Elliott: Don't mock the mock draft - Perfect Game had Tyler Black 33rd, he went 33rd
Perfect Game Scouting Service was purrr=fect when it came to slotting the Wright State INF. Tyler Black (Stouffville, Ont.) … they had him rated 33rd overall in North America … he went 33rd to the Milwaukee Brewers.
August 6, 2021
By Bob Elliott
Canadian Baseball Network
Don’t mock the mock draft.
The leaders at rating high school and collegians across North America are -- take your pick who you think is No. 1 -- we are going in alphabetical order:
Baseball America, whose evaluating staff includes former Canadian Baseball Network productive scribe, Alexis Brudnicki.
ESPN, with MLB Insider Kiley McDaniel
MLBPipeline.com, anchored by Jim Callis, the former Baseball America expert.
Perfect Game Scouting Service, whose mock draft was entirely the effort of Brian Sakowski and Vinnie Cervino.
The Athletic, with evaluator Keith Law, the former assistant general manager of the Toronto Blue Jays at the start of the J.P. Ricciardi era.
Using the Price is Right rules -- closest to the actual overall spot where a player was drafted without going over or the closest if everyone overbid ... the winners are bold face.
We start off with Perfect Game accurately forecasting that Black would go 33rd in North America -- exactly where he went.
(Most accurate prediction listed in italics)
1. 2B Tyler Black (Toronto, Ont.) Wright State (33rd overall, Brewers)
16th on ESPN top 200 list of prospects
33th on Perfect Game’s top 612
47th on The Athletic’s top 100
57th on MLBPipeline.com Top 250 list
82nd on Baseball America’s Top 500 list
2. RHP Calvin Ziegler (Heidelberg, Ont.) Great Lake Canadians (46th, Mets)
52nd on The Athletic’s top 100
77th on Perfect Game’s top 612
101st on ESPN’s top 200
123rd on MLBPipeline.com Top 250
273rd on Baseball America’s Top 500 list
Former Toronto Mets OF Denzel Clarke (Pickering, Ont.
3. OF Denzel Clarke (Pickering, Ont.) Cal State Northridge (127th, A’s)
86th on Baseball America’s top 500
98th on MLBPipeline.com Top 250
130th on Perfect Game’s top 612
137th on ESPN’s top 200
4. LHP Mitch Bratt (Newmarket, Ont.) Toronto Mets (134th, Rangers)
161st on Perfect Game’s top 612
214th on MLBPipeline.com top 250
304th on Baseball America’s top 500
8th on Perfect Game’s top 20 in Georgia
5. RHP Eric Cerantola (Oakville, Ont.) Mississippi State (139th, Royals)
147th on Perfect Game’s top 612
198th on ESPN Top 200
203rd on Baseball America’s top 500
247th on MLBPipeline.com Top 250
8th on Baseball America’s top 33 prospects in Mississippi
Former Southern Illinois Saluki, Okotoks Dawgs and Pembina Oriole OF Tristan Peters (Winkler, Man.)
6. OF Tristan Peters (Winkler, Man.) Southern Illinois (207th, Brewers)
180th on Perfect Game’s top 612
13th on Baseball America’s top 16 in Illinois
7. RHP Jordan Marks (Brights Grove, Ont.) South Carolina-Upstate (225th, Tigers)
151st on Baseball America’s top 500
201st on MLBPipeline.com Top 250
310th on Perfect Game’s top 612 list
3rd on Perfect Game’s top 26 in South Carolina
3rd on Baseball America’s top 26 in South Carolina
8. C Liam Hicks (Toronto, Ont.) Arkansas State (254th Rangers)
12th on Baseball America’s top 15 in Arkansas
9. RHP Garrett Hawkins (Biggar, Sask.) University of British Columbia (280th, Padres)
Great Lake Canadians LHP Adam Shoemaker (Cambridge, Ont.) went to the Braves
10. LHP Adam Shoemaker (Cambridge, Ont.) - Great Lake Canadians (337th, Braves)
152nd on Perfect Game’s top 612
371st on Baseball America’s top 500 list
11. LHP Thomas Ireland (Regina, Sask.) Polk State (374th, Rangers)
12. 3B Damiano Palmegiani (Surrey, BC) Southern Nevada (422nd Blue Jays)
245th on MLBPipeline.com Top 250
467th on Baseball America’s top 500 list
479th on Perfect Game’s top 612
9th on Baseball America’s top 12 prospects in Nevada
13. RHP Evan Elliott (Toronto, Ont.) Prairie Baseball Academy (434th, Rangers)
RHP Conor Angel (Lachine, Que.) of the Louisiana at Lafayette Rajun Cajuns.
14. RHP Conor Angel (Lachine, Que.) Louisiana at Lafayette (461st, Rays)
396th on Perfect Games’s top 612
15. RHP Micah Bucknam (Abbotsford, BC) Abbotsford Cardinals (482nd, Blue Jays)
132nd on Baseball America’s top 500
174th on Perfect Game’s top 612
16. LHP Adam Tulloch (Toronto, Ont.) West Virginia (522nd Dodgers)
17. RHP Dominic Hambley (Victoria, BC) Victoria Mariners (544th, Cubs)
374th on Perfect Game’s top 500
Other ranked players
RHP Ben Abram Georgetown, Ont.) University of Oklahoma
20th on Baseball America’s top 26 in Oklahoma
3B Shawn Grandmont (Lethbridge, Alta.) Northwest Nazarene University
3rd on Baseball America’s top nine in Idaho
INF-OF Elijha Hammill (Oakville, Ont.) Ontario Terriers/C-Utah
428th on Perfect Game’s top 612
1B David McCabe (Courtice, Ont.) Charlotte University
473rd on Perfect Game’s top 612, 18th on Perfect Game’s 20 best in North Carolina
RHP Turner Spoljaric (Lisle, Ont.) Stetson University
138th on Baseball America’s 154 prospects in Florida