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. In 2021, he had a 3.80 ERA, a .208 opponent batting average and 94 strikeouts in 71 innings. 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. There was some demographic push and pull happening in the guts of Montgomerys amateur profile that we can already reflect on a bit. 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. The Tigers did their homework and signed him for an over-slot bonus in the fifth round, where many teams had written him off as unsignable. Previous ranking: No. The tweaks have made Eders slider one of the nastier on the planet (2021 pitch data showed a 300 rpm uptick from his college slider to his pro one), with some of them looking like theyre headed into the ribs of left-handed hitters before bending over the plate. Meanwhile, his walk rate increased by a wider margin post promotion, and he displayed a knack for picking out punishable fastballs, though hes still a bit vulnerable to well-placed breaking balls out of his reach. For a further explanation of the merits and drawbacks of Future Value, please read this and this. These polls, along with the Perfect Game USA poll, rank the top 25 teams nationally. 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. In keeping with the fast track hes been on ever since he was drafted, he was promoted straight to the majors after that, skipping over Triple-A entirely, and held his own with the big-league squad, reaching base safely in each of his five games there to close out the season. He was a model-friendly prospect because of his age and performance, and a scout-friendly prospect because of his relative polish (especially on defense), physicality, and showcase tools. 27Dallas BaptistC-USA1TX51282835 Florida State enters the Top 25 after winning a series at TCU. 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. He slashed .287/.388/.476 at High-A in 2022 and hit 43 extra-base hits during the year, but Carters game is much more about soft skills than premium tools. Lee is a skilled, switch-hitting shortstop (for now) with power. Its prudent to bake this context into how one thinks about Marte, but there are also some statistical yellow flags evident in his regular season performance as well as some harsh realities to come to grips with regarding his trajectory on defense. The tailing shape on his heater is suboptimal but at times helps him miss a bat. Youll note that prospects are ranked by number but also lie within tiers demarcated by their Future Value grades. RHP Billy Oldham The Golden Eagles allowed just three runs across four games to get their season underway and Oldham was impressive. He also throws a changeup and a slider, both of which show promise, though neither was featured much in his 2022 mix. All major league baseball data including pitch type, velocity, batted ball location, 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. He slashed .327/.426/.617 combined at High-A Bowling Green and Double-A Montgomery (for the final month), hitting 22 homers across the two levels. Finally, Southern Miss, which dropped two of three to Illinois at home in ugly fashion, rounds out the Top 25. Olsons plus secondary stuff helps make him a potential starter even though he doesnt throw strikes with his fastball. 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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. 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. Due to an injury in 2022, Caglianone didnt see the mound, but opened his 2023 campaign with 6.2 scoreless innings, striking out nine. The curve has enough depth to have bat-missing utility below the zone and generate groundballs even when hitters sniff it out in mid-air. 40) is 30 spots, and theres a substantial difference in talent between them. Unfortunately, his season was interrupted (and maybe compromised) by a back injury that cost him all of June and July, and he only played in 57 games throughout the season. The junior righty went 5.2 innings, struck out four, and allowed two hits. 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. Defensively, lvarez is a bit of a mixed bag. If he and the Rockies can find a way to be on time against fastballs, then theres a shot for a real breakout here, but its tough to ask that of someone who, to this point, has been successful. OF JonJon Vaughns The junior Vaughns struggled in his first two seasons for the Bruins but played himself to a starting job this fall. Teams 71-80 In contrast, his 2022 was a tough-luck grind, as Yorke hit just .232 at Greeneville and dealt with myriad injuries, including turf toe, back stiffness, and wrist soreness that reared its ugly, uh, wrist during the regular season and again when he went to Arizona to pick up reps in the Fall League. Watch him hit and you see the breaking ball recognition and low-ball power, as well as the flexibility in Montgomerys lower half that should help him move the barrel around the zone. Long Beach State; 47. His numbers backed up in 2022, but thats typical of pitchers who go to work in Reno. Of course, Nolan Arenados presence through 2027 dictates a move regardless of how Walker looks over there. JohnsBig East3NY3-46484442 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. This is the first week the Seminoles are ranked this season. Here he stays in the same FV tier as last year but falls within that tier due to his 2022 performance. As a disclaimer, we don't know a whole lot about these teams yet, and with small sample sizes, movement based on losses isn't too drastic. 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. His actions are lightning quick, but his range, ability to bend, the suredeness of his hands, and his arm accuracy all look less consistent. Merrill only hit .325/.387/.482 in 45 Cal League games, a line good for a 125 wRC+ in the hitter-friendly league and aided by a .393 BABIP. Mead is a career .306/.376/.517 hitter in the minors and hit .298/.390/.532 throughout a 2022 season spent mostly at Double-A Montgomery, with about a month of reps at Triple-A Durham tagged on at the end. 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. His performance in 2022 was a reminder of what makes him such an exciting prospect: over 34 games at Triple-A, he slashed .313/.405/.534 with nearly 12% walks and just over 20% strikeouts. The rest of the Top 25 remains the same. 4 starter fairly soon even if the arrow is currently pointing down. As he has laid a statistical track record in pro ball, Turangs plate discipline became the tip of that spear, and even though his walk rate dipped to a mark merely above average (10%) in 2022, his rate of chase was a more superlative 23%, which would have been the best among qualified major league shortstops. Hes likely to develop feel for that pitch over time and have a more complete arsenal at peak. Top 25 Polls - 2022 College Baseball | WarrenNolan.com Coaches & D1Baseball Polls Expanded Coaches Poll Expanded D1Baseball Poll Pre-Season 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Final Top 25 Polls Final (June 28) First Place Votes in Parentheses Records include games against Division I opponents only. Tech. In four games, Chatagnier owns a 1.792 OPS with two homers and five batted in. Others that made big jumps into the Top 100 include Central Michigan (No. His feel for contact and for the zone already gave him a high floor. Previous ranking: No. 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. Because hes a bit stiff, its possible the grind of a full-season will impact his defensive mobility and even his offense if he has to catch 80-plus games. Built at age 16 like Maurice Jones-Drew or a late-20s Mike Trout, nobody was totally sure how Domnguezs body and physicality would develop as he entered his 20s, and this (plus the internet hype) is where the Zion comp came from. This is one of those cases. In Casas case, there is so much lefty-hitting power here that we are still buying him as an above-average big league run producer at first base. When the Double-A season came to a close, Soderstrom was promoted again to close out Stocktons Triple-A season. 21 Last Week: 3-1 Overall: 4-3, 0-0 in Big 12 (0-2 vs. Top 25) Weekend Record: 1-1 Results Feb. 21: California Baptist: W 2-0 Feb. 25-26: Loyola Marymount: W 1-0, L 10-8 (10), W 11-1 Upcoming Feb. 28: @ Missouri State March 3-5: Austin Peay StateOklahoma State bounced back strong from a tough Opening Weekend and threw back-to-back no-hitters against California Baptist and Loyola Marymount. 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. 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. Surprisingly, there's quite a lot of agreement between the ZiPS list and the FanGraphs list at the top of the pitching ranks. 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