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2023 Draft Coverage: Local draft-prospects to keep an eye on

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First draft of this post?  8/10/21 when Perfect Game updated its Virginia rankings for the 2021 prep season and added in some top-level DC area players.

The College players are mostly drawn from my 2020 Local High School draft coverage, listing guys who were HS seniors in 2020 who went to 3-year programs and who are now draft eligible.

2023 could be a real banner year for DMV guys; we legitimately have two potential 1st round high school players, which I can’t remember the last time happened, as well as several collegiate 1st rounders who project as high as top 10.

Reminder: on the Draft Tracker resource, I have a tab specifically for DC/MD/VA local players that I generally try to track each year. I’ve spec’d out the top prospects who are likely to drafted alraedy for 2023.

Major Local College Draft Prospects for 2023

  • Kyle Teel, C/Util UVA (by way of NJ hs): 2022 2nd team Pre-season d1baseball AA as a sophomore. top of 2023 collegiate draft class per D1baseball Feb 2022. Projecting as mid 1st rounder by BA for 2023. Keith Law projects as high as 6th overall.
  • Matt Shaw, 2B UMaryland. top 100 of class of 2023 per D1Baseball. Mid 2nd rounder per BA, moving up late 2022 per MLBPipeline (late 1st rounder). Law now has him mid-1st rounder.
  • Jake Gelof, 3B UVA; drastically improved power numbers sophomore year, now projecting as 2nd rounder.
  • Jack Hurley, OF, Virginia Tech. True CF, slashed .375/.452/.664 with 14 homers sophomore season.

Lesser Local College draft eligibles w/ Local Ties

  • Carter Tryce, 2B/OF ODU (by way of ?? HS). top 100 of class of 2023 per D1Baseball.
  • Jason Savacool, RHP UMaryland. top 100 of class of 2023 per D1Baseball.
  • Trey Gibson, RHP Liberty (by way of Grafton HS in Yorktown, VA): 2021 Freshman AA. top 25 of 2023 collegiate draft class pre-2022 season per D1baseball. Liberty’s Friday night starter. Mid 2nd roudner per BA fall of 2022.
  • Luke Shliger, C UMaryland. Struggled early 2023, but a C who can hit will always get drafted.

DC/MD/VA Local Prep players for 2023

  • Bryce Eldridge, RHP/1B Madison HS. #2 in the state, #18 nationally in class in Mid 2021. Huge kid 6’8″ can hit mid 90s as a sophomore, easy velocity and sinking action from huge height. USA Prime summer team, Alabama commit. Bats L, throws R. #14 in the Class per BA in Feb 2022, again in May 2022. Projecting to upper 90s as a 6’8″ thrower. Projecting as supp-1st rounder Fall2022. 18U USA baseball team. MLBPipeline Dec 2022 as at #26. Law projects going in the 1st round teens (#17).
  • Jonny Farmelo SS Westfield. #9 in 2021 state PG rankings, UVA commit. Now ranked #86 per BA’s list Feb 2022. #76 on BA’s July 2022 list. #52 MLBpipeline Dec2022. Law projecting end of 1st round possibly.
  • Cameron Johnson, LHP IMG Academy (was McNamara, Forestville, MD). #55 on BA’s Feb 2022 list. LSU commit, blew up at WWBA last October. #44 July 2022 on BA list. Mid 90s from a big guy 6’5″ wow. Area Code Games 2022. 18U USA baseball team. MLBPipeline has #50 Dec2022

Lesser DC/VA/MD prep players of note.

  • Tommy Roldan, LHP/OF Georgetown Prep via Poolesville. UVA commit, Area code Games 2022. 92 from the left hand side.
  • Brody Shawn, RHP West Potomac HS. Pop-up mid 90s velocity, Wake Forest commit. #88 on BA’s feb 2022 list.
  • Bryson Moore, RHP/1B Fairfax HS: #6 in 2021 state PG rankings, UVA commit
  • Brett Renfrow, RHP Colgan. #12 2021 PG state rankings, Virginia Tech commit
  • Jack McDonald, RHP/SS Independence . #15 2021 PG state rankings, ECU commit
  • Marcus LeClair ? position, Gonzaga HS. #18 2021 PG state rankings, UVA commit

Extended DC/MD/VA Prep players (outside DC Area) on the radar.

  • Blake Dickerson; LHP; Ocean Lakes HS, Virginia Beach, Va. Big tall lefty, Low 90s as a 17yr old. 18U USA Baseball team summer 2022. Virginia Tech commit. MLBpipeline top 100 Dec2022. Mayo called him out specifically here in his Dec 2022 newsletter.
  • Tayshaun Walton, OF (corner), IMG Academy (was Maury HS Norfolk) . #1 player in the state as of 2021, UMiami commit. #5 nationally. Could blossom into a mid-1st rounder. Dirtbags summer team, 6’3 220, tons of power. Justin Upton comp. #28 ranked by BA Feb 2022. #75 BA list July 2022, falling somewhat. Not in MLBpipeline’s top 100 Dec2022

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Written by Todd Boss

July 6th, 2023 at 11:15 am

Posted in Draft,Local Baseball

2022 Draft Coverage: Local draft-prospects to keep an eye on

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First draft of this post?  6/8/2019 when all-region posts started coming out for Virginia and some Freshmen made first teams.

The College players are mostly drawn from my 2019 Local High School draft coverage, listing guys who were HS seniors in 2019 who went to 3-year programs and who are now draft eligible.

Major Local College Draft Prospects for 2022

I can’t remember the last time Virginia had two such highly rated draft prospects in the same year as what we’re seeing with DeLaughter and Cross.  And what’s even more amazing is the fact that there should really be three top10 prospects, since Savino 

  • Gavin Cross, OF/Corner: Virginia Tech (by way of Tennessee HS). LH power hitter who slashed .345/.415/.621 in 2021 and then impressed with the CNT. moving up.  Dec2021 MLBpipeline has both local players as top 10 projected picks.  BA #10 in Jan 2022.  1st team Pre-season d1baseball AA.  Mid-to-Upper 1st rounder projection.  2022 Golden Spikes pre-season Watch list.
  • Chase DeLaughter, OF/LHP from JMU (by way of WVA HS): one of best hitters in 2021 Cape Cod season.  BA ranks him #22 in college class.  d1baseball ranked him 2021 Cape Cod player of the year, now a 1st round talent.  Dec 2021 now ranked as a top 5 talent?  wow.  Dec2021 MLBpipeline has both local players as top 10 projected picks.  #6 on BA’s top 100 Jan 2022.  2nd team Pre-season d1baseball AA.  Mid-to-upper 1st rounder.  2022 Golden Spikes pre-season Watch list.  The 2022 season hasn’t been kind to DeLaughter, as he got exposed by left handed pitching and may drop a couple of rounds.
  • Tyler Locklear, 3B VCU (by way of Archbishop Curley HS in Abington, MD) one of best hitters in 2021 Cape Cod season.  1st team Pre-season d1baseball AA, wow.  late 4th rounder perhaps.

College draft eligibles w/ Local Ties

  • Chris Newell, OF, UVA one of best hitters in 2021 Cape Cod season, up to #24 on BA list.  D1baseball projects ast a 4th rounder.
  • Nate Savino, LHP UVA by way of Potomac Falls.  Was 1st round talent out of HS, reclassified, went to UVA, was mid-week starter who didn’t miss as many bats as he should have.  Not impressive with Team USA summer of 2021.  Needs to improve.  2021; barely a draft prospect thanks to middling 2020 on the mound when he couldn’t even break into UVA’s weekend rotation.  #62 on BA’s top 100 Jan 2022.  Projecting as late 4th rounder.
  • Zach Agnos, LHP ECU by way of Battlefield.  Not projecting as a top draft prospect by d1baseball.
  • Lyle Miller-Green, util Oklahoma State by way of Lake Braddock.  Projecting as possibel Day pick.
  • Noah Dean, RHP ODU.  Hits 100, had 18.9 K/9 in 2021, ridiculous.  3rd team Pre-season d1baseball AA.  4th rounder.
  • Matt Wyatt, RHP UVA.  Projecting as 5-6th rounder by d1baseball.
  • Tanner Schobel, SS VaTech: projecting as possible day 2-3 pick.

DC/MD/VA Local Prep players for 2022

  • Jack O’Connor, RHP O’Connell (was St. Johns).  Team USA 18U in 2021.   Exploding onto the scene spring 2022 as a possible 3rd rounder.  89-94 with easy arm action.  Good enough that Keith Law drove to Fairfax to catch an O’Connell-Gonzaga WCAC game in May.  UVA commit, all-met 2022, WCAC POTY.
  • Nick Morabito, CF, Gonzaga HS.  Helium prospect in spring of 2022 with 70 speed and a solid hit tool, now projecting as 3rd rounder.  Has to be the son of Brian Moribito, who was a contemporary of mine growing up in DC-area baseball (and by contemporary i mean, he was my age and I knew who he was as a McLean-based player when i was 12).  Law says he’s a possible 2nd rounder and will be putting him on his top 100 list.  Virginia Tech commit.  all-met 2022, WCAC POTY.
  • Ben Moore, LHP Linganore HS, Frederick MD.  Old Dominion University commit.  Blown onto the scene, named pre-season AA by Collegiate Baseball magazine.  
  • A.J. Shephard, C from Patriot (was Osborne Park).  All Virginia Region 6D as freshman in 2019.  NovaNine top 100 in 2019 as a freshman.  2021 listed as #65 draft prospect.  Indiana commit.
  • Griffin Stieg, RHP/OF from McLean. All Virginia Region 6D as freshman in 2019.  NovaNine top 100 in 2019 as a freshman.  Excelled at Program 15 main event oct 15, hitting 95 with deception.  Va Tech commit.  WP All-Met 2022.
  • Ryan Kennedy, RHP Colgan.  Evoshield Canes summer 2021.
  • Bryce Dolby RHP Pro5 Academy NC (was Independence)
  • Eli Serrano 1B Pro5 Academy NC (was Patriot).  NovaNine top 100 in 2019 as a freshman, but moved to NC.
  • Jackson Kantor, 2B from McLean HS.  All VHSL-6A 2019 2nd team as a freshman, but never grew and has no committed college as of May 2022.

Extended DC/MD/VA Prep players (outside DC Area) on the radar.

  • Levi Huesman, LHP Hanover HS (Richmond).  #1 Perfectgame class of 2022, Coastal Carolina commit.  Huge game in Jupiter showcase, 7ip 18K.  Richmond Braves summer team.  #98 on BA’s top 100 Jan 2022.  Preseason HS AA team from Collegiate Baseball.  3rd team pre-season AA BaseballAmerica
  • Seth Keller, SS Hanover HS (Richmond): same team as Levi, but outperformed him all year and named MaxPrep’s 2nd team all-american.  Committed to ODU.
  • Cannon Peebles, C, Hanover HS, Mechanicsville, VA.  Commit to NC State.  2nd team AA by Collegiate Baseball.

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Written by Todd Boss

July 6th, 2022 at 1:34 pm

Posted in Draft,Local Baseball

2021 Draft coverage: Local draft-prospects to keep an eye on

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First draft of this post?  5/31/2018 when all-region posts started coming out and some Freshmen got noticed.

The College players are mostly drawn from my 2018 Local High School draft coverage, listing guys who were HS seniors in 2018 who went to 3-year programs and who are now draft eligible.

Major Local College Draft Prospects for 2021

  • Andrew Abbott, LHP UVA (via Halifax Co).  2019 Collegiate National team extended-roster selection.  Went undrafted in 2020 despite being ranked #116 by MLBpipeline.  2021 Friday starter for UVA, over Vasil and Savino.  Great start to 2021 season, rising fast.  Now projecting late 2nd round.
  • Sean Burke, RHP UMaryland; TJ in 2019, good start to 2020.  Two-pitch guy, analytics driven analysis.  2021 friday starter, tons of Ks but ERA inflated.  Per Law, hitting 97 this spring plus a 55-grade changeup, pushing him into top 50 ranks and mid-2nd rounder.
  • Zack Gelof, 3B, UVA by way of Rehoboth Beach, DE.  2nd team All American pre-2020 season.  2018 Delaware Gatorate POTY.  Ranked in the 30s, projecting as 2nd rounder by BA draft prep 2021.
  • Mike Vasil, RHP UVA via Mass HS.  Was projected 1st rounder, declined to be drafted to go to Virginia in 2018.  Backed up velocity in college, more command/control guy, falling on charts.  Saturday starter in 2021, still projecting 2nd/3rd rounder.

Lesser Local College draft eligibles w/ Local Ties

  • Nic Kent, 2B/SS UVA; solid hitter, not as much power, good SB.  Fringe SS, likely 2B professionally.
  • Wes Clarke, C South Carolina (via LCA/Forest va): former Evoshield top-team player, moved to 1B at South Carolina, projecting 4th-5th round.
  • Max Costes, 1B UMaryland; 2021 preseason 1st team All American, huge 2020 stats.
  • Stephen Schoch, RHP (closer) UVA.  3rd team pre-season AA.

Top DC/MD/VA Local Prep players for 2021

  • Jackson Merrill, SS Severna Park HS, MD.  Fast riser 2021 spring, rocketing into 3rd round discussion.  Kentucky commit.  Ends up going 27th overall!
  • James Wood, OF IMG Academy (FL) by way of Olney, MD.  6’7″ committed to Mississippi State, could be top 15 guy.  2021 near a BA top 10 guy.  But struggling in 2021 spring, hitting near .200 and likely sending him to college.
  • James Triantos, RHP/SS Madison HS: great 2-way player, 92 on the mound, power bat showed at WWBA.  Undersized, commit to UNC. Not getting much scouting love b/c of size and lack of high end single tool.  Reclassified from 2022 to 2021, Madison’s Ace 2021.  PBR top recruit 2021, now getting 2nd round buzz in BA’s top 500.
  • Peter Heubeck, RHP from Gilman HS in Baltimore.  Wake Forest commit, getting top-100 buzz late in the spring 2021.
  • Brandon Clarke, LHP from Rock Ridge HS.  PBR Virginia top 10 for 2021 class mid 2019.  Dirtbags summer team.  had TJ to miss most of 2020.  Alabama commit, up to 96-97 spring 2021 and in BA top 50.  Big-time riser, possibly 1st rounder.  PBR top recruit 2021.  BA rankings dropping badly June 2021
  • Kyle Robinson, RHP from Marshall.  Texas Tech commit.  PBR top recruit 2021.  Likely ranked too low to go in top few rounds, seems bound for college.

Other DC/MD/VA Local Prep players for 2021

  • Elijah Lambrose, OF from Stafford,  All 5D region as a sophomore in 2019.  NovaNine top 100 for 2019 as sophomore.  1st team VHSL All-5A in 2019 as sophomore.  PBR 2019 Futures game invitee.  South Carolina commit, PBR top recruit 2021.
  • Casey Cook, SS/RHP from Freedom-South Riding.  NovaNine top 100 for 2019 as sophomore, early commit to  UNC.  PBR Virginia top 10 for 2021 class mid 2019.  Mariucci Starts summer team.  PBR top recruit 2021.
  • Wyatt Shenkman, RHP Riverside HS.  Early commit to ECU, PBR top recruit 2021.
  • Colin Tuft, Madison C, early commit to UVA.  PBR top  recruit 2021.
  • Nick Lottchea, OF Westfield; full time starter as a freshman.  All 6D region as a sophomore.  NovaNine top 100 for 2019 as sophomore.  2nd team VHSL All-6A in 2019 as sophomore.
  • Josh Goodrich, C TC Williams.  2nd team all Class 6 Occoquon Region in 2018 as a freshman.  Team Aces summer team.
  • Danny Salisbury, 1B Annandale.   2nd team all Class 6 Occoquon Region in 2018 as a freshman.  2nd team All 6C as sophomore in 2019.
  • Jacob Orr, MIF Thomas Johnson (Frederick).  At 2018 PG Junior Nationals.  Team Elite summer team, early commit to Maryland.
  • Nathan Knowles, RHP Yorktown.   All 6D region as a sophomore.  NovaNine top 100 for 2019 as sophomore.  PBR 2019 Futures game invitee
  • Nick Guerra, 2B from Justice (formerly JEB Stuart): all 6C region as sophomore in 2019.  NovaNine top 100 for 2019 as sophomore
  • Dean Kampschror, OF from Justice.  all 6C region as sophomore in 2019.  NovaNine top 100 for 2019 as sophomore
  • Nathan Williams, RHP from Forest Park.    all 6C region as sophomore in 2019.  NovaNine top 100 for 2019 as sophomore
  • Evan Smith, 2B from Briar Woods.  All 5C region as sophomore in 2019.  NovaNine top 100 for 2019 as sophomore.  2nd team VHSL All-5A in 2019 as sophomore
  • Devon Zavacky, OF from Paul VI.  VISAA Division I all-state in 2019 as sophomore.
  • Caleb McAlister, OF from Stafford,  All 5D region as a sophomore in 2019.  NovaNine top 100 for 2019 as sophomore
  • Mike Shanahan, DH from Massaponax.  All 5D region as a sophomore in 2019.
  • Kevin Mackmin, 2B from Westfield.  NovaNine top 100 for 2019 as sophomore.
  • Ryan Cuadros, OF from Lake Braddock.  PBR 2019 Futures game invitee
  • J.T. Carter, C from Fredericksburg Christian.  PBR 2019 Futures game invitee

Extended DC/MD/VA Prep players (outside DC Area) on the radar.

  •  T.R. (Timothy) Williams, RHP from Page County (the State Class 2 champs) is the State 2-A POTY as a *freshman*.  2nd team USA Today all-state as a Freshman in 2018.  Member of the US U15 National team that competed in Panama in 2018.  Early commit to Virginia Tech (despite interest from Vanderbilt, Auburn, UVA).  Region 2B POTY in 2019 as sophomore.  1st team VHSL all-2A in 2019 as sophomore
  • Jay Woolfolk, RHP/C, SS from Benedictine HS (Midlothian).  VISAA Division I all-state in 2019 as sophomore.  PBR Virginia class of 2021 #1 ranked player mid 2019.  BA #36 for 2021 class nationwide in Sept 2019
  • Griffin O’Ferrall, SS from St. Christophers (Richmond): VISAA Division I all-state in 2019 as sophomore
  • Ethan Ott, RHP/util from Greenbriar Christian (Chesapeake).  VISAA Division II all-state in 2019 as sophomore.  2019 All-tidewater as a sophomore.
  • Bryce Post, SS from Warren County HS.  All Region 3B 1st team 2019 as sophomore.  2nd team VHSL all-3A in 2019 as sophomore
  • Hunter Powell, Util from William Monroe HS.  All Region 3B 1st team 2019 as sophomore.
  • Sam Slevin, OF from Cox HS (Virginia Beach).  1st team VHSL All-6A in 2019 as sophomore.  1st team all-Tidewater 2019 as sophomore.
  • Fenwick Trimble, Util from Cox HS (Virginia Beach).  2nd team VHSL All-6A in 2019 as sophomore.
  • Christian Martin, DH Amherst County HS.  1st team VHSL all-4A in 2019 as sophomore
  • Bryce Suters, OF Broadway HS.  1st team VHSL all-3A in 2019 as sophomore
  • Matthew Buchanan, RHP Lebanon HS.    1st team VHSL all-2A in 2019 as sophomore
  • Matt Arnold, 3B Chatham HS.    1st team VHSL all-2A in 2019 as sophomore
  • Kolby Barnes, C Galax HS.  1st team VHSL all-aA in 2019 as sophomore
  • Carter Keith, OF Auburn HS.  1st team VHSL all-aA in 2019 as sophomore

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Written by Todd Boss

July 12th, 2021 at 12:04 pm

Posted in Draft,Local Baseball

2020 draft coverage: Local draft-prospects to keep an eye on

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Thanks to uncertain times, the 2020 draft class from a “local” perspective has been … well gutted.

Not one player that I can find with ties to Maryland or Washington DC was drafted.  Just two players with ties to Virginia were drafted in the 5 round 2020 draft (who i’ve listed in the section below), both Virginia Tech players.  Not one UVA player selected, meaning they retain a huge chunk of their class heading into next season, not the least of which is Nate Savino, who reclassified to skip his senior  year of HS, go to school … only to have the season cancelled.

how many of these players are NDFA candidates?  Hard to say; but some will be looking at pressure/competition for their partial scholarships, which means we’ll see some movement.

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First draft of this post?  6/9/17, when a freshman (!) was named 2nd team all-Met.  A few years on-wards we know that freshman in particular (Jack Bulger) has become a significant national prospect, one of the best prep prospects to come out of the DC area since the 2016 class (which saw two upper round picks in Joe Rizzo and Khalil Lee)  plus state POTY Jake Agnos, an eventual collegiate all American.

The College players are mostly drawn from my 2017 Local High School draft coverage, listing guys who were HS seniors in 2015 who went to 3-year programs and who are now draft eligible.

Major Local College Draft Prospects for 2020

  • Ian Seymour, LHP from Virginia Tech (via Westborough MA): 2nd round, #57 overall pick
  • Taylor Carson, C/1B from Virginia Tech (via Duluth, GA): 4th round, #130 overall pick.
  • Andrew Abbott, LHP UVA (via Halifax Co).  2019 Collegiate National team extended-roster selection.  Went undrafted in 2020 despite being ranked #116 by MLBpipeline.

Lesser Local College draft eligibles w/ Local Ties

  • See https://www.mlb.com/draft/tracker/2020/all/state/virginia for full Virginia listing
  • see https://www.mlb.com/draft/tracker/2020/all/state/maryland for full Maryland draft prospect listings
  • Nats 2016 Draftee Matt Mervis just signed as an NDFA with the Cubs.

DC/MD/VA Local Prep players for 2020

  • Nate Savino, LHP from Potomac Falls.  Potomac District POTY in 2018 as a sophomore.  UVA commit.  Diamond Elite summer team.  Showing 92 from the left-hand side as a sophomore in HS games; wow.  NovaNine as a sophomore.  PG Junior Nationals 2018.  1st team all state VHSL Class 5 2018 as sophomore.  Player of the Year Class 5 Region D in 2018 as a sophomore.  1st team USA Today all-state 2018 as Soph.  Gatorade POTY for Virginia in 2019 as a Junior.  All Region 5C as Junior in 2019.  U18 National Team.  #4 on BA’s 2020 prep list, a legitimate upper-first round talent.  Nov 2019 update: Savino has decided to graduate early and will enroll at UVA.  By most accounts he was projected possibly as a 1st round, top 10 pick in the 2020 draft; this move means he’s passing up at least $4M in signing bonus dollars to go to a school in UVA which, frankly, does not have a great history of developing top-end starters.
  • Jack Bulger, C from DeMatha.  2nd team All-Met as a *freshman* in 2017.   Early commit to Vanderbilt.  Team Elite Prime.  At 2018 PG Junior Nationals.  Also at the Cary, NC PDP 2018 event despite only being a rising Junior and was named in the highlights article.  HM All-Met 2018 as a sophomore, 2nd team USA Today all-state 2018 as Soph.  Gatorade POTY for Maryland in 2019 as Junior.  1st Team USA Today HS AA in 2019 as junior.  Wow.  U18 National Team.
  • Collin Bosley-Smith, RHP Wilson HS.  2nd team All-Met 2018 as a sophomore.  USA Today DC POTY in 2018 as a sophomore.  Gatorade POTY in DC in 2019 as a junior.  Early commit to Duke.  Mid-Atlantic Red Sox summer team.
  • Eddie Eisert, SS O’Connell HS.  1st team all WCAC as sophomore in 2018.  1st team all VISAA Division I as a junior.  Early NC State commit.
  • Ryley Johnson, OF from Colgan (Manassas).  1st team all Class 6 Occoquan region as a sophomore in 2018.   Richmond braves summer team.   2nd team VHSL class 6 all-state in 2018 as sophomore.   All Region 6C as junior.  1st team VHSL All-6A 2019 as junior.   ECU commit.
  • Ryan Calvert, RHP/1B from LaPlata HS.  Prepbaseballreport Maryland POTY in 2019 as junior.  Evoshield Canes summer team.
  • Riley Eikhoff, RHP from Patriot HS (brother of former Patriot and UVA player Nathan Eikhoff); All Region 6D in 2019 as junior.  Evoshield Canes National summer team.  UVA commit.
  • Jordan Peyton, SS from Riverdale Baptist via Colonial Beach VA.  PG Junior Nationals 2018, early commit to Radford.
  • Alex Greene, OF from DeMatha as well.  written up at 2018 PG Junior Nationals, ranked 12th in the entire class, early UVA commit.  Richmond Braves summer team.  2nd team All-Met 2018 as a sophomore.  USAtoday all-state in 2018 as Sophomore.
  • Josh Moylan, 1B/3B from Spalding HS.   2019 Area code games, early commit to ECU.
  • Thomas Trinca, OF from Centreville.  2nd team All 6A-North region as a freshman in 2017.  Stars Baseball summer team.  All Region 6D in 2019 as junior.  1st team VHSL All-6A 2019 as junior.  George Mason commit.
  • Shane Saunders, OF from Osborne Park.  All 6-A North Region 2018 as Sophomore.  Stars Baseball summer team.  All Region 6D in 2019 as junior.  Canes Gold summer team.
  • Matt Frye, Util Lee HS.   2nd team Class 5 Region D all-region 2018 as a sophomore.
  • Jake Maske, OF DeMatha.  USAtoday all-state in 2018 as Sophomore.
  • Nathan Cmeyla, C from Briar Woods HS.  PG Junior Nationals 2018.  1st team Class 5 Region D all-region 2018 as a sophomore.  1st team All 5C as junior in 2019.
  • Teddy Merritt, RHP from McLean.  2nd Team All 6-A North Region 2018 as Sophomore.
  • Cameron Mozingo-Morales, 1B/RHP from Osborne Park.   2nd Team All 6-A North Region 2018 as Sophomore.   Stars Baseball summer team.
  • Robert Kelley, RHP from Marshall.   2nd Team All 6-A North Region 2018 as Sophomore.  All Region 6D in 2019 as junior.
  • Malik Kabra, OF from Robinson.  1st team all Class 6 Occoquan region as a sophomore in 2018.
  • Joe Vogatsky, RHP/3B from Kettle Run HS POTY.   VA Class 4C POTY in 2019 as junior.  Early commit to JMU.  1st team VHSL All-4A 2019 as junior.
  • Julian Heitman, SS Oakton HS.  Stars Red summer team.
  • Jacob Cassady, RHP from Lake Braddock; All Region 6C as junior in 2019.
  • Braden Mack, C from Potomac.  All Region 5D as a junior in 2019.
  • Ben Thomas, OF from Potomac.  All Region 5D as a junior in 2019.
  • Ethan Snyder, DH from Broad Run.  1st team VHSL All-5A 2019 as junior.

Extended DC/MD/VA Prep players (outside DC Area) on the radar.

  • Quade Tomlin, 2B from Liberty Christian Academy.  1st team All 4-A region as a freshman in 2017.  1st team all-state VHSL as a freshman in 2017.  2nd team all state VHSL Class 4 2018 as a sophomore.  Evoshield Canes National summer team.  2019 Area code games.  Liberty commit.
  • Jeremy Wagner, OF/RHP from the Miller School (Albemarle) POTY as Junior.  Early Austin Peay commit.  VISAA divisoin II POTY 2019 as a junior.
  • Nic Britt, SS from Greenbriar Christian (Chesapeake).   Evoshield Canes summer team, early commit to UVA.   PG Junior Nationals 2018.
  • Rylan Brown, OF from Greenbriar Christian (Chesapeake).   Evoshield Canes summer team.  PG Junior Nationals 2018.  1st team VISAA Division II all-state 2018 as a sophomore.
  • Tanner Schobel, SS Waslingham Academy (Williamsburg). PG Junior Nationals 2018,  2nd Team USA Today all-state 2018 as soph.  VISAA Division III POTY as Junior in 2019.  Early Virginia Tech commit.
  • Harrison Clifton, LHP Steward HS Richmond.  Early commit to Clemson.
  • Garrett Payne, RHP Miller School in Charlottesville,  early commit to NC State.  All VISAA Division II all-state 2019 as junior.
  • Nick Noonan, OF from Deep Run HS.  2nd team all-state VHSL 5A as a freshman in 2017.  2nd team all Richmond Metro in 2017 as a freshman.
  • Tristan Gordan OF from Page County HS.  1st team all VHSL 2A in 2017 as a freshman.  Again 1st team all VHSL Class 2 as sophomore as his team wins the state title.
  • Drew Stanley, RHP from Hickory HS (Chesapeake): Class 5 Region A POTY as a sophomore in 2018 (!).  Canes Mid-Atlantic summer team.  2nd team VHSL all-state Class 5 2018 as sophomore.  1st team all-Tidewater 2019 as junior.
  • Zian Honaker, RHP from Salem HS (Salem).   Winning pitcher in the Class 4 state final in 2018 as as sophomore; 12-0 in his career at this point.
  • Elijah Dunlap, RHP from Riverheads.  All State VHSL Class 2 as a sophomore in 2018.
  • Trey Carter, OF from Carlisle HS in Martinville.  PG Junior Nationals 2018.
  • Alex LaRou, RHP from Cosby HS. PG Junior Nationals 2018.
  • Carter Trice, SS from Lee Davis HS in Mechanicsville.  PG Junior Nationals 2018.
  • Jackson Cherry, OF Jefferson Forest HS.  2nd team all state VHSL Class 4 2018 as a sophomore.  Canes mid-atlantic summer team.  1st team VHSL All-4A 2019 as junior.  Mercer commit.
  • Philip Forbes V, 2B Menchville.   2nd team VHSL all-state Class 5 2018 as sophomore.  1st team VHSL All-5A 2019 as junior.
  • Lucas Carmichael, util Matoaca.   2nd team VHSL all-state Class 5 2018 as sophomore.
  • Andrew Ward, OF Fluvana County.  1st team VHSL all-state Class 3 2018 as a sophomore.
  • Blake Fisher, ? Highland School.  1st team VISAA Division II all-state 2018 as a sophomore.
  • Jon Sawyers, ? Atlantic Shores HS.  1st team VISAA Division II all-state 2018 as a sophomore.
  • Michael Stewart, RHP/1B from Collegiate (Richmond).  1st team VISAA Division I in 2019 as junior.  Early commit to JMU.
  • Nigel Williams, 2B/SS from Collegiate (Richmond).  1st team VISAA Division I in 2019 as junior.
  • Ethan Chenault, RHP from The Miller School (via Forest, VA).  1st team VISAA Division II in 2019 as junior, early commit to UNC-Wilmington.
  • Ethan Firoved, LHP First Colonial HS (Virginia Beach).  1st team VHSL All-6A 2019 as junior.  1st Team all-tidewater 2019 as Junior.  Class 6 Region A Co-Player of the Year 2019 as junior.
  • Aiden Tierney, C/OF Colonial Forge HS (Fredericksburg).  1st team VHSL All-6A 2019 as junior.
  • Zach Dzarnowski, C Hickory HS.  1st team VHSL All-5A 2019 as junior.
  • Tyler Warren, OF Atlee HS.  1st team VHSL All-5A 2019 as junior.
  • Bailey Reynolds, 1B from Libery Christian Academy.  1st team VHSL All-4A 2019 as junior.  Dirtbags summer team,  uncommitted.

Sources used

 

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Prep Baseball Coverage 2019: Player of the Year Lists

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Last post covering local baseball for 2019; this one tries to summarize all the various “Player of the Year” announcements from various shops, both local and national.

I kind of ran out of gas on this one; fighting through a dozen different paywalls and I never could find the official announcements of Virginia regional all-player lists.   But this is still a pretty good summary of the various POTY lists.

 

 

Individual Player Accolades Announced

In addition to being playoff-baseball time, this is also the time of the year that we start to see player awards.  I’ll put these in as they publish, but we won’t expect most of these until the end of June.

National Lists and State breakouts as available.

  • Gatorade Player of the year awards.  National POTY was Bobby Witt Jr., drafted 2nd overall in the 2019 baseball draft.
    • Maryland:  Jack Bulger, Jr. C from DeMatha.  Early commit to Vanderbilt.
    • Washington DC: Collin Bosley-Smith, Jr. RHP from Wilson.   Early commit to Duke.
    • Virginia: Nate Savino, Jr. LHP from Potomac Falls.  Early commit to UVA.
  • MaxPreps High School All-Americans: Bobby Witt Jr. National POTY.   Local players: Jack Bulger (DeMatha), Lyle Miller-Green, RHP/1B from Lake Braddock named to 2nd team.
  • Baseball America High School All-Americans: no POTY declared.  No local players on 1st, 2nd or 3rd teams.
  • USA Today/American Family All-USA teams: Bobby Witt Jr. National POTY.  Local players: Jack Bulger (DeMatha) named to 1st team, Brett Cook from Benedictine 2nd team.  Jamari Baylor HM.
  • American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings 2019 High School All Americans:  Bobby Witt named POTY.  local players Jack Bulger C DeMatha and Joe Clancy RHP Westfields named to 3rd team.
  • Collegiate Baseball High School All-Americans: Bobby Witt Jr. National POTY.   Local players on 1st team: Jose Torres, SS Calvert Hall HS in Baltimore (NC State commit.).  2nd team: Jack Bulger (DeMatha), Parker Landwehr C Calvert Hall (Boston College commit).
  • Perfectgame.org/Rawlings All-Americans: (unclear if they’re still doing these lists).
    • Maryland:
    • Washington DC:
    • Virginia:
  • PrepBaseballReport; Brett Bady national POTY.  12th overall pick by NY Mets.
    • All Maryland Team: Ryan Calvert, RHP/1B from LaPlata HS POTY as a junior.
    • All Virginia/DC Team:  Lyle Miller-Green, RHP/1B from Lake Braddock POTY.  George Mason commit.

 

DC/MD/VA Local

  • Washington Post All-Met team 2019: Lyle Miller-Green, RHP/1B from Lake Braddock POTY.  George Mason commit.
  • The Baltimore Sun’s All-Metro Team: Jose Torres, SS Calvert Hall HS in Baltimore.  NC State commit.
  • Richmond Times-Dispatch All-Metro Team: (behind a paywall)
  • Virginian Pilot All-Tidewater team: Mason Dunaway, SS Hickory is POTY.  JMU commit.
  • Virginia Class 6 All Region Teams
    • Region A (Tidewater) All Regional team:
    • Region B (Richmond) All Regional team:
    • Region C (Northern VA, inner suburbs) All-Regional team: Lyle Miller-Green, RHP/1B from Lake Braddock POTY.  George Mason commit.
    • Region D (Northern VA, Western Suburbs) All Regional team: Zach Agnos, RHP from Battlefield HS POTY.  ECU commit like his brother ahead of him.
  • Virginia Class 5 All Region Teams
    • Region A (Tidewater area) All-Regional team:
    • Region B (Richmond) All Regional team:
    • Region C (Northern VA) All Regional team: Ben Williamson, SS Freedom-South Riding.  William & Mary commit.
    • Region D (Northwest and Western VA) All Regional team: Drew Harlow, RHP/SS Halifax county POTY.  Undecided/no commit as of 6/8/19
  • Virginia Class 4 All Region Teams
    • Region A (Tidewater area) All-Regional team:
    • Region B (Richmond) All Regional team:
    • Region C (Northern VA) All Regional team: Joe Vogatsky, jr RHP/3B from Kettle Run HS POTY.   early commit to JMU.
    • Region D (Northwest and Western VA) All Regional team:
  • Other Virginia All-Regional teams: harder to come by:
    • Class 3 Region B (Culpepper/Warrenton area) All Regional team: Jake (Jakob) Dudley, 1B/3B from Culpeper County HS is POTY.  No college listed.
    • Class 2 Region B (NorthWest VA) all Region Team:  T.R. Williams, Sophomore RHP from Page County POTY.
  • Northern Virginia All-District teams:
  • NovaBaseballMagazine Nova Nine top 100 list: Joey Kamide‘s top 100 players from the 85 high schools in the NoVa coverage area.
  • NovaBaseballMagazine Nova Nine:  Lyle Miller-Green, RHP/1B from Lake Braddock POTY.  George Mason commit.
  • VHSL All-State Teams: all 6 teams available from this link.
    • 6-A: Lyle Miller-Green, RHP/1B from Lake Braddock POTY.  George Mason commit.
    • 5-A: Michael Tolson RHP/oF from Stafford POTY.   Western Carolina U commit.
    • 4-A: Quade Tomlin, SS jr from Liberty Christian Academy POTY.  Liberty U commit.
    • 3-A: Jacob Critzer, C Fluvana County HS POTY.    No college commitment known.
    • 2-A: Andrew Potojecki, RHP Chatham HS (Danville) POTY.  Longwood College commit.
    • 1-A: Matthew Kleinfelter, RHP Lancaster HS POTY.   JMU commit.
  • VISAA’s All-State teams
    • Division III All State Team: Tanner Schobel, SS Walsingham Academy  (Williamsburg) POTY as Junior.  Early Virginia Tech commit.
    • Division II All State Team: Jeremy Wagner, OF/RHP from the Miller School (Albemarle) POTY as Junior.  Early Austin Peay commit.
    • Division I All State Team: Aiden Kuhle, RHP/1B from Cape Henry Collegiate (Virginia Beach) POTY.  Roanoke College commit.
  • Maryland All-MIAA All-State teams:
    • MIAA A division: behind a paywall
    • MIAA B division: behind a paywall
    • MIAA C division: behind a paywall
  • Maryland State Association of Baseball Coaches (MSABC) All-Maryland teams: four regional all-star teams picked for exhibitions.
  • Maryland Brooks Robinson All-Star game rosters
  • Anne-Arundel County All-Baseball team: unknown
  • Montgomery County All-Baseball Team: unknown
  • All Baltimore-City Baseball team: behind a paywall
  • All Fredericksburg Baseball team:  Michael Tolson RHP/oF from Stafford POTY.   Western Carolina U commit.
  • All WCAC: unknown
  • All IAC: unknown
  • All MAC: unknown

If I missed an award, or if you know of something I don’t, don’t hesitate to post.

 

Past awards that no longer seem to be in existence:

  • Louisville Slugger All-Americans: last awarded in 2016.
  • National High School Coaches Association (NHSCA) POTY: last awarded in 2017.
  • Under Armor All-Americans: perhaps there used to be selections, but now there’d just a game mid-July of mostly rising senior all stars.
  • USA Today/American Family All-State Teams and POTYs: stopped doing state-level all-state baseball teams for 2019.

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Prep Baseball Coverage 2019; DC, MD, VA Regional and State Champs

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Welcome to my DC Area Prep Baseball Tourney coverage for 2019.   We kind of got pressed for time this year, so we’re summarizing at the finish of all the area regional and state championships this year all in one post instead of spreading it among 3-4 different posts like we’ve done in the past.

This post summarizes the State championships for DC, MD and VA, highlighting the regional champs, and reports on the winners of the various big-time private school conferences.

 

Virginia

All state brackets available from this link at VHSL, and the regional brackets are here.  In 2019, The state semis/finals got pushed a week across the board due to weather.  This gave pitching-weak teams a distinct advantage versus having to win a 3-games-in-5 days format.  All finals were on Friday 6/14/19.

Class 6 State Finals:  thanks to NovaBaseballmagazine.com’s coverage of Class 6 Regionals.  State Class 6 Bracket.  Records entering the state tourney.

  • Region 6A: #1 Ocean Lakes (17-6), #2 Cox (18-5).  Ocean Lakes wins the region as 5th seed, #1 seed Grandby upset first round.
  • Region 6B: #1 James River (19-3), #2 Colonial Forge (16-8).  Top seeds Cosby and Thomas Dale both upset first round.
  • Region 6C: #1 Lake Braddock (23-3), #2 West Springfield (14-11).   Region final a rematch of the district final; a very weak Region this year (only 7 teams even with winning records).
  • Region 6D: #1 Westfield (22-3), #2 Centreville (18-8); Region final a rematch of the district final.

Class 6 State Quarters results:  All four regional champs advanced in close games on 6/4/19. Westfield ended West Springfield’s attempts to repeat as State Champs 5-4 in walk-off fashion.  Ocean Lakes took out Colonial Forge 2-0.  Lake Braddock held off Centreville 5-4, scoring 5 in the first and making them stick, and James River beat Cox 4-3.

Class 6 State Semis: Both Northern Virginia teams advanced to the final; Lake Braddock taking out James River 9-6, and Westfield taking out Ocean Lakes 9-7.

Class 6 State Final: Lake Braddock wins its first State title since 2012 6-2 over Westfield behind a huge day from All Met POTY Lyle Miller-Green‘s massive day at the plate.

Class 5 State Finals:  thanks to NovaBaseballmagazine.com’s coverage of Class 5 Regionals.  Class 5 State Bracket.  Records entering the state tourney.

  • Region 5A: #1 Hickory (22-1), #2 Menchville (19-4).  #2 seed one-loss Hampton upset early, but dominant Hickory holds serve as one of the best teams in the state.
  • Region 5B: #1 Mills Godwin (19-3), #2 Prince George (19-3):  Regional final cancelled; #1 Mills Godwin given title.
  • Region 5C: #1 Stone Bridge (16-9), #2 Broad Run (16-9): Stone Bridge upset both its higher-seeded district rivals to win Region.
  • Region 5D: #1 Stafford (21-3), #2 Halifax (22-3).   Huge upset of #1 seed Potomac clears path for Stafford to take regional title.

Class 5 State Quarters results: One upset in the State Quarters.  Halifax destroyed Stone Bridge 11-0 to advance.  The other regional champs all went through: Stafford blanked Broad Run 5-0.  Hickory squeaked by Prince George 3-1 to end their chances to repeat as State champs.  And Mills Godwin blanked Menchville 5-0.

Class 5 State Semis Results: Stafford walked-off Hickory in a crazy 11-10 game, while Mills Godwin walked-off Halifax in the other 5-4 to advance to the state title game.

Class 5 State Final: Stafford held on to beat Mills Godwin 4-3.

Class 4 State Finals: thanks to NovaBaseballmagazine.com’s coverage of Class 4 Regionals.  Class 4 State Bracket.  Records entering the state tourney.

  • Region 4A: #1 Lafayette (16-7), #2 Great Bridge (18-6); Lafayette beat top seed and defending regional champ Grafton en route to the upset title.
  • Region 4B: #1 Hanover (19-2), #2 Midlothian (15-7); Hanover cruised to title as #1 seed, looking to get back to the state final for the 3rd time in 4 years.  Midlothian makes the state tourney for the 1st time since 2005.
  • Region 4C: #1 Riverside (16-7), #2 Kettle Run (15-9): There’s only 4 teams in Region 4C: Riverside Beat the 19-3 Sherando en route to the title.
  • Region 4D: #1 Liberty Christian Academy (24-1), #2 Salem (18-5); LCA does not slip up this year, cruising to title as #1 seed.

Class 4 State Quarters results:  Just one upset in the quarters, with Great Bridge downing Hanover 7-4 in a rematch of the 2014 AAA state championship.  Liberty Christian destroyed Kettle Run 11-0.    Lafayette blanked Midlothian 8-0.  Riverside beat Salem easily 9-3.

Class 4 State Semis Results: Lafayette continued its upsetting ways, taking out one of the top teams in the state in Liberty Christian 8-2, while Riverside blanked Great Bridge 3-0 to advance to the state title game for the 2nd time in 3 years.

Class 4 State Final: Riverside literally “threw away” the game, losing on a 2-run error to Lafayette, completing an improable run for the Williamsburg-based school.

Class 3 State Finals: thanks to NovaBaseballmagazine.com’s coverage of Class 3 Regionals.  Class 3 State Bracket.  Records entering the state tourney.

  • Region 3A: #1 Tabb (19-3), #2 Park View-South Hill (22-2): #1/#2 seeds of the regi0n advance.
  • Region 3B: #1 Brentsville District (20-3), #2 Warren County (16-6): Region goes chalk, #1 over #2 in final.
  • Region 3C: #1 Fluvanna County (20-3), #2 Brookville (18-8): #1 seed Fluvanna County holds serve.
  • Region 3D: #1 Lord Botetourt (15-8), #2 Abingdon (22-3); Lord Botetourt wins region as #6 seed over top-seeded Abingdon.

Class 3 State Quarters results:  Just one upset in the quarters, with Brookville beating Lord Botetourt 6-2.  Tabb beat Warren County 7-5, Fluvanna eased past Abington 1-0, and Brentsville squeaked past Park View 5-4.

Class 3 State Semis Results: Tabb over Brookeville 4-3, Fluvanna over Prince William County’s Brentsville 5-4.

Class 3 State Final: Fluvanna County out-slugged Tabb 16-10 for the title.

Smaller Classifications: Class 2 State Bracket and Class 1 State Bracket

  • Class 2 State Quarter finalists: King William, Stuarts Draft, Chatham, Lebanon as region winners, Nandua, Page County (defending state champ), Appomattox County and John Battle as regional runners-up.
  • Class 2 State Semi finalists: Lebanon over Page County, Chatham over Stuarts Draft.
  • Class 2 State Final: Chatham beats Lebanon 23-5.
  • Class 1 State Quarter finalists: Lancaster, Riverheads (defending state champ), Auburn (2017 state champ), Patrick Henry-Glade spring region winners, Colonial Beach, William Campbell (2015 state champ), Galax, Chilhowie as regional runners-up.
  • Class 1 State Semi finalists:  Lancaster over Patrick Henry , Auburn over Riverheads (all four regional champs won in the quarters)
  • Class 1 State Final: Auburn defeats Lancaster 9-0 for the title.

Recent Virginia HS champs:  Virginia has Class 1-A through Class 6-A  Before 2014, we just AAA, AA and A.

2018: See this post for the 2018 state tourney wrap-up

  • In 6-A, West Springfield blew open the game late to defeat Western Branch 12-2 to take their first title since 2010.  Thomas Dale, Lake Braddock semis.
  • In 5-A, Prince George beats Potomac 8-0.  Freedom-South Riding, Deep Run semis.
  • In 4-A, Salem walked-off against Jamestown to win their first state title 2-1.  Grafton, Fauquier semis.
  • In the smaller classifications, Spotsylvania won 3-A, Page County won 2-A and Riverheads won 1-A.

2017: See this post for 2017’s state tournament wrap-up for all 6 divisions

  • In 6-A, Western Branch d Cox 6-4.  Oakton, Patriot semis.
  • In 5-A, Briar Woods d Halifax 5-4 in 14 innings.  Menchville and Prince George semi-finalists.
  • In 4-A, Liberty Christian Academy d Hanover 8-5.  Harrisonburg, Great Bridge semi-finalists.
  • In the smaller classifications, Turner Ashby won 3-A, Dan River won 2-A and Auburn won 1-A.

2016: See this post for 2016’s state tournament wrap-up for all 6 divisions

  • In 6-A, Chantilly d Battlefield 3-2.  Hylton & Cosby state semis.
  • In 5-A, Nansemond River defeated Mountain View 5-3.  Potomac, Mills Godwin semi finalists.
  • In 4-A, Hanover d Liberty Christian Academy 13-12.  Jamestown, Kettle Run semi finalists.
  • In the smaller classifications, Rustberg repeated 3-A, Maggie Walker won in 2-A and Rappahannock won 1-A.

2015: See this post for 2015’s state tournament wrapup for all 6 divisions:

  • In 6-A, Madison d Chantilly 6-5.  First Colonial & defending champ Western Branch were state semifinalists.
  • In 5-A, Stone Bridge d Marshall 9-4.  2014 finalists Hickory & Freeman were state semifinalists.
  • In 4-A, Glen Allen d Jefferson Forrest 9-3.  Fauquier & Hanover were state semifinalists.
  • In the smaller classifications, Lafayette won 3-A, Virginia High repeated in 2-A and William Campbell won 1-A.

2014: see this post for 2014’s state tournament wrap up for all 6 divisions.

  • In 6-A, Western Branch d Chantilly 6-4.  McLean and Cosby were state semifinalists.
  • In 5-A, Hickory d Freeman 6-4.  Stone Bridge and the surprising Freedom-South Riding semi finalists.
  • In 4-A, Hanover d Millbrook 7-1.
  • In the smaller classifications, Loudoun Valley won 3-A, Virginia High won 2-A and Northumberland won 1-A.

2013: AAA: Hanover d Great Bridge. Hanover’s super-junior Derek Casey (committed to UVA) outlasts Great Bridge and their 1st round talent Connor Jones (now attending UVA after spurning a likely late 1st round draft position).  Lake Braddock and Oakton beaten in the semis.

2012: AAA: Lake Braddock d Kellam 4-0. Lake Braddock lost to West Springfield in the regional title game but then blitzed to a state championship.

2011: AAA: Great Bridge d South County in the state final, giving the powerful South County its first and only loss on the season after starting the season 28-0.  Lake Braddock was the regional finalist and lost to Great Bridge in the state quarters.

2010: AAA: West Springfield d Woodbridge in the final, giving Woodbridge its only loss on the year. WT Woodson regional finalist.

Complete history of Virginia HS Champions: from VHSL’s website.  Covers all sports and has results for a century.  Lots of fun to dig through.  Note: if this link fails, its because VHSL has moved it yet again; I have an updated copy of the history books in PDF format if you’re interested.

 

Maryland

Full Brackets here at the MPSAA website and direct links to the four State-wide brackets are linked directly below.  Here’s your 2019 champs.

  • Maryland 4-A: Regional champs Eleanor Roosevelt (undefeated entering playoffs), Sherwood, Old Mill and Walt Whitman are regional champs.  Sherwood and Old Mill in the final, and Old Mill wins the state title in 9 innings, giving Sherwood only its 2nd loss of the year.
  • Maryland 3-A: Regional champs Northern, Milton Wright, J.M. Bennett, and defending state champ Thomas Johnson are regional champs.    J.M. Bennett beats C. Milton Wright in the final.
  • Maryland 2-A: Regional champs La Plata, Hereford (both defending regional champs), Fallston, Middletown.  LaPlata beats Middletown in its 3rd state final in four years.
  • Maryland 1-A: Regional champs McDonough, Randallstown, Col. Richardson and Boonsboro (McDonough and Boonsboro repeat as regional champs).  In the final, Col. Richardson beats McDonough in 9 innings.

A quick list of past Maryland State champions by division:

 

DC

Past DC Winners:

  • 2018: DCIAA = Wilson.  DCSAA = Wilson.
  • 2017: DCIAA = Wilson.  DCSAA = Gonzaga
  • 2016: DCIAA = Wilson.  DCSAA = St. Albans
  • 2015: DCIAA = Wilson.  DCSAA = Gonzaga
  • 2014: DCIAA = Wilson.  DCSAA = St. Johns
  • 2013 and prior: Wilson hasn’t lost in the DCIAA in 20 years … finding DCSAA tourney winners on google is tough.

Private Leagues: WCAC/MAC/IAC and VISAA/Maryland Private

State-level Private School tourneys 2019 results.

  • MIAA: All 2019 regular season standings here, and all playoff brackets here.
    • Division A: Calvert Hall regular season champ.   Calvert Hall over Gilman for the Division A playoff title.
    • Division B: Glenelg Country regular season champ.  Gerstell over Boy’s Latin for the Division B  playoff title, coming back from the loser’s bracket to win it.
    • Division C: Concordia Prep regular season champ.   Concordia Prep over Indian Creek in 12 innings for the Division C playoff title.
    • This link at MIAA has the 2019 playoff brackets AND a historical list of all MIAA champs by division dating to 1995.  I’ve got a screen shot just in case it disappears in the future.
  • VISAA:
    • Division I:  Local teams participating included #9 Paul VI, #4 O’Connell, #6 Episcopal, and #7 Flint Hill.  None advanced, as the VISAA Division I tournament was dominated by Richmond teams.  In the end, nationally ranked and #1 seed Benedictine won the Division I title over  #2. St. Christophers.
    • Division II: #1 seed The Miller School runs away with the title.
    • Division III:  #1 seed Walsingham Academy wins the state title.
  • Maryland Private School Tournament; (unsure this event happens any more)

DC-area Private School Leagues results for 2019:

A side-note: DC private school baseball power house Riverdale Baptist did not field a Varsity team in 2019 after its coach took a college job, it lost a ton of senior talent and the rest of the remaining seniors all transferred to play for more competitive teams.  For a team that was nationally ranked in 2018, its kind of jarring not to be talking about them in a DC-area prep story.  Lets hope the new coach can get the program back on track.

 

Local and National High School Baseball Ranking Lists: highlighting where local teams ended up.

  • Washington Post All Met Sports Area top-10 ranking (5/20/19): St. Johns the clear #1 team in the area, winning WCAC, DCSAA titles.
  • NovaBaseballMagazine.com Rankings: (5/28/19): NoVa Class 6 regional champs Westfields and Lake Braddock 1-2 in the rankings.
  • VISAA maintains Private school polls/rankings (5/6/19): The two Division 1 finalists are 1-2 in the Division 1 poll.  The two teams who won Division II and III also #1 in their respective polls.
  • PrepBaseballReport maintains a VA State-Wide Power25 Rankings (5/20/19): St. Johns, LCA and Benedictine are top 3 teams.
  • Baltimore Sun Top-10 Poll Archives: (April 2019): looks like they weren’t very well kept up, but MIAA Division 1 power Calvert Hall listed as #1 Baltimore area team.
  • The Virginian Pilot Top-10 for Hampton Roads area: (3/18/19): Hickory named as top team in area.
  • Richmond times-Dispatch”804 Varsity” used to have rankings.
  • Baseball America’s National High School Rankings: (5/21/19): Benedictine #17 in the nation.
  • USA Today High School Experts top 25: (5/26/19) Benedictine #9 in the nation, St. Johns #13.
  • MaxPreps “Excellent 50” ranking: Benedictine #24.

These National rankings are dominated by teams in Texas, Florida and California, as you might expect.  These teams can play nearly 40 games and usually have at least 15-20 under their belts before DC/MD/VA teams even get going.  So its somewhat of an accomplishment just to have a local team get some recognition.  In fact, any cold-weather state team appearing in these lists is pretty special.

Major Newspaper Links/Resources for following prep baseball around the state

  • Washington Post’s AllMetSports section with standings and schedule results.
  • The Baltimore Sun’s high school page has information on some of the programs outside the DC area mentioned in the Maryland section
  • InsideNova.com‘s coverage of high school sports, but has put limits on the number of stories you can read.
  • Richmond Times-Dispatch has a HS scoreboard.
  • Hampton Roads Pilot (Hampton Roads) has scores for teams in the Chesapeake/Norfolk/Va Beach area.
  • NovaBaseballMagazine: great coverage of Prep baseball in NorthernVirginia (thanks to Joe Antonellis for the heads up on this great new resource).

Local Newspaper Coverage, including links to many local papers covering smaller jurisdictions.

Non-newspaper Links for Local and National Prep Baseball Coverage

Good Twitter accounts to follow:

  • https://twitter.com/toddeboss/lists/prepbaseball: I maintain an open list at my twitter account via this link, which contains direct links to dozens of local resources (including all the below).  Way too many retweets from the travel team accounts especially, but its a good way to keep up with local ball.
  • https://twitter.com/PBRVirginiaDC: Prep Baseball Report VA/DC coverage
  • https://twitter.com/NVBaseballMag: NoVa Baseball Magazine
  • https://twitter.com/NoVAHSBB
  • https://twitter.com/DynamicBaseball

Written by Todd Boss

June 21st, 2019 at 5:15 pm

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All-Met Baseball Players of the year; what happened to them?

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As a guy who tracks local high school baseball players, one of the most anticipated annual posts I wait for is the Washington Post’s All Met baseball team.  A couple years back, I stumbled across a historical link at allmetsports.com; a link to every All-Met team for all sports going back to the early 1990s.

So I decided to do a big research project; what happened to all the All-Met Baseball Players of the year for each year?  It was a bit tough to back beyond 1990 (heck, I graduated in 1989 and cannot remember or find the link to the All Met player of the year my graduating year), but going forward here’s how all these players turned out:

I wrote the bulk of this post in 2018 and 2019, then forgot about it, but i’ve resurrected it with the announcement in 2023 that Bryce Eldridge of my alma mater Madison HS has been named the 2023 All-Met Player of the year.  No better time than now to update this post and catch it up for the last decade or so of players.  I’ve reversed this chronologically so it reads from 2023 backwards.

Player links are to milb.com, baseball-reference.com, college sites, or some other reference site.

  • 2023: Bryce Eldridge, 1B/RHP for Madison HS.  Led school to 6-A title, All-American, projected as a 1st round pick. Gatorade VA State POTY. Alabama commit drafted 15th overall by the San Francisco Giants.  Signed, now playing for SF’s rookie affiliate.  Other all Met’s of note: Jonny Farmelo of Westfield was also a 1st rounder and went toe-to-toe with Eldridge all year.  Ryan Marohn is committed to pitch for NC State.  Bryson Moore is headed to UVA to join their long-history of DC-area recruited arms.
  • 2022: Amari Allen, junior two-way player for Sherwood HS.  Somehow, he was “just” a 2nd team all-met in 2023 despite his HS team winning the Maryland 4-A title for the 3rd year in a row.  Chipola College JC committed after his 2023 graduation.  Other All Met’s of note: Nick Morabito, son of 1989 All-Met Brian Morabito (who I played against at various points growing up and went to JMU with) was a 2nd round pick by the Mets and just got promoted to Low-A mid-2023.  He was the sole DC-area prep player to get drafted out of HS i 2022..  Jack O’Conner went to UVA and was their mid-week starter all year in 2023, going 6-3 with a 3.86 ERA as a freshman.
  • 2021: No All Met team done by WP.  Weird.  They did all-Met teams for other sports, but not for Baseball this year, which was definitely competed (Madison won the 6-A title).  Probably would have been James Triantos (who graduated a year early and was picked in the 2nd round in 2021) or Jackson Merrill, who went in the 1st round out of Severna Park HS.
  • 2020: Covid: no baseball and no all-Met team.  Likely would have been Jack Bulger, who was a multi-time all-Met and a Vanderbilt scholarship player.
  • 2019: Lyle Miller-Green, RHP/1B from Lake Braddock POTY.  George Mason commit initially and went Undrafted in 2019.  Miller-Green transferred out of Mason after one year, sat out 2021, went to Oklahoma State for 2022, barely played, transferred again for 2023 to Austin Peay, where he led the team in hitting AND made 13 starts with a 2.00 ERA.  He’s in the Cape in 2023 after his technically “junior season” and may be looking to get drafted.  Other all-Mets of note: Zach Agnos, brother of Jake, also went to ECU like his brother and was a 2022 10th round pick by Colorado.  He’s in their high-A bullpen for 2023.  Jack Bulger was an all-Met as a junior, has been a 3-year starter at Vanderbilt and is in his draft year in 2023.  Marcus Lee Sang was drafted out of HS in the 11th round by Philadelphia and currently sits in high-A.  Nate Savino was Gatorade VA State POTY, went to UVA, had a stellar career and was a 3rd rounder in 2022 by Arizona.  He’s yet to pitch a minor league game though; full season injury in 2023.  James Triantos was an all Met as a *freshman* (!!), became a 2nd round pick  in 2021 by the Cubs, and currently is in high-A as a 20yr old.
  • 2018: Kody Milton, MIF Severna Park.  4-year starter committed to UMaryland but did not get drafted.  Played one year at Maryland and transferred to the Naval Academy.  He has no college stats past 2021 and may be out of the sport.  No DC area player was drafted out of HS in 2018.  Other All Mets of note: Patrick Halligan went to Pensacola State JC, was drafted in 2021 by the Royals and is a swing-man for their High-A team in 2023.  Corey Rosier went to Chipola, then UNC-Greensboro and was a 12th round pick by Seattle in 2021.  He’s currently raking in AA and looks like a prospect.
  • 2017: Harold Cortijo, RHP/OF from Riverdale Baptist.  Drafted in the 14th round by the New York Yankees and signed; there’s no evidence he signed for anything more than the $125k slot figure for post 10th round signings.  Pitched in relief for the GCL Yankees in 2017, then had a 2.63 ERA starting 10 games for the Short-A Yankees affiliate in 2018.  He remains in the Yankees system in 2023, pitching in the high-A bullpen.  Other All Mets of note: Kyle Whitten went to UVA, was an NDFA in 2021 after graduating, and is now holding his own in the Tampa high-A bullpen.  Trendon Craig went to Juco and was a 20th round pick in 2021 by Baltimore; he’s on their low-A team for 2023.
  • 2016: Jake Agnos, LHP from Battlefield.  2-time All-Met.  ECU commit, went undrafted out of HS.  In two seasons for Battlefield, he was 18-0 with a 0.60 ERA and 265 strikeouts in 134 1/3rds innings.   That’s a K/9 rate of more than 17 strikeouts.   Agnos started 10 games for ECU his freshman year, 14 his sophomore year with a 4.10 ERA).  In 2019, he was a 4th round pick by the Yankees after a stellar 11-3 season for the ranked ECU team that advanced to a Super Regional.  He pitched briefly in his draft year of 2019, missed 2020, and has been injured basically ever since.  For 2023 he’s on the High-A Tampa full-season injured list.  Other All-Mets of Note: Joe Rizzo, 2-time All-Met drafted in 2nd round and played all of 2018 in High-A for Seattle’s affiliate in Modesto, hitting .241 as a 20-yr old.  He’s a well regarded prospect and is in AAA for 2023.  Khalil Lee was Gatorade VA State POTY, drafted in 3rd round by Kansas City and has shot up the ranks, finishing 2018 in AA and is now considered one of the best prospects in Kansas City’s entire system.  However in 2023 he was suspended for a Domestic Violence issue, which may derail his career entirely.  The Mets released him out of AAA and he’s currently playing Indy ball.  Conor Grammes was a little-known hurler for McLean HS, went to Xavier, found an upper 90’s fastball and was a 5th round pick in 2019.  He’s in AA for 2023.  Useless personal anecdote: I used to play tournament racquetball with Conor’s father back in the late 1990s.  A note on this year: Agnos more than earned his All-Met POTY award above these two players for their 2016 production, but it seems crazy not to have recognized Rizzo’s accomplishments in either 2015 or 2016.  Especially in 2015 when he hit above .500 in his HS season.
  • 2015: A.J. Lee, RHP/SS from St. Johns, 2-time All-Met.  Starting infielder for U Maryland; hit .232 in his junior season in 2018 and was not drafted.  After he graduated in 2019, the Astros made him a 34th round pick and he signed.  He played a few seasons in Houston’s low-minors and was released in Aug 2022.  Other All-Mets of Note: Ljay Newsome, 26th round pick of Seattle, started 26 games for Seattle’s high-A Modesto team in 2018, currently on the DL for SF’s AAA team in 2023, Cody Morris, a 3-time All-met who had to have Tommy John but still got his South Carolina scholarship honored and was their Friday starter in 2018,  a 7th round pick of the Cleveland Indians in 2018, and who debuted in the majors in 2022,  Nate Eikhoff (played at UVA but did not go pro), Jack DeGroat (Liberty’s Ace for three years, Cleveland’s 11th round pick in 2018 draft, played a few years and then retired in Jan 2023).
  • 2014: J.B. Bukauskas, RHP from Stone Bridge who skipped a year of HS and enrolled at UNC.  He was Gatorade Player of the Year and a BA 1st team All-American.  He’s was UNC’s Saturday starter as a sophomore, was on the USA Collegiate All-America team and was projecting as a possible top 10 pick in the 2017 draft before one bad outing in the conference tournament dropped him to the 15th pick, where Houston snapped him up.  In 2018 he missed significant time but did get promoted up to AA.  By 2019 he was one of the top prospects in the minors for one of the best teams in the league, but he struggled in AA.  This led to his missing the entire 2020 season.  Since, he’s bounced between AAA and the Majors for Seattle, kind of settling into a 4-A type guy.  Other All-Mets of note: Nick Wells, 2nd team BA all american, 3rd round pick.  Bounced around Seattle’s system, then Washington traded for him in May 2019.   He played for our system for years, finally getting cut loose in 2021.  He’s in indy ball now, Tommy Doyle, from Flint Hill, who has was UVA’s Sunday starter/closer in 2017, was a Supp-B round pick in 2017 and finished 2018 as the closer in Full-season A-ball for Colorado’s system.  He debuted for Colorado in the Covid 2020 season then didn’t get back until 2023, where he now sits in the bullpen.
  • 2013: Scott Mitchell, rhp from South River.  Committed to Radford per the allmetsports.com link, but does not look like he ever made it there.  He had a heart condition discovered while in HS, and I wonder if that’s impacted his future.  Current status: completely unknown.  Other all-Mets of note from 2013: J.B. Bukauskas and Cody Morris; both sophomores making All-Met, which is pretty amazing,  See 2014-15 for more.  Matthew McPhearson. 4th round draft pick by Arizona out of Riverdale Baptist, made it to Low-A in 2018 but was released in Jan 2019, Alec Grosser (who signed an over-slot 11th round deal with Atlanta, got traded to the Dodgers in 2015, then was released in June 2016 and never re-signed).
  • 2012: Josh Sborz, RHP from McLean.  Went to UVA, was UVA’s “super reliever” who basically won the 2015 CWS for them.  2nd round pick by the Dodgers.  In 2018 got to AAA, then was added to LAD’s 40-man prior to Rule-5 draft.  He starred for the Dodgers bullpen for a couple of seasons, then got flipped to Texas ahead of the 2021 season.  He’s now in his 3rd season in the Texas bullpen and is excelling in 2023. Other All-Mets of note: Kevin Doherty (who pitched out of UVA’s bullpen but was not drafted), Josh Hader (Baltimore 19th rounder who got traded to Houston, then to Milwaukee, where he exploded onto the scene in 2018, getting selected to the NL All Star Team).
  • 2011: Kenny Towns, SS/2B from Lake Braddock.  Went to UVA, played four seasons and was a 20th round pick by the Angels in 2015.  He was released in June of 2016 and retired.  Other All-mets of note: Evan Beal (South Carolina, 21st round pick of KC, spent all of 2018 in Miami’s XST). Josh Sborz (see 2012), Nick Howard (2014 1st round pick out of UVA, spent 2018 in Cincinnati’s AA team as a middle reliever).
  • 2010: Bobby Wahl, RHP from West Springfield.  Went to Ole Miss, was a 5th round pick in 2013 by by Oakland.  In 2018, Wahl got flipped to NY Mets, who selected him and gave him his debut in 2018.  He had limited MLB appearances in 2018 and 2020, pitched entirely in the minors in 2021 and 2022 and then was released by the Dodgers in July 2022 after getting shelled in AAA.  Seems retired.  Other All-Mets of note from 2010: none.
  • 2009: Matthew Bowman, RHP/SS from St. Albans.  Went to Princeton, was drafted in the 13th round in 2012 by the Mets.   In 2016, the St. Louis Cardinals selected him in the Rule-5 draft from the Mets and he was holding his own in the Cardinals bullpen through 2018, pitching as an 8th inning guy.    After 2019, he missed a few seasons due to injury, and is back in AAA for 2023 with the Yankees.  Other All-Mets of note from 2009: Branden Kline (2nd round pick in 2012 from UVA, with Baltimore’s AA Bowie as of 2018, and was added to Baltimore’s 40-man roster ahead of the 2018 Rule-5 draft).
  • 2008: Danny Hultzen, LHP from St. Albans.  As we well know, he went to UVA, was the 2nd overall pick in the 2011 draft by Seattle (matching a historical high draft pick for a DC-area native, tied with Jay Franklin, drafted 2nd overall in the 1971 draft by San Diego out of Madison HS in Vienna).  Hultzen threw 124 innings in 2012 but just 35 in 2013 before running into shoulder issues that cost him all of 2014.  He only threw 8 innings in 2015 before another issue arose and he has yet to appear in 2016.  Current status: he spent 2018 in the Chicago Cubs AAA farm-team and seems like SP depth.  He transitioned to the bullpen in 2019 in AAA but never re-appeared in the majors, and then after the 2020 covid season was released.  Other All Mets of note from 2008: Matt Snyder (who was a long-serving NYY farm-hand before being released as a 28yr old AA player in 2018), L.J. Hoes, who was a 3-time All-Met player, 3rd round pick by Baltimore who has several years of MLB experience, 2nd teamer Mike Snyder (who finished 2018  playing for Atlanta’s AA squad and is now a 6-yr MLFA), 2nd teamer Matt Crouse (who was a 6-yr MLFA off of Detroit’s AAA team after 2017 but never re-signed and may be retired)
  • 2007: Jason Farley, RHP from Madison HS.  Went on to pitch at VMI, where he was a 3-year starter but ended his baseball career prior to his senior year.  Current status; unknown.  Other All Mets of note in 2007: L.J. Hoes, Danny Hultzen (both juniors), Justin Wright, 2nd teamer Shawn Pleffner (a former Nats farmhand, was playing for AA Harrisburg in 2016, now retired), 2nd teamer Jarrett Parker (had time with the SF Giants but was released Mar 2018).
  • 2006: Steve Ulaki, 1B for Our Lady Good Counsel.  Played four years at U-Delaware but went un-drafted.  Current status; unknown.  Other All-Met players of note from 2006: Justin Bour (who in 2018 split time between Miami and Philly), Matt Sweeney, L.J. Hoes (as a sophomore!), Paul Clemens (RHP who was in the majors as recently as 2016, now playing Indy/Mexican league ball.)
  • 2005: Brandon Snyder, SS from Westfield in Centreville.  Became a 1st round pick (13th overall) by Baltimore, has played parts of four season in the majors.  Current Status: he picked up with Tampa Bay for the 2018 season after spending 2017 in the minors.  Then, he signed on with his home town Washington Nationals for the 2019 season and played a full season in AAA Fresno.  He took off 2020 for Covid, returned to Washington’s AAA team for 2021 but transitioned from a player to be a player-coach mid-season, becoming the team’s bullpen catcher.  It is unclear if he remains in this role in 2023. Other All-Met players of note from 2005: Mike Bianucci.
  • 2004: Brett Cecil, LHP from DeMatha.   Went to Uof Maryland, was then a 1st round pick in 2007 by Toronto.  He’s a long-serving 8th inning/LOOGY, and moved from Toronto to St. Louis in 2017.  Current Status: He struggled in 2018 in his age 31 season pitching for St. Louis, and has spent the entire 2019 season on the D/L.  Other All-Mets of Note from 2004: Brandon Guyer, who went to UVA out of Herndon HS, was a 5th round pick in 2007 and spent 2016-2018 as a utility player for Cleveland.  Signed a NLFA deal in 2019 with Chicago WS, another with STL for 2020 but never appeared and was released in July.
  • 2003: Matt Foley, C from Madison HS in Vienna.  Played four years at Virginia Tech but did not get drafted.  Current status: unknown.  Other All-Mets of Note from 2003: Jay Sborz, Daryl Thompson (yes that Daryl Thompson, who was in the Washington system and was part of the big 2006 Cincy-Washington trade).  Emmanuel Burriss was just an honorable Mention All-Met this year, and played some time for the Washington Nats franchise … that is until an 2017 PED test resulted in a 50-game suspension for a “drug of abuse” (i.e., probably Pot).  He played out 2017 w/ the team, signed a MLFA deal for 2018 with the Angels but never appeared.
  • 2002: J.J. Hollenbeck, RHP from Madison HS in Vienna.  Went to VMI, struggled in college, pitched 3 years in the Frontier league.  Current Status: was a member of his HS alma-mater’s coaching staff at Madison HS for a bit, now unknown.  Other All-Mets of Note from 2002: Seth Overbey
  • 2001: Mikey Sweeney, 1B from Riverdale Baptist.  Initially committed to Florida, he lost his scholarship when the Florida coaching staff was fired.  He wasn’t drafted because of his college commitment so he enrolled in a community college in Florida.  It looks like he eventually ended up at St. Petersburg college, was drafted in the 39th round in 2004, played briefly in the rookie league and was cut.  Current status: unknown.  Other All-Mets of Note from 2001: Justin Maxwell (as in long-time Nats player Justin Maxwell, who grew up in suburban Maryland and went to the University of Maryland before getting drafted by the then Montreal franchise).
  • 2000: Kenny “Bubba” Nelson RHP from Riverdale Baptist via Clinton MD.  He passed up a scholarship to Arizona State when he got drafted in the 2nd round by Atlanta.   He became a prospect of some note in the 2003-4 time frame, but never matriculated to the majors, pitching nine seasons in the minors reaching AAA.  Current status: unknown.  Other All-Mets from 2000 of note: Josh Banks, Joe Koshanksky, Jeremy Cleveland (Gatorade POTY for Virginia from  Hayfield HS).
  • 1999: Jeff Baker, SS from Gar-Field HS in Woodbridge.  Gatorade Player of the year in VA and Baseball America 2nd team All American.  Went to Clemson, drafted in the 4th round out of Clemson and went on to have an 11 year MLB career.  He was a backup infielder for Miami in 2014 and 2015 but was released in July of last year after suffering an injury and doesn’t seem to have picked up with anyone else.  The timing of his release was curious, and there’s some sentiment out there that the club released him with an axe to grind.  It seemed a bit odd that he didn’t get picked up by anyone after his 2015 release.   Current Status: unknown, believed to still live in the Virginia area.  Other All-Mets of note in 1999: Joe Saunders again.
  • 1998: Ray Gemmill Jr., SS for Paint Branch HS.  Played 4 years at the University of Maryland and was not drafted.  Current Status: unknown.  Other All-Mets of note in 1998: Joe Saunders, who went to Va Tech and ended up having a 10 year MLB career as a lefty starter.
  • 1997: Chris Stowe, RHP for Chancellor in Fredericksburg.  1st round pick (37th overall) by Montreal; he pitched one season in rookie ball and then walked away from the game for “personal reasons” but may have been injury related.  Current Status: involved with Pinnacle Baseball as an instructor in the area.  Other All-Mets of note in 1997: Peter Bauer
  • 1996: Matt Halloran, SS/2B for Chancellor in Fredericksburg.  VA Gatorade player of the year.  1st round pick (15th overall) by San Diego, played 6 years in their farm system, peaking at AA as a hitter.  Current status: unknown.  Other All-Mets of note: none.
  • 1995: Billy Deck, 1B from Potomac (Va); 2-time All-Met, VA Gatorade player of the year.  3rd round pick by St. Louis, made it to AA briefly but played 5 seasons in their lower minors before reaching MLFA status.  Current Status: unknown.  Other All-Mets of note: none.
  • 1994: Chris Jackson, OF/RHP from Riverdale Baptist.  3-time all-met.  Drafted by the Cubs in the 23rd round but he has no pro baseball records, nor any records of having gone to college.  Current status: unknown.  Other All-Mets of note fro 1994: Shawn Camp, Mike Colangelo (2nd teamer).  Colangelo is a big name now in the DC baseball scene; he’s got his own academy, and he’s the head coach at the new Colgan HS in Prince William county.
  • 1993: L.J. Yankosky, RHP from West Springfield.  2-time All-Met, went to Georgia Tech, suffered an elbow injury that cost him half his collegiate career, and was an 11th round draft pick by Atlanta.  Pitched in Atlanta’s minor league system for 5 years (b-r.com link here).   Current Status: per linkedin.com he finished his degree (I believe he was an Academic All-american) and works for Chick-Fil-A in Atlanta area.  Other All-Mets of Note in 1993: Seth Greisinger (who was VA Gatorade player of the year over Yankosky) and had a better pro career.  Useless information department; I once went out on a date with his older sister.  I’m not kidding.  He was playing for the Braves AA team at the time, and I asked about the unique last name.
  • 1992: Dwayne Crawley, 1B from Douglass HS in Upper Marlboro, MD.  Went to PGCC, got drafted in the 61st round by Houston but chose to go on to a 4-year school, finished up his collegiate career at GWU.  Played 2 years of Indy ball.  Current Status: unknown.  Other All-Mets of note in 1992: L.J. Yankosky (see 1993), Justin Counts, Brian McNichol (who went undrafted, went to JMU, got drafted in 1995 and reached the majors).
  • 1991: Bill Pulsipher, OF/LHP from Fairfax HS.  Drafted in the 2nd round by NY Mets as a pitcher, he turned down a full ride to ODU to sign his contract.  He raced through the minors, was a top 2 and served as a starter for the MLB team for half the 1991 season at age 21 (B-R.com link).  He blew out his elbow, had Tommy John surgery and didn’t make it back to the majors for 3 seasons.  From 1998 onward, he bounced around as a lefty reliever, quit the sport in his late 20s, mounted a comeback and eventually getting one last cup of coffee in 2005 with St. Louis.  His wiki page has a better narrative of his career and comeback.  He continued to pitch in winter ball and indy leagues until 2011 (age 37).  Current Status: believed to be a private pitching instructor in Upstate NY.  Other All-Mets of note in 1991: Brian Buchanan, David Carroll, Scott Schultz (the Gatorade VA player of the year somehow over Pulsipher who went to LSU).
  • 1990: Believed to be Doug Newstrom to make him a two-time winner.  Newstrom took a scholarship to Arizona State University (at the time one of the best baseball schools in the nation), 7th round pick in 93, bounced around the minors until 2000.  Other notables: Justin May (NC State), Brett Sutch (Radford).  Sean Cheetham was VA Gatorade POTY, drafted 4th round by Chicago Cubs, never pitched above high-A.
  • 1989: Believed to be Doug Newstrom, who would have won as a junior.  Other All-Mets of note in 1989: Steve Lyons (went to ODU, 4th round pick in 92).  Mike Nielsen, who turned down a full-ride to Miami to take one at BYU but never panned out.
  • 1988: believed to be Steve Dunn from Robinson HS.  Drafted out of Robinson in the 4th round in 1988, debuted and had parts of two MLB seasons with Minnesota.  Other notables from that year included Lonnie Goldberg, Chris Burr, both of whom went pro.
  • 1987: Pete Schourek, who held the title of “Most accomplished DC-area player in the modern era” for many years.  Schourek was a 2nd round pick by the Mets in 1987, made it to the majors by 1991 and split time between the rotation and the bullpen for three years in New York.  He was waived after the 1993 season, picked up by Cincinnati and in 1995 he went 18-7 and finished 2nd in Cy Young voting.  His great season took a toll though; he sprained his UCL in 96, had surgery and missed half the season, then had another surgery after the next season.  Cincinnati released him, and he bounced around several organizations until finishing up in Boston at age 32 in 2001.
  • 1984-86: unknown
  • 1983; (link needed): Potomac’s Tim Raley was the All met POTY per this novabaseballmagazine.com retrospective.
  • 1982 and prior: unknown if they even did the analysis at the Post.

Hope you enjoyed this ride through memory lane.  If I failed to mention a “player of note” in any of these years please note is as such in the comments.  I was going mostly off of memory for these names and may have missed players who had good collegiate or pro careers.

I’m going to try to dig up some of the older links, perhaps by digging through WP archives.

Other links used:

Written by Todd Boss

June 14th, 2019 at 12:21 pm

Posted in High School,Local Baseball

Prep Baseball Update #5 2018: DC/MD/VA “Tournament of Champions” brackets

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Welcome to my DC Area Prep Baseball Tourney coverage for 2018.

Here’s the rough schedule of posting and what we’ll cover:

  • #1: DC/MD/VA District High School Tournament Report: post-season kickoff .  Covers: MD regionals, VA district brackets, Private school tourney updates.  Usually publishes the week before Memorial day tournament finals.
  • #2: Maryland State Champs, Virginia District and Regionals.   Covers: MD state finals, VA Districts and Regionals tourneys, DC regular season results.  Usually publishes after the Memorial Day weekend tournaments finish up.
  • #3: Virginia State Champions crowned.  Covers: VA state tourneys, recaps MD, DC, Private School results.  Publishes mid-June once the Va state tourney wraps up.
  • #4: Players of the Year/All-State lists and final rankings; publishes early July once all the all-state lists are published.
  • #5: My theoretical “All DC/MD/VA Dream tournament” pairings (this post), once all the state champs are finalized.

Now that all DC, MD and VA public and private tournaments are complete, and as we wait for all the various local and national Player of the Year lists to publish, here’s a fun thought exercise.  If the various champs could commit to a “Tournament of Champions,” what would it look like?

Here’s a bunch of fun theoretical tourneys, with my predictions on how they’d play out too for the fun of it.

Possible Champions of Champions Baseball post-season tourney ideas

The All-Virginia champions league

This takes the champions from the 6 public divisions plus the 3 Private divisions:

6A: West Springfield (DC southern suburbs)
5A: Prince George (south of Richmond near Petersburg)
4A: Salem (just south of Roanoke in SW Virginia)
3A: Spotsylvania (near Fredericksburg)
2A: Page County (near Harrisonburg)
1A: Riverheads (in Staunton, just south of Harrisonburg)

VISSA Division 1: St. Christopher’s (Western Richmond)
VISSA Division 2: The Miller School (Albemarle, near Charlottesville)
VISSA Division 3: Walsingham Academy (Williamsburg)

What if you seeded this 1-9 based on classifications and played a single elimination tourney?

8/9 play-in: 1A:  versus VISSA Division 3: Riverheads vs Walsingham Academy

1 vs 8/9: 6A vs play-in: West Springfield versus Riverheads
2 vs 7: VISAA Div 1 vs 2A: St. Christopher’s vs Page County
3 vs 6: VISAA Div 2 vs 3A: The Miller School vs Spotsylvania
4 vs 5: 4A vs 5A: Salem versus Prince George

In years past I’d have seeded the public 6-A champ over the VISAA Division 1 champ; perhaps not this year though.  I think your semis in this draw are West Springfield, St. Christopher’s, The Miller School and Prince George.  West Springfield and St. Christopher’s advance to the final, St. Christopher’s wins.

Virginia Public Champions league tourney

Just using the 6 public school champions from Virginia, you could play a mini weekend tournament with two brackets:

Bracket 1:
6A: West Springfield
3A: Spotsylvania
2A: Page County

Bracket 2:
5A: Prince George
4A: Salem
1A: Riverheads

Play a double header round robin on Saturday intra-bracket, then the bracket winners play sunday.  I’d guess the two big teams (West Springfield and Prince George) advance, with West Springfield coming out on top.  In some prior years you could easily argue that the 4-A or 5-A champs despite being from smaller schools were better than the bigger 6-A champ … maybe not this year with all the 4A and 5A upsets we had.

DC/MD/VA showdown; a competition of local champions.

Thanks to redistricting, there’s now really two Class 6 and Class 5 regional winners in the area, adding to this fake tournament.

– Virginia Class 6 Region C champ: West Springfield
– Virginia Class 6 Region D champ: Battlefield
– Virginia Class 5 Region C champ: Freedom-South Riding
– Virginia Class 5 Region D champ: Potomac
– DCIAA champ: Wilson
– DCSAA champ: Also Wilson … so maybe we pull in Gonzaga, since St. Albans is the IAC champ.
– WCAC champ: St. Johns
– IAC champ: St. Albans
– MAC Champ: Potomac School
– PVAC Champ: (not sure they played baseball this season)
– Maryland At-Large: Riverdale Baptist
– Maryland 4A West champ: Bethesda-Chevy Chase
– Maryland 3A West champ: Thomas Johnson

You’d probably seed this as follows:

Riverdale Baptist
St. Johns
Battlefield
West Springfield
Bethesda-Chevy Chase
Potomac
St. Albans
Gonzaga
Thomas Johnson
Freedom-South Riding
Wilson
Potomac School

So a tourney would go:

  • 7 v 10: Thomas Johnson vs Potomac School
  • 8 v 9: Freedom-South Riding vs Wilson
  • 1 v 8/9: Riverdale Baptist vs Freedom-South Riding
  • 2 v 7/10: St. Johns vs Thomas Johnson
  • 3 v 6: Battlefield v Potomac
  • 4 v 5: West Springfield vs B-CC

I’d guess this draw is Riverdale Baptist, St. Johns, Battlefield and West Springfield in the semis, Riverdale Baptist and Battlefield in the final and an easy Riverdale win in the final.

Maryland-Virginia State Champs Show Down

Virginia Public champs
6A: West Springfield
5A: Prince George
4A: Salem
3A: Spotsylvania
2A: Page County
1A: Riverheads

Maryland Public Champs:
4-A: Howard
3-A: Thomas Johnson
2-A: Century
1-A: Boonsboro

Maybe you seed it 1-10 and have play-ins with the smallest teams.

8-9: VA 2A:  vs  MD 1-A: Page County vs Boonsboro
7-10: MD 2-A:  vs VA 1A: Century vs Riverheads

1 VA 6A vs 8/9 play-in: West Springfield vs Page County
2 MD 4-A vs 7/10 play-in: Howard vs Century
3  VA 5A vs #6 VA 3A: Prince George vs Spotsylvania
4  MD 3-A  vs #5 seed VA 4A: Thomas Johnson vs Salem

I’d give the top seeds the semis (West Springfield, Howard, Prince George, Thomas Johnson), West Springfield and Prince George in the final, West Springfield the winner.

 

Private School showdown

VISSA Division 1: St. Christophers
VISSA Division 2: The Miller School
VISSA Division 3: Walsingham Academy

MIAA Class A: Archbishop Curley
MIAA Class B: Boy’s Latin
MIAA Class C: Indian Creek

WCAC: St. Johns (DC)
IAC: St. Albans
MAC: Potomac School
PVAC: ?

Maryland At-Large: Riverdale Baptist

I’d seed this:

1. Riverdale Baptist
2. VISAA Division I
3. MIAA Class A
4. WCAC
5. VISAA Division II
6. IAC
7. MIAA Class B
8. MAC:
9. VISAA Division III
10. MIAA Class C
11. PVAC

hard not to see a Riverdale Baptist-St.Christopher’s final, though the semis between St. Christopher’s and Archbishop Curley would be good.

Written by Todd Boss

July 16th, 2018 at 2:33 pm

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Prep Baseball Update #4 2018: Player of the Year Lists

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Welcome to my DC Area Prep Baseball Tourney coverage for 2018.

Here’s the rough schedule of posting and what we’ll cover:

We now should be through the “All-Everything” lists start getting published.  Here’s my tracker of them.  I try to note the player of the year in each case.  If i’m missing something, please let me know.  I’ve put results in red that I either cannot find or are behind a paywall or seem to have been discontinued.  I realize this is kind of anti-climactic at this point; lots of these players mentioned were drafted weeks ago and may already be playing.  But it takes some of these orgs til late June/early July to announce.

Individual Player Accolades Announced

In addition to being playoff-baseball time, this is also the time of the year that we start to see player awards.  I’ll put these in as they publish, but we won’t expect most of these until the end of June.

  • Gatorade announced their player of the year awards.  National POTY is LHP Ryan Weathers from Loretto HS in Loretto Tennessee.  Vanderbilt commit, went 7th overall in the 2018 draft.  None of our local 3 players were drafted.
    • Maryland: Ryan Archibald, RHP/SS from John Carroll HS (Bel Air).  Committed to Arizona.
    • Washington DC: Zach Tsakounis, LHP/OF from St. Johns.  committed to William & Mary.
    • Virginia: Cade Huntgate, RHP/SS for Abingdon HS (Bristol).  Committed to Florida State.
  • Louisville Slugger All-Americans: not sure if being named any longer.
  • National High School Coaches Association (NHSCA) All Mid Atlantic Region:
  • MaxPreps High School All-Americans: Nolan Gorman POTY from Phoenix AZ.  19th overall pick to St. Louis.  Local players selected include LCA’s Wesley Clarke to 1st team, Adam Hackenberg, Kody Milton to 2nd team.
  • Baseball America High School All-Americans:
  • Under Armor All-Americans:
  • USA Today/American Family All-USA teams: J.T. Ginn, Brandon HS (Miss) is POTY.  Mississippi State commit, 1st round draft pick (30th overall) in 2018 draft.  Riverdale Baptist’s Corey Rosier was named to the 2nd team.
  • USA Today/American Family All-State Teams and POTYs:
    • Maryland: Kody Milton, Inf Severna Park MD is POTY.  UMaryland commit
    • Washington DC: Collin Bosley-Smith, RHP from Wilson HS, a sophomore (!).
    • Virginia:  Wesley Clarke, C for Liberty Christian Academy is POTY.    South Carolina commit, 40th round draft pick 2018.
  • American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings High School All Americans:
  • Collegiate Baseball High School All-Americans:
  • Perfectgame.org/Rawlings All-Americans:  Jeremiah Jackson, St. Luke’s Episcopal HS (Ala.) is PG National POTY.  Mississippi State commit, 2nd round 2018 pick by Angels.   Matthew Libratadore is national pitcher of the year, Ryan Weathers is national 2-way player of the year.
    • Maryland:  Ryan Archibald, RHP/SS from John Carroll HS (Bel Air).  Committed to Arizona.
    • Washington DC: (not named)
    • Virginia: Adam Hackenberg, C from the Miller School is POTY.  Clemson commit, 39th round draft pick 2018.
  • Washington Post All-Met teams:  Kody Milton, Inf Severna Park MD is POTY.  UMaryland commit.
  • The Baltimore Sun’s All-Metro Team:
  • Richmond Times-Dispatch All-Metro Team:
  • Virginian Pilot All-Tidewater team:
  • Virginia Class 6 All Region Teams
    • Region A (Tidewater) All Regional team:
    • Region B (Richmond) All Regional team:
    • Region C (Occoquan) All-Regional team: Lake Braddock’s Matt Thomas (W&M commit) named POTY.
    • Region D (North) All Regional team: Madison’s Kyle Novak (JMU commit) named Region POTY.  Marshall’s Patrick Halligan (GMU commit) and South Lakes’ Josh Taylor (uncommitted) named co-pitchers of the year.
  • Virginia Class 5 All Region Teams
    • Region A (Tidewater area) All-Regional team: Hickory RHP Drew Stanley (a sophomore) named Region POTY.   Link behind a pay-wall for full team.
    • Region B (Richmond) All Regional team:
    • Region C (Northern VA) All Regional team: Potomac Falls LHP Nate Savino (a sophomore) named Region POTY.
    • Region D (Northwest and Western VA) All Regional team: Potomac LHP Brody Mack (a junior) named Region POTY.
  • Virginia Class 4 All Region Teams
    • Region A (Tidewater area) All-Regional team:
    • Region B (Richmond) All Regional team:
    • Region C (Northern VA) All Regional team: Riverside Jr SS Carson Swank co-POTY along with Blaze O’Saben, SS for Fauquier HS (UMBC commit).
    • Region D (Northwest and Western VA) All Regional team:
  • Other Virginia All-Regional teams: harder to come by:
    • Class 3 Region B (Culpepper/Warrenton area): Max Harper, 1B for Spotsylania is POTY.   Uncommitted as of this writing.
  • Northern Virginia All-District teams: Available at this link at Novabaseballmagazine.com, thanks to Joey Kamide for all his hard work.
  • NovaBaseballMagazine Nova Nine: Madison’s Kyle Novak (JMU commit) named NovaNine POTY.
  • PrepBaseballReport
    • All Maryland Team: 5/29/18 team released, POTYs announced June 11th-14th.  Jacob Zebron, RHP Colonel Richardson HS POTY, NC State commit, 18th round draft pick.
    • All Virginia/DC Team: Wesley Clarke, C for Liberty Christian Academy is POTY.    South Carolina commit, 40th round draft pick 2018.
  • VHSL All-State Teams:
    • 6-A: Matt Thomas, C Lake Braddock is POTY.  William & Mary commit.
    • 5-A: Tevin Tucker, SS Prince George HS is POTY.  West Virginia commit.
    • 4-A: Wesley Clarke, C for Liberty Christian Academy is POTY.    South Carolina commit, 40th round draft pick 2018.
    • 3-A: Max Harper, 1B for Spotsylania is POTY.   Uncommitted as of this writing.
    • 2-A: T.R. Williams, a *freshman* RHP from Page County, is POTY.
    • 1-A: Carson Bell, SS from Washington & Lee HS POTY.
  • VISAA’s All-State teams: named in early may and announced for all three divisions here.  Players of the Year;
    • Division I All State Team.  Nick Biddison, SS St. Christophers in Richmond is POTY.  Virginia Tech commit.
    • Division II All State Team.  Adam Hackenberg, C from the Miller School is POTY.  Clemson commit, 39th round draft pick 2018.
    • Division III All State Team
  • Maryland All-MIAA All-State teams: behind a paywall that i’m tired of fighting 🙂
    • MIAA A division: behind a paywall
    • MIAA B division: behind a paywall
    • MIAA C division: behind a paywall
  • Maryland State Association of Baseball Coaches (MSABC) All-Maryland teams: four regional all-star teams picked for exhibitions played over Memorial Day weekend.
  • Maryland Brooks Robinson All-Star game rosters: announced 5/31/18.
  • Anne-Arundel County All-Baseball team:
  • Montgomery County All-Baseball Team: Michael Bouma, 1B from Sherwood player of the year (UMaryland commit), Ben Vok, RHP Sherwood (a junior) Pitcher of the year.
  • All Baltimore-City 2017 Baseball team: behind a paywall
  • All WCAC 2018: Thomas Russell, RHP from Paul VI.  Navy commit.
  • All IAC 2018: Clark Klitenic, LHP from St. Albans was POTY as a junior.  Duke commit.
  • All MAC 2018:

If I missed an award, or if you know of something I don’t, don’t hesitate to post.

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July 15th, 2018 at 2:29 pm

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2018 Draft coverage; Extended DC/MD/VA Draftee review

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UVA's Daniel Lynch is the highest-drafted DC/MD/VA player for 2018. Photo via Richmond Times Dispatch

UVA’s Daniel Lynch is the highest-drafted DC/MD/VA player for 2018. Photo via Richmond Times Dispatch

Here’s a review of MLB Draftees in 2018 with Local ties.  By Local, I mean any player that either went to high school or college anywhere in DC, MD or VA.

We posted earlier about all the marquee names in the area who may get draft notice;  almost all of them went undrafted  this year and so lots of colleges are getting VA and MD based kids heading to school.

Its clear to me that several clubs in particular had strong area scouts in the Virginia area;

  • Chicago Cubs: the Cubs took four Virginia-tied players in the top 10 picks and a fifth later on.
  • Cleveland: they took three locally-tied players in the first 11 rounds
  • New York Yankees: took four locally-tied players in this draft, three between the 8th and 13th rounds.
  • Cincinnati took two VA-college players in the top 10 rounds (both likely senior sign/money savers)
  • Arizona took three VA-tied players, including a flier on Zach Hess in the later rounds after he so precipitously fell.

There are several high schoolers in the DC/MD/VA area with commits to major colleges who went completely un-drafted, surprising me.  Stephen Pelli (UNC commit), Cade Huntgate (Florida State), Will Schroeder (also UNC), Kody Milton (UMD), Tyler Casagrande (Vanderbilt), Jacob Steinberg (Miami), and Ryan Archibald (Arizona).   This list includes both the Virginia and Maryland Gatorade players of the year for 2018, normally guys who are getting significant draft attention.

Its kind of a down year for prep players in the area.  We didn’t see a DC/MD/VA prep player even picked until the 18th round, and then  just a handful of others with throw-away mid-30th round picks.

Here’s a full table of all locally tied kids drafted this year.

RoundOverallDC LocalStateDrafting TeamPlayerPositionCol/HSHSCollege (or Commit)
134NoVAKansas CityLynch, DanielLHP4YR JRFreeman (Richmond)UVA
1-supp39NoVAArizonaMcCarthy, JakeOF4YR JRScranton HS (Scranton PA)UVA
1-supp43NoVASt. LouisRoberts, GriffinRHP4YR JRJames River HS (Midlothian)Wake Forest
3103NoMDClevelandPalacios, RichardSS4YR JRBrooklyn NYTowson
5158NoVAChicago CubsWeber, Andy2B4YR JRAuburn, OHUVA
5154NoMDSt. LouisDunn, Nick2B4YR JRSunbury PAUMD
7218NoVAChicago CubsArtis, D.J.CF4YR JRGreensboro NCLiberty
7223YesMDClevelandMorris, CodyRHP4YR JRReservoir HS (Columbia)South Carolina
7214NoVAMinnesotaWinder, JoshRHP4YR JRJames River HS (Midlothian)VMI
8248YesVAChicago CubsMort, ZachRHP4YR JRCosby HS (Chesterfield)George Mason
8247YesVANew York YankeesVan Hoose, ConnorRHP4YR SRGonzaga HS (via Alexandria)Bucknell
9278NoVAChicago CubsCasey, DerekRHP4YR SRHanover HS (Richmond)UVA
9259NoVACincinnatiMcDonald, AndrewRHP4YR JRCincinnati, OHVirginia Tech
10292NoVAArizonaLanghorne, Brett3B4YR SRLee-Davis HS, MechanicsvilleCarson-Newman College
10288NoVACincinnatiSousa, BennettLHP4YR SRNorth Palm Beach, FLUVA
11344YesVAClevelandDeGroat, JackRHP4YR JRLoudoun Valley HSLiberty
12367NoVANew York YankeesPita, MattOF4YR JRCosby HS (Chesterfield)VMI
13397YesMDNew York YankeesPasteur, IsaiahRHP4YR SRWinters Mill HS, Westminster MDGeorgetown
15449NoVATexasSimmons, CameronRF4YR JRRoyersford, PAUVA
16473YesVAOaklandNightengale, BryceRHP4YR JRAllegany HS, Cumberland, MDGeorge Mason
16474NoVAPittsburghSelby, ColinRHP4YR JRWestern Branch HS, Chesapeake VARandolph-Macon
18535NoMDBaltimoreZebron, JakeRHPHSColonial Richardson HS, FederalsburgNC State (commit)
19564YesDCPittsburghKobos, WillRHP4YR JRCharlotte, NCGeorge Washington
20586YesVASan FranciscoManning, JeffSS4YR JRBattlefield HS, HaymarketAlabama
20596NoVATorontoKapra, VinnySS4YR SRMelbourne, FLRichmond
21632NoVAKansas CityEaton, NathanCF4YR SOThomas Dale HS (Richmond)VMI
21644NoVALos Angeles DodgersTodd, TreCF4YR JRNew JerseyLiberty
22672NoMDHoustonCostes, MartyOF4YR JRArchbishop Curley (Baltimore)UMD
23698NoVAChicago CubsTaylor, HunterCF4YR SRNandua HS (DelMarVA peninsula)South Carolina
25756YesDCColoradoMetz, Robert2B4YR 5SPoolesville George Washington
26783NoVASt. LouisCoward, ConnorRHP4YR JRPittsburgh, PAVirginia Tech
26813YesVAWashingtonMorse, ColinRHP (Str)4YR SRMcLean HS, McLean VAShenandoah
28836YesVATorontoMcGuire, Andy1B4YR JRMadison HS, ViennaTexas
29877NoVANew York YankeesBertsch, JacksonLHP4YR 5S?Liberty
30906NoVAColoradoHarlow, ColtonLHP4YR SR?JMU
32955NoMDBaltimoreSandridge, JayvienLHPHSMercersburg Academy (Hagerstown)UCF (commit)
341012NoVAArizonaHess, ZackRHP (Str)4YR SOLiberty Christian Academy (Lynchburg)LSU
351045YesVABaltimoreGrammes, ConorRHP4YR SOMcLean HS, McLean VAXavier
351038YesVAChicago White SoxMorgan, JasonRHP4YR SRChancellor HS (Fredericksburg)UNC
351037NoVAPhiladelphiaRoss, AustinRHP (Str)4YR 5S?Radford
381130NoVANew York MetsZona, NickSSHS SRHanover HS (Richmond)JMU (commit)
391172NoVAKansas CityHackenberg, AdamCHS SRMiller School of Albemarle (VA)Clemson (commit)
401205NoVAMilwaukeeClarke, WesCHS SRLiberty Christian Academy (Lynchburg)South Carolina (commit)

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