College Stat Roundup: How The Top 100 Fared

We’ll compile stats each week for the draft-eligible college players in our Top 100 Draft Prospects in the weeks leading to the June 9 draft.

Dakota Hudson and Jordan Sheffield faced off in a matchup of two of the best pitchers in the Southeastern Conference. Kent State lefthander Eric Lauer lowered his ERA to 0.90. Connecticut’s Anthony Kay shut down East Carolina and Rice’s Jon Duplantier was part of the Owls’ domination of Florida International. But the biggest story of the weekend was Oklahoma’s Alec Hansen.

Hansen came into the season as one of the few college pitchers in this year’s class who had a chance to go first overall in June’s draft, although he carried some concerns as he has sat out summer ball last year and had missed the Sooners’ fall ball season as well. It’s fair to say that the season has not gone as Hansen had hoped. He lost his spot in the starting rotation and became one of the biggest question marks in this year’s draft class.

Hansen’s stuff never really took a step back. Hansen was striking out 12.6 batters per nine innings at the time he was removed from the rotation. He still can run his fastball up to the mid-to-high 90s and his slider shows flashes of being an above-average or better offering. But he simply hadn’t thrown enough strikes. He fell behind in counts and rarely got to a point where he could use his slider, curveball or changeup. At the time of his demotion from the rotation, Hansen has a dismal 58 percent strike percentage–he had a pair of games where that plummeted to 41 percent or worse. He was walking 8.1 batters per nine innings.

The move to bullpen helped. In shorter stints, Hansen was able to harness his control. Eventually Oklahoma saw enough to move him back to the rotation for Sunday’s series finale with Kansas State. He responded by holding Kansas State scoreless for six innings, striking out nine and walking one. Hansen was able to locate his fastball (65 percent strike percentage), and once he did that, his secondary offerings became effective once again.

It’s one start and there aren’t many more weekends left for Hansen to prove that his renaissance has staying power (there are two weeks left in the regular season before the Big 12 tournament). But Hansen has some of the best stuff in this year’s draft class and he’s now giving front office officials a reason to double back to check on the Sooners.

Rk	Pitcher	School	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	Pitches	Strikes
1	AJ Puk	Florida	3.1	3	2	2	6	6	91	53
13	Dakota Hudson	Mississippi State	8.1	7	2	1	0	11	104	76
18	Connor Jones	Virginia	No games this weekend
23	Jordan Sheffield	Vanderbilt	7	6	1	0	0	5	106	75
25	Eric Lauer	Kent State	6	4	0	0	1	6	100	69
26	T.J. Zeuch	Pittsburgh	7	5	5	5	4	5	103	68
27	Robert Tyler	Georgia	4	5	6	6	4	2
30	Zack Burdi	Louisville	2	0	0	0	0	4	20	14
31	Logan Shore	Florida	6	7	2	1	1	2	91	57
33	Anthony Kay	Connecticut	6	5	0	0	0	8	90	63
35	Cal Quantrill	Stanford	DNP—recovering from Tommy John surgery
42	Cody Sedlock	Illinois	9	3	2	1	1	7	106	73
46	Daulton Jefferies	California	DNP—right shoulder muscle strain
55	Matt Krook	Oregon	0	0	2	2	2	0	10	2
56	Jon Duplantier	Rice	8.1	3	0	0	1	8	105
57	Alec Hansen	Oklahoma	6	2	0	0	1	9	82	53
60	Corbin Burnes	St. Mary’s	6	4	1	1	3	9	108	68
71	Zack Brown	Kentucky	5.1	10	9	7	4	5	110	64
73	Braden Webb	South Carolina	7	6	5	5	2	10	106	64
74	Dane Dunning	Florida	3	3	2	2	0	4	48	31
75	Zach Jackson	Arkansas	4	4	1	1	5	5	105	60
76	Ben Bowden	Vanderbilt	1	3	1	1	0	1	16	13
81	Kyle Cody	Kentucky	5.2	8	2	1	3	4	115	72
82	Zac Gallen	North Carolina	7.2	6	3	2	1	6	115	76
83	Kyle Funkhouser	Louisville	6	9	4	4	1	6	108	64
96	Matthias Dietz	John A. Logan (Ill.)	9	6	2	0	1	8

Mercer’s Kyle Lewis continued to do what he can to raise his draft stock. The center fielder faces questions about the caliber of pitchers he’s facing in the Southern Conference, but he’s providing the power teams want to see. With two more home runs, Lewis is tied for second in Division I with 17 and is fourth in slugging percentage (.801). On the other end of the spectrum, Texas A&M outfielder Nick Banks has seen his draft stock tumble with a rough junior year. It didn’t get better this weekend as Banks went 0-for-10 with three strikeouts. For the season, Banks ranks in the bottom third in the SEC in batting average (.273) and strikeout rate (18.7 percent).

Rk	Player	Pos	School	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	Results
4	Kyle Lewis	of	Mercer	10	4	5	4	4	2	2 HR
5	Nick Senzel	3b/ss	Tennessee	13	1	4	3	1	2	2 2B, HR
6	Corey Ray	of	Louisville	15	1	6	4	1	2
15	Zack Collins	c	Miami	10	2	2	0	3	2	2B
21	Buddy Reed	of	Florida	13	1	2	1	1	2	3B, SB
22	Bryan Reynolds	of	Vanderbilt	11	0	1	0	0	4	HBP
34	Matt Thaiss	c	Virginia	No Games This Weekend
37	Heath Quinn	of	Samford	13	2	4	2	2	1	2B
44	Will Craig	3b/rhp	Wake Forest	11	2	3	3	2	0	HBP, 2 2B
47	Anfernee Grier	of	Auburn	12	2	3	0	0	4	2 HBP, SB
48	Austin Hays	of	Jacksonville	13	0	2	0	2	2
51	Chris Okey	c	Clemson	10	2	2	1	4	3	HR
52	Ronnie Dawson	of	Ohio State	10	2	3	4	2	0	2B, HR, SB
65	Sean Murphy	c	Wright State	16	4	5	7	1	1	2 HBP, SB
66	Jake Fraley	of	Louisiana State	11	5	3	3	5	1	2B, 2 SB, SF
72	Ryan Boldt	of	Nebraska	8	1	5	1	1	2	2B
77	Bobby Dalbec	3b/rhp	Arizona	DNP—Undisclosed Injury
80	Nick Banks	of	Texas A&M	10	0	0	0	2	3	CS
85	Brett Cumberland	c	California	12	0	1	0	0	1	HBP
89	Jake Rogers	c	Tulane	12	1	1	0	3	5
94	Lucas Erceg	3b	Menlo College (Calif.)	No Games This Weekend