Former Wolf Pack pitcher Braden Shipley was named the No. 24 prospect in baseball Thursday by ESPN.com's Keith Law.
The 23-year-old Shipley, who spent the entire 2015 season in Double-A, struggled in the first half of the season before dominating in the second half. He posted a 4.50 ERA with nearly as many walks as strikeouts before the All-Star break before returning to form in the second half of the season, posting a 2.66 ERA with a 3.5-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio following a minor mechanical change.
"Shipley is a three-pitch pitcher whose 92-95-mph fastball can be his worst pitch when he doesn't get completely on top of the ball; it doesn't have much life and needs to be offset by his plus changeup," Law writes in his review of Shipley.