High Schools are heading into post-season tournaments and local prep players have had their chances to make impressions through the Spring HS season. \u00a0How are our local prep phenoms faring this year, and what players with Virginia ties may feature prominently in the upcoming MLB draft?<\/p>\n
Note; it is difficult to find updated stats on Prep players. \u00a0I tried. \u00a0If you know where to find reliable prep hitting and pitching stats, let me know. \u00a0So there’s not much in the way of stats here unless they’re college players. \u00a0For all the players below I’ve listed if they appear in the latest top-100 draft prospect rankings from two reliable sources: Keith Law<\/strong>‘s top-100 draft list<\/a> and\u00a0BaseballAmerica’s\u00a0top 100 list<\/a> and top 250 list<\/a>.\u00a0 Instead of re-linking over and over, i’ll refer to these two lists in shorthand via the links here.<\/p>\n First, quick updates on the players mentioned in my March 2013 posting<\/a> on 4 local players:<\/p>\n A couple of new names that I’ve taken note of locally, by virtue of their college commitments to major Baseball programs<\/a>:<\/p>\n Other Virginia-connected big names being talked about in the draft (thanks to this MinorLeagueBall article and comments<\/a> for crowd-sourced Virginia-connected names to target)<\/p>\n Conclusion: Looking at this list, UVA stands to lose an awful lot of pitching recruits if these guys don’t honor their commitments. \u00a0Bettinger, Jones, Nicely and Roberts are all UVA commits. \u00a0But imagine that staff in a couple years if they all go to college. \u00a0Phew.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/draft\/2013-state-draft-report-virginia\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" High Schools are heading into post-season tournaments and local prep players have had their chances to make impressions through the Spring HS season. \u00a0How are our local prep phenoms faring this year, and what players with Virginia ties may feature prominently in the upcoming MLB draft? Note; it is difficult to find updated stats on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2411],"tags":[1768,1655,1654,1771,1770,1772,1769,1767,1773,440,590,1766,425,110,1776,1778,1656,1611,1657,219,1774],"class_list":["post-6645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-draft","category-local-baseball","tag-alec-bettinger","tag-alec-grosser","tag-andy-mcguire","tag-austin-nicely","tag-bobby-wahl","tag-chad-pinder","tag-conner-jones","tag-errol-robinson","tag-jack-roberts","tag-jim-callis","tag-john-sickels","tag-jonathan-grey","tag-justin-upton","tag-keith-law","tag-kris-bryant","tag-kyle-crockett","tag-matt-mcphearson","tag-ryan-sullivan","tag-thomas-rogers","tag-tim-hudson","tag-zach-rice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6645"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11963,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions\/11963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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