Article: Consensus MLB Draft Board V2

[Jamie Cameron]

The Brewers heads into the 2023 MLB Draft with the 12th most money to spend ($10,950,600) are in a great position ahead of the 2023 MLB Draft. They hold four top 100 picks (18, 33, 54, and 87). 2023 is one of the deeper draft classes in recent years. Let's take a look at some of the prospects available to teams in July.

Image courtesy of Brock Beauchamp

How to Use This Tool
This is hopefully easy to navigate. For a full explainer on the what, why, and how, here’s the explainer for V1. For each ranked player, you’ll see position, age, ranking, school, first name, last name, height, weight, handedness (S=switch), future value (not yet), and writeup. Every top 100 player has a writeup, if you hover over the report icon for that player, it’ll give you notes on players tools, strengths, areas of growth, and recent performance.

What’s New for V2?
Here’s some brief notes about V2 of the Consensus Board:

• The rankings are based on a consensus from 10 draft boards that provide a range of evaluations from well-known industry standard boards, to more data-driven boards.

• I DID NOT update writeups for the players who remained in the top 100 from the beginning of May. I’ll update them a final time on a rolling basis between June and July.

• I added ten more writeups for prospects who moved into the consensus top 100 since the beginning of May.

• If you see a prospect outside the top 100 with a writeup, it means they’ve fallen out (I’m not adding new reports outside the top 100).

• Finally, I color coded the top 75 players to track risers and fallers between V1 and V2. Specifically:

  • Light green - moved up 5-9 spots

  • Dark green - moved up 10+ spots

  • Light red - moved down 5-9 spots

  • Dark red - moved down 10+ spots

What’s Next?
The Consensus Board will get one more big update, to be published at the beginning of July. Additionally, there will be updates to the notes of the most significant prospects, accounting for their end of season performance (particularly for college players), in addition to future value grades added for prospects in the final version of the board.

The final rankings will also be published as articles at all three sites. I recognize that some folks may prefer to consume rankings as an article, so I’ll publish them with write ups as part of a 2 or 3 part series in the final week leading up to the draft, working to get players highlights added to those pieces.

If you have questions or feedback about the process or generation of the board, please use the comments. I want readers at all three sites to feel well-informed and excited about the draft and the influx of talent to their favorite teams. Whether it's an idea to make the rankings better, catching a mistake (I’m sure there are some), or a comment on who you want your team to draft, we’d love to hear from you. Jeremy Nygaard and I will be working to provide y’all with comprehensive draft coverage as July gets closer, so let’s chop it up!

2023 Consensus MLB Draft Board V2

 

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[Ro Mueller]

INF Matt Shaw of Maryland seems to be doing everything in his power to be drafted before we get to #18: 1.210 OPS, 23 HRs, 43 BB vs. 30 Ks. Too bad for us.

And INF Tommy Troy of Stanford is at 1.205 OPS, 13 HRs, 26 BB vs. 29 Ks.

While C Kyle Teel of Virginia has a 1.148 OPS, 11 HRs, 27 BB vs. 30 Ks.

I guess we still have INF Brayden Taylor of TCU to fall back on: 1.018 OPS, 18 HRs, 45 BB vs. 47 Ks.

Of course, we'll probably go an entirely different direction.

[Jamie Cameron]

3 hours ago, damuelle said:

INF Matt Shaw of Maryland seems to be doing everything in his power to be drafted before we get to #18: 1.210 OPS, 23 HRs, 43 BB vs. 30 Ks. Too bad for us.

And INF Tommy Troy of Stanford is at 1.205 OPS, 13 HRs, 26 BB vs. 29 Ks.

While C Kyle Teel of Virginia has a 1.148 OPS, 11 HRs, 27 BB vs. 30 Ks.

I guess we still have INF Brayden Taylor of TCU to fall back on: 1.018 OPS, 18 HRs, 45 BB vs. 47 Ks.

Of course, we'll probably go an entirely different direction.

I think Teel is the only one you name whose definitely gone by the time the Brewers pick. Thing about this draft is, if you aren't picking in the top 5-6, picking anywhere in the top 25 is going to net you a similar caliber prospect. Brewers are going to have someone they really like fall in their lap.

[nate82]

I still think the Brewers go pitcher in the first round.  Keith Law has Hurston Waldrep mocked to the Brewers at 18.  He hasn't pitched all that great so far this year in Florida but the stuff is top of the rotation stuff.  If he falls to the Brewers I think that will be the pick. 

Matt Shaw is another name being thrown around with the 18th pick.  I am not sure on Shaw he looks to be a 2B/LF.  Shaw is an average everything basically.  He should top out around the 25 HR mark and hit about .275.  His skills are about average as they come. 

A name to watch is Nolan Schanuel.  He has power and he doesn't K all that much but he plays in Conference USA so some of his numbers need to be taken with the proverbial grain of salt.  He is also a 1B only and probably more of a DH.  This is Schanuel's stat line so far at Florida Atlantic: .460/.623/.888

I don't see the Brewers going the HS route as Turang (2018) was the last time the Brewers took a HS player.  But if the Brewers do go with a HS player it maybe someone like Colt Emersson (SS), Kevin McGonigle (SS) or Blake Mitchell (C).  McGonigle sounds similar to Turang when he was drafted. 

Keith Law suggested Dillon Head (OF) for the Rays but I think that is another name to watch for the Brewers.  He is another type of player that the Brewers have been drafting recently.

I am hoping Waldrep drops in the draft as that would be the perfect draft for the Brewers.  Waldrep preseason was in the top 10 and some discussion of him being drafted in the top 5 picks. 

[SF70]

No clue who the team will pick, only that I’m confident Johnson & co. will have their 4th nice draft in a row.

 

[Playing Catch]

I think it was the correct decision to move the draft back until after the college season, but I definitely get impatient this time of year.

[Jamie Cameron]

9 hours ago, nate82 said:

I still think the Brewers go pitcher in the first round.  Keith Law has Hurston Waldrep mocked to the Brewers at 18.  He hasn't pitched all that great so far this year in Florida but the stuff is top of the rotation stuff.  If he falls to the Brewers I think that will be the pick. 

Matt Shaw is another name being thrown around with the 18th pick.  I am not sure on Shaw he looks to be a 2B/LF.  Shaw is an average everything basically.  He should top out around the 25 HR mark and hit about .275.  His skills are about average as they come. 

A name to watch is Nolan Schanuel.  He has power and he doesn't K all that much but he plays in Conference USA so some of his numbers need to be taken with the proverbial grain of salt.  He is also a 1B only and probably more of a DH.  This is Schanuel's stat line so far at Florida Atlantic: .460/.623/.888

I don't see the Brewers going the HS route as Turang (2018) was the last time the Brewers took a HS player.  But if the Brewers do go with a HS player it maybe someone like Colt Emersson (SS), Kevin McGonigle (SS) or Blake Mitchell (C).  McGonigle sounds similar to Turang when he was drafted. 

Keith Law suggested Dillon Head (OF) for the Rays but I think that is another name to watch for the Brewers.  He is another type of player that the Brewers have been drafting recently.

I am hoping Waldrep drops in the draft as that would be the perfect draft for the Brewers.  Waldrep preseason was in the top 10 and some discussion of him being drafted in the top 5 picks. 

Love Waldrep. He's my second favorite pitcher in the draft bc there's potentially 3 plus secondary pitches there. Florida doesn't do a great job maximizing his strengths in game which is why his card numbers aren't that exciting this year.

Schanuel is the most underrated prospect in the draft IMO. Forget the conference, he crushed against quality teams too. His numbers are ridiculous. 

[brewers888]

I would like to see more pitching and some power bats. The thing I hope the team avoids is spending high picks on powerless middle infielders which they have picked far too often in recent years.

[LouisEly]

On 5/25/2023 at 12:12 AM, nate82 said:

A name to watch is Nolan Schanuel.  He has power and he doesn't K all that much but he plays in Conference USA so some of his numbers need to be taken with the proverbial grain of salt.  He is also a 1B only and probably more of a DH.  This is Schanuel's stat line so far at Florida Atlantic: .460/.623/.888

Schanuel has played some OF this spring, and some scouts believe he can play corner OF.  Over the last two seasons he has 25 SB vs 2 CS, giving reason to believe he's athletic enough.  Question is if his arm is adequate for RF or if he can only play LF. 

[brewmann04]

I thin the Crew will look for Piching early 

[Harold Hutchison]

Bryce Eldridge is right at 18, and would be good pickup, IMO. Power-hitting 1B, but also a big pitcher on the mound.

[nate82]

16 minutes ago, clancyphile said:

Bryce Eldridge is right at 18, and would be good pickup, IMO. Power-hitting 1B, but also a big pitcher on the mound.

Majority of scouts don’t see him as a pitcher and see him as a RF.  His athleticism would be wasted at 1B.

[patrickgpe]

On 5/25/2023 at 8:49 AM, Playing Catch said:

I think it was the correct decision to move the draft back until after the college season, but I definitely get impatient this time of year.

Agreee, but it was fun to try to catch draft picks in the cws 

[Oxy]

Gimme Schanuel and/or Eldridge! If they could double up with those two they would be fun to follow for a few years,

[brewmann04]

You can never have enough arms