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  • in reply to: Community 2024 Top 50 Prospect Voting #240010
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    I only have 5 that I’d like to put forth for the best of the rest:

    Rotondo
    D. Rodriguez
    Loutos
    Zuniga
    Kretzschmar

    in reply to: Community 2024 Top 50 Prospect Voting #239863
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    45 – Thomas

    46 – Yeager – Had a really good year at Mississippi State in 2022 (1.000+ OPS) and had good success in his first full year of pro ball with an .834 OPS. Sure he was a little old at 24 for ending in high A last year, but we are in the late 40s for our list and I like seeing the success.

    47 – Rotondo – Almost the exact same story as Yeager except Rotondo plays the OF instead of the INF. He had a 1.000+ OPS at Villanova in 2022 and then an .811 OPS last season between Palm Beach and Peoria (.887 at High A)

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    42. Victor Santos
    43. Connor Thomas
    44. Alec Willis

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    39 – Victor Santos
    40 – Connor Thomas
    41 – Fernandez

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    36. Koperniak
    37. T Baker
    38. Victor Santos – I’m taking a bit of a flyer here since he was hurt in 2023 but he’s still only 23, will start in AAA, and overall his career MiLB stats are pretty good. Might just be a throw in for the O’Neill trade but given his relative youth he doesn’t seem too bad of a back of the top 50 prospect.

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    33 – Koperniak
    34 – Cornwell
    35 – Svanson

    in reply to: Community 2024 Top 50 Prospect Voting #239287
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    30. Mejia
    31. Rincon
    32. Koperniak

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    27 – Mathews
    28 – Mejia
    29 – Levenson

    in reply to: Community 2024 Top 50 Prospect Voting #238954
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    24. Prieto
    25. Granillo
    26. Mathews

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    17 Mautz
    18 Bedell

    I have Hansen right behind them as I think all three are in pretty similar spots. Mautz is a little younger, Bedell had stronger results this past season, and Hansen is right in between in both categories.

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    I’m late to the game but here are mine:

    #15 – Showalter
    #16 – Mautz

    in reply to: Community 2023 Top 50 Prospect Voting #209433
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    42 – Pinder
    43 – Ralston
    44 – G Rodriguez

    Thanks for the heads up on Torres!

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    39. Baker – he was our 17th ranked prospect last year after a solid outing at AA in 2021 but had a bad year this past season at AAA. I think he’s got one more year on the list to try to make it and it makes sense for him to fall to around this spot. He still has nice power which always makes for an intriguing prospect.

    One thing to note is that in 2022 he switched to being an all fields hitter (40% pull, 25% middle, 35% opposite) after being more of a pull hitter (44% pull, 30% middle, 26% opposite) when he had an OPS of .859 and wRC+ of 121. He’s one that might benefit from the shift going away and could have a lot of success going back to pulling the ball with his power.

    40. Pinder

    41. Torres – he was pretty exciting but didn’t quite do it last year

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    36. Romeri
    37. Baker
    38. Pinder

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    33. Bedell – he’s coming back from Tommy John so this season will be telling.
    34. Granillo
    35. Pages

    in reply to: Community 2023 Top 50 Prospect Voting #208746
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    29. Bedell
    30. Loutos
    31. Love

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    What Bob said, wish we could have made the trade for Murphy or Kirk and can’t wait to see what they ultimately get moved for. The only way this works out is if we saved our trade chips for an eventual Ohtani deal at the deadline.

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    24 – Bedell
    25 – Loutos
    26 – Walsh

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    18. Pacheco – proximity to majors, on the 40 man, still relatively young

    19. Hanson – draft status and good college results, seems to be positioned to rise quickly, LHP gains importance with shift going away

    20. Won-Bin Cho – long way to go but the reports of his work ethic are top notch. He’s big at 6′ 3″ 200 lbs and will likely end up with good power. Left handed OF with some pop and he did walk well this year (20%).

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    #16 Mautz
    #17 Thomas – The organization sees something in him with the addition to the 40 man and giving him the AZFL opportunity (in which he excelled). They won’t waste a 40 man spot on someone they don’t think has the ability to contribute in the very near future, that’s top 20 prospect material right there.

    in reply to: Community 2023 Top 50 Prospect Voting #207719
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    As we await voting to wrap up on this round I wanted to toss out Connor Thomas for discussion. I think he’s only received one vote so far but I think he deserves consideration at this point and will be getting a vote from me in the next round.

    He was a 2019 draftee out of Georgia Tech and lost his first full season in pro ball due to 2020 being the covid year. Despite that, in 2021 he made it all the way to Memphis and had a combined 3.39 ERA for the year. He K’d about a batter an inning but WHIP was still high due to too many hits. Some of that might have been BABIP bad luck, but it seems like he needed to work on missing more bats or inducing weaker contact.

    2022 at AAA didn’t show as well. Line drives and fly balls up, K rate down a bit, all translated to higher ERA and WHIP. However, it’s completely conceivable that in only his second full year of pro ball he was working on refining his stuff as opposed to pitching for results….which he saved for the Arizona Fall League.

    Albeit it’s a small sample size, he was outstanding in the AZFL compared to the rest of the prospects there. His 25.2 innings was a third of an inning away from most pitched and his 1.75 ERA was the 5th lowest in the league, and by far the lowest of those that threw at least 20 innings (next closest had a 3.52 ERA). He easily led the league with 34ks to only 5BBs and held batters to a .224 average without giving up a HR. Seems like he figured something out and is well primed to contribute in 2023.

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    14. Mautz
    15. Meija

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    #10 – Baez – Small samples size but he played most of 2022 at Palm Beach and slashed .286/.418/.540/.958 there. The 19 year old is 6′ 4″ with great exit velocity and a big outfield arm that’s currently in CF. Probably the best young power hitter we have left to rank.

    #11 – Hjerpe

    in reply to: Community 2023 Top 50 Prospect Voting #207297
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    8 Thompson
    9 Mcgreevy

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    6. Liberatore
    7. Hererra

    Both had a rough go in the majors this year but as 22 year olds at that level it’s not that surprising that they saw some struggles. I do like results too which is why I have Thompson after these guys.

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