JCooke93 said:

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Breaking News on D1Baseball Portal Gupton and Barkett just got added

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Gupton leaving is extremely disappointing. Was hoping he'd give it another year and get a starting spot.

pack2010 said:

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Not sure where else to put this, but MLB came out with their top 200 prospects- Below are NCSU commits

RHP Landen Maroudis is #69 overall.
Alex Sosa, Catcher commit is #122 overall. I knew he was a riser, but dang- dont expect to get him anymore.
RHP Chance Mako #178 overall

https://www.mlb.com/prospects/draft/

Current player wise, Gino is #57 overall.

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Last year this list had Eli Serrano 94th, Gupton 96th and Dom Pilloli 135th.

I think we have a really solid shot at Mako getting to school. Looking at the MLB list from last year no HS pitchers ranked as low as Mako on that list were drafted or even signed. Totally not scientific in the least bit but at least something for us grasp onto until draft time. haha

In every interview I've heard or read on Mako he genuinely sounds like he wants to go to college and the draft is what it is. Now if he tells some team he's in and they throw some coin at him then he should go, IMO.

Apropos of nothing really, but...
Just looking at last year's draft (and I've alluded to this previously):

HS Pitchers drafted last year - 53 (1 was a Canadian HS JR)
37 of that 53 signed (28 Righties, 9 Lefties)
RH HS Pitchers drafted last year - 40
LH HS Pitchers drafted last year - 13 (1 was the Canadian)

HS First Basemen drafted last year - 2
Oddly enough both were from NC. One signed and the other ended up at UNCW (Xavier Isaac and Tanner Thach)

HS Second basemen drafted last year - 0
Not surprising as a ton of the Shortstop's drafted will end up at second.

HS SS drafted last year - 29
22 signed.
6 were from Puerto Rico, 1 from Canada.

HS OFs drafted last year - 20
15 signed

HS Catchers drafted last year - 7 (5 signed)
2 were from Puerto Rico (both signed)
1 was from Canada (ended up at Rutgers)

I'm missing one in my list somewhere but 112 HS kids (almost half being pitchers) were drafted last year according to several articles I've read.

2022 draft
616 total draft picks
453 4-year school kids were drafted
112 HS kids
45 JUCOs/Independent/other


2021 was much of the same
612 total draft picks
450 4 year kids
115 HS kids
47 JUCOs

MLB teams are moving further away from taking HS talent.

I didn't really mean to go down this rabbit hole but oh well, I did. My bad.

CLTWolf said:

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pack2010 said:

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Not sure where else to put this, but MLB came out with their top 200 prospects- Below are NCSU commits

RHP Landen Maroudis is #69 overall.
Alex Sosa, Catcher commit is #122 overall. I knew he was a riser, but dang- dont expect to get him anymore.
RHP Chance Mako #178 overall

https://www.mlb.com/prospects/draft/

Current player wise, Gino is #57 overall.

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Last year this list had Eli Serrano 94th, Gupton 96th and Dom Pilloli 135th.

I think we have a really solid shot at Mako getting to school. Looking at the MLB list from last year no HS pitchers ranked as low as Mako on that list were drafted or even signed. Totally not scientific in the least bit but at least something for us grasp onto until draft time. haha

In every interview I've heard or read on Mako he genuinely sounds like he wants to go to college and the draft is what it is. Now if he tells some team he's in and they throw some coin at him then he should go, IMO.

Apropos of nothing really, but...
Just looking at last year's draft (and I've alluded to this previously):

HS Pitchers drafted last year - 53 (1 was a Canadian HS JR)
37 of that 53 signed (28 Righties, 9 Lefties)
RH HS Pitchers drafted last year - 40
LH HS Pitchers drafted last year - 13 (1 was the Canadian)

HS First Basemen drafted last year - 2
Oddly enough both were from NC. One signed and the other ended up at UNCW (Xavier Isaac and Tanner Thach)

HS Second basemen drafted last year - 0
Not surprising as a ton of the Shortstop's drafted will end up at second.

HS SS drafted last year - 29
22 signed.
6 were from Puerto Rico, 1 from Canada.

HS OFs drafted last year - 20
15 signed

HS Catchers drafted last year - 7 (5 signed)
2 were from Puerto Rico (both signed)
1 was from Canada (ended up at Rutgers)

I'm missing one in my list somewhere but 112 HS kids (almost half being pitchers) were drafted last year according to several articles I've read.

2022 draft
616 total draft picks
453 4-year school kids were drafted
112 HS kids
45 JUCOs/Independent/other


2021 was much of the same
612 total draft picks
450 4 year kids
115 HS kids
47 JUCOs

MLB teams are moving further away from taking HS talent.

I didn't really mean to go down this rabbit hole but oh well, I did. My bad.

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Lots of good info here. I work with a guy that is a former East Rowan baseball player and State grad. He follows East Rowan closely and went to many games tis season. He not so sure about Mako anymore. Says he is saying he will listen to the pros then decide. With a 95-plus fastball and his size, he is probably hearing big dollars. But he is still hopeful he will be a Wolfpacker.

pack2010 said:

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also, i guess i am dumb, but how is it possible to update the thread title? would love to try to update it when possible (it might be a subscriber feature, idk)

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you should sign up here instead of wasting your money on rivals and jacey. haha

IPS is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than anything you'll get over there.

Glass can do it for you, or any other moderator.

I can't imagine leaving my teammates while they are playing in the post season, but these are new times.