Mack’s Sunday Draft Update – 4-17-16 – New Mock, Rankings, Logan Shore, Dakota Hudson, D-1 Mid Season Report

Good morning.


Barnegat H.S.(NJ) LHP Jason Groome threw a 19 strikeout no-hitter on Monday with a last pitch 94-mph fastball (97 in first inning). And then... he was suspended for up to 30 days for transferring from one school (IMG Academy (FL) back to Barnegat where he played his freshman and sophomore season. Seems he didn't get permission from anyone for the transfer.



The rage of the college season continues to be Clemson freshman Seth Beer, who hit his 14 home run on Tuesday against Western Carolina


Cal RHP Daulton Jefferies is 'day to day' with a calf injury... I have him as the 23rd pick overall in the draft...


Fueled By Sports and Baseball Draft Report have both updated their mocks this week and we'll re-averaged the numbers into our new ranking - 

1 1.     LHP           Jason Groome              Barnegat HS (NJ)

1 2.     LHP           A.J. Puk                        Florida

   3.     OF              Kyle Lewis                    Mercer

   4.     OF              Blake Rutherford        Charminade HS (FL)

   5.     OF              Corey Ray                    Louisville

   6.     RHP           Riley Pint                     St. Thomas Aquinas HS (KS)

   7.     SS              Delvin Perez                Intl Baseball Academy (PR)

   8.     RHP           Alec Hansen                 Oklahoma

   9.     IF               Nick Senzel                  Tennessee

  10.  OF             Mickey Moniak            La Costa Canyon HS (CA) 

1 11.  OF             Buddy Reed                 Florida

  12.  RHP          Connor Jones               Virginia

  13.  OF             Bryan Reynolds           Vanderbilt

  14.  RHP          Jordan Sheffield          Vanderbilt

  15.  3B-P         Josh Lowe                     Pope HS (GA)

  16.  SS             Nolan Jones                  Holy Ghost Prep (PA)

  17.  LHP          Matt Krook                  Oregon

  18.  RHP          Cal Quatrill                 Stanford

  19.  OF             Nick Banks                   Texas A&M

  20.  OF             Will Benson                  Westminster Schools HS (GA)

  21.  RHP          Logan Shore                 Florida

  22.  RHP          Kevin Gowdy               Barbara HS (CA)

  23.  RHP          Daulton Jefferies         Cal

  24.  RHP          Ian Anderson               Shenendohowa HS (NY)

  25.   RHP         Robert Tyler                Georgia

  26.  C               Zack Collins                 Miami

  27.  LHP          Braxton Garrett          Florence HS (AL)

  28.  C               Chris Okey                   Clemson

  29.  RHP          Mike Shawaryn           Maryland

  30.  LHP          Eric Lauer                    Kent State

  31.  RHP          Dakota Hudson            Mississippi State

  32.  3B              Bobby Dalbec              Arizona

A few thoughts on Nick Banks –

From Minor League Ball - Nick Banks is an outfielder for Texas A&M, who will be entering his Junior season this fall. He is currently seen as a 2016 first round draft prospect. Let's take a more in-depth look at him.

Banks is a 6'0", 200 pound outfielder who graduated from Tomball HS in Tomball, Texas. He went undrafted in the 2013 draft, but that was due to a combination of his college commitment and some injury issues during high school. He had quite a successful high school career, though. He was named a Perfect Game All-American and went to the playoffs all four years, including a championship run his senior season. As a senior, he hit .531 with nine home runs and only twelve strikeouts in 136 trips to the plate.

And, Bobby Dalbec –

From The Baseball Draft Report - Dalbec deserves a lot of credit for battling back from a slow start to now have a more than respectable 2016 overall batting line. He also deserves respect for being one of the realest 2016 MLB Draft prospects out there. What you see is what you get with Dalbec: massive power, lots of whiffs, and a fair amount of walks. His arm and athleticism help make up for a lack of easy lateral quickness at the hot corner, so sticking at third should remain an option for the foreseeable future. The older, popular, and common comp for him has been Troy Glaus; on the flip side, I’ve heard Chris Dominguez as a possible outcome. The Glaus ship appears to have sailed, so something in between that and Dominguez would be a fine professional result.

The University of Miami became the number one ranked college team after this month's sweep of Clemson and North Carolina and one game win (other two games snowed out) against Notre Dame.

 'U' is led by junior catcher Zack Collins (29-G, .424.583/.718, 7-HR) and OF Willie Abreu (29-G, .250/.333/.452, 5-HR).



D1's mid-season report (through 4-6 games) - 

    1.         C  Zack Collins    Miami   .410/.580/.680

    2.          1B Jamerson Fisher   Southeastern LA.    .510/.618/.854

    3.          3B  Jake Burger   Missouri State   .405/.483/.760

    4.          SS  Sheldon Neuse   Oklahoma   .396/.504/.708

     5.          OF  Seth Beer    Clemson   .430/.538/.935

     6.          OF  Anfernee Grier   Auburn   .430/.520/.670

     7.          OF  Kyle Lewis   Mercer   .414/.547/.802

     8.           DH  Will Craig   Wake Forest   .480/.570/.950

     9.           UT  Luken Baker   TCU    .330/.450/.500 

These were no new mock drafts this week to add to the equation, so the current two players projected to be the Mets picks remain –

          #19   RHP           Logan Shore       Florida

          #31   RHP           Dakota Hudson  Mississippi State

For the sake of reference, here are the top 12 right handed pitchers currently in the draft –

1.     RHP      Alec Hanson       Oklahoma

2.     RHP      Riley Pint           St. Thomas Aquinas HS (KS)

3.     RHS      Connor Jones     Virginia

4.     RHP      Jordon Sheffield   Vanderbilt

5.     RHP      Daulton Jefferies   Cal

6.     RHP      Logan Shore       Florida

7.     RHP      Cal Quantrill      Stanford

8.     RHP      Kevin Gowdy      Barbara HS (CA)

9.     RHP      Robert Tyler      Georgia

10.  RHP     Ian Anderson      Shenendohowa HS (NY)

11.  RHP    Mike Shawaryn   Maryland

12.   RHP    Dakota Hudson   Mississippi State