College: Summer Scene

Cape Cod League Top 30 Prospects
Sep. 1, 2009
Florida Gulf Coast lefty Chris Sale tops the Cape Cod League Top 30 Prospects list. [...] Continue Reading »

New England Collegiate League Top 10 Prospects
Aug. 31, 2009
Mississippi State righthander Devin Jones leads the NECBL Top 10 Prospects list. [...] Continue Reading »

Summer League Top Prospects
Aug. 31, 2009
From Aug. 27-Sept. 1, we are unveiling the top 10 prospect lists for 18 different summer college leagues. Everyone can read the scouting report on each league's top prospect, and subscribers can read the scouting reports for the full Top 10s. Links are added as each league is posted. [...] Continue Reading »

New York Collegiate League Top 10 Prospects
Aug. 30, 2009
Kentucky two-way talent Braden Kapteyn leads the NYCBL Top 10 Prospects list. [...] Continue Reading »

Clark Griffith League Top 10 Prospects
Aug. 30, 2009
K.C. Hobson, the son of former Red Sox third baseman and manager Butch Hobson, leads the Clark Griffith League Top 10 Prospects list. [...] Continue Reading »

Valley League Top 10 Prospects
Aug. 29, 2009
Coastal Carolina outfielder Daniel Bowman leads the Valley League Top 10 Prospects list. [...] Continue Reading »

Florida Collegiate Summer League Top 10 Prospects
Aug. 28, 2009
Miami-Dade CC outfielder Jabari Blash tops the Florida Collegiate Summer League's Top 10. [...] Continue Reading »

Coastal Plain League Top 10 Prospects
Aug. 28, 2009
Clemson's Will Lamb has talent hitting and pitching, and his high ceiling earned him the CPL's top prospect ranking. [...] Continue Reading »

Texas Collegiate League Top 10 Prospects
Aug. 28, 2009
Nathan Karns signed with the Nationals after posting a strong summer in the Texas Collegiate League. [...] Continue Reading »

Alaska League Top 10 Prospects
Aug. 28, 2009
The talent in the Alaska League was concentrated in Anchorage in 2009. [...] Continue Reading »

Prospect League Top 10 Prospects
Aug. 28, 2009
Louisiana State outfielder Mikie Mahtook leads the Prospect League top 10 prospects list. [...] Continue Reading »

West Coast League Top 10 Prospects
Aug. 28, 2009
Catcher Andrew Susac, an incoming freshman at Oregon State, leads the West Coast League Top 10 Prospects list. [...] Continue Reading »

Cal Ripken Sr. League: Top 10 Prospects
Aug. 28, 2009
After ranking third in last year's Ripken League Top 10, Kevin Brady, a righthander out of Clemson, rises to the No. 1 spot. [...] Continue Reading »

Atlantic Collegiate League Top 10 Prospects
Aug. 27, 2009
Nine out of the Top 10 prospects in the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League are pitchers or profile as pitchers at the next level, including No. 1 prospect Nick Tropeano of Stony Brook. [...] Continue Reading »

MINK League Top 10 Prospects
Aug. 27, 2009
Righthander Mike Morin, an incoming freshman at North Carolina, leads the MINK League Top 10 Prospects list. [...] Continue Reading »

Northwoods League Top 10 Prospects
Aug. 27, 2009
UC Riverside's Rob Brantly, a rising sophomore, tops the Northwoods League's list of Top 10 Prospects. [...] Continue Reading »

Jayhawk League Top 10 Prospects
Aug. 27, 2009
Murray State first baseman West Cunningham leads the Jayhawk League Top 10 Prospects list. [...] Continue Reading »

California Collegiate League Top 10 Prospects
Aug. 27, 2009
Lefthander Kevin Gelinas, who is transferring to UC Santa Barbara for his junior season, headlines a solid group of prospects in the California Collegiate League. [...] Continue Reading »

Great Lakes League Top 10 Prospects
Aug. 26, 2009
Ball State two-way star Kolbrin Vitek leads the Great Lakes League Top 10 Prospects list. [...] Continue Reading »

Team USA Top 20
Aug. 26, 2009
The summer was a mixed bag for USA Baseball's collegiate national team, which fared very well against perhaps its weakest schedule in years but fell just short in its most meaningful test in the annual Japan Series. Scouts were largely disappointed with the team's talent level. After flamethrower Gerrit Cole, Team USA lacked sure-fire star power. Most of the other high-upside talents come with significant caveats, and the safest bets offer lower ceilings. [...] Continue Reading »

Brain And Brawn
Aug. 24, 2009
Whenever coaches and scouts talk about Christian Colon, they invariably start and finish with praise for his baseball IQ, instincts, leadership skills and confidence. Colon is just a darn good baseball player, they'll say, a born winner who simply finds a way to get the job done. [...] Continue Reading »

Mowing 'Em Down
Aug. 11, 2009
While his arm action is neither smooth nor orthodox, Kevin Jacob lit up radar guns this summer, reaching 98 mph for the Anchorage Bucs. [...] Continue Reading »

A Big Hit
Jul. 27, 2009
Harold Riggins is more than meets the eye. The 6-foot-3 first baseman looks 230, weighs 270, hits for average in a power hitter's body, and spurned pro scouts in favor of three years at North Carolina State, 800 miles away from his home and family in Normal, Ill. [...] Continue Reading »

Cox Shines In Wet Cape All-Star Game
Jul. 23, 2009
Soggy weather only put a slight damper on the Cape Cod League all-star game, which made a successful return to Fenway Park on Thursday after a 22-year absence. More than 13,000 fans packed most of the infield seating bowl for the league's home run hitting contest and all-star game, which the West team won 3-0 in a game shortened to four and a half innings by rain. [...] Continue Reading »

Tough Sale
Jul. 16, 2009
In 2007, Florida Gulf Coast coach Dave Tollet was looking at an intriguing recruit. A 6-foot-6 lefthanded pitcher named Chris Sale spent most of his time throwing an unspectacular 82-84 mph at Lakeland (Fla.) High. But every once in a while, the kid's velocity would shoot up to 88, flashing major-college zip before diving back to the low 80s. [...] Continue Reading »

New Reputation
Jul. 6, 2009
Once the a star on the MTV reality miniseries "Two-A-Days", Ross Wilson now enjoys the relative obscurity of playing college baseball. [...] Continue Reading »

Paying Dividends
Jun. 16, 2009
In the spring of 2007, Matt Hayes took a chance. The coach of the Forest City Owls needed an extra arm, and it was too late to draw a big-name player into the Coastal Plain League. So Hayes brought in a stringy, 6-foot righthander out of a small junior college in Illinois named Spencer Patton. Two years later, it looks like Hayes made one heck of a good call. Patton, now a junior at Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, was back in the Coastal Plain Leage and led the league in strikeouts. Through his first two starts of 2009, Patton dealt 27 Ks in just 14 innings of work. [...] Continue Reading »

Team USA Top 20 Prospects
Sep. 11, 2008
With a 24-0 record, a pair of gold medals and a team ERA of 0.88, it's safe to say USA Baseball's collegiate national team dominated its competition this summer—especially on the mound. While the position player prospects were not on par with previous national teams, the group of pitchers on Team USA was a good representation of the top college arms in the 2009 draft class. [...] Continue Reading »

Cape Cod League Top 30 Prospects
Sep. 4, 2008
Southern California shortstop Grant Green and the North Carolina duo of Dustin Ackley and Matt Harvey headline the Cape Cod League Top 30 Prospects list. [...] Continue Reading »

West Coast Collegiate League Top 10 Prospects
Sep. 3, 2008
The Top 10 Prospects in the West Coast Collegiate League, with Washington Huskies quarterback Jake Locker—who has never played college baseball—ranking first on sheer, raw talent. [...] Continue Reading »