Hill is truly a low-floor high ceiling player here - injury concerns and one of the worst orgs to develop in and big league parks to call home but with serious front-line stuff potential. The athletic Pennsylvania prep outfielder has a plethora of plus tools in power, fielding, and arm while he has double-plus speed. With the inherent risk of prep righty profiles, he goes into the bucket of similar profiles in Tier None with a firm "watch list" designation. An easy Tier None choice for now, but I can squint and see a potential mid-rotation, Tier 3 starting pitcher at some point in his future. He also throws a curveball and a changeup that I saw in his college tape but didn't see at all at the Complex. For now, without the exit velocity to support pro-level power, he's going to start towards the top of Tier None for me. Ended up going in the 4th round to the White Sox on an underslot deal after an up and down final college season including a month of downtime mid-season. Good plate skills as well and have seen him willing to put the ball into the opposite field on occasion. Has a plus fastball in the mid-90s and a double plus slider with elite spin rates that was the best slider in the draft and in contention for best pitch period in all of the draft. Tier None - The likelihood of widespread short-term hobby interest, and most likely long-term as well, is close to none. If he can develop the other secondaries and improve the command, he ends up at the back end of the rotation. Drafted to pitch, he's a raw work in progress. Follow our 2023 NFL Combine tracker, top performers, participants, live results and commentary. An average hit tool and a willingness to take a walk in college, but showed increased strikeout rates in his short stint in the minors this year. Watching video and literally every swinging strikeout I see is either the slider or the fastball. Not the classic center field profile, but could stick there or may bump out to left field. 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What I did see was a huge amount of swing and miss and any contact made was all weak. Looks to get weak contact and ground balls featuring mainly a sinker/slider combo and will mix in a changeup. Watching a start of his against a good Low A squad in the Carolina Mudcats, he was leaning heavily on it and more often than not was getting a lot of swing and misses with it. Lacking the pedigree and huge upside, TJ pitchers are almost always going to end up in Tier None which is where I am putting Webb. He had a fair amount of control with it landing in the zone regularly as well as getting plenty of swings and misses. All in all, a prep catcher that will stick behind the dish with solid but not spectacular hit and power and a plus plate approach is going to be on the borderline of Tier 3 and Tier None. The only question is if Cowser will ever work 20+ home runs into his game. 96 on Baseball America's Top 500 draft prospects list entering the 2020 draft, so it looked like a reach when the Red Sox took him 17th overall. He was able to put the bat on the ball a lot, but he ended up not really putting up good numbers in his 35 games at Low A this year. Jackson Jobe - RHP (Tigers, 1st Base and Auto, 3/5) - The best prep pitcher in the draft and likely in the product given that Jack Leiter has been held out for 2022 Bowman. He's a skinny 6'3" - with added mass, you hope that will lead to an increase in velocity which suddenly makes him a much more interesting pitcher given his plus command. An easy Tier None slot unless there are significant developmental improvements. If youve seen 2021 Bowman Baseball released earlier this year, then you can skip right over this section. He also should work on not throwing the pitch into Jace Jung's wheelhouse - Holy Moly. High-floor low ceiling backend starting pitchers are an easy slot into Tier None which is where I have Marceaux. Joe Rock - LHP (Rockies, 1st Base and Auto, 68/101) - The highest pick ever at Ohio University, the 6'6" lefty has some projection left as he barely tips the scales at 200 pounds. That has me putting him in Tier None, but I wouldn't fault anyone for thinking that he is more of a Tier 3 pitcher giving the physical projection, strikeout gains, and Cleveland secret sauce. As an example, imagine if you were a big believer in Mike Trout before he took his first professional at-bat. A floor of high leverage relief to a ceiling of a two double plus pitches SP2/SP3 is enticing to slide into the bottom of Tier 2, but I will try and contain my exuberance for what I saw and put him at the top half of Tier 3. He continued to pad his career stats in 2021 hitting .260, with a .234 ISOP, and a 28.3% K rate as a 21-year-old in Triple-A. Bubba Chandler - RHP/SS (Pirates, 1st Base and Auto, 72/182) - The prep two-sport star was signed to a huge overslot deal to take him away from his Clemson football commitment as a star prep quarterback. Changeup wasn't great and he has trouble commanding it in the looks I had. He seemed to work the middle to arm side of the plate against right-handers and most anything that ended up on the inside to righties ended up at their feet. Ruben Ibarra - 1B (Reds, 1st Base and Auto, 119/NR) - Fourth-round pick out of San Jose State was a large underslot pick and off the radar of most boards, including ours. Low 90's fastball with arm-side run that leads to uncomfortable at bats for left-handers. A power speed athlete profile at 6'3" 205 that is raw given his focus on football and baseball as well as basketball to a lesser degree. Prospect Highlights. I like his compact swing and how he can get it to through the zone for plus pull-side power. He is more of an above-average hit tool with average pop and good plate skills. At his best, he is probably more of a hit-over-power second baseman or center fielder with plus speed and a strong on-base approach. But this isnt your Bowman Draft that you might be used to. There is very little video and the two games he did pitch in Visalia this year are not available on MiLB TV. Brandon Boissiere - 1B/OF (Nationals, 1st Base and Auto, 82/276) - The 3rd rounder out of the University of Arizona is not your traditional corner power bat. Development project that could land either in the rotation or the bullpen. Hit tool is his best asset with the bat but will have some unexpected power - at the moment it's mostly doubles gap power. With that in mind, I am somewhat discounting the prep catcher penalty. That said, Watson has swing-and-miss concerns (42 K% in Low-A) and slipped in the draft due to make-up and signability concerns. Lite Exclusive RayWave Refractor Parallel. Lots of raw stuff with big spin to get excited about lead by a mid-90's fastball and a swing and miss slider when he has it working. January 16, 2023. Missing an effective third pitch. He leads with an eye-popping fastball in the upper 90's that can touch triple digits that lives mostly in the middle to upper half of the zone and has some arm side tail. Chad Dallas - RHP (Blue Jays, 1st Base only, 121/185) - Backend starter profile that is the classic pitchability right-hander. 21 overall prospect (down six spots from Murphy's previous ranking of No. He racks up a ton of strikeouts with that slider and it is a thing of beauty to watch. On with the show! Top prospect Mayer draws parallels to former Red Sox star. At the moment he may not have a profile as an everyday regular in some people's eyes, but I can easily see it. 2022 BOWMAN DRAFT Baseball Complete Paper Prospect Team Set - Texas Rangers - $1.70. Based on the sell sheet, the main insert I would be interested in without yet having them in hand yet is the new Genesis insert with its cosmos theme. At 6'7", there is some general concern about tall pitchers, but at the moment Painter doesn't seem to exhibit many of those issues. Ja'Marr Chase - WR, LSU (2021) Justin Fields - QB, Ohio State (2021) Trevor Lawrence - QB, Clemson (2021) A common misconception about the NFL Draft is that the college and pro games are very similar. Tagged: Joe Lowry, Topps, . Mid-90's fastball that he throws often with good IVB numbers and good location. In addition, the Giants dev org, especially with pitching, has taken a Giant leap forward (see what I did there?) He is mostly viewed as a reliever and that limits his hobby interest to Tier None until further notice. He did go from a beanpole appearance to a solid 6'5" 200-ish frame in that time, so he put that to good use. Kyle Manzardo - 1B (Rays, 1st Base and Auto, 63/97) - Plus hitter lacking enough in-game power limited to a position that really values it with first base. Other parallels: Refractor (499) Purple (250) Blue (150) Fastball sits mid-90s but can kick up higher with some life on it. Fills up the zone and gets a lot of strikeouts. He comes in at 6'6" and 235 pounds and pumps high 90s gas that will touch triple digits. P Paxton Brooks Over the past 4 seasons, Brooks has been a very accurate . - Dual Draftee Autographs #'d to 25. Lacking any further info, I am going to stick him in Tier None and make a point to get more looks at him in 2022 to see if there is a reason he didn't make it into the Prospects Live top 600 draft prospects pre-draft but was taken in the 4th round by the Diamondbacks besides getting a savings of almost $200K. Bowman 1st Edition teased the hobby with a limited release one month ago but now collectors can finally dive into a full checklist of top prospects. Throw in the round 1 draft pedigree and the Cleveland secret sauce, I am going to slide him into the bottom half of Tier 2. An advanced arm that likely doesn't need a ton of changes to get up to the majors and be a competent innings eater mid-rotation/backend starter. Seemed easy for hitters to pick up and put the bat on the ball, even if it wasn't always successful. His third pitch is an average changeup that does have some nice arm-side fade to it and will also get some whiffs. With his experience and excellent performance in 2021, we don't see any signs of slowing down. For the moment, he is a Tier None player until his hit and/or power tools start to carry him further - I might be the low man on Wilson, but ideally I would like to see him turning his raw power into more frequent game power. On the plus side, he has strong plate skills in that he rarely strikes out and regularly puts up high OBP marks. Jackson Merrill - SS (Padres, 1st Base only, 27/69) - Off the top with Merrill, be aware that his photo on his card is not him, and is speculated that it is Isaac Frye, a showcase teammate at some point previously (thanks Topps). There is a lot of hand movement going on pre-swing and through the swing motion that I would like to see cleaned up. Merrill had a growth spurt as a prep Senior that led to the increased punch with the bat and drew much more interest, landing him an underslot deal with the Padres at the end of the 1st round. His best secondary is a slider, which is where he does get the swing and miss and it plays well off of his steady diet of upper quadrant fastballs. Command and control is his game and letting hitters make mistakes rather than having a ton of raw stuff. Ryan Cusick - RHP (Braves, 1st Base and Auto, 24/24) - The Braves 1st round selection out of Wake Forest throws gas and has all of the under the cover stats to support what is overall a double plus fastball. This pick was likely all about projection as Hajjar showed up to the MLB Draft Combine with a 97 mph heater in the bag.