College Prospects

Dylan Smith posts breakout junior season
Dylan Smith made one start in 17 appearances between his first two years at the University of Alabama. Expectations were ...

Bryce McGowan has improved his skills
Bryce McGowan threw his fastball 86-89 mph as a senior at Cary (N.C.) High in 2018. The right-handed pitcher thrived ...

Dylan Dodd has enhanced his draft stock
Dylan Dodd topped out at 86 mph as a senior at Bismarck-Henning (Ill.) High in 2016. His lack of velocity ...

Dylan Ross develops into a draft prospect
Dylan Ross threw 91 mph as a senior at Georgia Premier Academy in 2019. He didn’t draw professional interest as ...

Troy Melton started as a walk-on at SDSU
Troy Melton didn't suit up for the varsity baseball team at Canyon High in California until his junior year in ...

Braden Olthoff has a strong feel for pitching
Braden Olthoff didn't start pitching until his senior high school baseball season at El Camino High in California. Now four ...

Seth Stephenson has elite speed
Seth Stephenson has elite speed that has caused professional scouts to take notice. He has been clocked running the 60-yard ...

Gavin Williams thriving as a starter
Gavin Williams was an intriguing prep pitcher in 2017 out of Cape Fear High in North Carolina. He was a ...

Michael McGreevy rising up draft boards
Michael McGreevy was a two-way player in high school and viewed shortstop as his primary position. His skill set intrigued ...

Ryan Bliss has enhanced his skills at Auburn
Ryan Bliss was a well-regarded MLB draft prospect out of the Georgia high school ranks in 2018. However, scouts wondered ...

Robert Gasser shows improvement this spring
Robert Gasser overpowered hitters in his lone season at Delta College in 2019. The left-handed pitcher posted a 14-0 record ...

Trey Sweeney rising up draft boards
Trey Sweeney did not receive a ton of interest during the college recruiting process out of St. Xavier High in ...

Matt Mikulski driven to prove doubters wrong
Matt Mikulski felt he was one of the top left-handed pitchers available in the 2020 MLB draft. But he went ...

Spencer Schwellenbach thriving this season
Spencer Schwellenbach has performed well as a two-way player for Nebraska this season. The junior from Saginaw, Michigan, is in ...

Tyler Black evolves into a top prospect
Tyler Black suffered an ankle injury in his junior year of high school. The injury resulted in the Toronto, Canada ...

Luke Albright focusing on consistency, winning
Luke Albright has thrived throughout his three-year collegiate career at Kent State. The right-handed pitcher primarily served as a reliever ...

Justice Thompson has intriguing potential
Justice Thompson showed growth and intriguing potential in his two years at the junior college level in 2019 and 2020 ...

Joe Rock has made strides at Ohio
Joe Rock lacked consistency with his control and command in his first season at Ohio University in 2019. The left-handed ...

McCade Brown off to a tremendous start
McCade Brown was not a high-rated recruit coming out of Normal West High in Illinois. The right-handed pitcher didn’t commit ...

Niko Kavadas has high hopes this season
Niko Kavadas recalls attending Notre Dame baseball games and watching former pitchers Jeff Samardzija and Pat Connaughton when he was ...

Austin Vernon features intriguing potential
Austin Vernon received just one college baseball offer during the recruiting process in high school. North Carolina Central University in ...

Zack Gelof possesses a team-first mindset
Zack Gelof was an intriguing two-way prospect as an infielder and right-handed pitcher out of the Delaware high school ranks ...

Sean Sullivan focusing on a team-first mindset
Sean Sullivan spent about three weeks at Driveline Baseball in Washington during the offseason. The University of California right-handed pitcher ...

Noah Cardenas seeks growth, national title
Noah Cardenas garnered interest from professional scouts in the months leading up to the 2018 MLB draft. Cardenas was known ...

Jose Torres wants to improve his approach
Jose Torres was a slick-fielding shortstop at Calvert Hall High in Maryland. Professional scouts considered Torres as the top prep ...

Mason Black develops into a draft prospect
Mason Black didn’t start pitching until his junior year at Valley View High in Pennsylvania. The decision to move from ...

Sean Burke eager to pitch a full season
Sean Burke was a promising pitcher out of high school and had high expectations for his first season at Maryland ...

Jonathan Childress hopes to show growth
Jonathan Childress was a top prospect in the 2018 MLB draft as a senior at Forney High in Texas. But ...

Will Bednar focusing on team’s success
Will Bednar increased his fastball velocity during his senior season at Mars Area High (Pa.), leading to interest from professional ...

Christian MacLeod eager to pitch a full season
Christian MacLeod redshirted his first season at Mississippi State with pneumonia in 2019. However, the left-handed pitcher didn’t show any ...

Eric Cerantola hopes to take the next step
Eric Cerantola grew up in Oakville, Ontario, with a passion for hockey. He was a skilled forward and even heard ...

Richard Fitts transforms into a draft prospect
Richard Fitts wasn’t a sought-after recruit out of Helena High in Alabama. The right-handed pitcher didn’t receive any scholarship offers ...

John Rhodes bursts onto the scene
John Rhodes will be in a unique position this spring. It's a situation he could have never envisioned when he ...

Ryan Cusick focuses on improving his skills
Ryan Cusick was an intriguing prep right-handed pitcher out of the Avon Old Farms School in Connecticut in 2018. Besides ...

Henry Davis is a well-balanced catcher
Henry Davis spent the offseason mostly doing individual work at his family’s home in Bedford, New York, due to the ...

JP Massey hopes to have breakout season
JP Massey committed to the University of Minnesota in the fall of his senior year of high school in 2017 ...

Jordan Wicks has best changeup in draft class
Jordan Wicks dominated high school hitters throughout his career at Conway High in Arkansas. But the left-handed pitcher’s success at ...

Max Ferguson has refined his skills
Max Ferguson received little attention from professional scouts leading up to the 2018 MLB draft. The then-senior out of The ...

Sam Bachman shows growth at Miami
Sam Bachman received just two Division I scholarship offers out of Hamilton Southeastern High School in Indiana. The right-handed pitcher ...

Steven Hajjar focusing on Michigan’s success
Steven Hajjar had high hopes for his redshirt freshman season last spring after missing his first year at Michigan. He ...

Jonathan Cannon has refined skills at Georgia
Jonathan Cannon had the luxury of learning from Georgia right-handed pitcher Emerson Hancock last season. Cannon, a then-freshman right-hander, was ...

Cody Morissette develops into a draft prospect
Cody Morissette had a productive prep career at Exeter High School in New Hampshire. But Morissette wasn’t a highly-regarded prospect ...

Cade Winquest is an underrated draft prospect
Cade Winquest has made tremendous strides on the mound in his first 2½ years at the University of Texas at ...

Adrian Del Castillo instructed by Salvy Perez
Adrian Del Castillo had a unique opportunity this offseason that he never envisioned would occur when the college baseball season ...

Ty Madden shows growth at Texas
Ty Madden had the luxury of learning from former University of Texas at Austin and major-league right-hander Huston Street last ...

Christian Franklin has five-tool potential
Christian Franklin didn’t play in the summer following his junior season at Rockhurst High School in Missouri in 2017. A ...

Robby Martin has shown growth at FSU
Robby Martin has had professional baseball aspirations for as long as he can remember. He’s always had a strong passion ...

Jud Fabian focusing on Florida’s title hopes
Jud Fabian knew early in his Trinity Catholic (Fla.) High School career that he wanted to play baseball at the ...

Gunnar Hoglund glad he chose Ole Miss
Gunnar Hoglund was highly sought after coming out of the Florida high school ranks in 2018. The right-handed pitcher drew ...

Colton Cowser has refined his skills at SHSU
Colton Cowser wasn’t a highly recruited baseball player out of the Texas high school ranks. He committed to Sam Houston ...

Hunter Goodman has excelled at Memphis
Hunter Goodman was an under-the-radar prospect as a senior at Arlington High School in Tennessee in 2018. He was lightly ...

Matt McLain living out dream playing at UCLA
Matt McLain was a sought-after prep prospect in the 2018 MLB draft class. The Arizona Diamondbacks drafted the then-Arnold O ...

Ethan Wilson develops into MLB draft prospect
Ethan Wilson has progressed throughout his first two years at South Alabama. He has gone from receiving little MLB draft ...

Kumar Rocker: ‘I’ve improved a lot’ at Vandy
Kumar Rocker had high hopes for himself entering his freshman year at Vanderbilt in 2019. But he didn't get off ...

Alex Binelas: ‘Wisconsin is a baseball hotbed’
Alex Binelas is the last highly-regarded MLB draft prospects from the state of Wisconsin. The former Oak Creek High School ...

Jaden Hill has ace potential on the mound
Jaden Hill headlined Louisiana State’s top-ranked recruiting class in 2018. Expectations were high for the prized recruit in his freshman ...

Jack Perkins shows promising results
Jack Perkins had high expectations for himself when he first stepped foot on Louisville’s campus as a freshman in 2018 ...

Levi Usher has thrived at the college level
Levi Usher has made tremendous strides on the baseball field over the last two years. He received just two college ...

Sal Frelick has excelled at Boston College
Sal Frelick grew up a Boston College fan, regularly attending football, hockey and baseball games. It’s what led to him ...