Because the NCAA regionals start in school baseball, award voting and regular-season stats offer you a good suggestion who carried out properly this season, whereas my draft rankings and mock drafts let you recognize who will go early on this summer season’s draft. However which faculties can declare bragging rights for having probably the most professional expertise on their rosters throughout all draft lessons?
I’ve a little bit of an obsession — but in addition detailed spreadsheets sourced from superior knowledge and scouts, so I can reply this query by analyzing what number of gamers (no matter class) challenge as future draft prospects.
As a result of the draft and projections for professional success look closely at instruments and age, these issues are emphasised by way of the method when you get previous the floor statistics in my formulation.
I will remind you that these margins are actually tight — should you add one second-rounder to any of the groups under, it’ll most likely transfer up just a few spots — and I used all pro-caliber gamers to formulate the rating, although we listing simply the top-two-rounds prospects on every group’s present roster under. Gamers who’re at present injured depend for this train, however I dinged the group score a bit should you will not see the participant this postseason, and all gamers listed are 2025 draft-eligible until in any other case indicated.
With out additional delay, listed here are probably the most loaded rosters in school baseball:
1. Tennessee
Prime-two-rounds prospects: LHP Liam Doyle, SS Gavin Kilen, 3B Andrew Fischer, RHP Marcus Phillips, C Levi Clark (2027), 3B Dean Curley, RHP A.J. Russell
Earlier than I began this course of, I figured the Volunteers would win, and so they did, carried by a very sturdy 2025 draft class highlighted by Liam Doyle — who’s projected to go No. 2 in my most up-to-date mock.
And Tennessee has much more expertise than the names listed above. RHP Tanner Franklin and Nate Snead are two key bullpen arms who attain the triple digits and did not qualify, whereas quite a lot of different gamers might step up into top-two-round relevance with expanded roles subsequent season, akin to RHP Tegan Kuhns and 2B/CF Jay Abernathy.
2. Arkansas
Prime-two-rounds prospects: SS Wehiwa Aloy, RHP Gage Wooden, C Ryder Helfrick (2026), LHP Zach Root, OF Charles Davalan, LHP Cole Gibler (2027), RHP Gabe Gaeckle
The Razorbacks weren’t the primary group I considered when guessing who could be close to the highest of this rating as a result of they do not have as many top-of-the-first-round prospects as some others, although they yearly have tons of professional expertise, so this is not a shocker.
Aloy might be the one prospect projected for the highest half of the primary spherical of the group, however the remainder of the listing belongs within the late-first to early-second vary, with quite a lot of intriguing skills past that, together with 3B Brent Iredale and a few half-dozen totally different pitchers.
3. LSU
Prime-two-rounds prospects: LHP Kade Anderson, OF Derek Curiel (2026) RHP Casan Evans (2027), RHP Anthony Eyanson, SS Steven Milam (2026), RHP William Schmidt (2027), 2B Daniel Dickinson
The Tigers are sometimes loaded with professional expertise below skipper Jay Johnson, and this 12 months is not any totally different. Scouts soured a bit on Curiel as a highschool senior, however he has proved them fallacious as a freshman, trying like a first-rounder to date. Evans and Eyanson had been revelations as newcomers, and Schmidt has the potential to suit that description in an expanded function subsequent season.
4. Texas
Prime-two-rounds prospects: 3B Adrian Rodriguez (2027), LHP Dylan Volantis (2027), RHP Jason Flores (2027), RF Max Belyeu, 2B Ethan Mendoza (2026)
Texas is stocked with underclassmen with early-round upside as Mendoza and Rodriguez will anchor the infield subsequent season and I might guess Volantis and Flores will each transfer into the rotation after sturdy aid performances as freshmen. LHP Jared Spencer would’ve simply certified earlier than his harm earlier this month.
5. Florida
Prime-two-rounds prospects: RHP Liam Peterson (2026), RHP Aidan King (2027), SS Brendan Lawson (2027), RHP Luke McNeillie (2026)
The Gators are the primary group with no 2025 draft-eligible gamers listed, although 2B Cade Kurland would most likely qualify if he had been wholesome all season, and SS Colby Shelton would additionally seemingly sneak in if he had been 21 years previous relatively than 22. Peterson is the highest school arm for 2026 and King appears to be like like one in all many future 2027 first-rounders who popped as freshmen this season; most of them are listed right here.
6. Florida State
Prime-two-rounds prospects: LHP Jamie Arnold, LHP Wes Mendes (2026), SS Alex Lodise, 2B Drew Faurot
The Noles have stable high-end expertise, with three attainable first-round skills headlined by seemingly top-10 choose Arnold. The depth would not cease there as OF Max Williams and RHP Cam Leiter (injured) may be third-rounders this 12 months, and underclassmen C Hunter Carns and LF Myles Bailey are additionally displaying flashes.
7. Wake Forest
Prime-two-rounds prospects: RHP Chris Levonas (2027), SS Marek Houston, RF Ethan Conrad
Wake has graduated quite a lot of standout gamers to professional ball prior to now few years and has one other stable crop coming this 12 months, with Houston and Conrad each seemingly first-round picks. Levonas did not signal as a second-round select of highschool final 12 months, and early returns recommend he may be a excessive first-rounder in just a few years.
8. Oregon State
Prime-two-rounds prospects: SS Aiva Arquette, RHP Dax Whitney (2027)
The Beavers have solely two gamers listed right here, however each appear like top-10 picks. There are additionally quite a lot of fascinating prospects within the third-to-fourth-round vary for this 12 months’s draft, together with OF Gavin Turley, LHP Nelson Keljo and 3B Trent Caraway.
9. Oklahoma
Prime-two-rounds prospects: RHP Kyson Witherspoon, SS Jaxon Willits (2026), C Easton Carmichael, RHP Malachi Witherspoon, LHP Cade Crossland
Oklahoma has 5 prospects listed right here, although solely Kyson Witherspoon is a transparent top-50 choose; the opposite 5 are all later second-round or early third-round kinds of prospects. This rotation makes the Sooners harmful in a postseason format.
10. TCU
Prime-two-rounds prospects: RHP Tommy Lapour (2026), OF Sawyer Strosnider (2026), LHP Mason Brassfield (2027)
TCU’s crop of prospects who made the listing (and OF Noah Franco, who was in competition) are all underclassmen, which bodes properly for the longer term. Lapour has three above-average pitches and is the second-best school pitcher for subsequent 12 months’s draft.
11. Mississippi State
Prime-two-rounds prospects: OF Nolan Stevens (2026), 3B Ace Reese (2026), RHP Ryan McPherson (2027)
Stevens and Reese each appear like potential first-round picks for subsequent 12 months’s draft; Reese is a wonderful hitter with medium energy, whereas Stevens has some swing and miss to his sport however straightforward plus uncooked energy. McPherson is one of the best prospect amongst quite a lot of fascinating underclassman arms, although 22-year-old LHP Pico Kohn is probably the most impactful for this season.
12. Georgia Tech
Prime-two-rounds prospects: OF Drew Burress (2026), C Vahn Lackey (2026), SS Kyle Lodise, 2B Alex Hernandez (2026)
Burress is within the operating to go No. 1 in subsequent 12 months’s draft on account of his standout energy/velocity mixture. Lackey and Lodise appear like stable second-rounders. Hernandez is a borderline second-rounder due to a robust freshman 12 months.
The following half-dozen groups: Alabama, Auburn, Vanderbilt, Oregon, Ole Miss, North Carolina
