Baseball America has up a post looking at how each team did over the League Top 20’s. The Reds did quite well. There were 7 teams who had more total prospects listed. The Reds had a total of 12, which was 3 more than the Pirates, 4 better than the Cubs, Astros and Cardinals and 7 more than the Brewers. I don’t think it was needed to show that the Reds had the best farm system among the division, but it does show the gap between what the Reds have and the rest of the division.
Another interesting thing that they looked at was just the full season leagues and only 5 teams had more prospects in full season leagues than the Reds, who had 7 players total. The Cardinals were second in the division with 6, the Astros had 5, Pirates had 4, Brewers with 3 and Cubs with 2. There is also a short write up for each team at the link above.
Project Prospect’s Adam Foster has listed his Top 25 Low A Position Prospects. There are three Reds among the group and that group includes Ronald Torreyes, Yorman Rodriguez and Tucker Barnhart. Of course, the disclaimer says that the list is more based on a statistical program and doesn’t account for anything from scouting reports (though there are some tidbits on guys within the write ups).
The Venezuelan Winter League began play Wednesday afternoon. Not much Reds prospect action, but here is how those who played performed:
- Doug Salinas – 2ip, 1er, 2bb, 1k.
- Miguel Rojas – 1-4
Cody Puckett was the only Red to play in the Arizona Fall League and he went 1-4 on the day.
Chad Reineke opted for Free Agency. He is pitching in Venezuela if anyone is still interested in following him.
I checked out the Pitch F/X from Tuesday for the AFL. Nick Christiani’s fastball movement and velocity combo is very impressive. His fastball movement compared best with Mike Leake, but had more run and sink…. and was about 4 MPH faster than Leake’s. It was just one game, and hopefully the schedule works out to get more data, but it was interesting to see.
That is all for now. Not a big news day.