Previous ranking: No. The Preseason poll ranked the top 50 teams in the nation. 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. Each coach submits a Top 25 with a first-place . Previous ranking: No. 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. 1 in the D1Baseball Top 25 for the first time in the eight-year history of the rankings. Once a two-way prospect, Winns skills in the batters box quickly won out, and hes been developed solely as a position player. His first step can be a little delayed, but Jones huge strides eat up tons of ground in the outfield, and he gallivants into the gaps, robs would-be doubles, and has a runner-sniping arm. Nitpicking about his swing actualization is fine because were talking about one of baseballs best prospects, but the foundation of present skills and tools combined with Jones physical projection makes him a potential franchise-altering superstar. Wood has a real chance to both hit and hit for gargantuan power, and while his swing isnt geared for consistent lift at this point, he has the raw strength to do damage anyway. He finished that season with a 10-game A-ball stint, where he struck out in 16 of his 42 plate appearances. 81San DiegoWCC2CA8191007145 For a relatively compact hitter, Arroyos swing is swift and explosive. Witt will move into the Texas rotation after he had a 3.16 ERA and 73 strikeouts in 57 innings as a key reliever on a Longhorns team that made it to the final four of the College World Series last season. The 6-8 righty struck out ten Omaha batters over 6 innings, earning him the win. 5 to No. Out of the gate, Vaughns was almost unstoppable, slugging three homers with a 2.270 OPS. RHP Bryce Cunningham Vandys bullpen was lights out in week one and it all started with Cunningham, who struck out seven in four innings of relief. 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. 64) and Georgia Southern (No. Between the two Triple-A squads, Wesneski tossed a total of 110 innings before being called upon to fill out the Cubs rotation. Hes filled out and gotten stronger while remaining agile enough to play shortstop, hes hit 20 homers each of the last two years as hes reached the upper levels of the minors, he won the Dominican Winter League MVP during the offseason, and hes done this despite missing his age-19 season due to the pandemic. 78RiceC-USA5TX9-43352320 The Preseason poll ranked the top 35 teams in the nation. 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. On last look, it was stuff that profiled in the middle of a contending teams rotation, rather than at the very front. Hes now on the doorstep of the big leagues as a three-pitch power reliever. After he made just five starts at High-A toward the end of his breakout 2021 campaign, last season the Marlins sent the 6-foot-9, 19-year-old Prez to Double-A Pensacola, where he was an absolute buzzsaw. After an Opening Day upset loss to New Mexico, the Beavers have run off six straight wins. It was enough for the Yankees to roster him for their postseason series against Houston, who worked Peraza with sink and breaking balls in the bottom of the zone, which he consistently swung over the top of. He makes up for mediocre twitch and range with outstanding instincts, elegant body control, lightning-fast hands and actions, and a plus arm. Ramos often pulls off pitches on the outer edge and swings inside ones hed ideally either contact or spoil. He projects as a 2-WAR player whose versatility could help optimize the way Baltimores other young infielders are deployed. Juaron Watts-Brown, RHP, Long Beach State to Oklahoma State 2022: 4-4, 3.68 ERA, 73.1 IP, 29 BB, 111 K, .194 AVG Watts-Brown announced himself as one of the best starting pitchers on the west. stunned the reigning national champs, 2023 NC skiing championship selections announced, LATEST COLLEGE BASEBALL NEWS In four games, Chatagnier owns a 1.792 OPS with two homers and five batted in. The top-ranked prospect in the 2021 draft, Mayer dropped to fourth overall, where the Red Sox were happy to scoop him up and sign him for a higher dollar amount than first overall pick Henry Davis. 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. 14 Last Week: 3-1 Overall: 5-2, 0-0 in ACC (0-0 vs. Top 25) Weekend Record: 2-0 Results Feb. 21: East Tennessee State: W 15-5 Feb. 24-26: Bryant: L 7-3, W 4-1, W 15-8 Upcoming Feb. 28: Radford March 3-5: Charlotte For the second straight weekend, Virginia Tech lost its series opener before bouncing back to win its series. Graceffos velocity has exploded since he left the Main Line, and hes now nearing the big leagues as a contenders fourth starter. Its tough to account for what sort of long-term impact Lees injury history will have on his defense, and Carlos Correas presence is also a factor, but in a vacuum he projects as an above-average everyday shortstop. Hes competing for a D-backs rotation spot. His swing, however, works in such a way that his contact quality tends to be highly variable, his bat path really only enables him to work middle-away with any authority, he gets jammed a bunch, and he doesnt seem to be able to go down to scoop or spoil pitches that finish down-and-in. The 2023 MLB season is rapidly approaching, which means it is time to begin preparing for 2023 Fantasy baseball drafts. After a breakout 2021 season, Harrison managed to improve in virtually every column of his stat sheet in 2022. Laviolette slugged two homers and got on base at a .471 clip to get his collegiate career started. LHP Xavier Rivas Delaware was no match for Rivas, who struck out eight and allowed just one hit. So compact and short to the baseball is Rodriguez that he can wait an extra beat to diagnose pitch types, which enables him to make in-flight adjustments to breaking balls, spoil the well-located ones, and crush the hangers. UNC has one more weekend of non-conference play before ACC action begins. He shares many similarities with Eduardo Escobar. Things arent so bad that hes in a red flag bust risk area because of his hit tool, but its enough that it will probably dial down how much in-game power hes actually getting to. He has performed well through the lower minors (.271/.368/.438), and his frame, speed, general athleticism, and long-term frame-based power projection are all very enticing from a scouting standpoint, but the limitations of his current swing still make Veens big league impact more of an abstract projection than an inevitability. RHP Seth Keener Keener got the nod on opening day, lasting five innings and striking out eight without allowing a run. The sophomore first baseman produced a 1.953 OPS with a home run and a pair of triples. Teams 61-70 Its fair to consider him a high-floor, low-variance prospect because Romos defensive ability and rocket arm make him very likely to be a plus defender at maturity, and even a one-note style of offense (Romo both lacks power and is relatively impatient) tends to profile at catcher. The Tar Heels got a strong start Friday from Max Carlson, who threw seven scoreless innings. 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. So far in pro ball, Wood has been incredible. He is more than capable of making a subset of plays at third, where his range and lateral agility are both plus, but he really struggles to make plays coming in on the grass. 38OregonPac-125OR226644626 75Oral RobertsSummit1OK3-16596571 Theres substantial bust risk here but the ceiling is huge, too big to move off of Hernandez after a whiff-prone first year stateside. Sengas walk rate fell from the 10-11% range to the 8-8.5% range during that stretch, and his WHIP was a measly 1.05. 3 Last Week: 3-1 Overall: 5-2, 0-0 in Pac-12 (0-0 vs. Top 25) Weekend Record: 2-0 Results Feb. 21: California: L 8-4 Feb. 24-25: Rice: W 6-3, W 11-1, W 7-4 Upcoming Feb. 28: Pacific March 3-5: Cal State Bakersfield Stanford bounced back from a midweek loss to archrival Cal to sweep Rice on the weekend. Though hes of relatively narrow build, Bleis still oozes projection, and his present footspeed gives him room to fill out and slow down some while remaining in center field. Many other teams knew of Carter, but did not know his prospectdom in a thorough sense; some thought he was unsignable, others were entirely unaware of him, as we were. After sitting 94-95 mph in 2021, hes now parked in the 96-98 mph range for entire starts, and his hardest sliders (in the 85-87 mph range) are nearly 10 mph harder than his average curveball was in 2021 (77 mph). OF Vance Honeycutt A top freshman from a year ago, Honeycutt is already off to a hot start in 2023. Soderstrom has widened and opened up his stance since the start of his professional career. Subscribe to get the best baseball coverage. This is the third year were delineating between two anticipated relief roles, the abbreviations for which youll see in the position column below: MIRP for multi-inning relief pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning relief pitchers. He also altered his breaking ball usage (more sliders, fewer curves) and increased his changeup frequency, and was so advanced from a pitchability standpoint that Cleveland quickly saw fit to send him to Akron, where he spent most of his first pro season. His bat speed is still great, but everything else has trended down. He plays with the high center of gravity more typical of an outfielder, and has a hard time flipping his hips to make fundamentally typical throws if hes had to range left to field a groundball. Still just 19 (his 20th birthday coincides with his first game of the minor league season), Quero has the foundation of a viable defensive catcher but still needs to polish the finer points of his defense. Preseason All-American third baseman Brock Wilken hit four home runs on the week and is batting .294/.432/.882 with six home runs on the season. Eight of the top nine prospects in ZiPS are basically the top pitching prospects on Eric and Tess' list. Hes also adept at positioning his body to be ready to throw as he fields the baseball, his transfer is quick, and his internal clock is well-calibrated. After strikeouts were an issue for him in 2021, he narrowed his approach (which is now surgically precise) and began to attack pitches he could damage, avoiding ones on the outer edge of the zone until he has no choice but to put them in play. There are some players who are as aggressive as Mauricio (or more so) who find a way to be impact players anyway and almost all of them tend to make enough in-zone contact to buoy their overall offensive output. 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. In 2021, Olson spent time at both High- and Double-A, and ended the season with a combined strikeout rate of 26%, while walking 11.6%. The good news is that Alcantara already has enough pop to do damage to the opposite field and hes probably going to grow into much more as his wispy frame continues to fill out. He has tended to strikeout at a 20% or lower clip throughout his pro career, even when chase was an issue, which is very impressive considering Ramos age relative to the levels to which hes been assigned. The batting average component was down a little due to his .241 BABIP at Columbus, but otherwise 2022 was another standard Rocchio season with the stick. 65). Montgomery did not look good at shortstop during that stretch, falling short of the positions high bar in most facets (range, hands, arm strength). Hall didnt throw harder in a relief role he was still parked in the 95-97 mph range and in fact his velo keeled off a little bit right at the very end of the season. 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