- Full name Jonathan David Wetherholt
- Born 09/10/2002 in Baltimore, MD
- Profile Ht.: 5'10" / Wt.: 190 / Bats: L / Throws: R
- School West Virginia
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School: West Virginia Committed: Never Drafted
Age At Draft: 21.9
Wetherholt is one of the most advanced pure hitters in the 2024 class, and after a solid freshman campaign with West Virginia in 2022 he turned in one of the best offensive seasons in the country in 2023. He led the nation in hitting and slashed .449/.517/.782 with 16 home runs, 23 doubles and 35 stolen bases. After the season Wetherholt played with Team USA where he again looked like the best hitter in the field and ranked as the top prospect on the roster. A 5-foot-10, 190-pound lefty-hitting second baseman, Wetherholt has a clean and fluid lefthanded swing with a slightly uphill bat path and plenty of hand speed through the zone. He handles velocity and secondaries equally well and does a nice job recognizing pitches out of the hand and tracking the ball to the plate, with no clear holes to exploit offensively. While his contact skills and pure hitting ability stand out first and foremost (he had an 85% overall contact rate in his first two seasons with WVU), Wetherholt also has above-average power that plays to all fields. He’s filled out with lots of strength in his wrists and forearms with a heavy barrel that has a knack for finding the baseball and a home run spike from 2022 to 2023 came after he put the ball in the air with more frequency. He dealt with a hamstring injury during the 2023 summer, but is an above-average runner when healthy and is a fine, if not flashy, defender at second base. West Virginia has said it intends to try him at shortstop this spring.
