Perfect Game Scouting Service was purrr=fect when it came to slotting the Wright State INF. Tyler Black (Stouffville, Ont.) … they had him rated 33rd overall in North America … he went 33rd to the Milwaukee Brewers.

August 6, 2021

By Bob Elliott

Canadian Baseball Network

Don’t mock the mock draft.

The leaders at rating high school and collegians across North America are -- take your pick who you think is No. 1 -- we are going in alphabetical order:

Baseball America, whose evaluating staff includes former Canadian Baseball Network productive scribe, Alexis Brudnicki.

ESPN, with MLB Insider Kiley McDaniel

MLBPipeline.com, anchored by Jim Callis, the former Baseball America expert.

Perfect Game Scouting Service, whose mock draft was entirely the effort of Brian Sakowski and Vinnie Cervino.

The Athletic, with evaluator Keith Law, the former assistant general manager of the Toronto Blue Jays at the start of the J.P. Ricciardi era.

Using the Price is Right rules -- closest to the actual overall spot where a player was drafted without going over or the closest if everyone overbid ... the winners are bold face.

We start off with Perfect Game accurately forecasting that Black would go 33rd in North America -- exactly where he went.

(Most accurate prediction listed in italics)

1. 2B Tyler Black (Toronto, Ont.) Wright State (33rd overall, Brewers)

16th on ESPN top 200 list of prospects

33th on Perfect Game’s top 612

47th on The Athletic’s top 100

57th on MLBPipeline.com Top 250 list

82nd on Baseball America’s Top 500 list

2. RHP Calvin Ziegler (Heidelberg, Ont.) Great Lake Canadians (46th, Mets)

52nd on The Athletic’s top 100

77th on Perfect Game’s top 612

101st on ESPN’s top 200

123rd on MLBPipeline.com Top 250

273rd on Baseball America’s Top 500 list

Former Toronto Mets OF Denzel Clarke (Pickering, Ont.

3. OF Denzel Clarke (Pickering, Ont.) Cal State Northridge (127th, A’s)

86th on Baseball America’s top 500

98th on MLBPipeline.com Top 250

130th on Perfect Game’s top 612

137th on ESPN’s top 200

4. LHP Mitch Bratt (Newmarket, Ont.) Toronto Mets (134th, Rangers)

161st on Perfect Game’s top 612

214th on MLBPipeline.com top 250

304th on Baseball America’s top 500

8th on Perfect Game’s top 20 in Georgia

5. RHP Eric Cerantola (Oakville, Ont.) Mississippi State (139th, Royals)

147th on Perfect Game’s top 612

198th on ESPN Top 200

203rd on Baseball America’s top 500

247th on MLBPipeline.com Top 250

8th on Baseball America’s top 33 prospects in Mississippi

Former Southern Illinois Saluki, Okotoks Dawgs and Pembina Oriole OF Tristan Peters (Winkler, Man.)

6. OF Tristan Peters (Winkler, Man.) Southern Illinois (207th, Brewers)

180th on Perfect Game’s top 612

13th on Baseball America’s top 16 in Illinois

7. RHP Jordan Marks (Brights Grove, Ont.) South Carolina-Upstate (225th, Tigers)

151st on Baseball America’s top 500

201st on MLBPipeline.com Top 250

310th on Perfect Game’s top 612 list

3rd on Perfect Game’s top 26 in South Carolina

3rd on Baseball America’s top 26 in South Carolina

8. C Liam Hicks (Toronto, Ont.) Arkansas State (254th Rangers)

12th on Baseball America’s top 15 in Arkansas

9. RHP Garrett Hawkins (Biggar, Sask.) University of British Columbia (280th, Padres)

10. LHP Adam Shoemaker (Cambridge, Ont.) - Great Lake Canadians (337th, Braves)

152nd on Perfect Game’s top 612

371st on Baseball America’s top 500 list

11. LHP Thomas Ireland (Regina, Sask.) Polk State (374th, Rangers)

12. 3B Damiano Palmegiani (Surrey, BC) Southern Nevada (422nd Blue Jays)

245th on MLBPipeline.com Top 250

467th on Baseball America’s top 500 list

479th on Perfect Game’s top 612

9th on Baseball America’s top 12 prospects in Nevada

13. RHP Evan Elliott (Toronto, Ont.) Prairie Baseball Academy (434th, Rangers)

RHP Conor Angel (Lachine, Que.) of the Louisiana at Lafayette Rajun Cajuns.

14. RHP Conor Angel (Lachine, Que.) Louisiana at Lafayette (461st, Rays)

396th on Perfect Games’s top 612

15. RHP Micah Bucknam (Abbotsford, BC) Abbotsford Cardinals (482nd, Blue Jays)

132nd on Baseball America’s top 500

174th on Perfect Game’s top 612

16. LHP Adam Tulloch (Toronto, Ont.) West Virginia (522nd Dodgers)

17. RHP Dominic Hambley (Victoria, BC) Victoria Mariners (544th, Cubs)

374th on Perfect Game’s top 500

Other ranked players

RHP Ben Abram Georgetown, Ont.) University of Oklahoma

20th on Baseball America’s top 26 in Oklahoma

3B Shawn Grandmont (Lethbridge, Alta.) Northwest Nazarene University

3rd on Baseball America’s top nine in Idaho

INF-OF Elijha Hammill (Oakville, Ont.) Ontario Terriers/C-Utah

428th on Perfect Game’s top 612

1B David McCabe (Courtice, Ont.) Charlotte University

473rd on Perfect Game’s top 612, 18th on Perfect Game’s 20 best in North Carolina

RHP Turner Spoljaric (Lisle, Ont.) Stetson University

138th on Baseball America’s 154 prospects in Florida