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West Virginia Top 10: Luis Escobar Leads a Top-Heavy Prospect List

West Virginia has been the level recently where young players break out and establish themselves as legit prospects. That happened last year again with Mitch Keller, although the Pirates didn't get an extreme version like Keller with this year's West Virginia team. The 2017 team wasn't packed with prospects, but they had two of the biggest movers among prospects in pitchers Eduardo Vera and Oddy Nunez. They also had shortstop Adrian Valerio, who was able to show why he was ranked in our top 50 two years before he showed any offensive potential. The list below really drops off after the top four prospects, and some of the best prospects who saw action for West Virginia this year didn't play long enough for the team to qualify for the top ten list.