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By Jerry Shank
Maryland Scouting Director

With the summer season coming to an end and school starting in the not-to-distant future, PBR Maryland has updated the class of 2017 rankings. This update expands from the Top 40 to the Top 75 players after a busy summer in our relentless effort to find the baseball talent of the state and area.

This marks the second update to the 2017 and there is another change at the top spot. Jeremy Arocho (Maryland commit) of Old Mill has played his way to the No. 1 spot, edging out No. 2 Randy Bednar of Landon. Arocho is a switch-hitter that plays a premium position in baseball, shortstop. He is slick fielding and showed off his talent across the country and could be one of the top middle infield prospects to come out of the state in a few years. 

Bednar (Maryland commit) is not far behind at the No. 2 spot. Bednar is a talented two-way player that currently project higher as a position player with his hitting ability and speed from centerfield. He is still raw on the mound, but shows arm strength from the left side getting up to 87 mph this spring.

Rounding out the top five include Grant Burleson (Parkside HS, Maryland commit), Brandon Dorsey (Calvert Hall, UNC commit), and Kieran Garner (River Hill, uncommitted).

Four new players have made it to the top ten in RHP Brendan Collins (Sherwood HS, uncommitted),RHP/SS Joey Haass (Polytech HS, uncommitted), RHP Emir Garrett (Appoquinimink HS, uncommitted), and 3B/RHP Abe Mow (Milford HS, uncommitted). Three of those four new comers join from the state of Delaware. 

All in all there are nine new players that entered into the top 20 in the rankings. Here is a sneak peek at the top ten.

Rank	Name	State	School	Class	Pos	Commitment
1	Jeremy Arocho	MD	Old Mill	2017	SS	Maryland
2	Randy Bednar	MD	Landon	2017	LHP	Maryland
3	Grant Burleson	MD	Parkside	2017	LHP	Maryland
4	Brandon Dorsey	MD	Calvert Hall	2017	3B	North Carolina
5	Kieran Garner	MD	River Hill	2017	RHP
6	Brendan Collins	MD	Sherwood	2017	RHP
7	Joseph Haass	MD	Polytech (DE)	2017	RHP
8	Eric Lansinger	MD	Damascus	2017	SS
9	Emir Garrett	MD	Appoquinimink (DE)	2017	RHP
10	Abraham Mow	MD	Milford (DE)	2017	3B

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