For better or worse, here is my final 2023 Giants Top 50 Prospects list. I appreciate the suggestions after the preliminary list. This list reflects some of those excellent points. I added Will Wilson and Will Bednar. I'm probably putting this out a few days too soon since we still have to see who gets dropped from the 40-man roster after Micheal Conforto OF and Taylor Rogers LHP formally sign, but with The Churn always active, there is always a risk of a drop or trade messing with the list. I would say the list is still thin at the top, mostly due to disappointing performances by first round draft picks, but much deeper than in recent years due to strong performances by lower round picks, NDFA's, international prospects and of course The Churn.
1. Kyle Harrison LHP
2. Marco Luciano SS
3. Casey Schmitt 3B
4. Carson Whisenhunt LHP
5. Luis Matos OF
6. Reggie Crawford LHP/1B/DH
7. Aeverson Arteaga SS
8. Grant McCray OF
9. Vaun Brown OF
10. Patrick Bailey C
11. Jairo Pomares LF
12. Mason Black RHP
13. Landon Roupp RHP
14. Carson Seymour RHP
15. Will Wilson SS
16. Heliot Ramos OF
17. Cole Waites RHP
18. R. J. Dabovich RHP
19. Trevor McDonald RHP
20. Jose Cruz RHP
21. Eric Silva RHP
22. Adrian Sugastey C
23. Will Bednar RHP
24. Blake Sabol OF/C
25. Randy Rodriguez RHP
26. Keaton Winn RHP
27. Brett Wisely IF
28. Tristan Beck RHP
29. Matt Mikulski LHP
30. Chris Wright LHP
31. Brett Auerbach UT
32. Tyler Fitzgerald SS
33. Nick Swiney LHP
34. Nick Zwack LHP
35. Juan Sanchez LHP
36. Andy Thomas C
37. Wade Meckler OF
38. Victor Bericoto OF/1B
39. Nick Sinacola RHP
40. Alexander Suarez OF
41. Diego Velasquez SS
42. P. J. Hilson OF
43. Anthony Rodriguez SS
44. Mikell Manzano RHP
45. Nomar Medina LHP
46. Gerelmi Maldonado RHP
47. Zack Morgan C
48. Jared Dupere OF
49. Mauricio Pierre OF
50. Hunter Bishop OF
Honorable Mention: Spencer Bivens RHP, Raymond Burgos LHP, Joey Marciano LHP, Kade McClure RHP, Michael Stryfeller RHP, Bryce Johnson OF, Ismael Munguia OF, Kai-Wei Teng RHP, Ryan Murphy RHP, Evan Gates RHP, Carter Aldrete IF, Riley Mahan 2B, Sean Roby 3B/1B, Tyler Myrick RHP, Mat Olsen RHP, Brett Standlee RHP, Ty Weber RHP, Hayden Cantrelle 2B, Damon Dues 2B, Carter Williams OF, William Kempner RHP, Joe Kemlage RHP, Seth Lonsway LHP, Carson Ragsdale RHP, Garrett Frechette 1B, Anyesber Sivira 2B, Logan Wyatt 1B.
I am still open to editing the list if someone points out a glaring omission. Otherwise I always add a name or two to the HM list. We will shortly start working through list posting profiles of each prospect on an almost daily basis hoping to finish around the start of spring training.
Although he had a modest major league presence this season, would you think Hjelle should be on this list or has he graduated?
ReplyDeleteI thought Hjelle graduated but looking at his stat lines he only has 25 MLB IP so is technically still a prospect. Hmm.....I love Sean Hjelle as a prospect so he would be quite high on the list. Maybe even as high as #2 or 3! Maybe rather than redo the whole list I will do a separate profile on him.
DeleteThis is why we love you Dr. B! Thanks for all your efforts and looking forward to each and every profile breakdown
ReplyDeleteThank you as always for the time and effort you put into your posts and your prospect lists. Did you leave Ryan Reckley off because he had a poor showing in his brief stint in the DSL, or was he just forgotten. Probably at least an Honorable Mention. APGiantsfan
ReplyDeleteI did not include any DSL players. May do a Dominican Dandies post on some of them later. Not sure what to make of Reckley. He was on the young side even for the DSL but the performance was so bad(granted SSS and seemed to be cut short by an injur, but THAT s not a good sign either.
DeleteHeck of a fall for Ramos. I remember the days when we salivated over him and couldn't wait to call him up. Hitting .227 in the PCL last year was pretty bad and then coming up with -0.5 bWAR in his limited time in the majors was another major damper.
ReplyDeleteThis is probably a make-or-break year for Heliot.
DeleteIt's great having a new list – something to dream on, especially with nothing to really bite on this post-Christmas.
ReplyDeleteOne thing that shouldn't be done with a shiny new list is look back at former shiny new lists. Don't do it. Baseball is humbling.
The gulf between "Promise" and "Performance" – getting to the Show is a grinding, unforgivable process. Many are called but few are chosen.
For example, Sunday, November 27, 2016, DrB's 2017 Giants Top 50 Prospects:
1. Christian Arroyo, IF
2. Tyler Beede, RHP
3. Bryan Reynolds, OF
4. Ty Blach, LHP
5. Austin Slater, OF
6. Steven Duggar, OF
7. Andrew Suarez, LHP
8. Chris Shaw, 1B
9. Heath Quinn, OF
10. Sandro Fabian, OF
29. Reyes Maronta, RHP
Honorable Mention (no particular order): Logan Webb RHP, Tyler Rogers RHP
First posted comment:
Anonymous November 27, 2016 at 5:37 PM "Tyler Rogers?"
Another:
Anonymous November 28, 2016 at 3:36 AM "I have to put Beede above Arroyo... Hunter Cole deserves to be higher. Sure, he's limited to LF; but I like him better than Slater (more power at similar level)...Really, I think if I had to put my money on just one of our outfield prospects, I'd probably go with Heath Quinn."
Two observations: It's probably best to comment as "Anonymous" and why did the Pirates have to want Reynolds?
One more thing, yours truly has a comment way down the way, as Anonymous. Kinda glad it was Anonymous although the Doc didn't blow it off, even gave it a little credit!
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Can't fault the Pirates for wanting Reynolds. Have to fault the Giants for sending him. I could be wrong, but I gotta believe that the McCutchen deal could have been done without him.
DeleteIMO, it's way past time for us to stipulate that the McCutchen-Reynolds trade was not a good trade. Over the years, the Sabes-Evans regime made way more good trades than bad. Every GM has his trades he/she would like to take back.
Delete... why did the Pirates have to want Reynolds ...
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A just for fun question, is there a not so obvious prospect that you are high on who you think might have a breakout 2023 season? Casey Schmidt had a break out 2022 season and is now one of their top prospects. Happy New year everyone!
ReplyDeleteGood question. I have a couple: Alexander Suarez OF and Anthony Rodriguez SS
DeleteJust pointing out you have Zack Morgan, C at 47 and also Zach Morgan, C in HM.
ReplyDeleteGotta respect and appreciate folks who read that carefully. I guess I could have put Sean Hjelle somewhere in the top 5 and moved everybody else down a notch until we got to #47 and dropped THAT Zack Morgan. But since we've already profiled Hjelle as a wild card we'll just drop the HM Morgan.
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