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TEAM USA TOP 10

For the first time since 2019, USA Baseball’s Collegiate National Team completed a normal summer schedule.

After the training camp roster of 50 players played a series of five intrasquad games in North Carolina, the final 26-man roster traveled to the Netherlands to compete in Honkbalweek Haarlem, a biannual international baseball competition, where they earned the bronze medal.

As always, the talent level was off the charts on the CNT, with many of the players who donned the stars and stripes in the Netherlands projected to be early draft picks the next two years.

Here are the top 10 prospects on this year’s Collegiate National Team.

Nine of the 10 prospects are eligible for the 2023 draft, with Vanderbilt lefthander Carter Holton, a rising sophomore, the only member of the draft class of 2024.

1 DYLAN CREWS

OF • LOUISIANA STATE

Age: 20. HT: 6-1. WT: 203. B-T: R-R.

Crews has been one of the most dynamic players in college baseball over his first two seasons at LSU, batting a combined .356/.458/.677 with 40 home runs and 114 RBIs in 125 games. He has lived up to the high expectations that followed him to Baton Rouge after foregoing the draft coming out of high school in 2020.

Crews went

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