LSU lost its first game of the year, but still posted a winning weekend with victories against Kansas State and Sam Houston State. The Mariners drafted him in the fourth round and have deployed him as a starter so far. 2022 Top 100 Midseason Prospects Reports Live Looks . Hes a little bit upright in the box but has a well-timed, toe-tap stride and great-looking swing that has typically been on time despite a little bat wrap and hitch in his hands. Injuries and the pandemic have limited him to just 284 career minor league games since he was drafted in 2018, and his bat-to-ball skill has projection deep into his mid-20s as he continues to gain actual pro experience. Libbys curveball wont ever play like you want it to, but he still goes at hitters with the kitchen sink and we think his command will sharpen enough for him to have a career as a fourth starter. Old Dominion; 50. 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. This is where we value a contending teams plug-and-play third or fourth starter. A quality series against Charlotte is on tap this weekend. Fall League pitchers were working him in on the hands, then getting him to swing over the top of back-foot breaking balls once Veen would start to cheat on heaters in that spot. Sundays win was ECUs first in Chapel Hill since 2019 and sends it into another big week with momentum. 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. Subscribe to get the best baseball coverage. 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. If youre looking for the prospect most likely to hit 40 home runs in a season down the line, this is your player. Previous ranking: No. McGarry still has below-average control and only throws his pitches for strikes at a 60% clip, but hes come a long way since his days at Virginia, when he was walking a batter per inning and was passed over in the 2020 draft. RHP Logan Whitaker The entire NC State pitching staff had a great start to their season, allowing just seven runs across four games. 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. Hendersons hard-hit rate (52%), average exit velocity (92 mph), max exit velo for his age (116 mph), barrel rate in the minors, and anything else that measures power and contact quality are all a 60 or 70 on the scouting scale, and so is his plate discipline. Williams injury history is concerning, but hes talented enough to make a big league impact in the middle of Clevelands 2023 rotation. Jung is still a bendy, explosive and strong third base athlete with all-fields pop, a hit/power combination above the everyday bar at third base, and an above-average glove. 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. As far as defensive projection is concerned, a boxy frame, medium straight line speed, and an awkward running gait push and pull against Mayers defensive instincts, first-step quickness, and strong arm. He issued more strikeouts and lowered his WHIP, all while racking up more innings and advancing two levels without showing many growing pains in the process. Even as various aspects of his profile remain amorphous, Ramos offensive performance to this point and optimism that hell ultimately be able to play at least one infield position well as he matures put him on the Top 100 despite his variance. 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. On defense, Rodriguezs size is both a feature and a bug. His ability to locate his arsenal showed improvement over previous seasons as well. Game-breaking speed is Bradfield, Jr.s calling card, and he swiped 47 bases in 53 tries last season. Teams 41-50 48Virginia TechACC12VA24593NR79 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. For the best pitching staff in the country, Beam picking up the slack will be key to a productive season. He crushes mistakes, and has 48 career bombs in about a season-and-a-halfs worth of pro games. Veteran stalwarts Omar Narvez and Toms Nido are both at least a year removed from a good offensive season, and so while lvarez will reportedly start his year at Triple-A Syracuse, he may mash his way into the primary catcher role during the season. In order to access this exclusive content you must have a Baseball America Account. During his 2022 spring break, Holliday came to Arizona to work out and take BP with his high school team at some of the big league teams complexes, and he (and his younger brother, Ethan) put balls out of backfields into the teeth of the wind with ease. These two pitches are Bradleys most-used weapons by a wide margin, as his splitter and curveball are both used 6-7% of the time. His stuff was down in 2022 but is still good, and Rodriguez should be a mid-rotation stalwart in short order. Because hes still so young, the chances are better that Marte can course correct in this area, and theres recent precedent for that path in Julio Rodrguez, who became sleeker and faster to stay in center field. He plays with the high center of gravity more typical of an outfielder, and has a hard time flipping his hips to make fundamentally typical throws if hes had to range left to field a groundball. Instead, Buschs path may lead through the outfield, where things are less settled for Los Angeles. There are some players who are as aggressive as Mauricio (or more so) who find a way to be impact players anyway and almost all of them tend to make enough in-zone contact to buoy their overall offensive output. Velocity, repertoire depth, and fastball control have Miller poised to be an impact, mid-rotation starter in the near future, while long-term secondary projection could eventually pull him into a different stratosphere. Now its time to unveil the entire Top 100, in chart form. 30. A career .269/.374/.485 hitter in the minors, there are still some analysts who are skeptical Casas will make enough contact to profile comfortably as an above-average regular at first base. His speed makes him a defensive fit in center field but a lack of arm strength and the presence of young Alek Thomas in Arizona will likely push Carroll to left, where he might be the games best defender at that position. LHP Xavier Rivas Delaware was no match for Rivas, who struck out eight and allowed just one hit. The amount of power here is sensational. 1VanderbiltSEC1TN11221 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. Its important to acknowledge the risk of his profile at this stage, but Mayer still projects as an extra-base machine at shortstop and an impact big leaguer. Readers have probably seen the side-by-side mechanical comparisons of Brown and Justin Verlander, and took notice of Browns overpowering stuff during his brief 2022 big league debut. On a universal prospect continuum, Henderson grades out a shade below some of the 70 FV or better prospects from recent years like Shohei Ohtani, Wander Franco, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., and (gulp) Gavin Lux (who is now tracking like a 60, thank goodness) because were talking about a corner bat with what might be a 45-grade hit tool. As hes gotten stronger, Amadors defensive projections have shifted to second base. Before the 2022 draft there was again buzz that some teams were off Lee because of his medical, and also that Lee and his family preferred that he stay as close to home as possible by joining a team that trains in Arizona. His range and actions at third base are both fantastic, and hes an accurate thrower from all sorts of awkward platforms, but there are times when he lollipops deeper (and even some routine) throws over to first base. Vargas doesnt have the sort of projectable, statuesque frame typical of a hitter in his early 20s, and despite the relevant changes to his swing, he still isnt an especially electric athlete and the cement appears quite dry on his physique, so theres not much reason to project on his raw power going forward. He threw his heavy, low-spin curveball with greater frequency and relied on it more as an out pitch. 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 performed well during a September call-up to New York, posting a BABIP-aided .306/.404/.429 line in 18 games. Rafaela is a Gold Glove-caliber center fielder with a very immature approach. He might end up becoming the player the industry hoped Francisco Meja would become. He has an ideal pitchers frame, his gorgeous delivery generated mid-90s velocity with huge riding life at the top of the zone, his changeup is one of the better amateur changeups most scouts have ever seen, and before his elbow blew out during his draft spring, his curveball looked like it had gotten better. The lefty-swinger went 7-18 with two homers and five runs batted in. Its tough to account for what sort of long-term impact Lees injury history will have on his defense, and Carlos Correas presence is also a factor, but in a vacuum he projects as an above-average everyday shortstop. 1 team loses in college baseball, as Iowa dominates top-ranked LSU He pitched a couple innings on the complex, skipped Low-A, threw seven High-A innings, skipped Double-A, then closed the season out with two appearances in Las Vegas and a stint in the Fall League. Over the course of two years worth of showcase play tracked by Synergy Sports, amounting to roughly 250 swings on tape, Jones never pulled a ball to the left of the left-center field gap, and all but about a dozen of his airborne balls in play were to right field. A patient, discerning hitter, Carters breaking ball recognition and feel for the strike zone is excellent. He has the speed to play out there, but Frelick is not a crisp center fielder, and later in the 2022 season he saw lots of time in left (though some of it was due to the sudden presence of Esteury Ruiz), where he also looked tentative. All Win Expectancy, Leverage Index, Run Expectancy, and Fans Scouting Report data licenced from TangoTiger.com. Previous ranking: No. Waldichuks command is better than his small 2022 big league sample and he should stabilize as a mid-rotation piece. 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. Once a two-way prospect, Winns skills in the batters box quickly won out, and hes been developed solely as a position player. The sophomore outfielder was out for all of last season with an injury and is looking to make an impact right away. 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. 37MarylandBig Ten2MD133703439 The following human polls make up the 2022 NCAA Division I men's baseball rankings. Montgomery may provide a counterexample to the industrys obsession with hitters age in the draft room, as the former 19-year-old high schooler looks like he might be a star. Cappe has an ideal baseball frame, as well as the athleticism, hands, and arm strength to play shortstop, and while his swing is a little noisy and imbalanced, he tracks pitches well and finds a way to put the bat on them even if it isnt always pretty. 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. Were projecting heavily on Abels command in anticipation of him growing into his body and arm speed. 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. There are still visual and underlying statistical indications that Naylor is going to end up with a below-average hit tool (his swing is so uphill that hell almost certainly be vulnerable to whiffs in the strike zone), but he has very impressive bat speed and power (especially for a catcher) that is weaponized by his selective approach, which targets the up-and-in quadrant of the zone. 22 Last Week: 5-0 Overall: 8-0, 0-0 in Big 12 (0-0 vs. Top 25) Weekend Record: 2-0 Results Feb. 20: Gonzaga: W 9-8 Feb. 24-26: Western Illinois: W 11-3, W 24-9, W 6-5, W 14-8 Upcoming Feb. 28-March 1: Air Force Shriners Hospitals for Children College Classic (Houston) March 3: vs. Rice March 4: vs. Michigan March 5: vs. (12) Texas A&MTexas Tech took care of business with a four-game sweep of Western Illinois. 90Kent StateMAC2OH3-29616750 Florida State enters the Top 25 after winning a series at TCU. He does look quite vulnerable out there but it isnt an issue opposing pitchers have consistently been able to exploit just yet. Mayers underlying TrackMan data is only okay. 69 to No. Partnered with the USA TODAY Sports Media Group|Powered by, Signed to the practice squad by Buffalo (BUF), NFL picks against the spread: Vic Tafurs Week 12 predictions. After an Opening Day upset loss to New Mexico, the Beavers have run off six straight wins. 1 In Volatile Rankings", "D1Baseball Top 25: Four Teams Enter Rankings After Tumultuous Week", "D1Baseball Top 25: Vols Top, Texas A&M, Wofford Enter Rankings", "D1Baseball Top 25: Jackets, Noles, Gauchos Enter Rankings", "D1Baseball Top 25: Tennessee Clings To No. Initially considered a contact-first prospect, the effort level in Chourios swing ratcheted up in 2022 and he now takes a monster hack, whipping the bat through the zone with all his might, often needing the dirt of the batters box behind him to stop his rotation. 74CharlotteC-USA4NC8N/ANRNRNR The sophomore first baseman produced a 1.953 OPS with a home run and a pair of triples. Minnesota sent Lee to High-A almost immediately and he raked there, blowing scouts away. 8 TCU. Hes actually a fairly rangy third baseman, as his foot speed allows him to cover a lot of ground, but his hands and arm accuracy are both pretty rough and cause him to be error-prone. He has one of the more picturesque swings in the minors and is extremely difficult to make whiff inside the strike zone. Previous ranking: No. It can take him a while to get to the ground and even when he does, he tends to give up long rebounds that allow runners to advance anyway. Drew Rom. Hassells performance tanked after the Juan Soto trade, and he broke his hamate in Arizona after the regular season. Barger then went to the Arizona Fall League, where his left-handed bat speed stood out among lots of other good hitting prospects. 5 after sweeping a road series at then-No. When the Double-A season came to a close, Soderstrom was promoted again to close out Stocktons Triple-A season. 19Oklahoma StateBig 124OK1-1172119 His rate of hard, impact contact is near the top of the scouting scale when you adjust for age and is already comfortably plus relative to the big league rates in some areas (like barrel rate). He generates bigger exit velocity than his size would imply, but because he tends to offer at pitchers pitches, it has resulted in a groundball rate around the 50% mark. Of the teams that were already in the Top 100 in 2019, Tennessee made the biggest jump, catapulting 52 spots from No. 5 to No. He had a paltry 7% swinging strike rate to go along with an amazing 90% z-contact% and 85% overall contact rate. 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. In fact, his dastardly mid-80s splitter, which falls off the table and finishes below the strike zone, is easily his best offering, garnering twice as many swings and misses as his fastball in 2022, and about as many whiffs as the rest of his many pitches combined. 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. 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. 15 Last Week: 1-3 Overall: 3-4, 0-0 in Big Ten (1-2 vs. Top 25) Weekend Record: 1-1 Results Feb. 21: West Virginia: L 8-6 Feb. 24-26: @ (9) Mississippi: W 9-2, L 12-6, L 18-8 (7) Upcoming Feb. 28: Delaware Cambria College Classic (Minneapolis) March 3: vs. (8) Mississippi March 4: vs. (5) Vanderbilt March 5: vs. Hawaii Maryland faced challenging competition throughout the week and went 1-3, losing its home opener against West Virginia before a tough road series loss at Ole Miss. The 6-8 righty struck out ten Omaha batters over 6 innings, earning him the win. Mauricios measurable power is already plus (45% hard-hit rate, 114 mph max exit velo), and at a strapping 6-foot-4 or so, he might still grow into more. The rip was more explosive than his shoulder could handle, and part of it tore away from the bone. As explosive as most of his body is, Veens hands are not, and he tends to be long into the hitting zone. That was not the case on defense, however. Big-bodied catchers with potent bats, like Travis dArnaud, Tyler Flowers and Diaz, are the sorts who tend to take a leap later in their 20s, which is the expectation here. The Tigers put together a 2-1 record at the event with the lone loss coming to Iowa. 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. Martinez made that less likely. While Flores didnt throw quite that hard throughout 2022, he did a lot to prove that despite a relatively violent delivery, he can throw strikes and work efficiently enough to be a starter. It has been tough to truly find out even though Jung is now 25 and has set foot in the big leagues. The Diamondbacks selected Pfaadt with their final pick in 2020s abbreviated draft. His swing is quite uphill from the left side and he can tend to swing underneath fastballs up and away from him, but overall he is very difficult to make whiff inside the strike zone despite his steep-launch style of contact. 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. 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. After a breakout 2021 season, Harrison managed to improve in virtually every column of his stat sheet in 2022. Hes now a bounce back prospect. The visual evaluation of Hassells feel to hit was consistently strong until the last couple months of 2022. 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). The other biggest climbers are Virginia Tech (up 45 spots), Louisiana Tech (up 43), Maryland (up 33) and Oregon (up 26). Now fully healthy again, Elko should be one of the best run producers in the country in 2022. 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. The Creighton transfer drove in ten, along with a .579 OBP and a pair of homers. Moores numbers are impressive enough as it is. His slider tunnels better with the four-seamer, but its whiff and chase rates have been more pedestrian. 41Wake ForestACC11NC5115242NR His stuff has gotten even better under the tutelage of Clevelands player dev system, and he dominated during his 2021 full season debut, putting up a strikeout rate north of 40% while shortening his arm action and altering his slot to impart more vertical movement on his heater. He has terrific breaking ball recognition, uses his whole body to maneuver the barrel around the zone, and can let pitches travel deep before driving them the other way, and Henderson is strong enough to do damage to left field even when hes late or mis-hits a pitch. Teams not listed above are: 31. Holliday exited his pre-draft summer as a mid-to-late first round prospect. In the Tar Heels first five games, the sophomore outfielder is 7 for 19 with a pair of extra-base hits and drove in four. The 11th overall pick in 2018 out of a Texas high school, Rodriguez saw his stuff tick up immediately after turning pro, and it steadily climbed each year until it took a step backward in 2022 amid a shoulder injury. 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. 4 Ole Miss in Oxford for the first time since 1989, LSU remains No. Its possible he was gassed at that point, but his late-2021 and early-2022 backfield defensive look was similar, and its rare for shortstops to be this size. Peraza had another solid offensive season, this time as a 22-year-old at Triple-A Scranton Wilkes-Barre, where he slashed .259/.329/.448, hit 19 homers, and stole 33 bases. 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. Quero is a switch-hitting catcher who only had 39 professional games under his belt coming into 2022, the majority of which were played on the complex the previous year. college analytics, and baseball card news. Leiter was wild in his first full season, but we dont want to come off him too severely since he has looked like a solid fourth starter basically every other year hes been on the prospect radar. While not quite as mountainous as skill set-cousins Gallo or Jorge Soler, Wiemers size and physicality set him apart from other players, even big leaguers, and he seems likely to get to power in big league games by virtue of how much raw thump he has. Its tough to gauge where Woods eventual defensive home will be. 99NevadaMWC2NV1N/ANRNRNR 2B Travis Bazzana The Australian infielder was a big hit last season in Corvallis after putting up a very good freshman season. 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. 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. He boasted one of the lowest walk rates (5.1%) among minor leaguers who notched at least 130 innings in 2022 and looks poised for a starter role in the near future. VIDEOS: Mississippi State tosses 1-hit shutout to win2021 CWS title|Watch Miss. The Wolfpack are off to an impressive start to the season, outscoring their opponents, 65-12, on the young year. The good news is that Chourio made adjustments throughout the year, ditching his leg kick with two strikes. A complete prospect and a total baseball rat, Lawlar had been a touted amateur as an underclassman and held serve as a near top-of-the-class talent for two or three years, even amid the volatility of the 2020 draft process. NJCAA DI Baseball Rankings Preseason - January 23 2023 Receiving Votes: Florida SouthWestern State, Gaston, John A. Logan, Kansas City Kansas, New Mexico, South Mountain, State College of Florida *First regular season poll will be released on February 27th Week 12 - May 16, 2022 Week 11 - May 9, 2022 Week 10 - May 2, 2022 Week 9 - April 25, 2022 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. 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. His ball-blocking is still pretty rough, though. Even though Wood is quite big, he has feel for tucking his hands in and getting the barrel to softer pitches on the inner half of the plate, often staying inside them and driving them to the opposite gap. Here he stays in the same FV tier as last year but falls within that tier due to his 2022 performance. Play-by-play data prior to 2002 was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted The Big East, MAC, SoCon and Southland placed three teams apiece on the list. The Preseason poll ranked the top 50 teams in the nation. They were joined in the top five by Stanford, Tennessee, Ole Miss and Wake Forest, which entered the top five after . Top-ranked LSU is the marquee team in the four-team Round Rock Classic taking place from Feb, 24-26 in Round Rock, Texas. 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). Over the last year or so, hes thickened like a roux and become stronger, and hes capable of doing more damage than our tepid projection expected. He then spent all of 2022 at Double-A and punched out 33.1%, while trimming his walk rate down to just 7.5%. 38OregonPac-125OR226644626 This is mind blowing when you consider that Rafaela has only been playing the outfield for two years. His overall chase rates remain a little worse than average but theyre not terrifying. While hes taken groundballs at shortstop in the past and is arguably athletic enough to develop there in pro ball, Jones is such a savant in center field that scouts wont typically entertain that notion; he projects as a 70-grade defensive center fielder. And Miller held upper-90s velocity throughout, sitting 98-99 mph throughout most of his starts and rarely ever dipping below the 96-97 mph band with his fastball, which he also threw for a strike at a 70% clip in 2022. A relatively complete player, Baty will likely be better than Eduardo Escobar pretty soon and should be the Mets everyday third baseman in the near future, projecting as an above-average regular. Hes short, he gets way down the mound (which helps create shallow angle on the pitch), and even though he has a three-quarters arm slot, his hand position is more north/south on release, which helps him create backspin and ride on the fastball. 82Ohio StateBig Ten6OH2-28548789 Hes okay at second and third base, but the Blue Jays infield is already pretty loaded, so hes likely to see time in the outfield this year. He dealt with a litany of issues as an amateur, as benign as a fractured finger and as severe as back issues that had some teams drop him from their draft boards. 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 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. Quants and front office analyst types are more bearish, citing issues with Priesters fastball playability. Hes only ever played shortstop in affiliated ball but saw time at third base in LIDOM, where he understandably looked uncomfortable at times. 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. Jones is a great defensive center fielder with power that might require a swing tweak to unlock. Righthander Grayson Rodriguez ranks No. Only 37 of the 112 ranked players here are pitchers. 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. It has been tough to gauge where Woods eventual defensive home will be hoped Francisco Meja would become draft... 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