2022 Top 100 Midseason Prospects Reports Live Looks . Minnesota sent Lee to High-A almost immediately and he raked there, blowing scouts away. He is short to the baseball and still generates huge, all-fields power, swinging with so much effort and might that sometimes his head rattles around and his helmet flies off as hes making contact. 49GonzagaWCC1WA1247379NR 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. 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. He has been a hot knife slicing butter all the way through Double-A and shows little signs of stopping. Even if you dismiss that, the measurable power thats already here is incredible and reinforces the visual evaluation of Bleis electric talent. 98Ball StateMAC3IN4N/ANRNRNR He was a coveted prospect as a prep player, but his strong commitment to Cal Poly, where his dad coaches, and some general concerns about his physical longevity due to a back issue pushed the industrys assessment of him down, so he went to school. 17TennesseeSEC8TN25269NRNR Of the teenage hitters on the list, Zavalas feel to hit is probably the most polished. He projects as a slugging five- or six-hole hitter in a typical contending lineup, with contact issues that will create some whiff-prone stretches and significant year-to-year variance. 25 Last Week: 4-0 Overall: 7-0, 0-0 in ACC (0-0 vs. Top 25) Weekend Record: 2-0 Results Feb. 22: @ Coastal Carolina: W 16-4 Feb. 24-26: Belmont: W 11-4, W 7-0, W 7-1 Upcoming Feb. 28: Longwood March 1: Radford March 3-5: New Jersey TechNC State took care of business with a sweep of Belmont. MLB:MVPs who played in college|Cy Youngs by college|Players thatwon a CWS andWorld Series The visual evaluation of Hassells feel to hit was consistently strong until the last couple months of 2022. The broad strokes of this report read a lot like that of Adam Dunn at the same age: an XXL frame with unusual top-end speed and athleticism for his size, and a chance to fill out in a way that causes him to tumble down the defensive spectrum, but with enough power to support such a fall and then some. He now sits 96 mph and will touch as high as 102, though he typically tops out at 99 in any given start. 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. DH Ian Petrutz Petrutz put up big numbers as a freshman, making him a mainstay in the Terps lineup. When the Double-A season came to a close, Soderstrom was promoted again to close out Stocktons Triple-A season. You can really see his athleticism and remarkable hip/shoulder separation on his throws down to second. Keith may not have a position, but he has a pretty stable hit/power combination that will profile at third if he can actually stay there. He runs well enough to play an outfield corner and were projecting him there, la Schwarbers trajectory. LHP Nicolas Lopez Lopez was dominant out of the bullpen, picking up the slack for some lackluster outings from Cardinal starters. He sure looked like it last weekend, slashing .400/.471/.933 with a pair of bombs. 86Sacramento StateWAC2CA10-284NRNR Hes graded with the optimism that these traits will help him manage the swing-and-miss enough to be a multi-time All-Star. 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 floor here is XL Freddy Galvis with worse defense, but there will be some peak seasons where more of the power plays and he produces like a star. Pages swing is as geared for lift as any hitter in the minors, and he should get to enough power to profile in a corner. Caminero has a big leg kick, loads his hands low, and swings with bloodthirsty effort, with plus bat speed driving big pull-side power. 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. 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. 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. His swing is like a right-handed version of Juan Sotos, capable of getting underneath the baseball in basically every part of the zone, in part because of the flexibility and athleticism in his lower half. Bibee now looks like a polished mid-rotation prospect. His 2022 line (.263/.339/.459) was solid if unspectacular, though some of the reduction from his performance in 2021 is simply due to exiting the Cal League for the more muted offensive environment in the Northwest. By his senior year of high school, Holliday already had. He finished that season with a 10-game A-ball stint, where he struck out in 16 of his 42 plate appearances. 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. Hes not only kept things in check physically but actually improved to the point of being an above-average defender. Added to the 40-man roster in November, De La Cruz is on pace for regular big league playing time in 2024. The Tigers put together a 2-1 record at the event with the lone loss coming to Iowa. 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. . Hes going to be a middle-of-the-order anchor in Oakland fairly soon. Soderstrom may end up like Bryce Harper and Wil Myers, where the As cut bait on him catching to get his excellent bat to the big leagues sooner. He performed well during a September call-up to New York, posting a BABIP-aided .306/.404/.429 line in 18 games. 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. Bradley hammers the zone with his heater (he threw strikes with his fastball at a 71% clip in 2022), and the uphill line and carry on the pitch make it difficult for hitters to get on top of, especially at these velocities. UNC has one more weekend of non-conference play before ACC action begins. A stiff, upright hitter, Diaz might have some issues with fastballs running in on his hands at the big league level, as he tended to be late on the ones he saw at Double- and Triple-A, driving them almost exclusively to the opposite field. ECU hosts the Keith LeClair Classic this weekend. Subscribe to get the best baseball coverage. Now its time to unveil the entire Top 100, in chart form. 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. He took a throw to the face during extended spring training, but was back for the start of the Complex League season and was one of that leagues most dominant hitters, slashing .326/.403/.492 with a 13% K% and 10% BB%, and earning a promotion to full-season ball, which also went swimmingly (.299/.359/.505). Diaz is a viable defensive backstop, but he hasnt ever had to deal with the grind of a full season back there, peaking at 51 starts at catcher in 2021. Cross was fairly unknown going into the 2021 season, but that changed quickly once he established himself as one of the best hitters in the country on the way to putting up a .345/.415/.621 slash line. Hes already noticeably thicker now than he was in high school, though thats probably part of where the power is coming from. Now on the 40-man roster, Cartaya is poised to be a power-hitting All-Star catcher who gets eased into the big league waters in 2024 and 2025, toward the back end of Will Smiths arbitration years. The bat is impactful enough to consider him a high-probability big leaguer regular of some kind, even at the bottom of the defensive hierarchy. This wasnt a gradual increase, either it happened all at once in 2019. He slashed .282/.429/.492 at North Carolina and is a .267/.374/.493 career hitter so far in the minors, spending most of 2022 at Triple-A and joining the 40-man roster after the season. But assuming that third base is now his likeliest position, more pressure will be put on Martes bat, and while theres good news in that regard, there also needs to be refinement if Marte is going to hit enough to play an everyday role at third base. The injury adds more volatility to a profile that already had some and might cause Jones to open 2023 in extended spring training, but its encouraging that Jordan Lawlar returned to normal after enduring a similar injury. June 17: The 2022 College World Series begins in Omaha. Walker worked out as a pitcher, shortstop, and third baseman in high school, then had a rough draft spring amid some weight gain, which is part of why he fell deep into the first round. The son of two-time Pro Bowl tight end Eric Green, Elijah became Draft Famous during his junior year, homering a couple of times in high school tournaments held in big league parks and looking much toolsier than all but a couple of the prospects who were a year older than him. He didnt throw a ton of strikes and the visual quality of his stuff was closer to average overall than plus or better, which is how it looked in high school. A downward cutting swing and middling rotational athleticism limit Carters offensive impact to the doubles variety, and even though hes young and has a huge, rectangular frame, Carters lack of explosiveness tempers long-term raw power projection here, and we consider him more of a high-floor prospect than a future star. Sengas walk rate fell from the 10-11% range to the 8-8.5% range during that stretch, and his WHIP was a measly 1.05. In a big win Friday at Swayze Field, All-American righthander Jason Savacool delivered a quality start and struck out nine in seven innings. Top NAIA Baseball Schools. He is otherwise a major league-ready fourth starter. Graceffo starts his windup with a pronounced step backward, then marches toward the plate, throwing from a high arm slot to create a downhill approach. The curve features similar movement with longer break and both are nasty when he runs them off the plate glove side, though both play in the strike zone, as well. 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. Theres still mid-rotation potential here, its just not as in focus as it seemed to be a year ago. Ramos is walking the Curtis Mead path in many ways. Jones swing isnt quite dialed in. Hes not a great defender right now, and probably wont ever be better than a 40-grade glove, but Davis frames high strikes well and has plus raw arm strength. Yes, hes reached Triple-A, but this is a 21-year-old were talking about here. He doesnt have huge raw juice (his peak exit velos are in the 106-108 mph range a bit shy of big league average, but still good for a player Arroyos age), and his bat-to-ball and chase rate stats are comfortably below average, but Arroyo lifts the baseball with remarkable consistency. UConn; 40. After operating below the radar going into 2021, Beavers now has to be considered among the best bats on the West Coast after he hit .303/.401/.630 with 18 home runs and 49 RBIs last season. A draft-eligible sophomore in 2022 and a career .360/.450/.655 hitter, his numbers improved in his sophomore year even though he faced SEC pitching, and he was considered one of the more bankable prospects in the 2023 draft despite lacking a true defensive home. Latest AP and USA Today college sports polls on ESPN.com. Messick was quietly dominant in 2021, going 8-2 with a 3.10 ERA and 126 strikeouts in 90 innings, and hell go into 2022 with a chance to end the season as the best starting pitcher in the country. Though hes mostly started so far and has three nasty pitches, Millers delivery is very violent and his injury history suggests he may only have so many bullets, so we expect Oakland will put him on the big league roster in fairly short order, perhaps in a relief role. He gets a lot of swing and miss on his slider, both in and out of the zone, and commands it well. With that in mind, here are the top 100 fantasy baseball players for the 2023 MLB season. The sophomore outfielder was out for all of last season with an injury and is looking to make an impact right away. His delivery is freaky loose, particularly in his upper back and shoulders, which we think portends better future command than hes shown so far in Oakland. A plus athlete, Neto does some acrobatic things at shortstop and when he puts his whole body into a throw, he appears to have plenty of arm for the left side. The Seminoles jump into the No. Hes only ever played shortstop in affiliated ball but saw time at third base in LIDOM, where he understandably looked uncomfortable at times. OF Vance Honeycutt A top freshman from a year ago, Honeycutt is already off to a hot start in 2023. Hes still likely to get to enough power and play good enough defense to be an impact regular for Arizona. Bibees velocity ticked way up in pro ball, and he has command of a mid-rotation starters four-pitch mix. Copyright 2023 Baseball America Enterprises. Some pre-draft medical question marks precipitated his fall to Minnesota. After hitting .278/.373/.556 with San Jose, he was promoted to High-A and struck out at a 37% clip during the final month of the season. Aside from his arm, OHoppes defense is sturdy if unimpressive, but his physique and ability to move fit well behind the dish, and he seems to have the workmanlike makeup typical of field general catchers. Romo has a plus glove and plus-plus arm but likely wont make a huge offensive impact. 1 in the D1Baseball Top 25, which began in 2015. 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. Tiedemann has shifted toward the first base side of the rubber and has closed off his stride direction slightly, which creates additional deception in his already-funky low-slot lefty delivery. 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. He struck out a third of the time and posted an OPS of just .602 before being shut down for the remainder of the season in mid-June. 69 to No. This guy hasnt had a clear defensive home for much of his life as a prospect. 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. Because Carroll runs such deep counts, his strikeout rates have been higher than one might expect given his reputation as a plus contact hitter. Previous ranking: No. 40. He dominated Double-A for a month before he was shut down with a knee injury at the end of April, and he started having shoulder issues during his rehab. RHP Jack OConnor The 6-5 righty lasted five innings on Saturday, allowing just one hit and striking out seven. Parada was the rare high-profile California high schooler who left the state for college, traveling all the way to Atlanta for two years at Georgia Tech. His peak velocity has returned, and he has been sitting 94-97 and touching 99-100 with upshot angle and carry. 56WashingtonPac-127WA2-15415469 Just seven games into his 2021 minor league season, Carroll sustained a posterior capsular avulsion fracture and a labrum tear during a swing on which he homered. June 25 : The best-of-three CWS finals begins and concludes on either June 26 or June 27 with the crowning of the 2022 national champion. It shows above-average arm-side action on occasion, but hes only throwing it 12% of the time. 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. 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