Here is my yearly installment of my top prospects based solely on traditional stats. Obviously I am missing things that David Stearns sees. For example, Ashby is having great success with the Brewers and his minor league numbers wouldn't even include him in my top prospects. Also guys like Barker never get called up despite great numbers in AAA year after year, so obviously these numbers miss a lot but at least it gives me some guys to keep my eyes on. So here goes starting with pitchers.
SP - Ethan Small. - That's all. He is the only one that has great numbers. And he will probably end up in relief like Josh Hader.
24y/o LH AAA ERA 1.53 IP 70 H 47 BB 36 K 86 Avg. .193 WHIP 1.17
There are other guys I'm watching like Bullock, Luna, Otero, Shook, Mort, and Knarr
RP - Taylor Floyd
23 RH AA ERA 2.89 IP 56 H 38 BB 24 K 89 Avg. .189 WHIP 1.11
Evan Reifert
22 RH High A ERA 2.10 IP 60 H 36 BB 36 K 103 Avg. .168 WHIP 1.20
James Meeker
26 RH Low A ERA 0.50 IP 18 H 12 BB 5 K 22 Avg. .185 WHIP 0.94
Luke Barker
29 RH AAA ERA 2.08 IP 56 H 34 BB 10 K 69 Avg. .193 WHIP 0.93
Infielders
1B Ashton McGee 22y/o LH Low A .288/.423/.490/.913
Alex Binelas 21 LH Low A .309/.390/.583/ .973 Leaving for Boston (sad)
2B Felix Valerio 20 RH High A .302/.399/.443/.842 BB 120 K 113 (career numbers)
SS Freddy Zamora 22 RH High A .333/.404/.428/.832
C Jeferson Quero 18 RH ROK .309/ .434/.500/ .934 (small sample size)
I know Feliciano is the big hope as a catcher but he stunk at AAA this year
OF Sal Frelick 21 LH Low A .329/.414/.446/.880 (career numbers)
Didn't make a successful High A jump
Joey Wiemer 22 RH High A .295/.403/.556/.958 27HR 30 SB
Garrett Mitchell 23 LH High A .359/.508/.620/1.128
Didn't make a successful AA jump
Joe Gray Jr 21 RH Low A .289/.407/.632/1.039
Didn't make a successful High A jump
Hedbert Perez 18 LH ROK .333/.394/.575/.969
Didn't make a successful Low A jump
So that's it. Had a harder time finding DSL and ROK numbers. I would say Wiemer is the guy I'm most interested in but that being said, they didn't move him up and give him a chance to fail like most of the other guys
