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Draft  | Follow List | 6/5/2010

OHIO

2010 FOLLOW LIST
 
COMPILED by ALLAN SIMPSON
 
STATE OVERVIEW
The 2010 Ohio draft class may end up being very productive in the long run, but it has been a very challenging one for scouts to scrutinize and get a handle on. From start to finish this spring, hardly anything went according to form.
 
Ohio State returned most of its best talent from a 42-19 Big Ten regular-season championship team in 2009, and yet went 28-23 overall and didn’t even so much as qualify for the six-team conference tournament that it awkwardly hosted. The Buckeyes didn’t come close to living up to pre-season expectations as one of the nation’s most-talented teams.
 
St. Edward High righthander Stetson Allie, who may have the best raw arm in the entire 2010 draft class with a fastball that routinely reaches the high-90s, underwent a sudden transformation at mid-season from being just a thrower with little feel for the finer qualities of pitching, to becoming a pitcher in the true sense of the word, with new-found command of his superior stuff. He had a number of low-walk/high-strikeout games down the stretch.
 
Shortstop Jared Hoying was supposed to be the University of Toledo player who would impact the top 3-4 rounds of the draft, but he never performed to those expectations, at the plate or in the field, and was surprisingly upstaged by a previously-unheralded and unknown pitcher on his own team. As a freshman and sophomore for the Rockets, righthander Matt Suschak had a combined 2-4, 11.01 record, yet he is projected to be drafted in the same area where Hoying was originally targeted.
 
Among some of the other Ohio college pitchers who came virtually out of nowhere this spring, to surface as legitimate prospects, were Xavier lefthander Tommy Shirley, Cincinnati lefthander Brian Garman and Youngstown State righthander Eric Marzec. Among those college arms that were projected to be the state’s early-round picks, but largely fizzled, were Kent State righthander Brett Weibley, Bowling Green State righthander Brennan Smith, and the Dayton twosome of righthander Burny Mitchem and Dayton lefthander Cameron Hobson.
 
Cuyahoga Falls’ Walsh Jesuit High was supposed to be one of the nation’s elite high-school teams, mainly on the strength of the powerful right arm of Tyler Skulina, who was the state’s No. 2-ranked prep prospect behind Allie, at the outset of the season. At 28-1 (entering Ohio’s final four), Walsh Jesuit had a dominating season, as predicted (it lost its only game after Allie drilled a game-tying home run), but Skulina (6-0) wasn’t the dominant pitcher he was as a junior. His fastball was more often 90 mph, rather than 95, and he missed several weeks with a strained back. It took several other members of a Walsh Jesuit team loaded with Division I college commits, notably Kansas State-bound third baseman/Johnny Fasola, to pick up the pieces for Skulina. As Fasola’s draft prospects surged, Skulina’s dipped.
 
Kent State outfielder Ben Klafczynski (stuck on one homer most of the 2010 season, before a late-season power surge) and Ohio State catcher Dan Burkhart (10 homers in 2009, 1 in 2010) didn’t show the power anticipated to preserve their draft stock, but Miami outfielder Adam Eaton (.368-13-55, all team-leading figures) and Kent State outfielder Anthony Gallas (.367-17-81, all team-leading figures) more than picked up the slack, and enhanced their draft worth in the process.
 
In the final analysis, Allie and Ohio State righthander Alex Wimmers should be the first two Ohio players drafted, just as they were expected to be at the start of the 2010 season. Allie could easily work his way into the top half of the first round, while Wimmers could do the same, though appears to be more of a fit in the latter half of the first round.
 
But much as Allie caught scouts off guard with his new-found feel for pitching, Wimmers caused scouts to pause, too, when he missed three weeks late in the season with a strained hamstring. He appeared to alleviate any concerns over potential health issues, though, by pitching effectively in his final outing of the season.
 
The one Ohio player at the upper end of the draft scale whose stock remained relatively unchanged throughout an otherwise turbulent season is Ohio University outfielder Gauntlett Eldemire. And yet he has such a high-reward/high-risk profile that his talent may have engendered more mixed opinion among scouts on his ultimate worth than just about anyone in the state. As athletically-gifted and talented as Eldemire obviously is, not all scouts were on the same page how his bat will play out at the next level.
 
No doubt the draft itself will offer a few more surprises for Ohio’s unpredictable player pool.
 
IN A NUTSHELL
STRENGTH: Power arms.
WEAKNESS: Established bats.
OVERALL RATING (1-to-5 scale): 4.
 
BEST COLLEGE TEAM: Ohio State.
BEST JUNIOR-COLLEGE TEAM: Sinclair.
BEST HIGH SCHOOL TEAM: Walsh Jesuit HS, Cuyahoga Falls.
 
PROSPECT ON THE RISE: Matt Suschak, rhp, Toledo. A draft afterthought at the start of 2010, he emerged as a potential third-rounder with his mid-90s fastball.
PROSPECT ON THE DECLINE: Tyler Skulina, rhp, Walsh Jesuit HS, Cuyahoga Falls. A loss in velocity, plus several weeks out with a back strain, plus a strong commitment to Virginia equals a significant drop in draft value.
WILD CARD: Gauntlett Eldemire, of, Ohio. Unmistakeable athleticism and high-end tools, but scouts aren’t totally sold on the bat. Classic high-reward/high-risk talent.
 
BEST OUT-OF-STATE PROSPECT, Ohio Connection: Kolbrin Vitek, 2b/rhp, Ball State (Attended high school in Bryan).
TOP 2011 PROSPECT: Andrew Chafin, lhp, Kent State.
TOP 2012 PROSPECT: Michael Hamann, rhp, Toledo.
 
HIGHEST DRAFT PICKS
Highest Pick, Draft History: Tim Belcher, rhp, Mount Vernon Nazarene College (1983, Twins/1st round, 1st pick); Ken Griffey Jr., of, Moeller HS, Cincinnati (1987, Mariners/1st round, 1st pick).
Highest Pick, 2006 Draft: Emmanuel Burris, ss, Kent State U. (Giants/1st round; 33rd pick).
Highest Pick, 2007 Draft: Cory Luebke, lhp, Ohio State U. (Padres/1st round, 63rd pick).
Highest Pick, 2008 Draft: Chris Carpenter, rhp, Kent State U. (Cubs/3rd round).
Highest Pick, 2009 Draft: Marc Krauss, of, Ohio U. (Diamondbacks/2nd round).
 
BEST TOOLS
Best Hitter: Adam Eaton, of, Miami.
Best Power: Gauntlett Eldemire, of, Ohio.
Best Speed: Gauntlett Eldemire, of, Ohio.
Best Defender: Alex Lavisky, c, St. Edward HS
Best Velocity: Stetson Allie, rhp, St. Edward HS, Olmsted Falls.
Best Breaking Stuff: Alex Wimmers, rhp, Ohio State.
 
TOP PROSPECTS
Full scouting reports available on players ranked on national Top 250 list (click on National Top 300)
 
GROUP ONE (Projected ELITE-Round Draft / Rounds 1-3)
1. STETSON ALLIE, rhp, St. Edward HS, Olmsted Falls                                            National Top 250 (Rank 7)
With new-found command of 97-99 FB, + SL, has been a man among boys in 2010; best raw arm in draft

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