Willie McCovey Memorial 2019 Community Prospect List #40

In 2011, a 19 year old Jose Ramirez made his pro debut in the AZL, hitting .325 with a miniscule strikeout rate, though showing little power with just 1 HR and a .448 SLG. Last year, an 18/19 year old Yorlis Rodriguez made his pro debut in the AZL, hitting .323 with a very low strikeout rate, though showing little power with just 2 HRs and a .445 SLG. So am I predicting a future 40 HR season for Yorlis? No, that would be silly! But I am saying that an ability to put the bat on the ball is a pretty good skill for a teenager to be moving forward with (Sidenote: yes, yes, of course I’m saying Yorlis will hit 35 HRs and make an MVP run in the future!)

All of which is to say we’ve added Yorlis to the board! One of the team’s capped $300,000 international signings in 2017, Rodriguez was the only one to move straight to the AZL, following his experience on the international tournament circle with Cuba’s 15U national team (for whom he hit .366/.453/.530 way back in 2014).

Updating the list:

1. Joey Bart
2. Heliot Ramos
3. Marco Luciano
4. Shaun Anderson
5. Logan Webb
6. Alexander Canario
7. Chris Shaw
8. Ray Black
9. Melvin Adon
10. Sean Hjelle
11. Gregory Santos
12. Aramis Garcia
13. Heath Quinn
14. Juan De Paula
15. Jalen Miller
16. Ryan Howard
17. Camilo Doval
18. Jacob Gonzalez
19. Jake Wong
20. Luis Toribio
21. Seth Corry
22. Abiatal Avelino
23. Sandro Fabian
24. Garrett Williams
25. Diego Rincones
26. Jairo Pomares
27. Drew Ferguson
28. Pat Ruotolo
29. Tyler Beede
30. Travis Bergen
31. Jose Marte
32. Aaron Bond
33. Sam Coonrod
34. Blake Rivera
35. David Villar
36. Manuel Geraldo
37. Conner Menez
38. Malique Ziegler
39. Yorlis Rodriguez

And now we arrive #40! Can it possibly matter who the 40th ranked prospect in a system that doesn’t have 40 good prospects is? Well, ours is not to reason why, ours is just to vote and ....er.. fight with each other. Here’s your candidates for today.

Jordan Johnson

Keaton Winn

Mac Marshall

PJ Hilson

Ricardo Genoves

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