College Hot Sheet: 20 College Baseball Standouts From The Past Week (2/28/23)

Welcome to the college hot sheet! Like our pro hot sheets, the college hot sheet recognizes some of the top performers around the country in college baseball after each weekend of play. Carlos Collazo and Peter Flaherty contributed to the college hot sheet this week.

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1. Sean Sullivan, LHP, Wake Forest
Draft Class: 2023
What He Did: 6 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, 11 K, 0 BB

Sullivan was outstanding over the weekend. He tossed six perfect innings and struck out 11. His low, three-quarter slot and deceptive delivery make for an extremely difficult at-bat, and he continues to slice and dice his way through lineups with his explosive fastball and above-average breaking ball. –PF

2. Angelo Cabral, RHP, Texas-Rio Grande Valley
Draft Class: 2023
What He Did: 6.1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 15 K

Cabral started in the second game of a Friday doubleheader against Central Michigan and struck out more batters than any UTRGV pitcher had managed since 2013. He showed good feel for a downer curveball that got a number of looking strikeouts and didn’t allow a run over 6.1 innings. –CC

3. Jac Caglianone, LHP/1B, Florida
Draft Class: 2024
What He Did: 10-for-21, 1 2B, 5 HR, 10 RBI

Caglianone raked all week, but the performance that landed him on this list was the Gators’ series finale against Cincinnati on Sunday afternoon. The 6-foot-5 Caglianone wallopped three home runs and had five RBIs. None of his three home runs were cheap ones either, as all had exit velocities of 110 mph or higher. Oh, and he also started on the mound and struck out six batters over 4.2 innings. –PF

4. Cade McGee, 3B, Gonzaga
Draft Class: 2024
What He Did: 11-for-20, 3 2B, 4 HR, 12 RBI

Although the Zags went just 1-4 last week, albeit against quality competition, the physical third baseman enjoyed one of the best weeks of anyone in the country. McGee homered in four straight games, had four straight multi-hit games and drove in an astounding 12 runs in that four-game stretch. –PF

5. Janzen Keisel, RHP, Oklahoma State
Draft Class: 2024
What He Did: 5.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 11 K

Could a debut be better than this? In Keisel’s first ever start with Oklahoma State, he threw 5.1 no-hit innings against California Baptist in a midweek game on Tuesday. Four OSU pitchers prevented hits to round out the game and give the Cowboys their first no-hitter since Justin Campbell’s no-hitter against Kansas in 2021 and the 12th in program history. -CC

6. Jason Savacool, RHP, Maryland
Draft Class: 2023
What He Did: 7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 9 K

Maryland wasn’t able to take its series against Mississippi over the weekend, but Savacool put it in a position to do so after throwing seven shutout innings on Friday night in Oxford. He only allowed a pair of hits—a single to Calvin Harris and a double to Elijah Lambros—and struck out nine batters on 102 pitches. -CC

7. Noah Hall, RHP, South Carolina
Draft Class: 2023
What He Did: 8 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 12 K

Hall dominated Pennsylvania on Saturday and racked up 12 strikeouts while allowing just three hits—all singles—over eight innings of work. The 6-foot senior gets tremendous screwball-like movement on his low-80s changeup and generated 15 whiffs with the pitch, which looks like one of the best cambios in the country. He also touched 96 mph for good measure. Not bad. –CC

8. Liam McFadden-Ackman, 1B, Northern Kentucky
Draft Class: 2023
What He Did: 8-for-14, 1 2B, 1 3B, 4 HR, 13 RBI

McFadden-Ackman had one of the best individual performances in Northern Kentucky history on Sunday, going 5-for-6 and hitting for the cycle, while also blasting two grand slams and driving in 10 runs. –PF

9. Dylan Crews, OF, Louisiana State
Draft Class: 2023
What He Did: 10-for-14, 3 2B, 7 RBI

The superstar junior had a stellar week which was capped off by winning MVP of the Round Rock Classic thanks to his 5-for-6, three-double, four-RBI performance against Sam Houston State on Sunday. –PF

10. Jackson Baumeister, RHP, Florida State
Draft Class: 2023
What He Did: 5.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 8 K

Texas Christian entered its series against Florida State as one of the hottest hitting teams in the country, but Baumeister quickly cooled it off by retiring 10 straight batters and taking a no-hitter into the sixth inning. Baumeister has struggled with control in the past, but was plenty efficient in this outing and averaged just over four pitches per batter. -CC

11. Zach Thornton, LHP, Grand Canyon
Draft Class: 2023
What He Did: 6 IP, 4 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 11 K

As the reigning WAC pitcher of the week, Thornton continued his outstanding start to the 2023 season, shutting down Ohio State’s offense across six shutout innings. A transfer from Barton (Kan.) Community College, the 6-foot-3 southpaw is quickly establishing himself as a potential draft selection in July. –PF

12. Gavin Kash, 1B, Texas Tech
Draft Class: 2024
What He Did: 10-for-21, 10 RBI, 3 2B, 1 3B, 2 HR

Kash pulverized the baseball across a busy five-game week for the Red Raiders, which featured a rare Monday tilt against Gonzaga and a four-game weekend series against Western Illinois. His loudest performance came in the first game of a Saturday doubleheader, in which he went 4-for-6 with two doubles and two opposite field home runs, and he drove in six runs in the process. –PF

13. Coleman Picard, RHP, Bryant
Draft Class: 2023
What He Did: 5 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 12 K

In one of the most impressive performances of the weekend, Picard was fantastic against No. 13 Virginia Tech and was a key reason why Bryant was able to pull off the upset. He had no issues against a lineup full of future draft selections and demonstrated his ability to command his full arsenal. Picard has an athletic delivery with his best offering being a slurvy breaking ball—a pitch with which he is able to get plenty of ugly swings. –PF

14. Adam Cecere, OF, Wake Forest
Draft Class: 2023
What He Did: 11-for-19, 4 2B, 1 HR, 12 RBI

It’ll be tough to outscore this Wake Forest lineup in 2023, especially when players like Cecere are collecting multi-hit games with apparent ease. He had two or more hits in every game last week except for Sunday, is hitting nearly .500 (.484) after the first nine games of the season and is tied for the team lead with six homers, along with Brock Wilken. -CC

15. Max Carlson, RHP, North Carolina
Draft Class: 2023
What He Did: 7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 9 K

Carlson put the Tar Heels in a position to beat in-state rival East Carolina on Friday, with a strong seven-inning effort that included nine strikeouts and just a pair of hits allowed. The 6-foot-1 righthander filled up the zone with a low-90s fastball and generated whiffs on 11 low-80s changeups with arm-side fade and tumble. -CC

16. Trey Yesavage, RHP, East Carolina
Draft Class: 2024
What He Did: 6 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 8 K

In what was a massive series for the Pirates, Yesavage set the tone for the weekend on Friday night, turning in a quality start in which he threw six innings, allowed just one earned run, surrendered three hits and struck out eight while walking just one. Yesavage is an imposing figure on the mound and his heavy fastball consistently misses barrels. –PF

17. Jaime Ferrer, OF, Florida State
Draft Class: 2024
What He Did: 7-for-17, 3 2B, 1 3B, 2 HR, 6 RBI

Ferrer was a key reason why the Seminoles were able to march into Forth Worth and take two of three from then No. 10 Texas Christian. He showed off his unique hit-power combination all week, but especially in Saturday’s series-clinching game in which he went 3-for-5 with a double, two home runs and four RBIs. –PF

18. Chase Burns, RHP, Tennessee
Draft Class: 2024
What He Did: 6.1 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 12 K

Burns tallied a career-best 12 strikeouts as the Saturday starter against Dayton over the weekend, topping his previous high of 11 against Mississippi in 2022. He needed just 83 pitches to do it over 6.1 innings and showed his typically electric fastball/slider combination throughout. –CC

19. Chase Dollander, RHP, Tennessee
Draft Class: 2023
What He Did: 5.2 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 12 K

Dollander gave up a two-run homer in the top of the first against Dayton on Friday, but after that he was pretty much locked in and dominant. He pitched heavily off a 95-96 mph fastball that got 15 whiffs and tallied his first double-digit strikeout game of the season. In 2022 he had five such games. -CC

20. Isaiah Coupet, LHP, Ohio State
Draft Class: 2023
What He Did: 6 IP, 6 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 9 K

Coupet was stellar in a Thursday night pitcher’s duel in Phoenix, tossing six innings, while allowing just one earned run to go along with nine strikeouts and just one walk. He backdoored his slider well and also mixed in a backfoot curveball—a pitch with which Coupet continues to get a ton of swing and miss. –PF