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Juco  | Rankings  | 12/11/2020

Top 100 JUCO Prospect List

Brian Sakowski     
Photo: Christian McGowan (Julie James)
Welcome, everyone, to Perfect Game’s initial ranking of the Top Junior College Draft Prospects. We’ll go to 100 here then, per usual, expand out to 300 during the annual late-January unveiling of the rest of the preseason JUCO content.

The top was tougher to figure out this year than perhaps any other year that I’ve been doing this, with several players in the running for top billing. After neurotically analyzing the question for weeks, the decision was made to go with lefthander Ricky Tiedemann from Long Beach College, a freshman who was ranked the No. 79 overall prospect in the country in the final PG 2020 prep class rankings. Tiedemann had a good fall in what action he could see in shutdown California, showing clean mechanics, a projectable body, plus arm speed, and a present arsenal that includes a fastball in the 90-93 mph range, above-average projection on his slider and curveball as well as a projectable changeup. The draft upside here is potentially enormous.



Christian McGowan follows Tiedemann at No. 2 overall, as the righthander returned to Eastern Oklahoma State following an excellent shortened 2020 and was outstanding this fall, pitching in the mid-90s consistently with plus-plus fastball quality at times as well as flashes of an above-average breaker and solid-average changeup.

Florence-Darlington’s Hunter Parks also earned much consideration for the top spot, as the highly-athletic and projectable righthander might have the best arm speed in the JUCO class, gets into the mid-90s consistently and can really spin the breaker.

Jacob Misiorowski from Crowder made a late charge up draft boards leading up to last June but opted to head to JUCO, he’s got tremendous size and projection along with mid-90s heat featuring plus spin, and the makings of a true hammer curveball to go along with a solid slider.

Rounding out the Top 5 is Southern Nevada flamethrower Kris Bow, an Arizona commit who was extremely loud all fall, working in the mid-90s consistently with plus fastball quality and an often-plus slider to go along with solid strikes most times out.

This list is extremely pitching-heavy at this point, a testament to the uniqueness of fall ball in COVID, America. With many teams unable to even practice collectively as well as others across the country who could barely play at all, this fall was definitely the most data-driven it’s ever been from an evaluative perspective. With many schools struggling to find live at-bats for their hitters aside from intrasquads, quantifiable data was used heavily from the recruiting perspective, as well as scouting.

In that same vein, recruiting was as slow at the JUCO level this fall as it’s been in my time of covering the level for Perfect Game. With universities unsure of exactly how eligibility will work moving forward as well as an extreme dearth of available spots and the NJCAA announcing that current JUCO players can have a free year, there’s been no rush on the part of 4-year schools to recruit the JUCO level heavily. This is said as a generalization, of course, as several 4-year schools have pursued JUCO players aggressively this fall, though the overall volume of commitments is vastly decreased at this time of the year.

That’s enough analysis for now, readers can view the list below. Make sure you stay tuned to Perfect Game throughout the offseason, as we continue to provide the industry standard in the coverage and scouting of all levels of amateur baseball.


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