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Summer Collegiate  | Rankings | 9/27/2018

Prospect League top prospects

Photo: Dillon Dingler (Ohio State Athletics)

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Year Established: 2008
States Represented: Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
No. of Teams: 11
Regular Season Champion (best overall record): Kokomo Jackrabbits (37-22)
Postseason Champion: Terre Haute REX
No. 1 Prospect, 2017: Brad Deppermann, rhp, Lafayette (North Florida)
First 2017 Player Selected, 2018 Draft: Alec Barger, rhp, Danville (Polk State; Brewers/16th round)

Player of the Year: Richard Miller, of, Springfield Sliders (Towson)
Fireman of the Year: Jack Raines, lhp, Chillicothe Paints (Baldwin Wallace)

The Prospect League has seen some tumultuous activity within its metaphorical parameters in recent years, with teams seemingly folding and unfolding at whim, and the League celebrated its 10th season in 2018 with 11 teams. The Kokomo Jackrabbits took home the regular season crown with a record of 37-22, good for a .627 winning percentage, but it was the Terre Haute REX who captured the League Championship, defeating those same Kokomo Jackrabbits in the final series.

Springfield’s Richard Miller (Towson) took home the Player of the Year award, and, quite frankly, did so running away. He hit .373 with 18 doubles, six triples, and a staggering 17 home runs en route to winning the award. And while we gave the nod to Ohio State’s Dillon Dingler as the top professional prospect in the league, Miller split that very same billing with Dingler, as voted on by the league itself.

The Prospect League doesn’t seem to name a Pitcher of the Year in 2018, an honor that that likely would have gone to Kokomo’s Chandler Coates if it existed. Coates is a junior at Arkansas State following a transfer from perennial powerhouse JC Howard College in West Texas, and he was named a First Team Summer Collegiate All-American by Perfect Game after a dominant summer. Coates went 8-1 for the Jackrabbits with a league-leading (among qualifiers) 1.79 ERA as well as 50 strikeouts (over 8 per 9 innings) against only 17 walks (under 3 per 9 innings).

The League does, however, give out a Fireman of the Year award, presented each season to the league’s best reliever, as voted upon by the league. This year’s recipient was Chillicothe’s Jack Raines (Baldwin Wallace), who worked 27 innings out of the Paints’ bullpen to the tune of a cool 1.00 ERA, picking up 35 strikeouts and nine saves along the way.


Top 15 Prospects

Rk. Player POS. B-T HT WT Hometown ST School YR Class Last Drafted
1 Dillon Dingler C/OF R-R 6-2 215 Massillon OH Ohio State SO 2020 Never drafted
2 Seth Lonsway LHP L-L 6-2 200 Celina OH Ohio State R-FR 2020 Reds '17 (19)
3 Richard Miller 3B L-R 6-0 215 East Amherst NY Towson JR 2019 Never drafted
4 Gavin Dugas SS R-R 5-10 195 Houma LA Louisiana State^ FR 2021 Never drafted
5 Kyle Crowl IF R-R 6-2 200 Council Bluffs IA Iowa JR 2019 Never drafted
6 Bryce Ball 1B L-R 6-6 240 Mason City IA Dallas Baptist JR 2019 Never drafted
7 Davis Schwab LHP L-L 6-4 215 Leawood KS Missouri State SR 2019 Never drafted
8 Conner Pohl 3B L-R 6-5 210 Arcanum OH Ohio State JR 2019 Never drafted
9 Joe Acker OF R-R 6-0 190 Waukesha WI Nebraska SO 2020 Never drafted
10 Logan Buczkowski RHP R-R 6-3 210 Mount Pleasant MI Central Michigan SO 2020 Never drafted
11 Josh Konecek RHP R-R 6-1 200 Chesterfield MO Missouri JR 2019 Never drafted
12 Hunter Sexton RHP R-R 6-1 220 Jackson OH Marshall JR 2019 Never drafted
13 Chandler Coates LHP R-L 6-0 185 Republic MO Arkansas State* JR 2019 Never drafted
14 Dylan Dodd LHP/1B L-L 6-2 215 Danville IL Southeast Missouri* JR 2019 Never drafted
15 Zach Huffins OF R-R 6-1 175 West Lafayette IN Arizona Western SO 2019 Never drafted


Top 5 Prospect Reports

1. Dillon Dingler, c/of, Chillicothe (Ohio State/SO in 2019)
Dingler’s first season in Columbus went quite well, as the true freshman played in 53 games, earning 44 starts, the majority of which came in the outfield. Dingler slashed .244/.332/.369, a respectable slash line for a freshman’s first season in Power 5 baseball, and Dingler’s summer was even more encouraging. With the Chillicothe Paints, Dingler slashed .374/.458/.550 with more walks than strikeouts and valuable innings behind the plate, most especially. Dingler is expected to take over the starting catcher job at OSU in 2019, after playing mostly outfield as a freshman, and the reports out of the Prospect League were that his athleticism, arm strength and overall feel for the game were making the permanent positional transition even easier than expected to go along with his obviously prodigious offensive upside.

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