NEW INFO - 2023 Draft Prospect - RHP - Grant Taylor

 

Grant Taylor

RHP LSU

 

2-13-23 - Kendall Rogers @KendallRogers

SOURCE: LSU baseball RHP Grant Taylor, a projected weekend starter and the No. 15 prospect in the 2023 MLB Draft class by D1 baseball, will miss the 2023 season because of a UCL injury. LSU clearly has depth, but Taylor had an incredible fall.

2-6-23 - Prospect Live - Top 100 Prospects -

59 RHP

Grant Taylor

LSU

Taylor is a big, strong, imposing righty with sound fundamentals on the mound and a real feel for manipulating the baseball. The fastball works its way into the mid-90s, resting a tick lower than that, but Taylor has a 2-seamer, a cutter, and a more traditional four-seam that he likes to keep hitters off balance with. He throws a more traditional slider in the mid-80s, as well as a vicious curveball that's been a swing-and-miss pitch during his time in college. There's work to be done in terms of commanding his arsenal with consistency and avoiding walks, but scouts like the operation and believe that's coming. This is, as they say, "what they look like".

12-1-22 - Six Tigers Named to D1 Baseball Top 100 College Prospects List for 2023 MLB Draft - 

Six LSU players have been named to the D1Baseball.com Top 100 College Prospects List for the 2023 Major League Baseball Draft. 

LSU junior centerfielder Dylan Crews is No. 1 on the list; junior right-handed pitcher/utility player Paul Skenes is No. 10; sophomore right-handed pitcher Grant Taylor is No. 15; junior right-handed pitcher Ty Floyd is No. 44; junior first baseman Tre’ Morgan is No. 47; and junior right-handed pitcher Christian Little is No. 67. 

Taylor, a member of the 2022 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll as a finance major, pitched in 17 games (two starts) last season as a true freshman, recording a 4-1 mark and a 5.81 ERA in 31.0 innings with 21 walks and 39 strikeouts. The Florence, Ala., native, earned a relief win on April 10 in Game 3 of LSU’s three-game sweep at Mississippi State, working four innings and allowing two runs on five hits with no walks and six strikeouts. 

Taylor pitched LSU to a series-clinching win on March 27 over seventh-ranked Florida with the longest outing of his collegiate career. He entered the game in the fourth inning and pitched the remainder of the contest, limiting the Gators to two runs on four hits in 5.1 innings with two walks and six strikeouts. Beginning with the final out of the seventh inning, Taylor retired seven of the eight Florida hitters he faced to end the game. 

 

11-29-22 - D1Baseball @d1baseball 

RHP Grant Taylor was almost unhittable against Louisiana in the LSU baseball fall games. 

@GrantTay27 stood out in a big way, sitting 94-97 mph with his FB & a softer breaking ball at 79-89 mph. 

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11-12-22 - 2023 MLB Draft – Top 50 College Prospects -

https://www.prospects1500.com/mlb-draft/2023-mlb-draft-top-50-college-prospects/ 

48. Grant Taylor, RHP, LSU – Another draft eligible sophomore, Taylor was a highly touted prospect as a prep arm in 2021 and showed flashes of it out of the bullpen for LSU a season ago. He put up a K/9 rate of 11.3, but he did also walk more than 6 per nine showing the concerning command. He is yet another on this list who spent the summer on the Cape, where he threw 21 innings and only walked two while having a K rate of nearly 13. If he shows the command he had on the Cape this season, he will really jump up draft boards, especially since he has a fastball that has been as high as 99 and a quality slider and change. 

 

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