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Cade Cavalli named #1 prospect in the system by Baseball America. Photo via Lookout Landing blog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Baseball America announced Top 30 lists for all teams on 2\/3\/21<\/a>, which meant we get the first major team-specific review of the prospects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lack of a minor league season in 2020 complicates this analysis, as does the late arriving IFA class (delayed 6 months from its typical July 2 date). But we do have some shuffling of prospects from prior lists. This post will call out some of the more interesting prospects on BA’s list, if they’re higher or lower than other shops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Direct link to the Nats top 30 is here.<\/a> The top 30 table is here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
2021 BA Rank<\/th>Last Name<\/th>First Name<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1<\/td>Cavalli<\/td>Cade<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>Rutledge<\/td>Jackson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>Henry<\/td>Cole<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>Antuna<\/td>Yasel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>Lara<\/td>Andry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>De La Rosa<\/td>Jeremy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>Cate<\/td>Tim<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>Denaburg<\/td>Mason<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>Cronin<\/td>Matt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>Mendoza<\/td>Drew<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>Cluff<\/td>Jackson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>Infante<\/td>Samuel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>Romero<\/td>Seth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>Pineda<\/td>Israel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>Barrera<\/td>Tres<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>Marte<\/td>Daniel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>Braymer<\/td>Ben<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>Powell<\/td>Holden<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>Fuentes<\/td>Steven<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>Quintana<\/td>Roismar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21<\/td>Dyson<\/td>Tyler<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22<\/td>Irvin<\/td>Jake<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23<\/td>Adon<\/td>Joan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24<\/td>Reetz<\/td>Jakson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25<\/td>Sharp<\/td>Sterling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26<\/td>Arias<\/td>Andry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27<\/td>Tetreault<\/td>Jackson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28<\/td>Banks<\/td>Nick<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29<\/td>Schaller<\/td>Reid<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30<\/td>Sanchez<\/td>Bryan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n

Notable players:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Like pretty much every other prospect ranking shop, the top three includes Cade Cavalli, Jackson Rutledge<\/strong> and Cole Henry<\/strong>. Cavalli comes in ahead of Rutledge.<\/li>
  • After a down year, Yasel Antuna<\/strong> is now all the way up to #4. As we’ve heard repeatedly, he did well in the XST 60-man last year and is rounding into the prospect shape they thought they were getting when they spent $3.9M on him in 2016. For all the talk we have about whether Kieboom<\/strong> is ready … maybe we’re looking at the wrong 3B prospect right now. Could Antuna win the 3B job this spring??<\/li>
  • BA continues to be high shop on De La Rosa, <\/strong>ranking him #6.<\/li>
  • The Pittsburgh trade cost the team two of its former BA top 10 players in Crowe<\/strong> and Yean, <\/strong>which moves up two 2019 draftees Cronin<\/strong> and Mendoza<\/strong> into the top 10. Both were solid college players who have done well so far in the minors. Cronin seems like he could zoom up the minors in 2021.<\/li>
  • They’re way high on Infante,<\/strong> with him at #12 when most shops have him buried in the mid 20s. I definitely feel like there’s some pretty distinct opinions on Infante in the Natmosphere; some people really hated the pick. He was above slot, buying him out of a UMiami commitment and is listed as having plus arm, plus hands and is “advanced” for a prep draft pick.<\/li>
  • Romero <\/strong>down to #13. For understandable reasons; his velocity was not impressive in 2020 in his very short season. I’d like to see him in AAA, as a starter, pitching every 5th day for half a season to see just what he’s capable of. <\/li>
  • The three catchers on this list: Barrera<\/strong> at #14, Pineda<\/strong> at #15, Reetz<\/strong> at #24; does anyone actually think any of these guys ever contribute at the MLB level? Reetz was a MLFA re-signing and comes in at #24 in the system?<\/li>
  • Daniel Marte<\/strong> pops up kind of out of the blue at #16. Seems like a speculative ranking.<\/li>
  • Ben Braymer<\/strong> at #17 continues to get half-hearted prospect support, despite his excellent minor league career thus far. A reminder; he has a career 3.64 minor league ERA despite a 7+ ERA in 13 Fresno starts in 2019. He continues to be one of the best middle-round picks we’ve ever had.<\/li>
  • Steven Fuentes<\/strong> creeping up to #19. Still can’t believe he’s not higher; he dominated AA in 2019 as a 22yr old. <\/li>
  • BA is much lower on Joan Adon<\/strong> than other shops, bringing him at #23 when most others have him in the 14-17 range.<\/li>
  • Same with Reid Schaller<\/strong>; having him #29 while other shops have him as high as #16.<\/li>
  • Why is Sterling Sharp<\/strong> even considered a prospect at this point (he’s ranked #25). <\/li>
  • Two debutants on BA’s list that i’ve never seen mentioned elsewhere before: Andry Arias<\/strong> comes in at #27 and Bryan Sanchez<\/strong> at #30<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    FYI: The 2021 IFA picks (specifically Armando Cruz<\/strong>) were not included on this list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Overall farm system thoughts: top heavy: 3 big arms at the top who project as solid #2-#3 starters. Then three high-risk\/high-ceiling IFAs. Then a combination of big-time Div1 studs and failed first rounders. There’s room for improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Baseball America announced Top 30 lists for all teams on 2\/3\/21, which meant we get the first major team-specific review of the prospects. The lack of a minor league season in 2020 complicates this analysis, as does the late arriving IFA class (delayed 6 months from its typical July 2 date). But we do have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,4324],"tags":[4493,3333,4492,4394,3186,4396,4491,4184,4320,3267,4181,2466,3987,4185,4461,3565,3038,3192,3588,3265],"class_list":["post-16896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minorspitching","category-natsgeneral","category-prospects","tag-armando-cruz","tag-ben-braymer","tag-bryan-sanchez","tag-cade-cavalli","tag-carter-kieboom","tag-cole-henry","tag-daniel-marte","tag-drew-mendoza","tag-eddy-yean","tag-israel-pineda","tag-jackson-rutledge","tag-jakson-reetz","tag-jeremy-de-la-rosa","tag-matt-cronin","tag-sammy-infante","tag-seth-romero","tag-steven-fuentes","tag-tres-barrera","tag-wil-crowe","tag-yasel-antuna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16903,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896\/revisions\/16903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}