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1. Guardians 2B Travis Bazzana | 21  With Bazzana, the Guardians get their most polished draft prospect in a long time, but he’s not a floor play by any means. At six foot even out of Australia, Bazzana has gotten stronger throughout his career in college ball and added significant impact to his plus-contact profile, […]

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In our 52nd episode, Mike Couillard and Jeremy Brewer open by celebrating our one-year anniversary before diving into the All-Star Game happenings including the Home Run Derby and MLB Draft. Then we discuss the release of one of the year’s most significant baseball card products, Topps Chrome, in stores July 17. You can find us on twitter […]

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With the reported promotion of Paul Skenes to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday afternoon, it’s fair to wonder who could be primed to follow the fireballer as the No. 1 overall selection in the MLB Draft this July. Last year’s college trio at the top of the draft class was a historically strong group, led by Skenes and followed by outfielders Dylan Crews and Wyatt Langford. This summer is poised to have an equally-as-lethal top three, headlined by Georgia’s Charlie Condon and Florida’s Jac Caglianone, who are primed for an all-time great Golden Spikes race down the stretch. Arkansas southpaw Hagen Smith is right there with them as this year’s top collegiate arm, but what Condon and Caglianone are doing is truly historic and both players should be positioned firmly at the top of your first-year player draft boards. But who should go first overall and who should you have at No. 1 for your FYPD?

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We are officially four weeks into the 2024 college baseball season, with SEC Opening Weekend finally upon us. You will no longer turn on your television to find top-ranked Arkansas battling Northwest Southeastern Central New Mexico State Tech. It’s SEC-on-SEC now. It will be fierce. Tigers. Bulldogs. Wildcats. Gators. Razorbacks. Commodores. More Tigers. More Bulldogs. And then you have the Gamecocks of the world. We won’t touch that one. At least not publicly. 

Through the first four weeks, SEC stars have been stockpiling statistics against varying qualities of competition. Now, it gets real. But even though the competition has been questionable to this point, a handful of SEC draft hopefuls have begun separating themselves from the pack or significantly enhancing their stock. We’ll get into five such players this week, with more Collegiate Corner updates in store for the weeks ahead.

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There isn’t much of a consensus opinion surrounding the 2024 MLB Draft, particularly with this year’s grouping of collegiate talent. I’ve seen North Carolina’s Vance Honeycutt, West Virginia’s JJ Weatherholt, Tennessee’s Chase Burns, and Florida’s Jac Caglianone, among other players, all ranked as the No. 1 prospect by various publications. I have to agree because there are a lot of standout tools at the top of this draft but also a lot of high-ceiling players with unrefined aspects of their game or question marks in one or more areas. The fall practice season is going to go a long way in determining the 2024 preseason draft board, with the campaign to follow undoubtedly shaking the trees clean. Who knows, a bald-headed Jonathan Mayo even might come tumbling out of the timber after all of the information we uncover in this year’s crop. Anywho, here are my way-too-early rankings for the 2024 college draft class, with thorough insight to be provided on each player throughout the months ahead.

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