USA Baseball reveals ’23 Golden Spikes Watch List
Who would be the greatest novice participant within the nation this season? There’s a reasonably good probability it will come from this checklist.
USA Baseball introduced its 2023 Golden Spikes Award Preseason Watch List on Friday, that includes 55 gamers thought-about to be among the many prime candidates for the postseason award.
The Golden Spikes Award Advisory Board will preserve the award’s watchlist on a rolling foundation, permitting athletes to play themselves into consideration for the award based mostly on their performances all through the season.
In addition to the Advisory Board, novice baseball followers may even have the prospect to vote for his or her favourite gamers on GoldenSpikesAward.com, beginning on May 22 with the naming of the Golden Spikes Award semifinalists. USA Baseball will announce the finalists for the award on June 7 and fan voting will open at GoldenSpikesAward.com by means of June 21.
Headlining this 12 months’s preseason checklist is 2022 semifinalist Dylan Crews, an outfielder from LSU who ranks because the No. 1 prospect for the upcoming Draft, in line with MLB Pipeline. Crews’ Tigers teammates — and fellow returning semifinalists — RHP Paul Skenes (No. 4 Draft prospect) and 3B Tommy White additionally cracked the checklist.
In whole, 31 of the 55 gamers named to the checklist rank amongst Pipeline’s Top 100 Draft prospects, together with every of the highest 11 and 15 of the highest 20.
Last 12 months’s winner, Texas Longhorns 1B Ivan Melendez, was finally chosen by the Arizona Diamondbacks within the second spherical of the 2022 Draft. Nine former winners — together with the likes of Bryce Harper (2010) and Adley Rutschman (2019) — performed within the Major Leagues final season.
Here is the entire checklist of all 55 gamers on the 2023 USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award preseason watch checklist and the place they fall on MLB Pipeline’s Draft prospect rankings:
Jeremy Adorno, RHP, Southern Arkansas
Maui Ahuna, SS, Tennessee (No. 22 Draft prospect)
Drew Beam, RHP, Tennessee
Enrique Bradfield Jr., OF, Vanderbilt (No. 8 Draft prospect)
Chase Burns, RHP, Tennessee
Michael Carico, C, Davidson (No. 62 Draft prospect)
Max Clark, OF, Franklin HS (IN) (No. 6 Draft prospect)
Carlos Contreras, OF, Sam Houston
Dylan Crews, OF, LSU (No. 1 Draft prospect)
Wyatt Crowell, LHP, Florida State (No. 73 Draft prospect)
Chase Davis, OF, Arizona (No. 51 Draft prospect)
Chase Dollander, RHP, Tennessee (No. 2 Draft prospect)
Hunter Elliott, LHP, Ole Miss
Kendal Ewell, OF, Kentucky
Jake Gelof, INF, Virginia (No. 38 Draft prospect)
Evan Giordano, 3B, Stony Brook
Jacob Gonzalez, INF, Ole Miss (No. 5 Draft prospect)
Joseph Gonzalez, RHP, Auburn
LuJames Groover III, INF, NC State (No. 64 Draft prospect)
Tanner Hall, RHP, Southern Miss (No. 89 Draft prospect)
Carter Holton, LHP, Vanderbilt
Vance Honeycutt, OF, UNC
Jack Hurley, OF, Virginia Tech (No. 37 Draft prospect)
Mitch Jebb, INF, Michigan State (No. 44 Draft prospect)
Walker Jenkins, OF, South Brunswick HS (NC) (No. 7 Draft prospect)
Kennedy Jones, INF/OF, UNCG
Caden Kendle, OF, UC Irvine
Sam Kulasingam, INF, Air Force
Nick Kurtz, INF/OF, Wake Forest
Wyatt Langford, OF, Florida (No. 3 Draft prospect)
Ryan Lasko, OF, Rutgers (No. 47 Draft prospect)
Rhett Lowder, RHP, Wake Forest (No. 14 Draft prospect)
Quinn Mathews, LHP, Stanford
Nolan McLean, OF/INF/RHP, Oklahoma State (No. 81 Draft prospect)
John Michael Faile II, C, North Greenville
Braden Montgomery, OF/RHP, Stanford
Yohandy Morales, INF, Miami (No. 15 Draft prospect)
Tre’ Morgan, 1B, LSU
Jack Payton, C, Louisville
Carson Roccaforte, 1B/OF, Louisiana
Will Sanders, RHP, South Carolina (No. 18 Draft prospect)
Jason Savacool, RHP, Maryland
Nolan Schanuel, INF/OF, FAU (No. 65 Draft prospect)
Cody Schrier, INF, UCLA
Matt Shaw, INF, Maryland (No. 20 Draft prospect)
Paul Skenes, UTIL/RHP, LSU (No. 4 Draft prospect)
Bobby Sparling, OF, Saint Leo
Brayden Taylor, INF, TCU (No. 11 Draft prospect)
Kyle Teel, C/INF, Virginia (No. 28 Draft prospect)
Tommy Troy, INF/OF, Stanford (No. 29 Draft prospect)
Hurston Waldrep, RHP, Florida (No. 10 Draft prospect)
Juaron Watts-Brown, RHP, Oklahoma State (No. 39 Draft prospect)
Levi Wells, RHP, Texas State (No. 49 Draft prospect)
Tommy White, 3B, LSU
Jacob Wilson, INF, Grand Canyon (No. 9 Draft prospect)
