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Draft  | Follow List | 5/25/2010

SOUTH CAROLINA

 2010 FOLLOW LIST
 
COMPILED by JEFF SIMPSON
 
STATE OVERVIEW
With South Carolina and Clemson as its long-standing flagship schools, and emerging programs like Coastal Carolina, College of Charleston and The Citadel occasionally creeping into the national spotlight, South Carolina has become a hotbed for college baseball—and a popular destination state for many top out-of-state prospects.
 
There may not be another area of the country that annually sees greater disparity between the talent produced for the draft from the high-school ranks vs. the college ranks than in the Carolinas. The phenomenon is particularly pronounced in South Carolina.
 
Only a handful of draft picks typically come from the state’s high schools every June (10 in 2009), and yet South Carolina has become such a hotbed for college baseball that it regularly produces more college draft picks (35 in 2009) than all but a handful of states.
 
Recent draft results substantiate South Carolina’s standing as a college hotbed and relative high-school wasteland, and the current draft crop provides more compelling evidence.
 
The attached South Carolina state follow list has 29 players on its priority list (Groups 1-3) of college prospects for the 2010 draft (and 24 more in Group 4), a total topped by only California, Florida and Texas. Of the 29, only nine were actually recruited from state high schools.
 
Conversely, there are only nine South Carolina high-school players on the priority list (with six more in Group 4). By comparison, Georgia’s college/high-school dynamic is reversed, with 25 college players in Groups 1-3, and 40 high-school players in the same groups.
 
Entering the 2010 season, it appeared that only two college players, Coastal Carolina lefthander Cody Wheeler and South Carolina righthander Sam Dyson, were locks to go in the first 2-3 rounds. Neither of those players has done much, if anything, to harm their draft status—Wheeler is 26-1 in his college career, Dyson still pumps 97 mph fastballs—yet three players appear to have shot past them this spring, in the eyes of scouts.
 
The Citadel righthander Asher Wojciechowski now looks like the state’s best bet to be picked first, probably late in the first round, after a breakthrough spring. With a 6-foot-4, 235-pound frame, Wojciechowski has the size and durability that scouts prefer in a starting pitcher, and the mid-90s fastball and plus slider desired in a power arm.
 
Clemson outfielder Kyle Parker doubles as the school’s starting quarterback, and has the unique distinction of being the first player in Division I history to throw for 20 touchdowns and hit at least 15 home runs in the same school year. Scouts will have to weave through the tricky signability issues that complicate Parker’s situation, to assess whether he might bypass the remainder of his football career (and at what cost), but he clearly has moved himself to the brim of the first round with his big raw power. Obviously, scouts are curious just how good Parker, an elite-level athlete, might become if he was ever to focus fully on baseball.
 
College of Charleston righthander Heath Hembree is clearly the player that has elevated his stock the most this spring. His fastball has regularly reached 98-99 mph in the latter part of the 2010 season, but he’s a bit of a wild card for scouts as he has had trouble harnessing his electric stuff. He has struggled so much with his control in recent weeks that he had to be removed from his closer role for the Cougars.
 
Curiously, South Carolina and Coastal Carolina sat at No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, in the most recent PG Crosschecker national Top 50 college rankings, though neither will likely have a pick go off the board in the first two rounds.
 
Both the injury-prone Dyson and slightly built Wheeler are seen more as third-rounders. Coastal Carolina, with its 47-7 record, could have upwards of 8-10 players drafted off this year’s club, which ran the table at 25-0 in Big South Conference games this season. As many as five Chanticleers players could go in the top 10 rounds. Interestingly, of the 35 players on the Coastal Carolina roster, a mere five are South Carolina prep products.
 
While South Carolina’s college ranks are deep, as usual, the state’s high-school class is sparse. Wando High righthander Drew Cisco, one of the nation’s most-polished prep pitchers, is the only player considered a cinch to go in the first 10 rounds (as opposed to 15 South Carolina college players). Cisco, grandson of former big-league pitcher/pitching coach Galen Cisco, could go anywhere between the second and fourth rounds.
 
Not only are South Carolina colleges aggressive at recruiting out-of-state talent, but they are equally protective in not letting one of their own leave the state to play in college elsewhere. Only one player with South Carolina roots can be found on the follow lists of other states, in Groups 1-3 (roughly the top 25 rounds).
 
That player is Kentrell DeWitt, a Green Sea, S.C., resident who is currently a freshman outfielder at Southeastern (N.C.) CC, just a short car ride from the North Carolina-South Carolina border.
 
IN A NUTSHELL
STRENGTH: College power arms.
WEAKNESS: High-end high-school talent.
OVERALL RATING (1-to-5 scale): 4.
 
BEST COLLEGE TEAM: Coastal Carolina.
BEST JUNIOR COLLEGE TEAM: Spartanburg Methodist.
BEST HIGH SCHOOL TEAM: Wando HS.
 
PROSPECT ON THE RISE: Heath Hembree, rhp, College of Charleston. One of the nation’s hardest throwers, with a fastball up to 99 mph, he’s gone from an also-ran to a potential 2nd-3rd round pick.
PROSPECT ON THE DECLINE: Drake Thomason, rhp-3b, Eastside HS, Taylors. The consensus second-best high-school talent after Cisco entering the year, he was lost for the season with an elbow injury, and appears destined for South Carolina.
WILD CARD: Sam Dyson, rhp, South Carolina. A first-round arm with a long medical file, Dyson tumbled to the 10th round a year ago. Will scouts focus on the reward, or the risk?
 
BEST OUT-OF-STATE PROSPECT, South Carolina Connection: Kentrell DeWitt, of, Southeastern (N.C.) CC (attended high school in Green Sea).
TOP 2011 PROSPECT: Garrett Boulware, c-3b, T.L. Hanna HS, Anderson.
TOP 2012 PROSPECT: David Houser, c, A.C. Flora HS, West Columbia.
 
HIGHEST DRAFT PICKS
Draft History: Kris Benson, rhp, Clemson U. (1996, Pirates/1st round, 1st pick).
2006 Draft: Tyler Colvin, of, Clemson U. (Cubs/1st round, 13th pick).
2007 Draft: Daniel Moskos, lhp, Clemson U. (Pirates/1st round, 4th pick).
2008 Draft: Justin Smoak, 1b, U. of South Carolina (Rangers/1st round, 11th pick).
2009 Draft: Chris Owings, ss, Gilbert HS (Diamondbacks/1st round, 41st pick).
 
BEST TOOLS
Best Hitter: Kyle Parker, of, Clemson.
Best Power: Kyle Parker, of, Clemson.
Best Speed: Rico Noel, of, Coastal Carolina.
Best Defender: Rico Noel, of, Coastal Carolina.
Best Velocity: Sam Dyson, rhp, Clemson.
Best Breaking Stuff: Bryce Hines, rhp, Hanahan HS.
 
TOP PROSPECTS
Full scouting reports available on players ranked on national Top 250 list (click on National Top 250)
 
GROUP ONE (Projected ELITE-Round Draft / Rounds 1-3)
1. ASHER WOJCIECHOWSKI, rhp, The Citadel (Jr.)                                           National Top 250 (Rank 27)
Likely first-rounder with mid-90s fastball and plus slider, having a huge year (10-2, 3.23, 103 IP, 128 SO)

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