Shortstop Kyler Murray of Allen (Texas) High School is the nephew of former Giants outfielder Calvin Murray, the son of former Texas A&M quarterback Kevin Murray and the top dual-threat quarterback prospect in this year's recruiting class. He committed to the Aggies earlier this winter, but before he gets to College Station, he is going to get some serious offers from Major League Baseball teams looking to capitalize on his tremendous athletic ability on the diamond.

Murray isn't football big, listed at 5-foot-11, 178 pounds, and looking a bit leaner than that, with the kind of quick-twitch muscle that scouts love to see. He has great bat speed, and his swing path is fine once he gets his hands started but there's a lot of extra movement before that point, especially in his lower half, which puts him off balance at the moment of contact. He is a plus runner and would profile well as a leadoff candidate if the plate discipline is there. To his coach's credit, he hit leadoff Thursday in the Round Rock Invitational tournament, even though most prep coaches hit their best guy third or fourth.

He is fighting a sore shoulder and is only hitting, so teams will have more questions about the joint when it gets closer to draft time and will want to see him throwing and playing shortstop before too long. Forrest Wall, a Florida second baseman whose arm was limited after shoulder surgery, went to the Rockies in the second round last year and signed for $2 million, so there's a recent precedent for a player who can hit and has plus speed to still be highly compensated, as long as he is cleared by doctors. If Murray proves he can stay at short, I think he has top-10 overall talent, although much of that is projection based on his grade-80 athletic ability.

• Shortstop Ke'Bryan Hayes of Concordia Lutheran in Texas is also a potential first-round pick, helped by the paucity of position players in the draft class and by his bloodline. His father, Charlie, caught the final out of the 1996 World Series while playing third base for the New York Yankees. While the younger Hayes isn’t the all-world athlete that Murray is, he is a more advanced hitter right now.

Hayes tracks pitches extremely well, so even though he overstrides a bit he can still square the ball up enough to drive it to the outfield. For now, however, he's got line-drive power but nothing plus. He has a thicker frame than most shortstops do but has the hands and instincts for the position and projects as plus or better defender at the spot. As an up-the-middle player with value on defense, a good swing and potential for some power down the road, he is a late first-round talent and I wouldn't be shocked to see him go a little higher, with little chance he ends up enrolling at Tennessee in the fall.

• Texas A&M lefty A.J. Minter started Friday night against Dartmouth and struggled to keep guys off base while failing to match the velocity he had shown the weekend before. Minter hit 95 on the gun in the first inning but sat 90-91 for the remainder of his outing, showing three other pitches -- a cutter/slider at 86-90, a slow-roller curveball and a mid-70s changeup -- but none of them more than fringe-average. He is just 5-9 with a high-effort delivery and ultimately profiles better in the bullpen, where he could sustain 92-95 for an inning or so and just work with the fastball and cutter.