Previous ranking: No. Doug Fister is a fair baseball body comp. It cost him all of 2022. 10 Teams With the Best Odds to Win the 2022 College World Series. NC State has one more week of non-conference play before its schedule stiffens with ACC competition. The 20-year-old ends it near (or sometimes in) a kneeling position in the box because hes swung with so much effort. 52Florida AtlanticC-USA3FL4-7455153 In 2023, Dugas is off to a good start, slugging two last week along with a .700 average. But hes also quite the hitter and has impressive plate discipline, as shown with a .336 average and .451 on-base percentage in 2021. SCOREBOARD: Friday | Saturday | Sunday Stream the Frisco College ClassicAsk The Experts: Weekly Chat>> Check out D1Baseballs SEC Extra! Sometimes the length of his slider is so ridiculous that its actually tough for him to control. 6LouisvilleACC1KY1-1566 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. After he made just five starts at High-A toward the end of his breakout 2021 campaign, last season the Marlins sent the 6-foot-9, 19-year-old Prez to Double-A Pensacola, where he was an absolute buzzsaw. His forearms have grown like the Grinchs heart, and Carroll can now bang wall-threatening contact to all fields with the flick of his wrists. Casas spent most of 2022 with Triple-A Worcester and hit .273/.382/.481 there amid a two-month absence to recover from a high ankle sprain. Baty has also consistently been a high groundball rate hitter, at least 51% at every full-season level until his 42% mark with Double-A Binghamton in 2022, where he spent the bulk of the year. Liberty; 38. 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. If Alcantara hits at High-A during the first half of 2023, he should get a second half look in Double-A, which would put him on a more comfortable pace to compete for an opening day roster spot in 2025. Busch has continued his long track record of excellent offensive performance so far in pro ball. In 12 games, he slashed .300/.317/.550 with two home runs, four triples, and just five strikeouts. Bibee was a notable West Coast pitchability prospect for a while, but he never took a step forward at Fullerton and was passed over completely in the shortened 2020 draft. 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. Long Beach State; 47. After a breakout 2021 season, Harrison managed to improve in virtually every column of his stat sheet in 2022. RHP Ryan Hawks Hawks returns to Louisville for his senior season and figures to be a big part of the starting rotation. Jung was an elite college performer at Texas Tech he posted a .348/.455/.577 line with more walks than strikeouts throughout his career but didnt hit for huge home run power there, in part because he tended to work the opposite field. There Painter showed more refinement, incorporating a handful of changeups into his outings and displaying an ability to vary breaking ball shape in different situations. Jones swing isnt quite dialed in. Hassells performance tanked after the Juan Soto trade, and he broke his hamate in Arizona after the regular season. He returned three months later and labored through a rocky September with Norfolk, during which he struggled with walks. Some of Lawlars offensive performance has been inflated by his home parks hitting environments, especially Low-A Visalia and Double-A Amarillo. But his stuff, body projection and age (even after a year of JUCO ball, he was still just 18 when he was drafted in 2021), were enough for Toronto to pick him up in the third round. And even though he has some approach-driven bust risk, he does enough other stuff to project in a prominent big league role if his chase proves too much for him to be an everyday player. Not all of the pitchers who showed a velocity increase during 2020 Instructional League activity, which came after the prolonged pandemic layoff, have sustained that bump. Millers arm slot varies a little bit when he throws it, which might tip off big league hitters, but his feel for the pitch stands to improve the most of all his offerings because of its newness, which makes its raw spin rate exciting. 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. 67VCUA-101VA525927675 The Padres pitching development track record isnt great and perhaps theyre not the team best suited to coax a great breaking ball out of Lesko, but as long as his stuff is the same coming off of TJ, hes already in position to project as a 50. Ronny Mo is on the very edge of the threshold of viability in this respect. All rights reserved. Fabian might not have had the kind of season he was hoping to have in 2021 in a general sense, as he hit just .249 and struggled with strikeouts, but he was still incredibly productive from a power standpoint with 20 home runs and he continued to be an excellent defensive player. 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. RHP Nick Dean Dean will return to College Park for his senior season after starting 15 games in 2022. Chronic shoulder issues have derailed the careers of countless pitching prospects, and the new information caused Espino to be repositioned from the 60 FV tier (he was close to 12th overall on early drafts of the list) to here, where both his ceiling and heightened bust risk are factored in. Those metrics illustrate the way Manzardos skill set is tailored. You can see the power and athleticism in Davis lower half throughout other aspects of his game, and its an indication that he has the ability to polish this stuff up and control the running game. Moores numbers are impressive enough as it is. Teams 91-100, Enter your information to receive emails about offers, promotions from NCAA.com and our partners. 5Oregon StatePac-121OR11688 That means Chourios surface level stats may have been significantly inflated. In a typical year, wed have a couple more than that, and sometimes as many as five or six, but this year there are only two. At the plate, he takes a big (but balanced) stride, and can adjust his barrel depth by getting deeper into his lower half through contact. Catcher Calvin Harris went 4-for-5 with two home runs and drove in eight runs in the series finale. He may just be a DH, which would obviously make it tougher for him to profile, but there may be elite on-base ability here and that plus the power might be enough for Julien to make an impact that way, too. McGarry sits 95-96 mph and will bump 99 as a starter. To view this category, sign up by purchasing. stunned the reigning national champs, 2023 NC skiing championship selections announced. That outcome seems in play for Merrill after his first full season in pro ball, even though a fractured wrist and strained hamstring both limited his reps and probably impacted his power output in A-ball. Winns huge arm is icing on a cake made mostly of plus bat-to-ball skills and viable shortstop defense. Merrills feel to hit is sublime. 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. Just shy of age 21 in 2022, he was a draft-eligible sophomore and somehow improved on an incredible freshman season (.318/.379/.550) by nearly tripling his home run total, walking as often as he Kd and slashing .361/.453/.709 as a soph. Out of our newcomers, Notre Dame made the biggest vault, landing at No. Lots of scouts think he ultimately projects in relief, but hes holding his velocity deep into games and has some other pitchability traits that suggest he could continue to start. 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 . 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. This is one of those cases. Marylands tough slate continues this weekend at the Cambria College Classic in Minnesota with top-10 foes Ole Miss and Vanderbilt. 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. Lawlar is a slick shortstop defender with big power and a somewhat shaky hit tool. 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. From a heuristics standpoint, you cant do much better than Rodriguezs profile. It comes out of his hand from a high arm slot that looks like the kind optimized for data-friendly ride, but the pitchs downhill angle makes it less of a weapon at the letters and actually makes it very vulnerable within the strike zone. Increased changeup emphasis, which was already evident during Williams first instructs, has occurred in pro ball, and while Williams meal ticket is still his mid-90s fastball, which he rips past hitters at the letters, he has three viable weapons right now and might have a fourth as his changeup develops. His internal clock is precise and allows him to make fundamentally uncompromised throws to first with confidence because he knows hes going to beat the runner there. His patient approach and bat-to-ball skills are enough to make him a high-probability primary backstop. Historically, Mead has raked despite having a hyper-aggressive approach at the plate, and this is where he grew the most in 2022. Previous ranking: No. His swing, however, works in such a way that his contact quality tends to be highly variable, his bat path really only enables him to work middle-away with any authority, he gets jammed a bunch, and he doesnt seem to be able to go down to scoop or spoil pitches that finish down-and-in. Hes able to pull his hands in and get the barrel on inside pitches, but he swung underneath a ton of fastballs during his 2022 season on the complex, which is why he struck out at a very scary 30% clip. 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 had a successful foray into full-season ball, slashing .273/.360/.451 with 15 homers and 14 steals while with Low-A Myrtle Beach. He still has two years before he technically has to be added to the 40-man, and theoretically the Phillies could use all that runway to keep developing him as a starter in the hopes that things click, but going on age 24 that feels like a bit of a pipe dream. His slider tunnels better with the four-seamer, but its whiff and chase rates have been more pedestrian. 1 in the Baseball America Top 25.. 40) is 30 spots, and theres a substantial difference in talent between them. Hes also added a few ticks of velocity and now sits 93-96 mph, velocity hes maintained across two consecutive years of innings increases. 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. He then spent all of 2022 at Double-A and punched out 33.1%, while trimming his walk rate down to just 7.5%. BA Newsletter: Get Analysis, Rankings Delivered To Your Inbox! 2022 D1Baseball Preseason Top 25 Rankings Top 25 D1 Baseball Staff - January 18, 2022 Texas is No. Jung had a rough 2022 that were chalking up to injury-related rust rather than severe skill regression. Just three days after signing, Jones suffered a left posterior labral tear while hitting, another glitch in the Matrix that seems to be causing every high-profile Diamondbacks prospect to suffer a severe shoulder injury. South Florida: W 6-1, L 10-9 Feb. 24-26: Cincinnati: W 13-6, W 13-3 (8), W 13-7 Upcoming Feb. 28-March 1: at/vs. We can quibble over whether A-ball dynamics have changed due to the elimination of the short season leagues in a way that might invalidate historical precedents like this, but its reasonable to have some pause about Williams long-term prospectdom when you realize the closest 2022 comp for his contact data (66% contact%, 78% z-contact) was Paul DeJong. He lacks a traditionally projectable frame, but Amador has still gotten stronger over the last year and he flashed more power than expected. There is still a front-end arm here, as well as a big, sturdy-looking frame that theoretically should be able to eat a ton of innings. Previous ranking: No. He still hits the ball really hard for a player his age and looks the part in the uniform, but theres growing risk here, enough to reposition Lucianos FV into this tier. He fell behind some of the other high school infielders in his draft class due to doubts that Arroyo could stay at short as well as concerns about his hit tool. Hes set up to throw about 135 innings in 2023 (assuming a typical 20-inning increase) and, if his annual pattern of promotion is any indication, hell be given his first big league opportunity late this year (and push for a playoff roster spot), then compete for an Opening Day rotation job in 2024. 72Sam Houston StateSouthland1TX8-25473274 Defensively, he shows an accurate arm, thwarting 29 would-be basestealers in 2022. That was not the case on defense, however. 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. 37MarylandBig Ten2MD133703439 78RiceC-USA5TX9-43352320 Previous ranking: No. 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. He showed a tendency to expand the zone and make some sub-optimal contact as an amateur and in his 2022 pro sample, but there are times when Johnson does this and rather than frustrate scouts and analysts, he impresses them with his ability to identify and adjust to breaking balls, his barrel feel, and his hand-eye coordination. 88McNeeseSouthland3LA5N/ANRNRNR He can get extended on pitches out away from him and drive them into the opposite field gap, and has the power to do damage that way, and can also move the bat head all over the strike zone. 55Central MichiganMAC1MI2N/ANRNRNR Baty was an older draft prospect of considerable size, and there was worry hed have to move to first base in pro ball. 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. 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. 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. 54West VirginiaBig 127WV115573NR With a fastball like this, his floor is that of an impact reliever. Game-breaking speed is Bradfield, Jr.s calling card, and he swiped 47 bases in 53 tries last season. Of the teams that were already in the Top 100 in 2019, Tennessee made the biggest jump, catapulting 52 spots from No. 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. 94St. 93MinnesotaBig Ten8MN1-444972100 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. But its shape, while deep, is a less-than-ideal pairing with his fastball. For example, based on Craigs research, the average 60 FV hitter on a list becomes a perennial 5-plus WAR player over his six controlled years 26% of the time, and has a 27% chance of accumulating, at most, a couple of WAR during his six controlled years. To see all the great stories in this issue, CLICK HERE. 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. The lefty-swinger went 7-18 with two homers and five runs batted in. Jobes stuff has more spin than the 24-hour news networks, but he had a rough first season in pro ball. He hit a whopping .324/.373/.600 at Low-A Carolina during the first half of the year, then slashed a more pedestrian .252/.317/.488 (as an 18-year-old!) 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. As a disclaimer, we dont know a whole lot about these teams yet, and with small sample sizes, movement based on losses isnt too drastic. The offensive package, even with a bat-to-ball blemish (for now), is still befitting of a star-level talent at shortstop or third base, wherever Henderson ends up playing. June 17: The 2022 College World Series begins in Omaha. Because of the cancellation of the 2020 season, Barco has what counts as a lengthy track record among third-year pitchers in college baseball because he has been in the Florida rotation since arriving on campus. 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. Harrisons body has thickened pretty quickly, but he throws hard and has diverse fastball utility and great secondary stuff. INF Peyton Chatagnier A sparkplug from the Rebels 2022 championship, Chatagnier continues to create a legacy in Oxford. In 2022, it garnered just 8% whiffs and 13% chase during his time at Double-A, where he spent most of the season. Lever length still limits Batys ability to make consistent, quality contact in certain part of the zone, but he still shows you impressive barrel control as he tries to get the bat where it needs to be. He was hurt in 2022. 1B Jac Caglianone Caglianone had a productive freshman year and is coming out of the gate strong. Even as a pure reliever at this point, Hall still belongs on a Top 100 list due to his proximity and the likelihood that he becomes a lights out lefty closer or multi-inning buzzsaw who provides some amount of karmic retribution for the Josh Hader trade. 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. LSU had a successful weekend at the Karbach Round Rock Classic and remains the No. The extreme shift in his strikeout and walk rates from 2021 to 2022 has as much to do with the change in Chourios style of swinging as it does the quality of opposing pitchers stuff. 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