D1 College Baseball Rates & Ranks Report #9 - Week Ending 5/1/25

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

Chris James

May 02, 2025

Document : College Player Rates & Ranks Weekly Report #8— Amateur

Level : Division 1

Source : https://www.fangraphs.com/

Offensive Date Data pulled : Thursday, May 1, 2025 11:35 PM ET

Pitchers Date Data pulled: Friday, May 2, 2025 7:41 AM ET

Overview : From an offensive perspective, I rated and ranked 2,997 Division 1 players from Start of Season — May, 1st 2025, with 80 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 10 in this blog. The link to the full list of 2,997 players.

I have received some feedback from some readers about what the rates mean. I wanted to take a moment to explain it….So every offensive event has a value associated with it, I am breaking that down to a per Plate Appearance Basis. Let’s break it down, if a player has an overall rate / PA of .125 and gets 4 plate appearances in the game, that would mean the player has a game run value of (.125 * 4 at bats = .50 run value)

RV/PA = Run Value / Plate Appearance

For context, a lineup composed entirely of average low end RV/PA players would typically produce ~4.5 runs per game.

Please understand, this does not consider positional ranges or splits, this is just a general rule to give readers an idea of what these numbers represent. This reference guide rates were pulled from MLB levels. Each level of baseball is different in terms of difficulty, leading ultimately up to MLB. In college there is a big difference even from conference to conference. I am not here to impose my subjective perspective, and I am simply presenting you with the data and let the data speak for itself. I think it speaks volumes when you do see a player from a top Power conference in the top of these lists. at this level it’s more of a production indicator to identify talent and use it in conjecture with in person scouting i.e. I went to a University of Rhode Island vs. George Mason game to do some in person scouting of a few players that popped on my radar.

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 -34 spots to #219and his Hit Tool Rank remains unchanged at #1. The junior’s bat is helping carry his rank (22.30% XBH rate, 0.08% from last week, & 10.14% HR rate, -0.24% from last week, 10.70% SO rate, +0.23% from last week) and his legs are helping his rank (17.11% BB rate , -0.33% from last week, with 21 stolen bases). His stolen base success rate is 72.41% , right around the break even point. We tip our caps for this weeks #1 overall rank Mr. Cardell Thibodeaux!

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Logen Devenport (+/-0) is a 6’0” / 185 lbs junior RHH OF out of Northern Kentucky University. Logen’s #2 Overall remains unchanged from last week. Logen moved -10 spots in his Run Tool Rank to #204, and +3 spots in his Hit Tool Rank to #2. The junior’s bat is helping carry his rank (20.95% XBH rate , +0.34% from last week & 9.46% HR rate, -0.46%, 18.42% SO rate, -0.29%) and his legs are helping his rank (15.26% BB rate, -0.53% from last week, with 17 stolen bases). His Stolen base success rate is 80.95%. We tip our caps for this weeks #2 overall rank Mr. Logen Devenport!

Nicolas Notarangelo (+4) is a 5'10" / 180 lbs GRAD OF out of URI. Nicolas moves +4 spots this week to #3 Overall. His Run Tool Rank moves -68 spots to #127 and his Hit Tool Rank moves +26 spots to #6. The GRAD’s bat is helping carry his rank (16.22% XBH rate, +1.93% & 5.41% HR rate, +3.62%) and his legs (15.96% BB rate, -0.71%). For a more in depth review of Nicolas, I did a scouting report last week. Here is an excerpt
You can tell a lot of time and effort went into that swing. We tip our caps for this weeks #3 overall rank Mr. Nicolas Notarangelo!

Jordan McCladdie (+11, first time in the top 10! ) is a 22 tear old 6’0” 190 lb LHH senior OF out of Jackson State University. Jordan’s Overall Rank moves +11 spots to #4. His Run Tool rank moves +4 spots to #4 and his hit Tool Rank moves +65 spots to #179. The senior’s legs are helping carry his rank (21.03% BB rate, +0.79% from last week, with 39 stolen bases at a 90.70% success rate) and his bat (12.14% XBH % +0.33% , HR% 2.14% --0.22%). We tip our caps for this weeks #4 overall rank Mr. Jordan McCladdie ! Jordan’s father Tony McCladdie was drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays a 64th round of the 1996 MLB June Amateur Draft.

James Quinn-Irons - (+8) is a 6’4” 190 lb senior CF out of George Mason University. James’ overall rank moves +8 spots this week. His Hit Tool Rank moves +8 spots to #7. His Run Tool Rank moves +133 spots to #221. The senior’s bat is helping carry his rank (18.99% XBH rate, +0.13% from last week & 7.26% HR rate, +0.97% from last week) and his legs (11.76% BB rate, -0.54% from last week, with 25 stolen bases, SB Success Rate is 83.33%). For a more in-depth analysis of James please check out my in-game Scouting Report from last week. Here is a quick except. My comp was Randal Grichuk…

We tip our caps for this weeks #5 overall rank Mr. James Quinn-Irons!

Caden Sorrell (N/A, first time in the top 10!) is a 6'3" / 205 Sophomore L/L OF out of Texas A&M. Not previously ranked Caden due minimum plate requirement, Sorrell missed the start of the season with a hamstring injury. His Run Tool ranks #689 and his hit Tool Rank #3. The sophomore’s bat is helping carry his rank (21.74% XBH rate & 13.04% HR rate) and his legs (19.54% BB rate). We tip our caps for this weeks #6 overall rank Mr. Caden Sorrell!

Father, Greg, was a 37th-round pick by the Red Sox in the 1990 MLB Draft out of high school. Grandfathers, Billy Sorrell and Tom Griffin, each played in the major leagues...Sorrell played in 85 career MLB games over three seasons, playing for the Philadelphia Phillies (1965), San Francisco Giants (1967) and Kansas City Royals (1970). Griffin was the fourth overall selection in the 1966 January Regular Baseball Draft by the Houston Astros and went on to play in all or part of 14 seasons in the big leagues for the Astros, San Diego Padres, California Angels, San Francisco Giants and Pittsburgh Pirates.

Trey Rutledge (+1)is a 5'11" / 175 RS-Junior outfielder out of AAMU (SWAC). Trey’s Overall Rank moves +1 spot to #7 Overall. His Run Tool Rank remains unchanged #2, and his Hit Tool Rank moves -67 spots to #376. The RS-junior’s legs are helping carry his rank (20.33% BB rate, +0.33% from last week with 34 stolen bases). 91.89% success rate. His Hit Tool ratios (7.69% SO Rate -0.19%, 7.94% XBH% +0.11% from last week & 0.79% HR% -0.08%) . We tip our caps for this weeks #7 overall rank Mr. Trey Rutledge.

Kyle Fossum (+9) is 6'2" / 188 lbs R/R senior out of Youngstown State University. Kyle’s overall rank #8 - Hit Tool Rank #4 - Run Tool Rank #745. The senior’s bat is helping carry his rank (21.60% XBH rate, -0.31% from last week & 11.11% HR rate, -0.53% from last week) and his legs (18.05% BB rate, +1.57% from last week). We tip our caps for this weeks #8 overall rank Mr. Kyle Fossum!
Roch Cholowsky (+19, first time in the top 10! ) is a 6’2” Sophomore INF out of UCLA. Roch’s overall rank #9, +19 spots from last week - Hit Tool Rank #24 , +23 spots from last week - Run Tool Rank #134, +116 from last week. The sophomore’s bat is helping carry his rank (19.51% XBH rate, +0.33% from last week & 9.76% HR rate, +0.85% from last week) and his legs (16.74% BB rate, +1.64% from last week). We tip our caps for this weeks #9 overall rank Mr. Roch Cholowsky !

His father, Dan Cholowsky, was selected in the first round of the 1991 MLB Draft by St. Louis and played eight seasons of professional baseball.

Anthony DePino is a 5'10" / 225 Senior Infielder out of URI. Anthony’s Overall Rank moves -7 to #10. His Run Tool rank moves -3 spots to #7 and his hit Tool Rank moves -34 spots to #. The senior’s bat is helping carry his rank (19.16%XBH rate, -1.11% from last week & 8.38% HR rate, -1.08% from last week) and his legs (20.18% BB rate, - 0.93% from last week, with 18 stolen bases at a 81.82% success rate ). I wrote about Anthony in my last scouting report as well.
We tip our caps for this weeks #10 overall rank Mr. Anthony DePino!

I’ll add the schedule for the next 2 weeks later, but I want to get the blog out.

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 3,660 Division 1 pitchers for the dates of 2/14/25–5/1/25 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 #10. 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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