2022 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List No. 27

Our last chapter of the 2022 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List took a slight detour due to some voting issues, but we finally arrived at a name: right-handed pitcher Kervin Castro has been voted as the No. 26 prospect in the San Francisco Giants organization.

Castro, who just turned 23 earlier this month, had a highly memorable 2021. Despite having no experience above Low-A entering the season, he began the year at AAA, where he posted a 2.86 ERA and 3.73 FIP, while striking out 60 and walking 22 in 44 innings. Already on the 40-man roster after being a Rule 5 protection, Castro earned a late season call-up and dazzled, allowing just 1 unearned run in 13.1 innings of work, while posting a 13-to-4 strikeout-to-walk ratio. He’ll get a great chance to be a core part of the Giants bullpen in 2022.

Now we move on and I want to address the voting issue again: after having troll vote issues I moved from a poll to voting in the comments for the last chapter of the CPL. Unfortunately what followed was a grand total of 32 votes, which doesn’t feel very representative of the community.

So I’m going to return to doing a poll. I’ll leave it open for a shorter amount of time, and I’ll monitor it closely — if we get a troll or bot spike at any point, we’ll go with the result before that spike.

The list so far

1. Marco Luciano
2. Joey Bart
3. Luis Matos
4. Heliot Ramos
5. Kyle Harrison
6. Camilo Doval
7. Jairo Pomares
8. Will Bednar
9. Patrick Bailey
10. Hunter Bishop
11. Ryan Reckley
12. Aeverson Arteaga
13. Ryan Murphy
14. Matt Mikulski
15. Diego Rincones
16. R.J. Dabovich
17. Nick Swiney
18. Will Wilson
19. David Villar
20. Ricardo Genovés
21. Sammy Long
22. Randy Rodriguez
23. Manuel Mercedes
24. Casey Schmitt
25. Ismael Munguia
26. Kervin Castro

Note: Clicking on the above names will link to the CPL where they were voted onto the list.

On to No. 27!

No. 27 prospect nominees

Brett Auerbach — 23.5 years, 126 wRC+ in High-A (223 PAs), 156 wRC+ in Low-A (145 PAs)
Seth Corry — 23.3 years, 5.25 FIP in High-A (67.2 innings)
Sean Hjelle — 24.9 years, 5.77 FIP in AAA (53.1 innings), 4.00 FIP in AA (65.2 innings)
Carson Ragsdale — 23.8 years, 4.12 FIP in Low-A (113.2 innings)
Gregory Santos — 22.5 years, 22.67 FIP in MLB (2 innings), 5.15 FIP in AAA (15.2 innings)
Adrian Sugastey — 19.3 years, 126 wRC+ in the ACL (163 PAs)
Chris Wright — 23.4 years, 2.87 FIP in High-A (37 innings), 1.11 FIP in Low-A (8 innings)

Note: Each player’s first name links to their Baseball-Reference page, and their last name links to their Fangraphs page.