Nawrocki hammers the baseball, running a 111 mph max EV as a sophomore at Clemson. He got an ability to loft the baseball as well, posting a 22% barrel rate with an average LA of 15.8 degrees. He has some of the better bat-to-ball skills you’ll find in the class, posting above-average whiff numbers. There’s some chase to his game, which is the reason behind a 19.7% K rate, but it’s not a major issue. The contact quality has been just alright for him, as there was some launch angle variance in 2024. He’s a great athlete and has an above-average arm, but his actions may be best suited for 3B moving forward.

Jerzembeck’s fastball is relatively generic, getting 14” of vertical break with 3” of run. The draw with this profile is 2 plus secondaries, a change-up, and a slider. The slider has 18” of sweep with depth and drew whiffs 43% of the time. He throws the change-up hard at 87 mph and gets 13.5” of run, but still gets 39% whiff. The mix may profile best in the pen, but he has the stuff to be a high-leverage guy moving forward.

After a great freshman season at South Carolina there were 1-1 expectations on Petry, which may have been a bit premature. There’s a long history of performance, including a Cape Code League MVP award in 2024, but the whiffs have always been an issue. Petry’s a 35.4% whiff guy who K’d at 25.5% in 2024, with issues coming against velocity and spin. There’s power and feel for the strike-zone, but the profile looks to be 1B long term which limits my ability to be forgiving on the hit tool.

Amp Phillips has one of the more compelling origin stories in this draft class. He was a true walk-on arm who started at Spartanburg Methodist, didn't even become a full-time pitcher until his first year of college baseball after touching 92 mph for the first time, worked his way to USC Upstate, and has now earned the Friday night role at an SEC program. At USC Upstate in 2025, he went 7-2 with a 3.64 ERA across 84 innings with 81 strikeouts and just 29 walks, including nine strikeouts in six innings against Clemson in the NCAA Regional — the performance that put his name on the map. The arsenal is where the intrigue lives. His heavy supination bias produces a natural cut-ride shape on the 92-94 mph fastball that generates both the plus carry and the lateral movement that makes it difficult to square up, and that same supination tendency is the engine behind the kick changeup — a low vert, cut-shape that has proven effective versus left-handed hitters as a solid weapon. The biggest developmental lever remaining is on the breaking ball side. The slider currently features too much shape variance, crossing between a slider and a slurvy, slower breaking ball that reduces its effectiveness as a true put-away pitch. The opportunity in pro ball is there for him to separate the pitch into a defined gyro slider and a true curveball that would give Phillips a third distinct velo band and round out what is already a legitimate mid-rotation prospect profile.