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Summer Collegiate  | Rankings  | 9/25/2018

Alaska League top prospects

Mike Rooney     
Photo: Asa Lacy (Texas A&M Athletics)

2018 Summer Collegiate Top Prospect Index

www.alaskabaseballleague.org
Year Established: 1974
States Represented: Alaska
No. of Teams: 5
Regular Season Champion (best overall record): Mat-Su Miners (27-17)
Postseason Champion: Mat-Su Miners
No. 1 Prospect, 2017: Quin Cotton, of, Mat-Su Miners (Grand Canyon)
First 2017 Player Selected, 2018 Draft: Thad Ward, Mat-Su Miners (UCF; Red Sox/5th round)

Player of the Year: Jake Vieth, 1b, Mat-Su Miners (Gonzaga)

The Mat-Su Miners won their third consecutive ABL championship this summer and the partnership of GM Pete Christopher and Field Manager Ben Taylor has been pure Alaskan gold.  This version of the Miners, who started the summer just 4-6 through 10 games, may not have been as physically gifted as the previous two but the winning culture in Palmer keeps producing championships.

The 2018 ABL featured extremes from an age standpoint as the league showcased several rising sophomores with bright futures as well as a player like Gonzaga’s Jake Vieth who has exhausted his college eligibility. The lefthanded hitting Vieth was named ABL Player of the Year.

Finally, this was a year where current production outshined high ceiling tools on the prospect list.  While there was a dearth of high-upside players in the ABL this summer, there were good college players in volume.  That said, No. 1 prospect Asa Lacy (Texas A&M) stood out as a 6-foot-4 lefthander with SEC weekend rotation talent and a strong future draft profile.


Top 10 Prospects

Rk. Player POS. B-T HT WT Hometown ST School YR Class Last Drafted
1 Asa Lacy LHP L-L 6-4 205 Kerrville TX Texas A&M SO 2019 Indians '17 (31)
2 Bryce Tassin RHP R-R 6-2 212 Walker  LA SE Louisiana RS-JR 2019 Never drafted
3 Spencer Henson 1B/RHP R-R 6-2 230 Locust Grove OK Oral Roberts JR 2019 Never drafted
4 Ian Churchill LHP L-L 6-2 185 Santa Barbara CA Santa Barbara CC SO 2019 Never drafted
5 Adam Seminaris LHP L-L 6-0 175 Chino Hills CA Long Beach State SO 2020 Never drafted
6 Marc Mumper SS R-R 5-11 170 Highlands Ranch CO Grand Canyon SR 2019 Rockies '15 (37)
7 Jordan Arruda 3B L-R 5-10 185 Clovis CA Fresno State SO 2019 Never drafted
8 Jared Reklaitis RHP R-R 6-4 215 Sheboygan WI UW-Milwaukee SR 2019 Never drafted
9 Tevin Murray LHP L-L 6-6 215 Ringtown PA Rutgers JR 2019 Never drafted
10 Kona Quiggle OF L-L 6-2 205 Phoenix AZ Grand Canyon JR 2019 Never drafted


Top 5 Prospect Reports

1. Asa Lacy, lhp, Mat-Su (Texas A&M/SO in 2019)
Apparently, Texas A&M has converted the ABL into their “pre-weekend rotation” training course. In 2017, a highly touted freshman lefthander named John Doxakis came to Alaska to regain his confidence. Doxakis finished that summer as PG’s No. 2 Prospect in the ABL and he parlayed that success into an outstanding sophomore year in the Aggies’ rotation (8-5, 2.70 ERA). There are many similarities here as Lacy is also a big, athletic lefthander with top-of-the-rotation upside. The 6-foot-4, 205-pound Lacy had a better freshman season than Doxakis but it was out of the bullpen. In Alaska, Lacy was dominant over 33 1/3 innings of work with 47 strikeouts, good for second in the league, and a 2.16 ERA. With a fastball in the low-90s and an above average changeup already in the bag, Lacy couples current performance with first round projection.


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