A new name is emerging as a top college pitcher for draft consideration, Missouri State RHP Pierce Johnson. His line against Creighton on Friday: 9 IP, 5 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 16 K. He's a 6'3", 180 lb RHP. Season stats: 2-3, 1.94, 46.1 IP, 16 BB, 66 K's. Missouri State has a reputation for developing pitching prospects. Giants LHP prospect, Mike Kickham, hails from there.
Michael Wacha RHP, Texas A&M, carried a perfect game into the 8'th inning against Pepperdine and ended up with a line of 9 iP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 8 K's. His velocity ranged from 90-96 and held thoughout the game.
Baseball Prospect Report has a video up of a HS 5 tool guy I had only vaguely heard of before. Jameis Winston. Oh my yes! Klima really likes his projectability and so do I. Klima also likes the bat. He compares it to Ron Miller and Trey Williams except it's LH and with a better body.
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Jameis Winston is a 5 star qb recruit committed to Florida State and will definitely be playing football and not baseball.
ReplyDeleteWinston is a beast. I found a youtube clip of him pitching side by side with some other guys in a showcase - man among boys. Winston and Alford are the first 2-sport hyped guys who will go to college for football, Florida State and S. Miss. Not sure if Winston will be allowed to play baseball as well but Alford insisted on it with S. Miss.
ReplyDeleteWe missed out on that Wacha performance DrB - hard to get to Malibu on a friday afternoon though, that will get him some more hype for sure.
Thanks for the tip on Pierce Johnson, I'll check him out.
I had to send a note to Klima - in his profile of Duke's Marcus Stroman he opened with his "nobody knew who he was" shtick, when he's putting up footage from the Cape in 2010. I'll give it to Klima when he's scouted Trevor Bauer or Max Fried when they were sophomores in HS, no problem. But Stroman by that time was NY State player of the year. So I had to rattle his cage a bit on that one.
Zimmer is pitching quite well. Up and up. Looks like a top 5 college pitcher list of Zimmer, Appel, Gausman, Wacha and... I'd say Stroman. Beck? Johnson? Heaney? There are some dark horses.
Don't sleep on the ASU guys. Their 2B Joey DeMichele won the Pac10 batting title last year, and is absolutely raking. 381/480/702 SLG with 7 2B, 4 3B, 4 HR, 14BB/3HBP/12K, 6/7 SBs. All I can say to doubters of scrappy ASU 2B is 2 words: Pedroia and Kipnis.
I'm hoping that the Giants take a college pitcher with their 1st pick, hopefully with a high ceiling that can move up quickly.. The problem is those type of pitchers will probably be taken within the top 10 picks. It would be nice if the Giants could stumble across a pitcher like Mike Leake out of ASU who I believe made it to the Reds without minor league seasoning? I say this based on the alarming lack of starting pitching depth in their system. I'm wondering if Sabean is already concerned since Vogelsong and maybe Surkamp start the year on the DL..
ReplyDeleteI've always liked the ASU program because they pound Hawaii everytime they play.. As for recent ASU players besides Leake, I really like Ike Davis, too bad he's had injury problems. What about Brett Wallace and Josh Spence.. I looked up former ASU players, and was surprised to find that Ian Kinsler and Andre Either also played for ASU... Like you said don't sleep on the ASU guys..
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I think Jason Kipnis is from ASU if I'm not mistaken. I would say Brett Wallace has been a disappointment so far, but still too early to write him off.
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