MINORS: 2021 NCAA Names to know
Feb 18 2021
Photo: Kumar Rocker (RHP, Vanderbilt)
This article first appeared in the 2021 Minor League Baseball Analyst.
This is the most difficult college crop to analyze in years due to the shortened 2020 season, which was canceled not quite a month after it got started. As a reminder and reset, most pro prospects in the NCAA ranks leave college via the draft after their junior seasons. Which means in normal years of writing this column, players have had two full seasons (freshman and sophomore) of NCAA performance to reference. As this point, the pandemic meant we didn’t get to see most of these players below start their conference seasons (which in most cases provide the highest competition level) as sophomores. So for the 2021 class, our...
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