Brendan Summerhill, OF, Arizona (Shotgun Spratling)
When it comes to turning power and speed tools into game production at the college level, there were seven players in Division I baseball last season who had 20+ doubles OR 20+ home runs AND 20+ stolen bases.
Nobody combined the power/speed tools better than Vance Honeycutt (North Carolina) who went deep 28 times and swiped the same number of bases. With elite level defense as his top tool, he parlayed his other abilities into the 22nd overall selection by Baltimore. Down the street, but in the same neighborhood was Kentucky’s second baseman Emilien Pitre who produced 20 doubles and 26[…]
