MLB.com’s Jim Callis released his top 20 college prospects for the 2023 MLB draft last week, and the Florida Gators are the only program to have three players named on the list.
There’s an elite group of talent returning to Florida and it’s led by the top bat of 2022, left fielder [autotag]Wyatt Langford[/autotag]. [autotag]Brandon Sproat[/autotag] and [autotag]Hurston Waldrep[/autotag], who are expected to be at the top of Florida’s weekend rotation all season, join him on the list.
LSU and Wake Forest are the only other schools to have multiple players featured, but Stanford, Tennessee and Vanderbilt all have a top-20 player and one of Callis’ players to watch.
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— Florida Gators Baseball (@GatorsBB) September 28, 2022
Last year, Callis had [autotag]Hunter Barco[/autotag]and [autotag]Jud Fabian[/autotag] in his preseason top 20. Both ended up being taken in the first three-rounds, and Barco was having a first-round worthy season before Tommy John surgery took him down. Callis had Barco at No. 11 on that list and Fabian at No. 16. Langford is No. 4 this year, so that gives you an idea of how good he’s expected to be.