2022 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List No. 28

The 27th chapter of the 2022 Willie McCovey Memorial Community Prospect List saw the fourth catcher come off the board, as the McCovey Chronicles community voted Adrian Sugastey the No. 27 prospect in the San Francisco Giants organization. Sugastey follows Joey Bart (No. 2), Patrick Bailey (No. 9), and Ricardo Genovés (No. 20). Add in Brett Auerbach, who will surely get selected at some point, and there should be five catchers on the CPL when all is said and done.

Sugastey, a 2019 international signee, had an eye-opening debut season playing rookie ball in the Arizona Complex League. He showed great bat-to-ball skills in hitting .358/.405/.439, good for a 126 wRC+. That was enough to get the right-handed hitter, who didn’t turn 19 until after the season ended, on the CPL for the first time, after finishing a vote shy of squeaking onto last year’s list.

Now we move on and, at the request of the community, we’re pivoting back to doing votes in the comments. I’ll leave all the names in the comments and you can recommend the comment with the player you would like to vote for. Just press the “rec” button.

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
27. Adrian Sugastey

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

On to No. 28!

No. 28 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)
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.