Drew Thorpe, left, and Brooks Lee, right, will draw plenty of looks by Major League Baseball scouts this spring.
Lee Fourth, Thorpe No. 71 on Perfect Game's 2022 MLB Draft Board
12/13/2021 1:01:00 PM | Baseball
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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- A pair of Cal Poly baseball players made the list of Perfect Game's Top 300 Draft Board for the 2022 Major League Baseball Draft.
The class skews very bat-heavy at the top, both in terms of the prep and college classes. On the college side, Brooks Lee at No. 4 and third-ranked Chase DeLauter of James Madison are pretty universally viewed as top 5-10 talents.
Ranked Nos. 1 and 2 are high school standouts Termarr Johnson, a shortstop from Mays High School in Atlanta, and outfielder Elijah Greene of IMG Academy in Windermere, Florida.
Mustang sophomore right-hander Drew Thorpe is ranked No. 71 by Perfect Game.
A three-time All-American last season, Lee committed just six errors in 54 games for a .974 fielding percentage, No. 2 among regular shortstops in the Big West. He did not commit an error in Cal Poly's final 21 games of the 2021 season.
His team-leading .342 batting average included a school-record 27 doubles, three triples and 10 home runs, all team highs as well. Lee finished with more extra-base hits (40) than singles (36) and hit safely in 41 of the 54 games in which he played, producing hitting streaks of 12, 11 and nine games.
Other honors earned by Lee were Big West Conference Co-Field Player of the Year and Co-Freshman Field Player of the Year, a spot on the All-Big West first team, Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-American, one of five National Co-Freshman Players of the Year by Collegiate Baseball and ABCA All-West Region first team.
Lee was one of six finalists for the Brooks Wallace Award as the nation's top shortstop and also was a semifinalist for the Golden Spikes Award, presented to the player of the year.
Lee led the Mustangs in RBIs (57), hits (76), total bases (139) and sacrifice flies (8). His school single-season record of 27 doubles tied for fifth place in the Big West record book. Lee he also led his squad in multiple-hit games with 25 and was the Big West leader with his 16 multiple-RBI contests.
Thorpe was Cal Poly's Friday night starter and compiled a 6-6 win-loss record and 3.79 ERA in his first full season with the Mustangs. The Washington, Utah, native struck out 104 batters over 90 1/3 innings and opponents hit just .240 off the 6-4, 205-pound pitcher.
Thorpe's 104 strikeouts were third in the Big West last season and he also was third in innings pitched, 10th in wins, fifth in starts (15) and 14th in ERA.
Thorpe was 6-1 with a 3.15 ERA in his nine starts at home last spring and compiled double-digit strikeouts three times this year, matching his career high with 13 against UC Santa Barbara.
Both Lee and Thorpe played for Team USA as well as in the Cape Cod League for Yarmouth-Dennis last summer.
In November, BaseballProspectJournal.com compiled a mock draft and listed Lee No. 1 with Green third, Johnson fourth and DeLauter ninth.
Dan Zielinski III said of Lee, "He is a 6-foot-2, 205-pound switch-hitting shortstop who is a well-rounded player. His best traits are on the offensive side, as he is an aggressive hitter who loves to swing at the first pitch. He has respectable power, possesses an above-average hit tool and drives the ball to all fields."
In other Mustang baseball news ...
• Lee was named to the All-Cape Cod League first team as a shortstop last month.
Lee produced a .405 batting average, including four doubles, six home runs and 13 RBIs in 21 games for Yarmouth-Dennis.
An eight-game hitting streak was snapped on the final day of the season, a streak in which Lee went 18-for-35 (.514) with four doubles, three home runs and six RBIs.
Lee didn't qualify for the league's batting title as he fell short of 2.7 plate appearances per team games played,. He stepped away from Yarmouth-Dennis to participate in the Collegiate National Team's tryouts in Cary, N.C.
The Cape's winner of the batting title hit .344, 61 points less than Lee's average. Even with the fewer number of games played in the Cape -- Lee played in 21 games for Yarmouth-Dennis while other players in the league competed in as many as 37 games -- Lee was tied for sixth in home runs with six and tied for 10th in hits with 34.
Lee was named Cape Cod League Player of the Week during the final week of play in the regular season, going 14-for-24 (.583) at the plate with three doubles and a pair of home runs. Included in the totals was a 5-for-5 performance against Harwich on July 27 as Lee belted two singles, a pair of doubles and a home run.
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- A pair of Cal Poly baseball players made the list of Perfect Game's Top 300 Draft Board for the 2022 Major League Baseball Draft.
The class skews very bat-heavy at the top, both in terms of the prep and college classes. On the college side, Brooks Lee at No. 4 and third-ranked Chase DeLauter of James Madison are pretty universally viewed as top 5-10 talents.
Ranked Nos. 1 and 2 are high school standouts Termarr Johnson, a shortstop from Mays High School in Atlanta, and outfielder Elijah Greene of IMG Academy in Windermere, Florida.
Mustang sophomore right-hander Drew Thorpe is ranked No. 71 by Perfect Game.
A three-time All-American last season, Lee committed just six errors in 54 games for a .974 fielding percentage, No. 2 among regular shortstops in the Big West. He did not commit an error in Cal Poly's final 21 games of the 2021 season.
His team-leading .342 batting average included a school-record 27 doubles, three triples and 10 home runs, all team highs as well. Lee finished with more extra-base hits (40) than singles (36) and hit safely in 41 of the 54 games in which he played, producing hitting streaks of 12, 11 and nine games.
Other honors earned by Lee were Big West Conference Co-Field Player of the Year and Co-Freshman Field Player of the Year, a spot on the All-Big West first team, Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-American, one of five National Co-Freshman Players of the Year by Collegiate Baseball and ABCA All-West Region first team.
Lee was one of six finalists for the Brooks Wallace Award as the nation's top shortstop and also was a semifinalist for the Golden Spikes Award, presented to the player of the year.
Lee led the Mustangs in RBIs (57), hits (76), total bases (139) and sacrifice flies (8). His school single-season record of 27 doubles tied for fifth place in the Big West record book. Lee he also led his squad in multiple-hit games with 25 and was the Big West leader with his 16 multiple-RBI contests.
Thorpe was Cal Poly's Friday night starter and compiled a 6-6 win-loss record and 3.79 ERA in his first full season with the Mustangs. The Washington, Utah, native struck out 104 batters over 90 1/3 innings and opponents hit just .240 off the 6-4, 205-pound pitcher.
Thorpe's 104 strikeouts were third in the Big West last season and he also was third in innings pitched, 10th in wins, fifth in starts (15) and 14th in ERA.
Thorpe was 6-1 with a 3.15 ERA in his nine starts at home last spring and compiled double-digit strikeouts three times this year, matching his career high with 13 against UC Santa Barbara.
Both Lee and Thorpe played for Team USA as well as in the Cape Cod League for Yarmouth-Dennis last summer.
In November, BaseballProspectJournal.com compiled a mock draft and listed Lee No. 1 with Green third, Johnson fourth and DeLauter ninth.
Dan Zielinski III said of Lee, "He is a 6-foot-2, 205-pound switch-hitting shortstop who is a well-rounded player. His best traits are on the offensive side, as he is an aggressive hitter who loves to swing at the first pitch. He has respectable power, possesses an above-average hit tool and drives the ball to all fields."
In other Mustang baseball news ...
• Lee was named to the All-Cape Cod League first team as a shortstop last month.
Lee produced a .405 batting average, including four doubles, six home runs and 13 RBIs in 21 games for Yarmouth-Dennis.
An eight-game hitting streak was snapped on the final day of the season, a streak in which Lee went 18-for-35 (.514) with four doubles, three home runs and six RBIs.
Lee didn't qualify for the league's batting title as he fell short of 2.7 plate appearances per team games played,. He stepped away from Yarmouth-Dennis to participate in the Collegiate National Team's tryouts in Cary, N.C.
The Cape's winner of the batting title hit .344, 61 points less than Lee's average. Even with the fewer number of games played in the Cape -- Lee played in 21 games for Yarmouth-Dennis while other players in the league competed in as many as 37 games -- Lee was tied for sixth in home runs with six and tied for 10th in hits with 34.
Lee was named Cape Cod League Player of the Week during the final week of play in the regular season, going 14-for-24 (.583) at the plate with three doubles and a pair of home runs. Included in the totals was a 5-for-5 performance against Harwich on July 27 as Lee belted two singles, a pair of doubles and a home run.
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