John Sickels has released his Top 175 prospects list and it has four Cincinnati Reds players on it.
Two of the four players cracked the Top 25. Right handed pitcher Robert Stephenson topped things for the Reds, coming in as the 21st ranked prospect in the game. Jesse Winker wasn’t far behind, the outfielder was ranked as the 25th best prospect in minor league baseball. There were nearly 70 spots until the next Reds prospect showed up. Raisel Iglesias cracked the Top 100, barely, ranking as the 94th best prospect in the game. After another large gap, Michael Lorenzen was the final Cincinnati representative in the Top 175 as he came in as the 167th prospect on the list.
Sickels followed up the list with a group of players that are “in the picture” and described them as having an argument to be ranked in that 150-175 range on the list. In there we see another group of Reds prospects. Shortstop Alex Blandino, right handed pitcher Anthony DeSclafani, left handed pitcher Amir Garrett, right handed pitcher Nick Howard and right handed pitcher Nick Travieso were all listed in this section.
While the organization didn’t stand out in the team rankings based on Sickels view of the Reds prospects, he’s still suggesting that the team could have nine guys in the Top 175 depending on how you want to favor certain guys. That’s not a bad look and fits in with what KileyMcDaniel felt about the depth in the system as well.