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. 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. 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. Espino barely throws his low-90s changeup, but he still has good feel for locating it in an enticing location away from lefty batters, and even that and his rarely-used curveball (combined, he threw those pitches 8% of the time in 2021) could be above average at maturity. He receives on one knee with the bases empty but mixes his technique with runners on. The sophomore first baseman produced a 1.953 OPS with a home run and a pair of triples. C Justin Wilcoxen Wilcoxen is looking to build off of a strong season in 2022 and he is already off to a hot start. From a heuristics standpoint, you cant do much better than Rodriguezs profile. 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. Previous ranking: No. The components of Hernandezs swing push and pull against one another, as his cut is pretty long but he also has very advanced barrel control. It looked like he would continue his dominant performance at the higher level. Baltimore Orioles. Our ultimate goal here is to identify the programs in the best shape right now, with an eye toward the next five to 10 years. His changeup isnt consistent enough for it to play a major role in his arsenal quite yet, but he trusts his slider enough to use it in place of the changeup, even against righties. Even with Justin Turners departure, the Dodgers are better equipped at third base than they are in the outfield, so Vargas is poised to see time at second base and in left field in 2023. Casas has plus-plus power and enough bat-to-ball skill to weaponize it. 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. His in-zone contact numbers improved throughout 2022, even after promotion. In four innings, the senior lefty struck out six and didnt allow a hit. Frelick has a hit-over-power offensive skill set that fits in center field, where were projecting hell improve defensively over time. Baty made some subtle swing changes that may have better actualized his plus-plus raw power. 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. Between the two Triple-A squads, Wesneski tossed a total of 110 innings before being called upon to fill out the Cubs rotation. In order to access this exclusive content you must have a Baseball America Account. He has impeccable hitters timing and a swing that is equal parts balanced and explosive, generating plus all-fields power despite barely utilizing any sort of stride. Nelson used his fastball about 65% of the time in 2021 and 61% in 2022, both at the upper boundary of what is typical for a big league starter. 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. He chased at a 37% rate in 2022, which isnt terrible in a big league context, but is pretty bad when viewed through the minor league lens, where fewer pitchers have chase-inducing stuff. Even with the back issue, the Giants put Luciano on their 40-man roster during the winter. His peak exit velocities are absurd for a teenager, and while his breaking ball recognition and overall plate discipline are both crude, his in-zone feel for contact is also very promising. 65). In a bodily sense, he was also unlike any amateur prospect most scouts had ever seen. Plus, lvarez isnt nearly as chase-prone as Alfaro and has much more power than Bart, so he should outperform both. 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. He projects as a contact-oriented everyday shortstop, though one scouting director we spoke with for this list still wants to see what hed look like on the mound. He started the 2022 season at Triple-A and wasnt quite as dominant as hed been at the close of 2021, with just a 21.5% strikeout rate throughout April and May. His stuff was down in 2022 but is still good, and Rodriguez should be a mid-rotation stalwart in short order. Keith was a late-riser on 2020 draft boards and had teams debating whether to select him as a pitcher or a hitter, with some even considering developing him as a two-way talent. Perhaps as an adjustment to deal with this issue, Priester now mixes in plenty of fastballs for which he pronates on release, giving the pitch screwball-like spin. Berry has no position but raked in college, including after he left hitter-friendly Tucson and faced SEC arms. Previous ranking: No. Jameson reached the majors in 2022 and is ready for prime time. 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. Copyright 2023 Baseball America Enterprises. It appears the latter is true. He debuted with Boston late in the season and flashed the titanic power that promises to make him a valuable big league regular, while also running the high walk and strikeout rates that readers should expect from him going forward. 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 . His fastball velocity is down, in the 92-94 mph range, a far cry from Priesters upper-90s peak. 71Long Beach StateBig West4CA7-8633978 Montgomery did not look good at shortstop during that stretch, falling short of the positions high bar in most facets (range, hands, arm strength). Wiemer has a rare size/athleticism combination and wields an elaborate swing that produces huge pull-side power. 13 Last Week: 2-2 Overall: 5-2, 0-0 in Pac-12 (1-2 vs. Top 25) Weekend Record: 1-1 Results Feb. 21: Pepperdine: W 11-2 Feb. 24-26: @ (5) Vanderbilt: L 6-0, W 3-0, L 2-1 Upcoming Feb. 28: Loyola Marymount March 1: Michigan Southern California College Baseball Classic March 3: Tulane March 4: Sacramento State March 5: Southern California UCLAs trip to Vanderbilt delivered on its promise on the mound, as the teams traded shutouts in the first two games before the Commodores edged the Bruins in the series finale. While most players on this list have experience at the college level, we also included some newcomers, with the expectation that those players will be among the favorites to win freshman of the year honors. His huge strides enable him to cover a ton of ground in center field and he is a not only a viable defender out there right now, but he looks like a future plus glove. Its a mid-rotation starters stuff, and healthy Williams should produce as such at the big league level, though the pitchers who tend to get hurt are the ones who have been hurt in the past, and theres enough of a track record here to alter how Williams lines up with similarly talented peers. Of those accolades, perhaps the most promising was his durability; given the violence in his delivery, our biggest concern has been Cavallis ability to stay healthy, so the fact that he notched over 123 innings of work without an IL stint was a welcome development. The ultra-advanced White has plus command of four good pitches. When the Double-A season came to a close, Soderstrom was promoted again to close out Stocktons Triple-A season. Overall, 26 different conferences are represented. But its shape, while deep, is a less-than-ideal pairing with his fastball. His split/changeup (it only has about 1,300 rpm of spin, definitely in split territory) has plus sinking action, but the direction of its lateral movement is highly variable. Mauricio has developed as well as could have been rationally hoped when he signed. Zavala was the youngest player to reach an affiliate in 2022, joining Low-A Lake Elsinore just a couple weeks after his 18th birthday. It plays as an above-average offering even though Allens raw arm strength is comfortably below average. 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. RPI (Live) Records include games against Division I opponents only. Hes also shown some ability to make mechanical adjustments, trading a high leg kick for a lower, longer stride that makes it even more evident just how powerful and balanced his lower half is than his previous swing did. Hes now on the doorstep of the big leagues as a three-pitch power reliever. While hes been uniformly dominant in the minors, Prezs stuff hit a different gear in 2022 and he rose to being our no. OF Braden Montgomery Remember this guys name. 1 team loses in college baseball, as Iowa dominates top-ranked LSU, Trio of heavy-hitters down three top-10 teams Friday night in college baseball, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Olsons plus secondary stuff helps make him a potential starter even though he doesnt throw strikes with his fastball. 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. Prior to the injury, he had allowed just 48 baserunners in 56 innings and struck out 80 men. 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. Jameson sits 95-96 mph, touches 99, can add and subtract sink from his fastball, and his mid-80s slider is comfortably plus. Rafaela had a breakout 2022 season, hitting .299/.342/.539 mostly at Double-A Portland. All of the prospects below also appear on The Board, a resource the site offers featuring sortable scouting information for every organization. 10StanfordPac-122CA112223031 as a junior at Campbell in 2022. 17 Last Week: 4-0 Overall: 7-0, 0-0 in ACC (0-0 vs. Top 25) Weekend Record: 2-0 Results Feb. 21: Longwood: W 26-2 Feb. 24-26: Columbia: W 4-1, W 11-3, W 9-1 Upcoming Feb. 28: Virginia Military Institute March 3-5: Rhode Island Virginia took care of business with a sweep of Columbia, the 2022 Ivy League champion. Ramirez has plus-plus bat speed and will show you big pull-side power already. Outfielder Chris Cannizzaro homered twice and hit for the cycle in Sundays series-clinching victory. McGarrys mid-80s slider and low-80s changeup are both plus, but his control issues extend to those pitches. 69 to No. Busch has continued his long track record of excellent offensive performance so far in pro ball. Copyright 2023 Baseball America Enterprises. In this case, Montgomerys bat seems to have already blossomed, while you can throw out the age-related concerns given that he has now proven himself at High-A. 77Southeastern LouisianaSouthland2LA4-11665595 He is otherwise incredibly gifted, a 70 runner with at least 70 raw power that plays to all fields. Casas is capable of hitting huge tanks to all parts of the ballpark; his hard-hit rate in 2022 was a whopping 50%, which would have been top 15 among qualified big league hitters. He has the strength to do damage the other way, but save for the occasional pitch on the outer edge, hes geared to pull. 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. Power and arm strength have been Cartayas headline tools since his amateur days, and despite missing lots of time in the 2020-21 window due to the pandemic and injuries, he has still developed on defense and managed his strikeout tendencies, and played enough in 2022 to reinforce industry confidence in his plate discipline across a larger sample of plate appearances. He had his second straight fair offensive season as a pro, as he produced a 95 wRC+ at High-A, mostly thanks to his ability to put balls in play. 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. In addition to the humming fastball, Miller wields three above-average (at least) secondary pitches that he mixes pretty evenly, especially against lefty batters. 21UCLAPac-123CA2-214154 4FloridaSEC4FL1-3113 Caminero has a big leg kick, loads his hands low, and swings with bloodthirsty effort, with plus bat speed driving big pull-side power. Those metrics illustrate the way Manzardos skill set is tailored. 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. Here hes projected as a no. 3B Jake Gelof One of the best power hitters in the country, Gelof showed off his skills yet again, putting up video game numbers in week 1. leap into the top-10 overall prospect mix within the next year. 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. 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. Hes shown the ability to induce significant swing and miss across all four offerings, both in and out of the zone, aided largely by his funky arm action. Still, there are all kinds of hit tool red flags here, both in the data and in Williams visual scouting report. The sophomore outfielder was out for all of last season with an injury and is looking to make an impact right away. Jameson is also a extremely competitive and has the makeup for a late-inning role should he eventually have to make way for some of Arizonas other good young starters. 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. The FV grade is more important than the ordinal ranking. Hall might have debuted at some point in 2021 had he not dealt with elbow tendinitis and a stress reaction in his elbow, which was uncovered when he had a setback during rehab from the tendinitis and ultimately ended his season. The pitch has natural tailing action, but Ortiz can also blow it past hitters at the letters when he wants, and his TrackMan data shows hes mixing in four- and two-seamers in the locations where theyre most effective. Even though hes been on a throwing program to strengthen his arm, Volpe still doesnt have the hose typical of a big league shortstop. Priesters four-seamer is divisive. Even though his career walk rates are extremely low (7%) for a complex-level prospect (where pitchers often struggle to throw strikes), Bleis chase rates are closer to average. 55), Old Dominion (No. and play-by-play data provided by Sports Info Solutions. Not since Bryce Harper has a prospect carved a path quite like Colliers, one that was optimized to appeal to draft models, weighty in-person scouting looks, and perhaps lead to a very young eventual free agency. He was also one of the better rotational athletes available, with one of the loosest, most beautiful swings in the class. Though he does his homer damage almost exclusively to his pull side, Berry slices breaking balls away from him to the opposite field, and most of his non-extra-base hits come that way. Late in 2022, the Cardinals started giving Walker reps in the outfield, mostly in right, and he looked fine out there. 8 TCU. 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. Others that made big jumps into the Top 100 include Central Michigan (No. 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. His season started as good as it could, with Keisel starting a no-hitter, going 5.1 innings with 11 strikeouts. We can safely put to bed any notion that Pages (pronounced p-hz) might stay in center field, and as such, his projection has narrowed as he shifts to being an average everyday corner outfield prospect by virtue of his ability to get to power, which he does via his combination of raw strength and the extreme lift in his swing. It was Merrills Arizona Fall League look, which came against more advanced arms, and his underlying hit data that really drove him up the prospect continuum. 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. 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. 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. OF Jace Laviolette A big recruiting coming out of high school, all of Laviolettes 6-6 frame showed up on campus and didnt disappoint in week one. Additionally, you can subscribe to Baseball America's newsletter and receive all of our rankings, analysis, prospect insight & more delivered to your inbox every day. By his senior year of high school, Holliday already had. Its comforting that there are contemporary examples of hitters making a huge impact who share Chourios potential blemish, ones who make that impact despite all the ponchados by getting to big power. He has a shot to break camp with the big club and play a huge role on the next Orioles contender. Harrisons fastball sits 93-94 mph, topping out around 98, and it plays up thanks to its shape and the deceptively low lefty arm slot Harrison hurls it from. Its possible Marte simply lacks feel for squaring up the baseball, and/or that his power output was caricatured by the hitting environments of Seattles A-ball clubs (Everett is hitter-friendly, and pockets of the Cal League are extremely so), or was simply over-evaluated in the first place. 1 or 2 starter. His power on contact is exceptional, and even though his hit tool has looked more average than above as hes traversed the minors, the combination of power and patience here belongs in the heart of a big league order. LHP Jac Caglianone No, this isnt a mistake, Caglianone does both at a very high level. 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. The Big East, MAC, SoCon and Southland placed three teams apiece on the list. 40/50. 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. 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. 40. Across the season as a whole, his fastball only sat 95 mph, and in his final start of the year it was mostly in the 93-96 mph range, which is a two-tick regression from 2021, when Rodriguez sat 96-98 all year. 93MinnesotaBig Ten8MN1-444972100 It would be an above-average pitch were it simply in the low-to-mid-80s, but at this velocity, its a 70-grade weapon, and Espino has consistent feel for locating it down and to his glove side. window.FGWebsite_head_section.buildProspectsListTop100Controls(); The Bucknell transfer slashed .375/.450/.625 with a homer in four games. Considered too advanced for the teams Dominican complex, he made his stateside pro debut in 2019 and followed that up by posting a .941 OPS across two A-ball levels in 2021 while still a teenager. On last look, it was stuff that profiled in the middle of a contending teams rotation, rather than at the very front. While his profile is that of an offense-first catcher, lvarez is unlikely to be a true liability back there and has more than enough stick to make up for his defensive deficiencies. Pro pitchers attacked him with lots of back-foot breaking balls in Colliers brief ACL and instructs run, and while he spotted lots of them and hammered a few that didnt finish, he struggled to touch any that were even close to well-executed. Wherever he ends up, if you have the means to head to the ballpark early to watch lvarez take batting practice, you should. Carter has put up video game numbers in the mid-minors but his visual scouting report doesnt really jive with his surface-level output. Pfaadts fading change flashes bat-missing action, but it also flattens at times, and even though Pfaadt is comfortable enough to use it against righties, its the pitch he has the least consistent feel for locating. The addition of a leg kick in 2021 increased his power output without disrupting his timing at the plate, and now Steer has a well-rounded hit/patience/power toolkit that would profile in a 50 FV capacity at any non-first base position. Hes going to reach base a ton and hit for power. TOP 25 CHAT Tennessee took over No. 1 in the D1Baseball Top 25 for the first time in the eight-year history of the rankings. Still, the quality of Martes contact, as much as he might make, is not consistent or authoritative, and this was true in the regular season when he looked twitchier and looser than he did in the fall. The young flamethrower has a super high ceiling and looks like he can man the front of a rotation one day, but that mostly depends on his ability to add strength. He throws two plus secondaries a mid-80s changeup and a low-80s slider, each with good movement and high whiff-rates and hes shown the ability to locate each of his offerings, boasting strikeout rates over 34% at all three minor league levels. 85CaliforniaPac-128CA9-29567046 Naylors speed is also rare for a catcher. The lateral agility to block pitches in the dirt is obviously here, though Naylor is sometimes late getting to the ground. 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. 1 team in the land in the latest D1Baseball Top 25 Rankings. He spent the bulk of the 2022 season at High-A, where he slugged .513 with 20 home runs and 19 doubles, earning him an early-August bump up to Double-A, where his slugging remained roughly the same while he brought his strikeout rate down a couple ticks. There was some demographic push and pull happening in the guts of Montgomerys amateur profile that we can already reflect on a bit. Thats a decrease of four teams for California since 2019, and an increase of one team for Texas. After a slow start to 2022, Volpe hit .273/.355/.502 with Double-A Somerset from May through August and earned a late-season call up to Scranton. 39Arizona StatePac-126AZ2-9302916 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. As Volpe has added strength and mass, the trunk of his body has thickened substantially and impacted his defensive mobility a bit. Through five games, Caglianone is slugging .938 and popped two bombs, and figured to be a huge part of this Gators team in 2023. Texas, coming off a season that saw it win the Big 12 title and reach the bracket finals of the College World Series, opens the 2022 season ranked No. For a relatively compact hitter, Arroyos swing is swift and explosive. His long speed gives him a shot to stay in center field, but his routes to balls can be a bit of an adventure. 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. Suasc was part of a dynamic freshman one-two punch at Arizona last season alongside Berry. Davis was on the IL multiple times in 2022 with issues stemming from a small nondisplaced fracture of his left wrist that he suffered when he was hit by a pitch in May. 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. Instead, just a few days before Top 100 list publication, it was revealed that he still has a tear in his shoulder and will miss the first few months of the year. Redshirt junior shortstop Owen Cobb went 8-for-13 in the series and is now hitting .500/.531/.767 in his first season as a starter. 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. . 5Oregon StatePac-121OR11688 INF Peyton Chatagnier A sparkplug from the Rebels 2022 championship, Chatagnier continues to create a legacy in Oxford. at High-A Wisconsin for the last month of the season. 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