Ranking The Top 100 NCAA Transfers

The dust has finally settled following a wild summer transfer portal cycle that saw thousands of players enter the portal. Today, Baseball America’s Peter Flaherty expands our transfer rankings to the top 100 players changing schools this fall, including new reports for each player. The transfer market was particularly fruitful for the following schools with the most players on our list:

LSU — 9
Arkansas — 8
Texas A&M — 7
Auburn — 5
Georgia — 5
Wake Forest — 5
Alabama — 4
Oklahoma State — 4
Oregon — 4
Tennessee — 4
Texas — 4

You can check out the full ranking below. Click here to see our transfer portal winners and losers.

Co-host of "The 90th Percentile" Matt Pajak joins Scott Braun, JJ Cooper & Geoff Pontes to chat about the swirling uncertainty increased scholarships, hard-capped rosters & the transfer portal has unleashed on college baseball. How are the biggest programs coping with the changes, and will we see less cinderella teams return to Omaha?

Which Young Power Prospects Have The Best 90th Percentile Exit Velos?

It’s almost cliche to say that hitting the ball harder leads to better outcomes for batters. Despite the tired refrain, it’s still a concept many dismiss when it comes to predicting future production at the major league level. There’s certainly other important elements to hitting, but big, raw power leaves room for error, and that room for error translates to production on mishits.

Today, we’ll dive into a group of standout power hitters age 21 or younger presently in the minor leagues. 

Geoff Pontes used percentile rankings to further contextualize how some of the minors’ foremost young power brokers compare to their peers. All 15 hitters rate within the top 2% of 90th percentile exit velocity among players 21 or younger.

Travis Bazzana’s Hitting Blueprint: Art, Science And Some Juan Soto Inspiration

Hitting is an art form. And to Guardians’ No. 1 prospect Travis Bazzana, it’s an art form backed by science. 

“Mentally and movement-wise, I’d say it’s an art to be a good hitter,” Bazzana said, “but there’s ways that you can back art with science.” 

For those who know Bazzana and have seen him train, they understand it’s this mentality that’s taken the Australia native from unsigned international prospect to college baseball standout to being the No. 1 pick in this past July’s MLB draft.

Baseball America’s Geoff Pontes sat down with Bazzana last week to discuss his approach to hitting. They discuss how Bazzana trains and enhances his hitting skill, why he draws inspiration from Juan Soto’s approach, the importance of optimizing ball flight and Bazzana’s three most important stats for hitting success.

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