Jones swing isnt quite dialed in. Cincinnatis present roster situation funnels him to third base, but Jonathan Indias injury history, Joey Vottos age and handedness, and the Reds willingness to play Kyle Farmer at shortstop in the past likely mean that Steer will see time all over the infield throughout the next few years, and this flexibility along with his hitting skill should make him nearly an everyday, every-inning player despite some of his defensive blemishes. A very skilled hitter with a career .313/.390/.488 line in the minors, Vargas made his big league debut in 2022 and is poised to play a more prominent role for the Dodgers this season after their many free agent departures, though probably not at third base. Arizona State; 44. With another season like the last, when he hit .337/.462/.697 with 21 home runs, Jace Jung, one of the finest all-around hitters in the country, could find himself drafted higher than his brother Josh, who was taken eighth overall in 2019. 89CreightonBig East2NE2-12779677 Buschs swing is simple but still athletic and explosive. Holliday is a sweet-swinging shortstop with above-average feel for contact and burgeoning power. Thats because we have also included the 50 FV prospects whose ranking fell outside the 100, an acknowledgement both that the choice to rank exactly 100 prospects (as opposed to 110 or 210 or some other number entirely) is an arbitrary one and that there isnt a ton of daylight between the prospects who appear in that part of the list. He started the season with a schedule that mimicked his college days, pitching every Saturday game in April and the first half of May, before transitioning to a more traditional every-five-days regimen. After a breakout 2021 season, Harrison managed to improve in virtually every column of his stat sheet in 2022. Still, lvarez was 20 and facing Double- and Triple-A pitching, and its prudent to project growth in this area. This is a little odd, but it might be remedied with an unobtrusive mechanical tweak. BA Newsletter: Get Analysis, Rankings Delivered To Your Inbox! Hollidays range, hands, actions and arm are all above average, while his baseball instincts and internal clock are both very good, and season his defensive skill set enough to project him as a long-term shortstop even if he keeps getting bigger. He ultimately fell to the White Sox at 22nd overall, and a little over a year removed from his selection, that looks like an absolute steal. 32South CarolinaSEC10SC3-1418119 But if he can pick up where he left off, he still looks capable of becoming an important tent pole in the Nationals rotation as they continue to rebuild. Previous ranking: No. His power combined with his speed and defensive fit in center field give him rare upside as a 30-plus home run center fielder hitting at or near the top of whatever lineup hes in. Carter looks like a high-OBP, table-setting center fielder in the Brandon Nimmo mold. RHP Logan Whitaker The entire NC State pitching staff had a great start to their season, allowing just seven runs across four games. When Lee does take a comfortable hack, he shows you plus raw power, but his style of hitting is very balanced, and he doesnt sell out for huge pop all the time. VIDEOS: Mississippi State tosses 1-hit shutout to win2021 CWS title|Watch Miss. We are still in a holding pattern with Veen because the length of his swing continues to make it very difficult for him to turn on fastballs. 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. Theres enough hit/power combination for Neto to be a first-division regular there. Defensively he spent most of his time at shortstop in 2022, and while he isnt technically polished there, he does have the twitch and arm to project there with more refinement. His heater is only generating about a 14% swinging strike rate, per Synergy Sports, which is above the big league average but not elite. It can be found here. 3B Yohandy Morales Morales is attracting first-round buzz, and for good reason after two dominant years for the Hurricanes. His gigantic frame and plus arm are a big part of where the Salvador Perez comps are coming from. He has some outfield experience but very little in pro ball, and he doesnt exactly look like a fish in water out there. Previous ranking: No. He signed for $5.1 million in 2019 as easily the toolsiest player in his signing class, a plus-plus running center fielder with huge switch-hitting power. 4 starter fairly soon even if the arrow is currently pointing down. His stolen base total itself is not an indication of speed, but Naylor is running home-to-first as fast as 4.10, which is a plus run time, and he should swipe double-digit bases in his physical prime, relevant for fantasy-playing readers. Now, after what might be a delayed start to his 2023, hell be asked to hit the ground running after only playing half of last year. Bibees velocity ticked way up in pro ball, and he has command of a mid-rotation starters four-pitch mix. The Blue Jays coaxed Barger away from a Florida commitment with $270,000, and he barely played during his first two full seasons, one of them lost to the pandemic. 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. 69 to No. His in-zone contact rate on the year (89%) is very impressive for someone who detractors feared would be raw upon his entry into pro ball, and Montgomery is already doing measureable damage (based on his barrel rate, hard-hit rate, and other sourced metrics assessing impact contact) on par with a typical starting big league shortstop. OF Bryson Ware An experienced outfielder, Ware returns for his third year at Auburn. Finally, Southern Miss, which dropped two of three to Illinois at home in ugly fashion, rounds out the Top 25. RHP Brendan Girton The third-year right-hander lasted six innings out of relief for Texas Tech on Saturday, striking out six and allowing just three baserunners. 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. Even though beat writers reported that he had begun throwing again in June, Espino didnt pitch in games for the rest of the year. RHP Janzen Keisel The BYU transfer had a loud fall for the Cowboys, leading many to believe that he will be dominant this year. Southern Miss; 49. In two-strike counts, Cavalli threw his fastball 51% of the time in the first couple months of the season, with the curveball coming in second at just 22%. Legend [ edit] ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll [ edit] 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. 27Dallas BaptistC-USA1TX51282835 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. Merrills feel to hit is sublime. A skilled but impatient hitter who can really pick it, Tovar is poised to be the Rockies everyday shortstop and probably will be for a while. The Marlins made him the sixth overall pick. Fairfield; 42. Of course, he has game-changing arm strength. Julien finally got underway in pro ball in 2021 and since then, hes had two good seasons en route to a 40-man roster spot. But his geographic and two-sport background Montgomery was a high-level hooper in high school were arguably late-bloomer traits. Here hes projected as a bat-only player. 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. Prospect status is a factor, to be sure, but this list strives to be much more than that. RHP Nick Dean Dean will return to College Park for his senior season after starting 15 games in 2022. The ultra-advanced White has plus command of four good pitches. 44Cal State FullertonBig West2CA4-2915917 His desert lethargy was understandable, but its still the most recent thing the industry has seen. 73IowaBig Ten5IA1-6676187 He doesnt have to be put on the 40-man until after the 2024 season, but the rate at which he has been promoted so far indicates hell be in the mix for a rotation spot sooner than that. Rafaela is also capable of playing a couple of spots on the infield, though not as well, and unless his approach is actually a problem and shifts Rafaela into a premium utility role, hes probably just going to play center field all the time. Hes only ever played shortstop in affiliated ball but saw time at third base in LIDOM, where he understandably looked uncomfortable at times. NCSA analyzed over 204 four-year colleges with college baseball programs at the NAIA level to develop a list of the Best NAIA 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 recruiting network, U.S. News . Hes a complete hitter who will likely produce some 25-30 home run seasons by virtue of his contact quality and frequency, and some .400-plus OBP seasons because of his plate discipline and speed. Diaz has plus, all-fields power and covers the outer third of the plate especially well. 14North CarolinaACC3NC1-1131210 1B Nick Kurtz I could have gone with multiple players here, as Rake Forest was in full effect this week. Previous ranking: No. 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. 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. But in 2022, he righted the ship and then some, putting up a .312/.435/.530 line while fanning just 17.7% of the time and walking at a 14.2% clip. Rocchios feel for contact and his defensive ability drive a high-probability everyday profile. Synergy Sports has film of Collier seeing about 1,300 pitches since 2020, a gigantic sample for a teenage prospect. 1 in the D1Baseball Top 25 for the first time in the eight-year history of the rankings. Constant max-effort hacking often leads to lots of strikeouts, but Wiemer had mostly kept his Ks in check until 2022, when he punched out 30% of the time at Double-A Biloxi. 30. If you dropped him into the 2022 draft class (with high schoolers Bleis age), hes going in the top five picks. He might have to augment his swing to get to all of that power, and the chase component threatens to drag the hit tool down, but guys who hit the ball this often and this hard tend to turn into good big leaguers. 84IllinoisBig Ten7IL1-34506636 Even while being a relatively free-swinger, hes only struck out at a 15-17% clip since entering full-season ball and has a rare hit/power combination for a catcher, though he has been a little bit older for each level. 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. Alabama, Georgia, Indiana have four teams apiece on the list. Lesko is arguably the most polished and complete high school pitching prospect to come along in a decade. But more than that, he seems to have a knack for the clutch hit and seems more comfortable in those big moments than just about any other college hitter. This combined with the undercooked hit tool might lead to some big league growing pains and medium production at first, but over time Casas should become a middle-of-the-order force capable of hitting 35-plus annual homers. 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. Healthy House has huge power. Over the week, Dickerson produced a 1.141 OPS with three doubles and a triple. He has had the most impressive BP session at each of the last two Futures Games, launching satellite-threatening baseballs to the very outer reaches of big league stadiums. 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. 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. 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. 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. Except Ortiz hit 19 homers and had 60 total extra-base hits in the upper-minors last year, and while he doesnt project to produce that kind of power against big league stuff, its enough damage to project Ortizs offense above the median bar at shortstop. This sort of offensive player would be a good everyday third baseman and a star shortstop. Catcher Calvin Harris went 4-for-5 with two home runs and drove in eight runs in the series finale. Previous ranking: No. This isnt a common injury and the industry wasnt quite sure what to make of its impact on his trajectory. 40Notre DameACC10IN1N/ANR8868 Hassells performance tanked after the Juan Soto trade, and he broke his hamate in Arizona after the regular season. He was throwing all of his pitches in bullpens and had started facing live hitters just a couple weeks before list completion. Nevada. Perfect Game's baseball travel team rankings: 2022 End of Year Rankings (2026 Grads) Like Harper, Collier got his GED a year before he was originally set to graduate, went to a prominent junior college to play against older guys during his draft spring, and then (going beyond Harper) used the later timing of the draft to also play on Cape Cod against an even better collection of talent between the end of the JUCO season and the draft. 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. 1B Jac Caglianone Caglianone had a productive freshman year and is coming out of the gate strong. From the left side of the plate, Rodriguez has an exceptional ability to rip his hands through pitches on the inner edge of the zone. 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. Eder was a tantalizing but inconsistent high school prospect who at times would sit 94-97 mph, but often with scattershot control. But theyre severe enough to dial down the previously plus grades on Rocchios defense and consider him a future average shortstop, while keeping an eye on how he looks there this spring. These are things that need some developmental love before Naylor can assume the primary catching role in Cleveland, but hes young and athletic enough to project that theyll be worthy of that mantle relatively soon. Volpes uppercut swing will allow him to get to impact power for a middle infielder. He is loose and fluid in the box but does have some swing-and-miss concerns, which is standard for a hitter with levers this long. His slider execution is especially consistent, though his curveball has the more visually pleasing movement. Sims will go into the 2022 season as Mississippi States Friday starter, one season after he had a 1.44 ERA, a .149 opponent batting average and 100 strikeouts in 56.1 innings as the Bulldogs stopper in the bullpen. 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. They went 44-20, including 19-11 in the SEC, and road that wave until they were one of four teams remaining in the College World Series. His in-zone contact numbers improved throughout 2022, even after promotion. High-risk hitters with huge tools are also welcome since FV is a subjective way to factor both ceiling and risk into the same grade. The SEC also occupies six of the top eight spots, and nine of the top 20. Teams 1-5Teams 6-10Teams 11-20Teams 21-30Teams 31-40Teams 41-50Teams 51-60Teams 61-70Teams 71-80Teams 81-90Teams 91-100, D1Baseball Top 100 Programs: 2022 His fastball has done a ton of damage at the top of the zone and is a legit plus-plus pitch. What if Michael Brantley played shortstop? 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. Ramos footwork around the bag needs polish, and his frame is big enough that his range might eventually be an issue there depending on how he fills out, but in limited action Ramos looks fine enough to justify continued development at the keystone. The SEC also occupies six of the top eight spots, and nine of the top 20. Painter overpowered low-level hitters with sheer velocity and breaking ball quality during the majority of his first full pro season. Mayers gorgeous left-handed swing produces impact power for a shortstop. 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. 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