There isn’t a ton of actual news out there, so this will probably be a bit short of a post.
Baseball America has begun the 2012 League Top 20 Prospects lists. On Monday they released their first league Top 20 with the Arizona Rookie League Top 20. The Reds only landed one player inside the Top 20, which was said by the writer who does the list, to be one of the deepest years he can recall the league being. Coming in at #16 on the list was 2012 Reds first rounder Nick Travieso.
The reports had his velocity a little lower than where he was this spring in high school, but that the Reds had been working on his mechanics and he had showed good makings of both of his offspeed pitches. In the chat (subscriber only) there were tidbits on 2012 second round draft pick Tanner Rahier, Jonathan Reynoso and Amir Garrett. Reynoso and Garrett both had nice things said about them in the chat, but Rahier seemed to have left the writer with some doubts.
Here is the schedule, for those of you who want to mark your calendars, for the rest of the League Top 20’s for the leagues that the Reds participate in:
- September 27 – Pioneer League (Billings Mustangs)
- October 2 – Midwest League (Dayton Dragons)
- October 4 – California League (Bakersfield Blaze)
- October 10 – Southern League (Pensacola Blue Wahoos)
- October 12 – International League (Louisville Bats)
It wouldn’t surprise me to see the Dragons and Bats both shut out. Dayton may sneak someone in at the back end, but it would surprise me. Louisville has a chance with a guy like Didi Gregorius, though with players who graduated to the Majors still being eligible for these lists, it may leave him on the outside looking in.
Need your help
It is that time of year again. The offseason is upon us and I am in need of article ideas. Here is what I have (off the top of my head, I could be forgetting something):
- Player Season in Review (though that might be another week or two before I start those)
- All Questions Answered posts once a week or every other week
- Top 25 Prospect Lists
- Then and Now Prospect articles (not sure how often I will get into these, but hopefully often enough)
- Game Updates/Bi-weekly Updates on the Winter Leagues once they begin
- State of the Farm (by position)
- New videos that I haven’t put on youtube yet, but there is plenty of unedited video for me to get to still
So, if you have any ideas, preferably ones that can be broken down into multiple articles, please share them with me. It is a long winter and I could use the ideas.