Nothing beats being at the ballpark in the fall for some college baseball scrimmage. My first stop was at a scrimmage between the Georgetown Hoyas and Rutgers Scarlet Knights at Capital One Park in Tysons Corner, VA. While both are smaller schools, they’ve both been sneaky programs that have produced some decent draft talent over the past couple of years. 

In 2024, Georgetown's ace left-hander Everett Catlett (Colorado Rockies) was selected in the 12th round, and Rutgers had guys like Joshua Kuroda-Grauer (3rd Round, Oakland Athletics) and Donovan Zsak (8th Round, Cleveland Guardians) go in the top 10 rounds. Georgetown even had their third-rounder in the 2023 MLB Draft, Jake Bloss (Houston Astros), who has already made his major league debut and was a big piece in the Yusei Kikuchi trade. Rutgers also had a second-rounder in Ryan Lasko (Oakland Athletics) in the 2023 MLB Draft. 

While Georgetown now doesn’t possess as significant an arm as it did in the past two years in Catlett and Bloss, it still had some names to watch. Rutgers was fully loaded with intriguing bats and a couple of arms worth monitoring. 

2025 MLB DRAFT

1B Ty Doucette - Rutgers

Doucette has easily catapulted himself into the top 100 bats in all of college baseball with his performance last year. He had a max EV of 112 MPH last year, and his ability to get barrel with ease is quite impressive. It was another barrel party for him against the Hoyas as hit smoked a double and homerun. Georgetown pitchers were no match for him. The only negative to Doucette’s offensive profile is he can be quite aggressive and chase at times, but he offsets that with a pretty good feel for the strike zone. Defensively, Doucette is a first-base-only profile, which means he will really have to hit at the next level. He’s somewhat athletic over there, but there is definitely room for improvement. Either way the bat is good enough that teams will be calling and he could easily find success in pro ball.