Southern Ohio is filled with interesting mid-major arms, but none is more interesting nor a better prospect at this point than Sam Bachman. Overall, it’s easy to envision a true impact hitter with 25+ home run potential and good on-base percentages, one that fits firmly in the first round. Given that he won’t require much swing change in pro ball, he can also focus on that aspect of his game heavily once in there. Given his high swing and miss rates against offspeed stuff, that’s slightly concerning, but he can answer all those questions against South Alabama’s non-conference slate in 2021 or against schools like Coastal Carolina and Louisiana in conference play. The Sun Belt has plenty of talent, but it’s not the SEC or ACC and without ever having appeared in a major summer wood bat league, he’s fairly unproven against great pitching. Given Wilson’s lack of defensive value, scouts need to see him continue to produce in 2021. As a mediocre defender who will likely end up in left field, his bat will have to carry him and few doubt that it will. To this point, he has shown some swing and miss against offspeed stuff, but scouts aren’t all that worried. He shows great feel for the barrel and has never actually struggled at any point in his career. He produces plus raw and game power with an explosive, leveraged, and controlled left handed swing that has no problem catching up to velocity. Wilson is a hitter, no question about it. In a class that’s shallow on college bats, Wilson is a proven commodity with some of the best in-season track record around. 282/.329/.465 with three home runs and a 20/4 K/BB in the shortened 2020 season. 345/.453/.686 with 17 home runs and a 45/36 strikeout to walk ratio in 56 games, but dropped to a more pedestrian. The Andalusia native burst onto the scene with a massive freshman season in 2019, slashing. Three years later, Ethan Wilson has a chance to match him. In 2018, South Alabama outfielder Travis Swaggerty closed out an exceptional Jaguars career with a tenth overall selection to the Pirates. Here we find a ton of interesting arms, including quite a few with first round aspirations, as well as a group of bats driven by big raw power. Some of MLB’s brightest stars came from these smaller eastern conferences, including Justin Verlander (Old Dominion), Jacob deGrom (Stetson), Corey Kluber (Stetson), Kyle Hendricks (Dartmouth), George Springer (Connecticut), and Kyle Lewis (Mercer), among many many others. There are plenty of powerhouse programs in the east that don’t fall into the ACC, SEC, or Big Ten, including a Coastal Carolina team that won the College World Series in 2016. Follow Him on Twitter: Prospects Worldwide on Twitter: completed the Power Five conferences, so now it’s time to move into some low-mid major schools.
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