D1 Baseball Rates & Ranks Report #11 - Week Ending 5/16/25

I rated & ranked over 3,000 D1 Baseball players and here are the results...

Chris James

May 17, 2025

Document : College Player Rates & Ranks Weekly Report #11— Amateur

Level : Division 1

Source : https://www.fangraphs.com/ , IBB walk data pulled from Baseball Reference.

Offensive Data pulled : Friday, May 16, 2025 10:55 AM ET

Pitchers Data pulled: Friday, May 16, 2025 11:36 PM ET

Overview : From an offensive perspective, I rated and ranked 2,890 Division 1 players from Start of Season — May, 16th 2025, with 100 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 and I will be breaking down the top players by age in this blog. The link to the full list of 2,890 players

Before I jump into the Top Player Breakdown. I received some feedback from a reader at a game in real life (pretty cool) and they had some questions about what the rates “Hit Tool” “Run Tool” “Overall Rate” mean and how it works…

Sometimes I forget not every reader was a former underwriter that turned down a pro baseball contract. As an underwriter rates/rating risks were my thing. So every offensive event has a run value associated with it, and I am breaking that down to a per Plate Appearance Basis. So I give every baseball event has a predetermined set run value. I then separate those value down into the Hit Tool Rate (1B,2B,3B,HR) + Run Tool Rate (BB, SB, HBP) = Overall Rate.

Here is a breakdown of D1 Overall Rates …

Avg Overall Rate .162 with a Standard Deviation of 0.029

I have color coded the players using the guideline… If you click the calculator looking thing and click ‘Group by Age’ you can sort players by age

there are about 1,300+ players with no age in fangraphs database. I went back and tried to make sure the top 250 overall players had an age.

How is this “Overall Rate” thing practical Boz?

Lets take a quick look at the 2025 season numbers…

In 2025 teams are averaging 6.79 Runs per Game (Avg. Runs/Game) , and ~41 Plate Appearances per Game (Avg. PA/Game) or 4.56 Plate Appearances per Player (Avg PA/Player). This means the average player has an Average True Overall Rate of .166. You can use overall rate to make production projections or try to optimize run scoring. It’s a simple number to understand production in terms of runs.

With that in mind lets breakdown the top Great & Elite Players by Age.

Top 18 Year Old Position Players

Levi Clark , TENN - SEC, Elite Production

Landon Penfield , COFC - Average Production
Aidan Bardi , ME - Average Production

Top 19 Year Old Position Players

Joe Tiroly, RID - Elite Production
Garrett Wright, - Great Production
Brady Ballinger, , Great Production
Mack Whitcomb, TNTC - Great Production
Ryan Novak, M-OH - Great Production
Zeb Allen, CARK - Great Production
Chris Rembert, AUB - Great Production
Sawyer Strosnider, TCU - Great Production
Collin Jennings, ILL - Great Production
Jonathan Gomez, FDU - Above Average Production
Hunter Ray, FDU - Above Average Production

Top 20 Year Old Position Players

Roch Cholowsky, UCLA - Elite Production
Cider Canon, DAV- Elite Production
Carson Tinney, ND- Elite Production
Grant Gallagher, ETSU- Elite Production
Aiden Robbins, HALL - Elite Production
Mitch Voit, MICH- Elite Production
Michael DiMartini, DAY - Great Production
Caden Sorrell, TA&M - Great Production
Tyler Minick, CONN - Great Production
Jake Bennett, DBU - Great Production

Top 21 Year Old Position Players

Cardell Thibodeaux, SOU- Elite Production
Logen Devenport, NKU- Elite Production
Mason Neville, ORE- Elite Production
Andrew Fischer, TENN- Elite Production
Jamie Quinn-Irons, GMU- Elite Production
Cameron Nickens, APSU- Elite Production
Grant Jay, DBU- Elite Production
Jacoby Radcliffe, SOU- Elite Production
Ryan Daniels, CONN- Elite Production
Brayden Simpson, HPU- Elite Production
Cam Maldonado, NE- Elite Production
Alex Lodise, FSU- Elite Production
Anthony Torreso, DAV - Great Production
Ryan Wideman, WKU - Great Production
Jorge Rodriguez, BCU - Great Production
Bradley Garner, VMI - Great Production

Top 22 Year Old Position Players

Robbie Burnett, UGA - Elite Production
Jake Casey, KENT - Elite Production
Johnny Sweeney, UPST- Elite Production
Drew Wyers, BRY - Elite Production
Kaleb Freeman, GAST - Elite Production
Kyle Fossum, YSU - Elite Production
Jordan McCladdie, JKST - Elite Production
Anthony DePino, URI - Elite Production
Boston Smith, WRST - Elite Production
Tom Poole, DBU - Elite Production
Raymond Velazquez, APSU - Elite Production
Harrison Feinberg, NE - Elite Production
Damien Garcia, TXSO - Elite Production
Scott Campbell, UPST - Great Production
Nathan Humphreys, DBU - Great Production
Patrick Keighran, SF - Great Production
Judah Morris, ILST - Great Production
Kyle Hayes, WKU - Great Production

Top 23 Year Old Position Players

Ryland Zaborowski, UGA- Elite Production
Konni Durschlag, HPU- Elite Production
Kerrington Cross, CIN- Elite Production
Cooper Torres, ETSU- Elite Production
Hayden Jatczak , KENT- Elite Production
Alex Ungar, SHU - Great Production
Blake Cavill, TROY- Great Production
Nicolas Notarangelo, URI- Great Production
Aidan Redahan, CCSU - Great Production
Matt Schark, SIU - Great Production

Top 24 Year Old Position Players

John Bay, APSU- Elite Production
Trey Rutledge, AAMU - Elite Production
Ben Parker, W&M- Great Production
Bryce Hughes, TXSO- Great Production
Andrey Martinez, BCU - Great Production
Jack Thorbahn, STO - Great Production
Chris Brown, CCSU- Great Production
Gus Freeman, APSU- Great Production
Arjun Huerta, JKST - Great Production
Sebastian Mueller, QUIN - Great Production

Pitchers Ratings :

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 2,541 Division 1 pitchers for the dates of 2/14/25–5/9/25 with a minimum requirement of 20 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 #12. 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.

Schedule :

Stay tuned a new KBO/NPB Rates & Ranks Report drops this Monday! I do a bi-weekly professional baseball report and alternate between MiLB & International Leagues.