The New York Yankees Top 30 Prospects for 2023 led by SS Anthony Volpe
AREA CODE GAME WEST SELECT: Standout Pitchers
This Week in Baseball Cards - 2/13 - 2/19
Boston Red Sox 2023 Top 30 Prospects
Area Code Game West SELECT: Standout Hitters
This past weekend, Area Code Select West took place at Dodger Stadium, a two-day event featuring some of the top high school talent on the West Coast. There were two major takeaways from the weekend. Walker Buehler level tight pants were all the rage and the talent pool was absolutely loaded. One thing to know about this event in comparison to other Area Code events is this was 40 hand-selected players, the cream of the crop if you will. These are the players who stood out in comparison to their peers. This piece will end with a couple interviews with players.
Tampa Bay Rays 2023 Top 30 Prospects
The Campbell Camels. "The Nobodies From Nowhere." A Mid-Major Powerhouse.
Harnett County, North Carolina is about as rural as rural can get. It sits as a midpoint between Raleigh and Fayetteville, loaded with farmland as far as the eye can see. It's the last place you'd expect a Division I university to be situated, yet hiding in the fields by the Cape Fear River is one of the top mid-major baseball programs in the country.
How MLB Orgs Are Quantifying Deception In Their Draft Models
Baseball has been littered with new metrics over recent years and in turn, our process for understanding what makes great players has been better for it. Both at the major league and amateur scouting levels. However, quantifying things like deception within the baseball pitching landscape has long been esoteric. This is for multiple reasons; but the mystical nature of it revolves around the inability to properly define deception and associate a metric to it. Although there is some preliminary research circulating, there has been no publicly crowned method on deception. Emphasis on the PUBLIC aspect.
2023 MLB Draft - Top 300 Prospects
A new year, a new board and new ranks. The Top 300 is here. With the summer showcase circuit behind us and college fall ball in the rearview mirror, we’re ready to re-rank the 2023 draft class. Our team has taken in 9 showcase tournaments and been closely monitoring fall scrimmages. We’ve collected data and pitch metrics from guys showcasing their summer gains and, boy, do things look promising. Some guys are breaking out.
Baltimore Orioles 2023 Top 30 Prospects
10 Powerhouse High School Teams for the 2023 Season
Toronto Blue Jays 2023 Top 30 Prospects
3 Under-the-radar College Pitchers Who "Move" Like Future big leaguers
In recent years, Major League Baseball has seen a surge of pitching prospects drafted after the first round skyrocket up prospect lists. These pitchers generally have one or two things in common. They’re either exceptional movers with considerable projection, or they’re metric darlings with outlier pitch-shaping qualities.
Who's in Center in Kansas City? A Dive into Kyle Isbel and Drew Waters
The Kansas City Royals recently trade Michael A. Taylor to the Minnesota Twins. The move cleared up space for many of the young outfielders in the organization. The question becomes who fills Taylor’s shoes in center field? In this article we dive into what the two likely candidates, Kyle Isbel and Drew Waters, bring to the table as Michael A. Taylor’s replacement in center.
Minnesota Twins 2023 Top 30 Prospects
Why Wake Forest Will Be the Last Team Standing in Omaha
Conventional wisdom says that College Baseball’s preseason #1 pick, LSU, are the overwhelming favorites to win the CWS; and why not? After bringing in the top recruiting class of 2022, which was highlighted by SS Gavin Guidry, C Brady Neal, RHP Nigel Noot and OF Paxton Kling, they also went absolutely wild in the transfer portal, landing Freshman of the Year Tommy White from NC St, first team All-American Paul Skenes from Air Force, and coveted arms in Thatcher Hurd from UCLA and Christian Little from Vanderbilt. If that wasn’t enough, they return the potential first overall pick in the 2023 draft and Co-SEC player of the year in Dylan Crews along with star 1B Tre Morgan and pitchers Ty Floyd and Grant Taylor.
College Baseball Preseason Top 25 Rankings
The Preseason Top 25 of 2023 is upon us and the LSU Tigers stand alone atop our proverbial mountain. Jay Johnson and staff have put together a Wardaddy lineup with a stable of arms the envy of the rest of college baseball. Outfielder Dylan Crews enters the season as our Preseason Player of they Year. He’s complimented by a myriad of premium arms in Paul Skenes, Thatcher Hurd, Grant Taylor, Ty Floyd, Blake Money, Christian Little and more. Pitching depth was an issue at times in 2022 for the Tigers. That doesn’t appear to be a problem in 2023.
Tennessee is our No. 2 overall ranked team and it’s a close second. The Volunteers are headlined by elite arms headlined by our Preseason Pitcher of the Year; Chase Dollander. Mix in guys like Chase Burns, Wyatt Evans and Drew Beam and they’ll be a headache for opposing lineups. Tennessee brings a ton of wallop into their lineup this season too.
Two teams we’re rather bullish on are the Wake Forest Demon Deacons (No. 3) and the Iowa Hawkeyes (No. 18). Both of these programs have more pitching than they know what to do with. Wake Forest also features some real offensive firepower in 1B/OF Nick Kurtz, supplemented by a stable of really nice hitters. Iowa doesn’t have quite as much thump in their lineup, but they do possess an anchor in 1B/OF Keaton Anthony. On the pitching side, Iowa may have the two pitchers with the best pure stuff in college baseball in RHP Marcus Morgan and RHP Brody Brecht. They’ve both struggled with command at times, but if they lock it in, the Hawkeyes may have two first rounders in 2024 there. True freshman Cade Obermueller has also been up to 96 this spring and has an argument to go really early next July too.
This Pirates Draft Model suggests a stunner with the No. 1 overall pick
By way of winning the first ever MLB Draft lottery, The Pittsburgh Pirates find themselves in far too familiar of a position. Holding the first overall pick in an MLB Draft. When Ben Cherington turns in the selection on July 9, it will mark the franchises’ sixth No. 1 overall selection. The most of any franchise in MLB history. Certainly not something owner Bob Nutting and the powers that be are looking to boast about. Could Paul Skenes be the answer?
