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NECBL top prospects

Photo: Tim Tawa (Stanford Athletics)

2018 Summer Collegiate Top Prospect Index

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Year Established: 1993
States Represented:  Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
No. of Teams: 13
Regular Season Champion (best overall record): Valley Blue Sox (30-12)
Postseason Champion:  Valley Blue Sox (34-12)
No. 1 Prospect, 2017: Kameron Misner, of, Newport Gulls (Missouri)
First 2017 Player Selected, 2018 Draft: Ryan Jeffers, c, Upper Valley Nighthawks (UNC Wilmington; Twins/2nd round)

Player of the Year: Brandon Smith, 1b, Keene (Palm Beach Atlantic) 
Pitcher of the Year: Endy Sanchez, rhp, Valley (Southern New Hampshire)

After claiming their first NECBL title last summer in their franchise history, the Valley Blue Sox enjoyed the feeling of being the league’s best so much they took the title again in 2018. After proving to be a juggernaut of talent throughout the regular season as the lone team in the league to hit the 30-win mark, the Blue Sox swept through their four playoff games, again besting Ocean State to become league champions. Because of their dominant summer season the Valley Blue Sox were named the 2018 PG/Rawlings Summer Collegiate Team of the Year.

Along with hoisting the Fay Vincent SR Cup, Valley righthander Endy Sanchez took home the league’s Most Valuable Pitcher award while going a perfect 5-0 through the summer. He also started the all-star game in front of his home crowd as a native of Holyoke. North Florida rising junior Cooper Bradford teamed up with Sanchez to give the Blue Sox a formidable duo, something the Winnipesaukee Muskrats know all about as Po-Hao Huang and Steven Passatempo finished 1-2 respectively in the league’s home run category.

As you continue to look around the league you notice that the big talent continued to shine, from the league’s top pro prospect in Newport’s Tim Tawa (Stanford) to Plymouth righthander Cameron Junker (Notre Dame), who led the league in wins and finished with more than a strikeout per inning. Speaking of strikeouts, rising Wake Forest sophomore lefthander Jared Shuster led the NECBL with 62 of them in just 49 innings, using his summer season as a springboard into what should be a big sophomore campaign.

The pitching talent ran deep this year in the league as the list below suggests and arms such as Ocean State’s Nick Mondak (St. John’s) and Mystic’s Jimmy Endersbury (Cal State Fullerton) certainly would have been included if not for their short stints in the league. And while the arms are bountiful, there were more than a couple of impact bats that scouts will be honing in on this spring in a big way.


Top 25 Prospects

Rk. Player POS. B-T HT WT Hometown ST School YR Class Last Drafted
1 Tim Tawa OF R-R 6-0 182 West Linn OR Stanford SO 2020 Never drafted
2 Dalton Reed 1B L-R 6-4 220 Roff OK Kentucky* JR 2019 Never drafted
3 Cameron Junker RHP R-R 6-4 215 Liberty Township OH Notre Dame JR 2019 Never drafted
4 Ty Adcock RHP/OF B-R 6-1 200 Oxford NC Elon SR 2019 Never drafted
5 Jared Shuster LHP L-L 6-3 195 New Beford MA Wake Forest SO 2020 Never drafted
6 John Rizer OF L-L 6-0 185 Cypress TX TCU SR 2019 Never drafted
7 Cooper Bradford RHP R-R 6-1 190 Oviedo FL Florida Southern* JR 2019 Never drafted
8 Christopher Troye OF/RHP R-R 6-5 225 Brentwood  CA UC Santa Barbara SO 2020 Never drafted
9 Kody Hoese 3B R-R 6-4 195 Griffith IN Tulane JR 2019 Royals '18 (35)
10 Jack Weisenburger RHP R-R 6-3 220 Rockford MI Michigan JR 2019 Never drafted
11 Chase Solesky RHP R-R 6-3 200 Fort Pierce FL Tulane JR 2019 Never drafted
12 Jaron Robinson SS R-R 6-0 185 Mendota IL Murray State SR 2019 Never drafted
13 Austin Wilhite SS R-R 5-9 175 Buford GA Georgia Tech SO 2020 Never drafted
14 Eddie McCabe SS R-R 6-0 180 Norwalk CT Georgetown JR 2019 Never drafted
15 Jordan DiValerio RHP R-R 6-1 215 Nescopeck NJ Saint Joseph's JR 2019 Never drafted
16 Thomas Girard RHP R-R 5-11 185 Simbury CT Duke SO 2020 Never drafted
17 Garrett Hodges OF L-R 5-10 210 Blairsville GA Kennesaw State JR 2019 Never drafted
18 Brett Rodriguez SS R-R 6-0 200 Queensbury NY Wofford JR 2019 Never drafted
19 Tyler Mattison RHP L-R 6-4 225 Fort Ann NY Bryant SO 2020 Never drafted
20 Griffin McGarry RHP R-R 6-2 180 Portola Valley CA Virginia SO 2020 Rangers '18 (31)
21 Brandon Smith 1B R-R 6-3 235 Georgetown  IN Dayton SR 2019 Never drafted
22 Endy Morales RHP R-R 6-1 220 Holyoke MA Southern New Hampshire SR 2019 Never drafted
23 Michael Cowell RHP R-R 6-0 190 Shelton CT Fordham SR 2019 Never drafted
24 Lorenzo Hampton OF R-R 6-5 230 Miami Lakes FL Florida International SR 2019 Never drafted
25 Justin Willis RHP R-R 5-8 170 North Bergen NJ Vanderbilt SO 2020 Never drafted

* Transfer


Top 10 Prospect Reports

1. Tim Tawa, of, Newport (Stanford/SO in 2019)
There’s no doubting Tawa’s athleticism as he won the Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year once for baseball and another three times on the gridiron. A rising sophomore at Stanford, Tawa came in with high expectations, which he seemed to meet, and then exceeded upon spending the summer in the NECBL. While not overly physical at 6-foot, 182-pounds, Tawa shows multiple tools and ways in which he can impact a game, most notably with his smooth, linear stroke and advanced discipline, which helped him finish with a .336 average on the summer. There is some juice in the bat, as he connected for seven home runs and another 14 doubles, accounting for exactly half of his hits on the year while showing fluidity to his actions, as well as athleticism, in the outfield.

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