The College 300: Preseason 2016

D1 Baseball Staff - January 22, 2016

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As the college baseball season nears, scouting directors and their staffs are preparing their follow lists, holding draft meetings, and putting together preliminary ideas on identifying the top prospects in the nation. For the prospects themselves, this spring could be looked at, in some ways, as the final leg of their lengthy evaluation process. Scouting departments cast a wide net this time of year and consider all possibilities from all corners of the draft landscape.

With the college game as strong as ever, there’s also as much depth of professional caliber talent available to scouts as we’ve seen in recent years. This is not to say that the 2016 draft class stacks up with past crops that laid claim to staggering amounts of future big league stars. This is not that sort of class. What this crop is littered with, however, is truckload of potential future quality big leaguers. With that in mind, D1Baseball.com has compiled a list of 300 of the very best prospects that college baseball has to offer, from stars at powerhouse programs like Florida or Vanderbilt to sleepers at little known programs like Cal Baptist and Gulf Coast (Fla.) CC. There is that much quality in college baseball at the moment, and each of these 300 players will receive heavy scouting attention this spring

Much will change as the season gets underway, and with a list of 300 players, there will be significant variation of opinion. This list represents a consensus obtained through thorough research, polling coaches and scouts from all parts of the country, and a heavy influence from the scouting observations of our lead writers Frankie Piliere, Aaron Fitt, and Kendall Rogers.

Throughout the spring, you can track the progress of all of these top 300 college prospects right here, as well as keep tabs on newly emerging talent that are sure to jump on the radar screen as the spring progress.

The 300: D1Baseball's Top 2016 Prospects

Rank	Player	Position	School
1	A.J. Puk	LHP	Florida
2	Alec Hansen	RHP	Oklahoma
3	Buddy Reed	OF	Florida
4	Connor Jones	RHP	Virginia
5	Kyle Lewis	OF	Mercer
6	Corey Ray	OF	Louisville
7	Nick Senzel	2B/3B	Tennessee
8	Bryan Reynolds	OF	Vanderbilt
9	Dakota Hudson	RHP	Mississippi State
10	Nick Banks	OF	Texas A&M
11	Cal Quantrill	RHP	Stanford
12	Kyle Funkhouser	RHP	Louisville
13	Matt Krook	LHP	Oregon
14	Logan Shore	RHP	Florida
15	Daulton Jefferies	RHP	California
16	Robert Tyler	RHP	Georgia
17	Zack Collins	C	Miami
18	Bobby Dalbec	3B	Arizona
19	Chris Okey	C	Clemson
20	Garrett Williams	LHP	Oklahoma State
21	Jordan Sheffield	RHP	Vanderbilt
22	Mike Shawaryn	RHP	Maryland
23	Eric Lauer	LHP	Kent State
24	Zach Jackson	RHP	Arkansas
25	Ben Bowden	LHP	Vanderbilt
26	Jake Fraley	OF	LSU
27	Stephen Wrenn	OF	Georgia
28	Errol Robinson	SS	Ole Miss
29	Zack Burdi	RHP	Louisville
30	Ryan Boldt	OF	Nebraska

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