By Steve Nielsen
Scouting Supervisor - Illinois/Wisconsin

The 2020 Overall Rankings were updated last week, expanded to a modest top 200 with more than half of those prospects already making verbal commitments. The top of the overall 2020 class is extremely advanced. To put it in perspective, the top two arms, RHP Victor Mederos (Coral Reef Senior, FL) and RHP Nate Wohlgemuth (Owasso, OK) are already running their fastballs’ up into the mid 90’s.

Illinois’ top prospect isn’t quite to that level yet, emphasis on yet...