The Dodgers day began with highschool outfielder Kendall George with the thirty sixth decide of the 2023 MLB Draft, and their final decide of the primary day is College Of Virginia third baseman Jake Gelof with the sixtieth decide.

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Rankings

The Athletic: 37
Baseball America: 40
ESPN: 50
FanGraphs: NR
MLB Pipeline: 35
Excellent Recreation: 70
Prospects Stay: 56

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This appears extra consistent with typical vary for a decide, and he’s truly rated larger than their first decide.

From The Athletic:

Gelof turned the Cavaliers’ profession chief in homers halfway by means of this spring, his junior yr, with 70 energy that ought to translate advantageous to the wooden bat. The youthful brother of Oakland prospect Zack, who additionally went to UVA, Jake has a really rotational swing and makes exhausting contact when he squares it up, however he’s had a whole lot of hassle with velocity up in or above the zone. He’s a thick-bodied participant for third base and is extra prone to find yourself in an outfield nook, most likely proper discipline since he has a plus arm. He may very well be a lower-average high-power man who performs on daily basis for many golf equipment however whose swing-and-miss points flip a number of groups away.

From Baseball America

Commit/Drafted: By no means Drafted
Age At Draft: 21.4
BA Grade:50/Excessive
Instruments:Hit: 50. Energy: 60. Run: 40. Discipline: 45. Arm: 50.
Gelof is the youthful brother of former Virginia third baseman and present A’s prospect, Zack Gelof. Now following in his elder brother’s footsteps, Jake has been top-of-the-line energy hitters in program historical past. After setting a program report with 5 multi-homer video games in 2022, Gelof turned Virginia’s all-time dwelling run chief in 2023, when he hit his thirty eighth dwelling run on April 11. After his second 20-plus homer season, Gelof is a profession .329/.429/.684 hitter with 48 dwelling runs and 46 doubles in 161 profession video games. Gelof is powerfully constructed at 6-foot-1, 195 kilos and pairs each power and bat pace with an offensive operation that contains a little bit of pre-pitch bat wiggle, a average leg kick and a entrance facet that tends to divulge heart’s contents to the pull facet. He’s a pull-happy hitter normally, and that’s the place most of his in-game energy manufacturing has gone, although he has greater than sufficient uncooked energy to homer to the other discipline, with a 91 mph common and 107 mph Ninetieth-percentile exit velocity in 2023. Gelof is a power-over-hit offensive profile who will broaden the zone and swing-and-miss at a large clip. He has an 18.9% profession strikeout charge and likewise struggled with whiffs within the Cape Cod League and with Staff USA’s trials roster in 2022. Gelof is a below-average runner and workman-like defender at third base, although he has common arm power and has accomplished a pleasant job on in-between performs and throwing on the run on troublesome sluggish rollers.

From ESPN

Gelof is far simpler to understand on first look: he has a pull and carry strategy with plus uncooked energy, so he’s typically peppering the left-field wall. Scouts marvel if he’ll have to slip over to first base and if his swing/strategy will work in opposition to higher stuff.

From MLB Pipeline

Scouting grades: Hit: 50 | Energy: 60 | Run: 40 | Arm: 55 | Discipline: 50 | Total: 50
If Gelof wants recommendation from anybody about how one can deal with going from the College of Virginia to the professional recreation, he can ask his older brother, Zack, a 2021 second-round decide and a prime prospect of the A’s. The youthful Gelof broke out in 2022 with a 1.241 OPS, 21 homers and a team-record 81 RBIs. He performed briefly on the Cape and tried out for the U.S. Collegiate Nationwide Staff over the summer season and continued to construct his case as one of many prime energy bats within the school recreation with a powerful junior season.
A right-handed-hitting nook infielder, Gelof doesn’t get cheated on the plate. He has an aggressive strategy, seeking to do injury and faucet into his large uncooked energy, particularly to the pull facet. Gelof takes massive swings, however he confirmed a capability to get to his energy in 2022, restrict strikeouts, draw walks and make changes, even when some suppose he’ll be power-over-hit when all is claimed and accomplished.
The jury is out over the place Gelof will play defensively long-term. He has greater than sufficient arm to remain at third and a few really feel he strikes effectively sufficient to stay there, however he has seen time at first and a few see a transfer throughout the infield in his future. Both method, it’s that energy bat that offers him the possibility to be an early decide in July.

The reactions to the decide.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have chosen Virginia IF Jake Gelof. .329 profession hitter with 46 2B and 48 HR throughout 161 profession video games. Swing tailor-made to get the ball within the air with authority. Plus uncooked energy. pic.twitter.com/9WYur6J7ML

— Peter Flaherty III (@PeterGFlaherty) July 10, 2023

2-60. Dodgers: Jake Gelof, 3B, Virginia — nook IF who’s daddy hacks membership member, RHH w/ rhythm maintaining avg hit software entact and limits s/m, strength-based swing w/ violence permits him faucet into plus uncooked energy, aggressive strategy, actions w/ abv-avg arm for 3B w/ 1B fallback

— Taylor Blake Ward (@TaylorBlakeWard) July 10, 2023

60. LA Dodgers: Jake Gelof, 3B, Virginia

Enormous performer at UVA, unorthodox swing with massive RH energy, does do a good job limiting Ok’s, good arm at 3B with projection to remain there, energy over hit 3B kind. #PGDraft #HereToPlay

— Brian Sakowski (@B_Sakowski_PG) July 10, 2023

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The slot worth right here is $1,336,900, and he looks as if a few slot signing, so with a projected underslot first decide, the Dodgers will possible use the remainder of their $7.27 million on some overslot guys in later rounds.

Must be attention-grabbing.