He was a known bat-first prospect from California but time off recovering from a shoulder surgery and the pandemic made him tough to properly evaluate before the draft, tough enough that he was not generally seen as a first round prospect. He ran a 6.95 ERA in Triple-A throughout 2022 but the hitting environment in Reno isnt fair to pitchers, and Jamesons stuff, control, and athleticism are all on par with a good teams fourth starter. Added to the 40-man roster in November, De La Cruz is on pace for regular big league playing time in 2024. South Alabama; 37. 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. If most hitters leg kicks and move forward are outies, Mayos is an inny his front foot often lands closer to his rear foot than where it began. 91UCFAmerican4FL7-20715961 Drafted and mostly deployed as a third baseman, Mayo has projected as a right fielder since his draft year because of his size. 68UC IrvineBig West3CA513814732 So far in pro ball, Wood has been incredible. His best offspeed is a plus slider, a tight, two-plane offering in the low-to-mid-80s. He has no underlying swing-and-miss issues and his massive 6-foot-5 frame still has room for more strength. Davis skills and offensive style are tailored like those of Evan Gattis. 24ArizonaPac-124AZ13272222 Waldichuks command is better than his small 2022 big league sample and he should stabilize as a mid-rotation piece. During that stretch, he was also swinging and missing within the strike zone a ton. as a junior at Campbell in 2022. 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. He began the 2022 slate on a delay and rehabbed in extended spring training until the very end of April. Firm, upper-80s changeups and sliders dart in different directions, and are thrown with 100 mph-looking effort. Martes body and athleticism regressed in 2022, and he looked pretty rough in the Arizona Fall League. Knee and hamstring surgery effectively knocked him out for the 2020 season, then Lee hit .341/.384/.626 in 2021 and had a huge summer on Cape Cod, with six homers in just 21 games. 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. The Tigers put together a 2-1 record at the event with the lone loss coming to Iowa. Now that hes on the 40-man roster, proactive experimentation makes sense so that Ramos can move the moment he needs to. Here hes projected as a bat-only player. 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. His strikeout rate improved upon promotion to Triple-A, albeit in a smaller sample. 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. 64) and Georgia Southern (No. Williams injury history is concerning, but hes talented enough to make a big league impact in the middle of Clevelands 2023 rotation. 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. If you would like to read a book-length treatment on the subject, one is available here. 5. He also throws a changeup and a slider, both of which show promise, though neither was featured much in his 2022 mix. Pitchers tend to be volatile and subject to heightened injury risk, plus their usage is being spread out among more pitchers in the majors, reducing the impact of individuals. 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. Poised to compete for a rotation spot when 2023 camp breaks, Ortiz is one of a few high-upside Pirates youngsters who look like theyd fit in a contenders rotation. Drafted out of Wayne State, a Division-II school in Michigan, Browns arm strength and velocity have been sculpted to replicate the power-pitching formula in Houston. 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. 1 in the D1Baseball Top 25, which began in 2015. Hes going to get to whatever raw power he ends up growing into and has a good shot to be a middle infield regular, though probably not until 2026 or so just based on his 40-man timeline.There are mixed feelings about his defensive fit, with most of Erics sources projecting him to second base (a mix of scouts and analysts), which is where he had him coming out of high school. Once a two-way prospect, Winns skills in the batters box quickly won out, and hes been developed solely as a position player. Hes tracking to debut ahead of his draft class typical 40-man timeline, perhaps as early as mid-2023 if things click with his command. 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. Hes as patient as any hitter in the minors and has walked at a 19% career rate; he has a .437 career OBP in the minors. While his ball/strike recognition isnt good, Tovar is otherwise an advanced hitter. Heres 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). Williams has a prototypical baseball frame at a strapping 6-foot-2, and has the range, actions, and internal clock to remain at shortstop long-term, as well as a great infield arm. He takes a little while to get his legs churning, but once hes moving, hes a plus runner and has generated some home-to-first times in the neighborhood of 4.1-4.2 seconds. RHP Paul Skenes Out of all the top aces in college baseball, Skenes was the best last weekend. He walked at hefty 15% clip in June, three times as much as he had to that point in the season, and his strikeout rate barely moved even though he was running deeper counts. 4 Ole Miss in Oxford for the first time since 1989, LSU remains No. 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. 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. He threw his heavy, low-spin curveball with greater frequency and relied on it more as an out pitch. Indeed, his arm will certainly keep him at shortstop, as he demonstrated when he seized the spotlight at the 2022 Futures Game by recording the fastest ever throw across the infield since such measurements have existed, at 100.5 mph. He fell deep enough in the drafts top 10 that the Twins, who were otherwise on Cam Collier, felt compelled to pop him even though they werent a fit in this regard. Winns huge arm is icing on a cake made mostly of plus bat-to-ball skills and viable shortstop defense. Because he participated in Team USA and showcase events from a very young age, Collier generated an inordinate amount of amateur data. Painters size creates suboptimal shape and angle on his fastball, but there will still be big league hitters who Painter can just overpower with his upper-90s velocity. But the meal ticket here is still Ramos hit and power combination. Nebraska; 32. Over five innings against Texas, Smith struck out eight and allowed just a single hit. Lesko hasnt thrown a pro pitch yet due to TJ rehab, but his changeup and pre-injury velocity and fastball playability demand he be one here toward the back. The lateral agility to block pitches in the dirt is obviously here, though Naylor is sometimes late getting to the ground. On last look, it was stuff that profiled in the middle of a contending teams rotation, rather than at the very front. The curve has enough depth to have bat-missing utility below the zone and generate groundballs even when hitters sniff it out in mid-air. 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. He has continued on that path as a pro, slashing an incredible .305/.402/.510 so far in the minors, reaching Double-A and the Arizona Fall League at age 20 after he had torn his labrum the year before. Maryland; 39. All count against the team's salary cap. 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. His secondary pitch recognition is not good, and he both needs to stay at shortstop and continue getting to all of his considerable power for an everyday profile to hold water. Latest AP and USA Today college sports polls on ESPN.com. Collegiate Baseball and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association rank the top 30 teams nationally. He has a 3.52 ERA and 120 strikeouts in 102.1 innings across two seasons. Yorke was the biggest surprise of the 2020 drafts first round. 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. Peraza seems to realize this and tends to let strikes in the lower third of the zone go by until he absolutely has to swing at them. INF David Mendham Mendham, an experienced and well-traveled player, is back for another season of college baseball. 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. 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. 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. 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. Lefties with plus command and plus changeups tend to overachieve and Allen is exactly that, poised to play a mid-rotation role relatively soon. 56WashingtonPac-127WA2-15415469 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. Vargas has great feel for contact and enough power to profile as an everyday left fielder or second baseman, with the latter looking more likely for now given the Dodgers roster situation. In 2021, he had a 3.80 ERA, a .208 opponent batting average and 94 strikeouts in 71 innings. 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. 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. He looked great at the start of the Fall League before pitchers figured out they could get him to chase whatever and started junk-balling him to death. Having made noticeable adjustments to his swing, including a lower load and a more compact back elbow, the center fielder has proven capable of tapping into in-game power previously missing from his offensive profile. He now sits 96 mph and will touch as high as 102, though he typically tops out at 99 in any given start. 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. Lesko was already the consensus top high school pitcher in the draft before the curveball showed up, and would have been a top 10 lock had he stayed healthy throughout the spring, but instead he fell to 15th, where he was picked by San Diego. 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 stunned the reigning national champs, 2023 NC skiing championship selections announced, LATEST COLLEGE BASEBALL NEWS He tore up Low-A, slashing .354/.443/.557 with a 12% walk rate and an 18% strikeout rate over the course of April and May before earning a promotion in early June. A newer offering for him (at least based on the previous notes and data FanGraphs has), it spins at 2,900 rpm, 300 rpm more than his trademark slider. Righthander Grayson Rodriguez ranks No. His slider tunnels better with the four-seamer, but its whiff and chase rates have been more pedestrian. Its not typical for a prospect who was just put on a 40-man roster to have this much perceived volatility or create this level of polarization. 32South CarolinaSEC10SC3-1418119 Hes not only kept things in check physically but actually improved to the point of being an above-average defender. 11 Last Week: 3-1 Overall: 5-2, 0-0 in SEC (1-1 vs. Top 25) Weekend Record: 2-0 Results Feb. 21: Grambling State: W 9-7 Feb. 24-26: Eastern Illinois: W 13-2 (7), W 10-3, L 12-3 Upcoming March 1: Illinois State March 3-5: Wright StateArkansas largely took care of business at home last week and won a series against Eastern Illinois. Now in the bullpen, Halls deep repertoire should make him a premium late-inning reliever. His lefty swing is more powerful while his righty cut is more contact-oriented. He slid within this FV tier but his grade didnt change, and hes still a pretty good bet to be a no. Thats a decrease of four teams for California since 2019, and an increase of one team for Texas. OF Jared Wegner An experienced college bat, Wegner was a huge part of the Razorbacks success this week. 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. 4/5 on a contender. 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He was coming off a putrid 2021 in which he hit just .188, the first severe offensive struggles of a career that, to that point, had been all about offensive performance. Yorkes rhythm and timing at the plate were fantastic there, though, and were inclined to dismiss his 2022 as being the result of his injuries rather than a real regression in skill or exposure of a flaw in his offense. He does play with lots of effort, though, and Mead has enough range that the second base experiment has merit. 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. 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%. He wasnt tested on the complex in 2022. When the season was over and the statistical dust settled, Chourio wrapped with a 67% Contact% and 76% Z-Contact%, both of which would be in the bottom five of big league center fielders with at least 300 PA in 2022. 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). Hes such a good athlete with such polished baseball aptitude (the Rays field staff raves about it unprompted) that this forecast expects him to make the necessary adjustments to do so. The Cowboys will look to keep things rolling this week, starting with a familiar foe in Missouri Statea matchup that produced a wild 29-15 elimination game in last years Stillwater Regional. 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. 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. Naylors defense is still pretty rough around the edges. 2022 College Baseball Ranking Comparison: RPI, Predicted RPI, ELO The junior righty went 5.2 innings, struck out four, and allowed two hits. 5 Last Week: 3-2 Overall: 5-3, 0-0 in SEC (3-2 vs. Top 25) Weekend Record: 2-0 Results Feb. 21: Central Arkansas: L 5-4 Feb. 22: Alabama-Birmingham: W 13-1 Feb. 24-26: vs. (13) UCLA: W 6-0, L 3-0, W 2-1 Upcoming Feb. 28: Austin Peay State Cambria College Classic (Minneapolis) March 3: vs. Nebraska March 4: vs. (17) Maryland March 5: @ Minnesota After getting upset Tuesday in its home opener by Central Arkansas, Vanderbilt bounced back and scored a big series win against UCLA. He has a loose arm, a frame built for eating innings, and a repeatable delivery. 12TexasBig 122TX34162015 Virginia has one more week of non-conference play before its schedule stiffens with ACC competition. He crushes mistakes, and has 48 career bombs in about a season-and-a-halfs worth of pro games. Editor's note: The following article was published first on d1baseball.com. 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). Rafaela is a Gold Glove-caliber center fielder with a very immature approach. Suasc was part of a dynamic freshman one-two punch at Arizona last season alongside Berry. 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. Now fully healthy again, Elko should be one of the best run producers in the country in 2022. His raw power has improved considerably over the last two years, and at age 19, he already has thunderous pull-side pop and is lifting the ball consistently in games. Hes going to be a middle-of-the-order anchor in Oakland fairly soon. They travel to Cal Poly this weekend. 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. 69 to No. 8 TCU. LHP Xavier Rivas Delaware was no match for Rivas, who struck out eight and allowed just one hit. While he was closer to the 50/55 FV line last offseason, the snapshot of the defensive piece of the puzzle pulls him more comfortably into the 50s for this list cycle, one of many Guardians upper-level middle infielders with the talent to be an everyday player. Eight of the top nine prospects in ZiPS are basically the top pitching prospects on Eric and Tess' list. His left-handed swing has natural pull-side loft and hes adept at impacting the baseball way out in front of the plate from the right side, accomplishing the same goal with a slightly different look. 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. 40. Prez shows bend and balance in his lower half as he propels himself way down the mound and releases on the doorstep of the batters box, making hitters extremely uncomfortable. He had a paltry 7% swinging strike rate to go along with an amazing 90% z-contact% and 85% overall contact rate. Collier walked a unique amateur path en route to a signing bonus as large and impressive as his power and arm strength. 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. 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. His powerful lower half and flexibility drive the production of this velocity, while McGarrys long arm action makes it tough for him to have a consistent release. He is otherwise incredibly gifted, a 70 runner with at least 70 raw power that plays to all fields. These rankings were originally published in the Athlon Sports 2022 Baseball Annual, which is available. Ellys tools are big enough to stand with those guys, but if hes striking out at a 30% clip at Double-A, its likely hell do so more often against big league pitching, which puts him in a dangerous area. . Arroyo is a hard-swinging shortstop who is off to a much more powerful offensive start than was anticipated when he signed out of high school. The biggest hope for the list is that by the time the end of the season rolls around, these 150 players will be something close to being the 150 players who were most impactful in the sport in 2022. Short levers enable Frelick to turn on inner-third fastballs and let him spray or spoil pitches that travel deep into the hitting zone, making him very tough to strike out. 1 in the D1Baseball Top 25 for the first time in the eight-year history of the rankings. 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. Hences fastball will be elite if he can sustain mid-to-upper-90s velocity across starters innings, which he hasnt yet had to do. His curveball has a 12-6 shape, and hes deployed the pitch to particularly devastating effect against left-handed opponents; between the two levels, only one lefty has recorded a hit on the curveball. His swing is like a right-handed version of Juan Sotos, capable of getting underneath the baseball in basically every part of the zone, in part because of the flexibility and athleticism in his lower half. Miller has always held his velo deep into games despite a violent delivery, and his slider and changeup are both above-average, rounding out a starters mix in a weird mechanical package. 52Florida AtlanticC-USA3FL4-7455153 He was also one of the better rotational athletes available, with one of the loosest, most beautiful swings in the class. Originally a high-profile Yankees amateur signee, the pandemic and a hamstring injury limited Alcantara to just nine stateside minor league games before he was traded to the Cubs for Anthony Rizzo in 2021. Henderson is a viable shortstop defender (for now) who has plus-plus plate discipline and power. However the defensive end of things shakes out for Mead (here he projects in left field for the third straight season), he has enough bat to be an above-average everyday player, combining potent contact, power, and perhaps a newfound sense of the strike zone. 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