There are four others who improved 20-plus spots (all are RHPs): San Diego’s Josh Butler (+27 66 to 39), Washington’s Tim Lincecum (+25 31 to 6), Missouri State’s Brent Sinkbeil (+25 42 to 17) and VCU’s Harold Mozingo (+20 55 to 35).Īmong the four teams that have two pitchers on the top-50 prospects list, the UNC pair owns the top combined ERA (2.62), record (14-2), innings (130.2), low opp. Only three others made a bigger jump that Manship’s (+34): Kent State SS Emmanuel Burris (+43 77 to 34) ASU’s Zinicola (+41 85 to 44) and Hawaii RHP Steven Wright (+37 82 to 45). The only players with more noteworthy jumps in the rankings than Samardzija are a pair of RHPs who were not included on BA‘s preseason list of the top-100 prospects: Cal State Northridge’s Chris Baker (now #32) and Villanova’s Kevin Mulvey (#43). Two of Notre Dame’s early-season losses came at the hands of pitchers who are rated near the top of the BA list: Nebraska righthanded starter Joba Chamberlain (8th) and Arizona righthanded closer Mark Melancon (14th), who logged 4.2 innings to help edge the Irish in a 2-0, 10-inning game (UA shortstop Jason Donald is the No. Arizona State is the only other team with two pitchers in the top-50: righthanded reliever Zach Zinicola (44th) and righthanded starter Pat Bresnehan (50th). Missouri’s pair of starting pitchers on the top-50 prospects list include righthander Max Scherzer (5th) and lefthander Nathan Culp (49th). UNC’s pair of high-rated pitching prospects include LHP Andrew Miller (1st) and RHP Daniel Bard (9th), who lost to Notre Dame in an elimination game at the 2005 NCAA Gainesville Regional. 3-rated freshman in all of college baseball entering the 2004 season – has returned from injury to earn a spot on the midseason top-50 prospects list (photo by Pete LaFleur). Manship was 75th on the preseason list of top college prospects, moving up 34 spots for the seventh-biggest jump among players on the current top-50 prospects list.
Samardzija had been slotted 94th in BA‘s preseason list of the college game’s top prospects, with the two-sport star making the third-biggest jump (54 spots) from the preseason to midseason list.
North Carolina is the only team with two starting pitchers rated higher than the Notre Dame duo while Missouri is the only other team with two starting pitchers among BA‘s current top-50 prospects.
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Notre Dame junior righthanded pitchers Jeff Samardzija (Valparaiso, Ind.) and Jeff Manship (San Antonio, Texas) have been attracting plenty of attention from professional scouts throughout the 2006 season and both of the talented pitchers recently were upgraded by Baseball America into top-50 status on the magazine’s midseason list of college prospects who are eligible for the 2006 Major League Draft.
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