The last few days have been busy with 2022 draft items, even though we still have 2 1/2 months left before the draft starts. On Wednesday we looked at new draft prospect rankings from Baseball America and Kiley McDaniel at ESPN. Yesterday we looked at a new mock draft by Baseball America. Not long after that article was posted, MLB Pipeline came out with their own mock draft, written up by Jonathan Mayo.
Mayo has the same top three as BA’s mock from yesterday, going with Cal Poly shortstop Brooks Lee first overall, followed by Georgia outfielder Druw Jones in the second spot and IMG Academy outfielder Elijah Green in the third spot. The fourth spot belongs to the Pittsburgh Pirates and he has them selecting Termarr Johnson, a high school second baseman with an exciting bat. He has been connected to the Pirates before in this spot. Pipeline ranks him as a 70 grade hitter, with 60 grade power, displaying average speed and defense. In the fifth spot, Mayo has Jackson Holliday, the son of Matt Holliday. Jackson has moved up the draft lists for everyone, with Mayo saying that right now he is in play for any of the top five spots.
Earlier in the week, Pipeline updated their top 150 draft prospects list. They have (in order): Jones, Green, Johnson, Holliday, Lee, Jacob Berry, Jace Jung, Kevin Parada, Dylan Lesko (pre-TJ surgery ranking) and Arizona catcher Daniel Susac in the top ten spots. Berry, Jung and Parada are all college bats mentioned here before, and we will likely look at all of them in future Draft Prospect Watch articles.
I’m also legally obligated by family to mention that Monmouth lefty Trey Dombroski is rated 106th overall in the rankings, which would put him in the 3rd-4th round range. I also have to mention that he’s a cousin of a large group of my cousins.
