has been promoted so far indicates hell be in the mix for a rotation spot sooner than that. Chourio made The Leap in 2022, going from being a well-regarded prospect who had a chance to blow up to one who seemingly has. The tweaks have made Eders slider one of the nastier on the planet (2021 pitch data showed a 300 rpm uptick from his college slider to his pro one), with some of them looking like theyre headed into the ribs of left-handed hitters before bending over the plate. Quants and front office analyst types are more bearish, citing issues with Priesters fastball playability. Williams injury history and the relative violence of his delivery kept him just outside the 50 FV tier on the Cleveland list, even though he had a strong pro debut and spent most of the year at Double-A Akron. Flores velocity tapered off some in 2022 but he threw more strikes than expected, enough to now project as a starter. But theyre severe enough to dial down the previously plus grades on Rocchios defense and consider him a future average shortstop, while keeping an eye on how he looks there this spring. Added to the 40-man roster in November, De La Cruz is on pace for regular big league playing time in 2024. He projects as a slugging five- or six-hole hitter in a typical contending lineup, with contact issues that will create some whiff-prone stretches and significant year-to-year variance. Best Colleges for Baseball. 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. Still, there are all kinds of hit tool red flags here, both in the data and in Williams visual scouting report. He has a shot to break camp with the big club and play a huge role on the next Orioles contender. He has very little experience at second and looked okay making routine plays there during the few reps he got in 2022, but its tough to project him there full-time based on how his range, hands, and actions look at third. Weve concluded he does. All UZR (ultimate zone rating) calculations are provided courtesy of Mitchel Lichtman. Lesko looked like he had two plus pitches on board as a high schooler. Previous ranking: No. 1 in the D1Baseball Top 25, which began in 2015. Busch has continued his long track record of excellent offensive performance so far in pro ball. If he does that while getting to most of his power, hell be one of the better players in baseball its just that De La Cruz has struck out a concerning 30% of the time. While his breaking ball command is inconsistent, Sengas velocity, splitter, repertoire depth, and demonstrated durability make him a fit as no. A core scouting rule of thumb is to take the long view with catchers who have impact offensive potential. 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. His finishing pitch, though, is his slider, a nasty upper-80s sweeper that generated a 50% whiff rate and 38% chase rate in 2022. 35GeorgiaSEC11GA1-6298670 POLLS: D1Baseball.com Top 25 | Baseball America | RPI Even though hes still eons from the big leagues, the Cubs were compelled to put Alcantara on their 40-man roster during the offseason to protect him from the Rule 5 Draft. Previous ranking: No. His stuff has gotten even better under the tutelage of Clevelands player dev system, and he dominated during his 2021 full season debut, putting up a strikeout rate north of 40% while shortening his arm action and altering his slot to impart more vertical movement on his heater. UCLA now returns home for the Southern California College Baseball Classic, which concludes with a rivalry game against USC. Hes similar to DJ LeMahieu and Vinnie Pasquantino from a skill set standpoint and should provide a long-term answer at first base for the Rays within the next couple of years. Despite the extreme amount of chase, Rafaela only Kd at a 21% rate and also doubled his previous career high in homers with 21. In fact, his fastball locations are still pretty scattered and his delivery remains quite violent. 2022 College Baseball Ranking Comparison: RPI, Predicted RPI, ELO Poised to make an immediate impact as Arizonas leadoff hitter, Carroll is the tip of the spear the Diamondbacks are pointing at the Dodgers and Padres. SCOREBOARD: Friday | Saturday | Sunday Stream the Frisco College ClassicAsk The Experts: Weekly Chat>> Check out D1Baseballs SEC Extra! Because hes a bit stiff, its possible the grind of a full-season will impact his defensive mobility and even his offense if he has to catch 80-plus games. RHP Paul Skenes Out of all the top aces in college baseball, Skenes was the best last weekend. Having started 2022 with the Yankees Triple-A affiliate, Wesneski was shipped to Chicago as part of the Scott Effross trade. 3B Yohandy Morales Morales is attracting first-round buzz, and for good reason after two dominant years for the Hurricanes. 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