Soderstrom has widened and opened up his stance since the start of his professional career. A famous prospect since his days as a high school underclassman, Turang has never been a sure bet to do enough offensively to be an impact everyday player. 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. The compact nature of Carrolls body and swing gives him a little extra time and distance to diagnose pitches, and his strength makes him a threat to do damage on the ones that he lets travel deep into the hitting zone. 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. Some of the volatile characteristics of his profile are still here. Ronny Mo is on the very edge of the threshold of viability in this respect. 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. This is one of those cases. And it doesnt take long before you start talking about players with warts that reduce confidence in the overall profile. Add to that performance his track record as a clubhouse favorite with natural leadership abilities and his multi-positional utility, and Lewis is primed for an everyday role as soon as his health allows. Hes now on the doorstep of the big leagues as a three-pitch power reliever. Defensively, lvarez is a bit of a mixed bag. His hard-hit and barrel rates are already well above what is typical for a big league shortstop, and he still has more room for mass on his frame. He is a fringe receiver and ball-blocker with a 45 arm. Alcantara sometimes has trouble turning on hittable fastballs and tends to pepper the right-center field gap, which is an indication he might struggle to catch up to big league heat at all. Mayo makes frequent, hard, pull-heavy contact despite his sometimes ugly-looking cut, which features a strange, choppy stride. And for much of the season, that seemed to be the case: White started the year at High-A, doling out 81 strikeouts against just 19 walks in 58.2 innings of work before being promoted to Double-A Frisco at the end of June. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Athlon Sports is taking a look at the Top 25 college baseball teams in the NCAA. It appears the latter is true. 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. All rights reserved. H: Home. A relatively complete player, Baty will likely be better than Eduardo Escobar pretty soon and should be the Mets everyday third baseman in the near future, projecting as an above-average regular. Sophomore outfielder Jaime Ferrer led the charge offensively, going 6-for-13 with two doubles, one triple, two home runs and six RBIs across three games. 40. When he returned to the mound in August, he leapfrogged his way up the minor league ladder. He shares many similarities with Eduardo Escobar. Lee is a skilled, switch-hitting shortstop (for now) with power. Tall, well-built, and athletic, Pfaadt has plenty of starter traits. UC Santa Barbara; 34. The defense will hopefully hold as Carter ages, and Jake Marisnick presents a precedent in this regard. 2023 Fantasy Baseball Top 100 . He runs well enough to play an outfield corner and were projecting him there, la Schwarbers trajectory. Jones swing isnt quite dialed in. He tends to swing through the down-and-in portion of the zone and struggles with anything away from him. In 2021, he had a 3.80 ERA, a .208 opponent batting average and 94 strikeouts in 71 innings. The Rangers then took an aggressive approach, assigning him directly to Double-A Frisco for his first year of pro ball in 2022. 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. As Jackson worked out on one field and minor leaguers played and took BP on the quads other three diamonds, he stood apart from the rest in virtually every way. Preseason All-American righthander/outfielder Nolan McLean earned the save in both no-hitters. In fact, his dastardly mid-80s splitter, which falls off the table and finishes below the strike zone, is easily his best offering, garnering twice as many swings and misses as his fastball in 2022, and about as many whiffs as the rest of his many pitches combined. 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. 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. 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. 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. 65Georgia SouthernSun Belt6GA3N/ANR9284 Hes on pace to compete for a big league rotation spot in 2024 and work a full slate of innings, assuming a standard 20-inning bump year over year. R: Road. Lefties with plus command and plus changeups tend to overachieve and Allen is exactly that, poised to play a mid-rotation role relatively soon. The bat is impactful enough to consider him a high-probability big leaguer regular of some kind, even at the bottom of the defensive hierarchy. 11 to No. Tech. Soderstrom may end up like Bryce Harper and Wil Myers, where the As cut bait on him catching to get his excellent bat to the big leagues sooner. Best D2 Baseball Schools. His 39.8% strikeout rate was the highest in the minors among qualified pitchers last year, and he fanned 186 batters in just 113 innings. Previous ranking: No. His slider (Hall was almost exclusively a fastball/slider pitcher against lefties during his big league run) is firm and now has better movement demarcation from his curveball, which is easily his least-used offering, usually a backdoor option to righties. 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. Others that made big jumps into the Top 100 include Central Michigan (No. In contrast, his 2022 was a tough-luck grind, as Yorke hit just .232 at Greeneville and dealt with myriad injuries, including turf toe, back stiffness, and wrist soreness that reared its ugly, uh, wrist during the regular season and again when he went to Arizona to pick up reps in the Fall League. His ball-blocking is still pretty rough, though. He followed up his splashy 2021 with a 2022 tidal wave, reaching Double-A Chattanooga as a 20-year-old while tabulating over 70 extra-base hits and about 40 stolen bases. Top 25 (Feb. 27) Louisiana State remains No. It seemed plausible he might eventually grow into meaningful power, too. Though his lower half looks a little stiff and he plays defense with a high center of gravity, hes capable of acrobatic defensive plays and at least has a shot to stay at shortstop long-term. Then Nelson had a dominant 2021 season spent mostly at Double-A Amarillo, striking out 163 hitters in 116.1 innings, all as a starter. Then, he went to the Cape Cod League and hit .298 with nine home runs in 34 games. Brown is the Mewtwo of pitchers, engineered as a facsimile of another powerful entity using science and technology. A free swinger with huge pull power, Ramirez has performed in the low minors despite offering at just about anything. He definitely has a starters mix, but just one of his three pitches is truly plus, giving Stone the look of a no. Tradition is nice, but its more important to establish a tradition of consistent winning in the last decade, and especially in the last five years. A bat-only prospect with a well-rounded offensive skill set, Steer may end up a 30-grade second base defender or just play 3B/1B/LF. 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. 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. . While the righty struggled with walks early in his tenure as a starter (he walked 75 hitters in 180 innings in 2019 and 57 hitters in 121 innings in 2020), free passes have become less of an issue during the last two seasons. This projection is a little more bullish about him staying at short, at least for a while, largely based on Lees feel for the position. His semi-aggressive approach may lead him to have a merely average hit tool, but he has 70 power and might end up hitting 50 annual doubles at his peak. He doesnt have traditional long-term power projection, but hes already so powerful that if all the pop Domnguez ever has is what hes working with now, it will still be plenty for him to be a good everyday big leaguer for as long as hes a center fielder. When you bounce his skill set off of those of recent top high school prospects, Bleis compares favorably. Davis has huge, plus-plus raw power, and will be a star if he can stay behind the plate or a solid everyday first baseman if he cant. But after just four starts with Frisco, he was shut down due to his innings limit and understandable arm fatigue, ending his season in mid-July. 25 Last Week: 4-0 Overall: 7-0, 0-0 in ACC (0-0 vs. Top 25) Weekend Record: 2-0 Results Feb. 22: @ Coastal Carolina: W 16-4 Feb. 24-26: Belmont: W 11-4, W 7-0, W 7-1 Upcoming Feb. 28: Longwood March 1: Radford March 3-5: New Jersey TechNC State took care of business with a sweep of Belmont. Arizonas relatively new Amarillo affiliate is especially extreme relative to the rest of the Texas League. 29ConnecticutBig East1CT17365760 And now, a few important things to keep in mind as youre perusing the Top 100. The other biggest climbers are Virginia Tech (up 45 spots), Louisiana Tech (up 43), Maryland (up 33) and Oregon (up 26). On the field, the Vols were undeterred and completed a 5-0 week. Barger then went to the Arizona Fall League, where his left-handed bat speed stood out among lots of other good hitting prospects. There have been prior instances of prospects, including Mike Trout and Buster Posey, who had a terrible Fall League coming off a long year simply because they were tired and then rebounded the following season. The junior third baseman slashed .529/.526/1.235 with three bombs, driving in 13. Casas went to the Dominican Winter League to be part of Liceys prospect-studded lineup (Elly De La Cruz, Ronny Mauricio, and a few others were also on that roster at the start of the LIDOM season), but a knee injury ended that jaunt after just three games. Rocchios calling card is still his switch-hitting offensive ability, specifically his bat-to-ball skills, which have made him a 50 FV mainstay since he finished his first domestic pro season. He slashed .327/.426/.617 combined at High-A Bowling Green and Double-A Montgomery (for the final month), hitting 22 homers across the two levels. He receives on one knee with the bases empty but mixes his technique with runners on. There are still some things to work on here, but Prez is younger now than Trevor Rogers was on the day he was drafted, and the fact that Prez has made relevant adjustments and continued to dominate while implementing them is remarkable. 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. He ended up at Vanderbilt, where those issues continued, and Eder finished his career there sitting 91-92, which is part of why he fell to the fourth round of his draft. Johnson often ends his swing with his torso having made a full 180 degree rotation, sometimes swinging with such ferocious bat speed that he loses his balance and faceplants in the batters box. To view this category, sign up by purchasing. OF Braden Montgomery Remember this guys name. The visual evaluation of Hassells feel to hit was consistently strong until the last couple months of 2022. 20AuburnSEC9AL1-5254962 It can be found here. 16 this week following the impressive series win over the Horned Frogs. At one point, his in-zone contact rate was in the ninth percentile among minor leaguers, even while his triple slash line was out of this world. A slower curveball and occasional mid-80s changeup give Jameson the weapons to work through a lineup multiple times even though theyre just fair. Long, lanky and loaded with tools and projection, Alcantara is a loose, 6-foot-6 outfielder with massive potential. Theres still mid-rotation potential here, its just not as in focus as it seemed to be a year ago. 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. Jacksonville March 3-5: (10) MiamiFlorida took care of business with a sweep of Cincinnati, outscoring the Bearcats, 42-16. The Big East, MAC, SoCon and Southland placed three teams apiece on the list. His stuff is more comparable to the 50 FV starters on this list, but his command should allow him to work more efficiently and eat more innings than most of that group. 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. Endy had an incredible 2022 statline .323/.407/.590 most of which was generated at hitter-friendly Greensboro. Busch has continued his long track record of excellent offensive performance so far in pro ball. NC State has one more week of non-conference play before its schedule stiffens with ACC competition. He struggles with softer stuff in the bottom of the strike zone, and his in-zone and overall contact rates in 2022 were 78% and 70% respectively, an area similar to Nolan Gorman, Franchy Cordero, Bobby Dalbec and others who have tantalizing power but have sometimes been frustrating big league hitters. Messick was quietly dominant in 2021, going 8-2 with a 3.10 ERA and 126 strikeouts in 90 innings, and hell go into 2022 with a chance to end the season as the best starting pitcher in the country. The 11th overall pick in 2018 out of a Texas high school, Rodriguez saw his stuff tick up immediately after turning pro, and it steadily climbed each year until it took a step backward in 2022 amid a shoulder injury. The risk and long developmental timeline for high school pitchers, let alone injured ones, typically keeps them from sniffing the top 100 in all but a few cases. Maryland; 39. Here he stays in the same FV tier as last year but falls within that tier due to his 2022 performance. But while these setbacks may indicate hes not quite the stud his draft position wouldve implied, we think there will be bounce back in 2023 and beyond. Whites stuff continues to shine when hes healthy, which is especially impressive given the amount of time hes lost. The Golden Eagles will need to get back on track quickly, as they have a big week ahead, facing Mississippi State Tuesday and hosting Dallas Baptist this weekend. 94St. Moores numbers are impressive enough as it is. After sustaining an arm injury during spring training, Miller spent most of 2022 rehabbing. With some marque matchups this weekend, we should learn more about where these teams should stand. The Wolfpack are off to an impressive start to the season, outscoring their opponents, 65-12, on the young year. He ran an 83% Z-contact rate in 2022, which again, is right on the precipice of viability, as chase-prone, low-OBP hitters like Ozzie Albies and Jonathan Schoop have shown. Moreover, in his 221 innings of career work in the minors, hes allowed just eight home runs. Hes still likely to get to enough power and play good enough defense to be an impact regular for Arizona. 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. He has plus bat speed, and a compact, athletic swing that features a very flexible lower half and a fair amount of barrel variability. 4 Ole Miss in Oxford for the first time since 1989, LSU remains No. Georgia; 34. After that it seemed like Ramirez was asked to try to demonstrate better plate discipline. He features a five-pitch arsenal with three distinct fastballs, and his ability to vary his usage across his pitch mix allows the mid-90s four-seamer to play up. But assuming that third base is now his likeliest position, more pressure will be put on Martes bat, and while theres good news in that regard, there also needs to be refinement if Marte is going to hit enough to play an everyday role at third base. Tech. 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. 97TulaneAmerican5LA6-25726064 His aggressive approach resulted in his walk rate dipping at High-A, while his strikeout rate inflated a bit typical advancement-related growing pains but he still managed to slug .498 and swipe 19 bags at the higher level. The 2023 season is his 40-man roster evaluation year. 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. His curveball has 12-6 shape and plus depth and power, used as a way of garnering called, early-count strikes, and the speed with which he has developed two distinct breaking balls despite pitching just one full minor league season is incredible. The sophomore first baseman produced a 1.953 OPS with a home run and a pair of triples. Rocchios feel for contact and his defensive ability drive a high-probability everyday profile. Opinions on Tiedemann vary depending on how much stock is put in his early professional performance: He sat 96 mph at instructs in 2021, but skeptics questioned whether that was a short-term effect of him airing things out in short stints, or if receiving higher-quality development and instruction than he got in his amateur environment had actually unlocked something. 5 to No. Top-ranked LSU is the marquee team in the four-team Round Rock Classic taking place from Feb, 24-26 in Round Rock, Texas. 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