Yorke and his French swing (because it is evocative of Ty France) looked like a high-probability big league hitter with a well-rounded contact and power combination in Arizona, enough to project as a regular if he can stay on the dirt. Healthy House has huge power. Now in the bullpen, Halls deep repertoire should make him a premium late-inning reliever. Lewis missed a chunk of 2019 with an injury before losing all of 2020 to the pandemic. Frelick has a hit-over-power offensive skill set that fits in center field, where were projecting hell improve defensively over time. He performed well during a September call-up to New York, posting a BABIP-aided .306/.404/.429 line in 18 games. He hit .337/.453/.601 as a teenager in the Cal League before the Padres traded him to Washington as part of the Juan Soto blockbuster, after which he hit .293/.366/.463. He had Tommy John in August of 2019 and rehabbed during a 2020 season that he would have missed anyway. RHP Drew Beam Beam was dominant over the weekend, allowing three hits over six innings and punching out six. 2022 College Baseball Ranking Comparison: RPI, Predicted RPI, ELO Bibee seems to have altered his stride direction so that he isnt landing quite as closed as he was at Fullerton, which appears to enable him to stay behind the baseball a little better, creating riding action on a fastball that wasnt previously as explosive. Late in 2022, the Cardinals started giving Walker reps in the outfield, mostly in right, and he looked fine out there. An action-packed week one has come to an end, meaning its time to release our first Top 25 of the young season. Hes graded with the optimism that these traits will help him manage the swing-and-miss enough to be a multi-time All-Star. To see all the great stories in this issue, CLICK HERE. His heater is only generating about a 14% swinging strike rate, per Synergy Sports, which is above the big league average but not elite. 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. Thats a 31% K% and 8% BB% across twice as many innings as the year before, when Miller was being built back up from the shortened 2020 season. A spindly, undersized athlete with a plus slider and mid-90s fastball, Jameson is on the starter/reliever line as Arizonas big league staff becomes more crowded with viable major leaguers. Wiemer often swings inside pitches on the outer third of the strike zone, and his in-zone swing and miss rates are on par with the bottom handful of big league outfielders who saw at least 300 PA in 2022, among names like Joey Gallo and Christopher Morel. Carter has plus soft skills but doesnt have the power for stardom. We gravitate toward up-the-middle defenders littered all throughout the minor leagues, and really only tend to push corner bats onto the list when theyre close to the big leagues, or if we have an abnormal degree of confidence that they will continue to hit all the way through the minors. Even if he plays nothing but first base from the jump, Walker will still produce enough power to be a consistent 3-WAR All-Star, and theres superlative thump here even at that position. Hassell doesnt have premium ball-striking power and is probably a corner outfielder, so the contact piece of his profile needs to rebound in a big way for him to continue projecting as a regular. His defensive ability alone gives him a big league floor, and his power gives him a big ceiling if he can get to it in games. Wesneskis slider is really nasty and his entire repertoire fits nicely together. He is sure-handed and slick, twitchy and acrobatic, wielding plus range, hands, actions and arm strength. Collegiate Baseball and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association rank the top 30 teams nationally. He rocketed through Arizonas system in 2021, making brief stops at both A-ball levels before closing the season with six starts for Double-A Amarillo, where he then spent most of 2022 dominating to the tune of a 32% K% and 4% BB% before a late promotion to Reno. On paper, Amador is still generating flat, groundball and line drive contact a lot of the time, but we think his feel for the barrel and for the zone together will enable him to hit for average power at maturity, maybe more as a left-handed hitter. Holliday is a sweet-swinging shortstop with above-average feel for contact and burgeoning power. Stone raced to the upper levels of the minors and generated one of the highest swinging strike rates among Double-A pitchers who threw at least 70 innings in 2022. LSU lost its first game of the year, but still posted a winning. Marylands tough slate continues this weekend at the Cambria College Classic in Minnesota with top-10 foes Ole Miss and Vanderbilt. He has some outfield experience but very little in pro ball, and he doesnt exactly look like a fish in water out there. Hence was picked up in the shortened 2020 draft, one of the youngest players taken that year, and in 2021 threw just eight innings on the complex, virtually all in relief. 6 overall and places behind only Phillies righty Andrew Painter among the game's top pitching prospects. A stiff, upright hitter, Diaz might have some issues with fastballs running in on his hands at the big league level, as he tended to be late on the ones he saw at Double- and Triple-A, driving them almost exclusively to the opposite field. He commands it consistently enough to his glove side to project as a starter. Suasc was part of a dynamic freshman one-two punch at Arizona last season alongside Berry. 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. "RPI Delta" is the change in a team's RPI since SUN, JUN 26th. RHP AJ Hutcheson The true freshman was lights-out from the bullpen this past week, appearing two times and striking out seven without allowing a hit. Its hard to make any assumptions about him based on his shortened 2022 season, but he still looks like the same type of player hes been historically, assuming the power comes back when hes fully healthy and that the back issue isnt a persistent one. 2023 NCAA | Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. Mississippi State takes down Vanderbilt to win program's first title, Mississippi State tosses 1-hit shutout to win2021 CWS title, Louisiana Tech upsets No. 50LibertyA-Sun1VA325758155 Poised to be a post-2023 40-man add, Flores worked just over 100 innings in 2022. There was some worry that Carroll wouldnt be quite the same player when he returned, but he quickly allayed those concerns by dominating the upper minors as soon as the 2022 starter pistol fired, notching an amazing 53 extra-base hits in just 91 Double- and Triple-A games before he slashed .260/.330/.500 during a September big league call-up. He started the season at High-A, advancing to Double-A in late May, where his strikeout rate increased slightly, but not at all to a concerning degree. 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. Born in Venezuela and signed out of an Arizona junior college, Flores gained notice as a big time prospect throughout 2021, which he wrapped sitting 93-96 mph with a hammer breaking ball in the Fall League. These rankings were originally . RHP Trey Yesavage Yesavage had a good year out of the bullpen in 2022 for the Pirates and now he looks to translate that into productive starts. If not for the risk created by Tovars plate discipline, hed be in the 55 FV tier, as hes otherwise about to produce like a complete up-the-middle player. 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. He receives on one knee with the bases empty but mixes his technique with runners on. You can do some thought exercises around where hed go were Noelvi a 21-year-old draft prospect, or play would you rather with the names of other prospects to try to triangulate where he should fall on the FV scale, and all of that went into placing him here. VIDEOS: Mississippi State tosses 1-hit shutout to win2021 CWS title|Watch Miss. Even though both Davis and Rodriguez are near-ready catching prospects, they arent redundant, and in fact they complement each other well. If things click, hell be a star. Endy had an incredible 2022 statline .323/.407/.590 most of which was generated at hitter-friendly Greensboro. This guy hasnt had a clear defensive home for much of his life as a prospect. Falling out of the Top 25 is Oregon, which was swept last weekend by UC Santa Barbara. 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. Though he lacked present power and typical frame-based power projection, there was enthusiasm surrounding Frelicks catalytic offensive qualities. 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. 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. 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. A backfield wunderkind who stood out immediately because of his rare combination of size and athleticism, Alcantara has been a top 100 prospect at FanGraphs for a couple of years now. He lacks precise command, but he throws enough strikes to start and bully hitters with his velocity and slider for five and six innings at a time. Forty-two of the 57 games he played in the Carolina League came at ballparks with park factors of 116 or more, per research conducted annually by Baseball Americas Matt Eddy. 1 overall pick in the. These rankings were originally published in the Athlon Sports 2022 Baseball Annual, which is available. That represents more turnover than the last time we conducted this exercise, as just 11 new teams entered in 2019. 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. Diaz is a bat-first catching prospect close to the big leagues. A small school draft-and-dev success, Stone is starting to have that mid-rotation look after growing into more velocity and a great changeup. Many scouts are champing at the bit over Priesters prototypical frame and four- or five-pitch mix, depending on whether you consider his fastballs two distinct pitches. In Casas case, there is so much lefty-hitting power here that we are still buying him as an above-average big league run producer at first base. Historically, Mead has raked despite having a hyper-aggressive approach at the plate, and this is where he grew the most in 2022. Texas Tech faces stiffer competition this week, starting with a midweek series against Air Force and then a trip to Houston for the Shriners College Classic, highlighted by a Sunday showdown with Texas A&M. Parada has impeccable hitters timing, and batting stance aside, his swing is rhythmic and balanced. Built like human skyscraper, Prez has incredible control of his limbs for a pitcher this tall, this age, and who throws this hard. His approach (a sticking point at this site in the past) has gotten better, with his chase rates now hovering close to average. He was added to the 40-man roster at the end of the season and should become part of the Rangers rotation at some point in 2023. Whether or not Cartaya does this depends on the pitch hes called, and sometimes hell start from a crouch and drop to a knee as the pitch is in mid-flight. After his velocity varied throughout his senior year at times 92-94 mph, at others parked comfortably in the 95-96 mph range and touching above Jobe mostly sat 93-95 in 2022. Game-breaking speed is Bradfield, Jr.s calling card, and he swiped 47 bases in 53 tries last season. Zavala isnt as physically projectable as some other youngsters on this list, but he might have a better hit plus power profile thanks to the rotation and subsequent bat speed he generates in his athletic, lefty swing. Louisville this week faces a sterner test as it leaves home for the first time to play in the Shriners College Classic at Minute Maid Park, a weekend that includes a rematch with two of its 2022 NCAA Tournament opponents (Texas A&M and Michigan). Ramos often pulls off pitches on the outer edge and swings inside ones hed ideally either contact or spoil. Thanks to his looseness and flexibility (again, think a lankier Gerrit Cole), not only does Abel project to maintain this level of velocity, but perhaps hell add to it as his frame fills out. It can be tough to turn over a changeup from his arm slot, but that slot is also part of how Bibee creates depth on his curveball, which has become a show-me pitch that he lands in the zone at will. Ortiz put up some silly offensive numbers as an amateur, including a .422/.474/.697 line as a junior at New Mexico State that was caricatured by the elevation of Las Cruces, which is one of the most hitter-friendly environments in college baseball. Ortiz rocketed through the system in 2022, skipping High-A and spending most of the season with Double-A Altoona before making his big league debut across four starts in September and October. 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. Sometimes the length of his slider is so ridiculous that its actually tough for him to control. 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. 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. Fairfield; 42. If the Giants are contending for a playoff spot, he may be called up during the 2023 season, perhaps first in a bullpen capacity, but he projects as an eventual impact starter. 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. As a right-handed hitter almost all of Endys damage is done on outer-third pitches that he can get fully extended against. 5. INF Peyton Chatagnier A sparkplug from the Rebels 2022 championship, Chatagnier continues to create a legacy in Oxford. UNC has one more weekend of non-conference play before ACC action begins. stunned the reigning national champs, 2023 NC skiing championship selections announced, LATEST COLLEGE BASEBALL NEWS Previous ranking: No. 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. NCSA analyzed over 1,150 four-year colleges with college baseball programs across four division levels (D1, D2, D3 and NAIA) to develop a list of the Best Baseball Colleges for Student-Athletes.. NCSA Power Rankings are based on proprietary analysis of NCSA Favorites data obtained from the college search activity of the over 3 million student-athletes on the NCSA . He returned three months later and labored through a rocky September with Norfolk, during which he struggled with walks. 1 in the D1Baseball Preseason Top 25 rankings for the first time ever. Rodriguezs arm is comfortably plus. During that stretch, he was also swinging and missing within the strike zone a ton. In 2022, he dominated the upper levels (.260/.374/.511) and made his big league debut at age 20 with a five-game cup of coffee. Hes naturally adept at framing low strikes because hes already so low to the ground, but its also fair to wonder if such a small athlete can withstand the grind of catching 80-100 games every summer. He gets a lot of swing and miss on his slider, both in and out of the zone, and commands it well. Previous ranking: No. He receives on one knee with the bases empty before utilizing a traditional crouch with runners on, and hes an acceptable receiver and ball-blocker with a plus arm that plays down due to a slow exchange. He struggles to set up his slider with well-located fastballs, and even when he does its not a given that hell land the slider after its been set up. The Aggies, who dropped two of three at home to the Pilots, dropped a whopping 10 spots from No. 34UC Santa BarbaraBig West1CA39433756 Jackson Holliday, the No. 21 Last Week: 3-1 Overall: 4-3, 0-0 in Big 12 (0-2 vs. Top 25) Weekend Record: 1-1 Results Feb. 21: California Baptist: W 2-0 Feb. 25-26: Loyola Marymount: W 1-0, L 10-8 (10), W 11-1 Upcoming Feb. 28: @ Missouri State March 3-5: Austin Peay StateOklahoma State bounced back strong from a tough Opening Weekend and threw back-to-back no-hitters against California Baptist and Loyola Marymount. 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