D1 Baseball Rates & Ranks Report #8 for the Week Ending 4/24/25
I rated & ranked over 3,000 D1 baseball players and here are the results...
Document : College Player Rates & Ranks Weekly Report #8— Amateur
Level : Division 1
Source : https://www.fangraphs.com/
Offensive Date Data pulled : Wednesday, April 23, 2025 6:47 AM ET
Pitchers Date Data pulled: Wednesday, April 23, 2025 6:47 AM ET
Overview : From an offensive perspective, I rated and ranked 3,028 Division 1 players from Start of Season — April 23, 2025, with 70 minimum Plate appearance requirement. Players were assessed using a neutralized Run Value system to measure their overall offensive production, broken down into two core components:
“The Run Tool”— Captures the value generated from non-hit plate appearances (walks, stolen bases, etc.)
“The Hit Tool”— Measures a player’s offensive impact via hitting
“Overall” — A sum of Run Tool and Hit Tool, representing overall offensive contribution
Each player is ranked in these three categories: Run Tool, Hit Tool , and Overall . This week I’m releasing a list of all the baseball players which includes a schedule for the top 20 players and I will be breaking down the top 10 in this blog. The link to the full list of 3,028 players.
Top 10 Position Players by Run Value
Cardell Thibodeaux (+/-0) is a 5'8" / 186 Junior Outfielder is out of Southern University. Cardell’s Overall Rank remains unchanged this week at #1. His Run Tool Rank moves -2 spots to #185 and his Hit Tool Rank remains unchanged at #1. The junior’s bat is helping carry his rank (22.22% XBH rate, -1.55% from last week, & 10.37% HR rate, -1.11% from last week, 10.47% SO rate, +1.55% from last week) and his legs are helping his rank (17.44% BB rate , +1.61% from last week, with 20 stolen bases). His Stolen base success rate is 72% , right around the break even point. We tip our caps for this weeks #1 overall rank Mr. Cardell Thibodeaux!
Logen Devenport (+17) is a 6’0” / 185 lbs junior RHH OF out of Northern Kentucky University. Logen moves +17 spots this week to #2 Overall. Logen moved +121 spots in his Run Tool Rank to #194, and +21 spots in his Hit Tool Rank to #5. The junior’s bat is helping carry his rank (20.61% XBH rate & 9.92% HR rate, 18.71% SO rate) and his legs are helping his rank (15.79% BB rate, with 14 stolen bases). His Stolen base success rate is 77%. We tip our caps for this weeks #2 overall rank Mr. Logen Devenport!
Anthony DePino (+/-0) is a 5'10" / 225 Senior Infielder out of URI. Anthony’s Overall Rank moves +/-0 to #3. His Run Tool rank moves +3 spots to #49 and his hit Tool Rank moves -16 spots to #26. The senior’s bat is helping carry his rank (20.27% XBH rate, -0.78% from last week & 9.46% HR rate, -1.07% from last week) and his legs (21.11% BB rate, +0.44% from last week, with 12 net stolen bases, +1 from last week). We tip our caps for this weeks #3 overall rank Mr. Anthony DePino!
Kaleb Freeman (+4) is a 6–0, 202lb senior utility out of Georgia State University. Kaleb’s Overall Rank moves +4 spot to #4. His Run Tool Rank moves -12 spots to #70 and his Hit Tool Rank moves +7 spots to #21. The senior’s bat is helping carry his rank (24.67% XBH rate, +0.76% & 8.67% HR rate, +0.70% from last week) and his legs are also contributing (23.50% BB rate, -0.69% from last week with 11 net stolen bases. He does tend to strikeout a bit 21.50%. We tip our caps for this weeks #4 overall rank Mr. Kaleb Freeman.
Ryland Zaborowski (+2) is a 6'6" / 225 GRAD Infielder out of UGA (SEC). Ryland moves +2 spot this week to #5 Overall. His Run Tool Rank moves +87 spots to #427 and his Hit Tool Rank remains unchanged at #3. The GRAD’s bat is helping carry his rank (21.19% XBH rate, -0.43% from last week & 13.56% HR rate, -0.85% from last week) and his legs (17.33% BB rate, +0.55% from last week). We tip our caps for this weeks #5 overall rank Mr. Ryland Zaborowski. Go Dawgs!
Robbie Burnett (+/-0) is a 5–10 / 178lb senior Infielder out of UGA. Robbie’s Overall Rank remains unchanged at #6. His Run Tool Rank moves -23 spots to #48 and his Hit Tool Rank moves +1 spots to #35. The Senior is doing it with his bat (20.29% XBH rate,-0.04% from last week & 12.32% HR rate, -0.69% from last week) and his legs (17.02% BB rate,-1.11% from last week & 9 net stolen bases, -1 from last week). SO rate continues to trend in the wrong direction +.44% from last week, to 19.15%. His SO% is +>4% in the last 3 weeks. Probably a good idea to see the types of pitchers/pitches he was facing this past 3 weeks. We tip our caps for this weeks #6 overall rank Mr. Robbie Burnett! Go Dawgs!
Nicolas Notarangelo (+4) is a 5'10" / 180 lbs GRAD OF out of URI. Nicolas moves +4 spots this week to #7 Overall. His Run Tool Rank moves +10 spots to #59 and his Hit Tool Rank moves +10 spots to #32. The GRAD’s bat is helping carry his rank (14.29% XBH rate & 1.79% HR rate) and his legs (16.67%BB rate). We tip our caps for this weeks #7 overall rank Mr. Nicolas Notarangelo!
Trey Rutledge (-3) is a 5'11" / 175 RS-Junior outfielder out of AAMU (SWAC). Trey’s Overall Rank moves -3 spots to #8 Overall. His Run Tool Rank moves -1 spot to #4, and his Hit Tool Rank moves -143 spots to #309. The RS-junior’s legs are helping carry his rank (20.00% BB rate, -0.53% from last week with 32 stolen bases). 91% success rate, -3% from last week. His Hit Tool ratios (7.88% SO Rate +0.60%, 7.83% XBH% -0.82% from last week & 0.87% HR% -0.18%) . We tip our caps for this weeks #8 overall rank Mr. Trey Rutledge.
Gavin Kilen (-7) is a 5'11" / 185 junior infielder out of U Tenn. Gavin moves -7 this week to #9 Overall. His Run Tool Rank moves -162 spots to #573 and his Hit Tool Rank moves -2 to #4. The Junior’s bat is helping carry his rank (19.19% XBH rate, -2.65% from last week & 11.11% HR rate, -2.59% from last week) and his legs (17.60% BB rate, -1.15% from last week & 7.20% SO rate, +1.84% from last week). We tip our caps for this weeks #9 overall rank Mr. Gavin Kilen!
Grant Jay (+3) is a 5'11" / 218 junior catcher out of DBU. Grant moves +3 spots this week to #10 Overall. His Run Tool Rank moves -69 spots to #288 and his Hit Tool Rank moves +4 spots to #14. The Junior’s bat is helping carry his rank (21.83% XBH rate & 11.27% HR rate) and his legs (15.38% BB rate). We tip our caps for this weeks #10 overall rank Mr. Grant Jay!
Top 20 Schedule for the next 2 weeks
I have also included a schedule for the top 20 players on the 2nd tab of the spreadsheet so everyone/anyone can follow along throughout the week. I include the hyperlinks to watch if they are provided on the teams website.
Pitching : There is limited data on pitchers in college. It’s almost not even worth doing a ranking, but I felt I needed to put my hat in the ring if this is what everyone else is doing. From the pitching perspective, I rated & ranked 3,371 Division 1 pitchers for the dates of 2/14/25–4/24/25 with a minimum requirement of 10 IP. The pitchers are rated the same way in terms of run value but instead of PA innings, but in the inverse manner. There’s no Batted Ball data, so I had to use MLB probabilities on the outcomes of hits. Like I said it’s not great, I’m not going to dive too deep into it.
Top Pitchers by RV/TBF :
That’s all this week for the College Baseball Report, come back next Thursday for Report #9. Let me know your thoughts, what you liked and didn’t like in the comments. As my man Clint Hurdle would say, ‘give me 3 ups and 3 downs’. For every one bad thing you hated, give me one good thing you liked.
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