MLB Prospect Watch

40-man Roster Additions

40-man rosters were set this weekend in preperation for the upcoming Rule V draft.  The players listed below are now protected by their organizations and can't be selected.  This is not the complete list, but rather the list of notable prospects.  Teams with no players listed still protected players, just not any notable prospects.

 

Baltimore - Oliver Drake

Boston - Will Middlebrooks, Drake Britton, Che-Hsuan Lin

New York (AL) - D.J. Mitchell, Corban Joseph

Tampa Bay - Alex Colome, WIlking Rodriguez, Steven Vogt

Toronto - Travis d'Arnaud

 

Chicago (AL) - Charlie Leesman

Cleveland - 

Detroit - Casey Crosby

Kansas City - 

Minnesota - Oswaldo Arcia, Carlos Gutierrez, David Bromberg

 

Los Angeles (A) - Fabio Martinez, Jean Segura

Oakland - 

Seattle - Francisco Martinez, Carlos Triunfel, Chih-Hsien Chiang

Texas - Martin Perez, Neil Ramirez

 

Atlanta - J.J. Hoover

Miami - Dan Jennings

New York (N) - Robert Carson, Jeurys Familia, Wilmer Flores, Juan Lagares, Cesar Puello, Reese Havens, Kirk Nieuwenhuis

Philadelphia - Phillippe Aumont, Tyson Gillies, Sebastian Valle

Washington - Tyler Moore, Eury Perez, Derek Norris

 

Chicago (N) - Junior Lake, Josh Vitters, Matt Szczur

Cincinnati - Didi Gregorius, Kyle Lotzkar

Houston - Paul Clemens

Milwaukee - Caleb Gindl, Zealous Wheeler

Pittsburgh - Starling Marte, Rudy Owens

St. Louis - 

 

Arizona - 

Colorado - Christian Friedrich

Los Angeles (N) - Mike Antonini, Chris Withrow

San Diego - Rymer Liriano

San Francisco - Angel Villalona, Charlie Culberson

 

 

Prospect Hot Sheet

Baseball America has released their weekly prospect hot sheet, and this week's edition includes some names who were ice cold earlier this season.

• J.P. Arencibia
• Tim Beckham
• Andrew Cashner
• Simon Castro
• Hank Conger
• Randall Delgado
• Todd Frazier
• Jeremy Hellickson
• Dan Hudson
• Chris Marrero
• Ethan Martin
• Bryan Morris
• Wil Myers
• Stolmy Pimental
• Ben Revere
• Wilking Rodriguez
• Kyle Russell
• Mike Stanton
• Arodys Vizcaino

On the down side this week were Jaff Decker, Wilson Ramos, Shelby Miller and Josh Vitters.

Prospect Potent Potables - 5/5

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• Some of the names we expected to heat up are doing just that, reports J.J. Cooper of Baseball America, including Bobby Borchering, Jose Tabata, and Dan Hudson, to name a few.
• For two high school outfielders drafted in back-to-back picks by the same team, Angels' prospects Mike Trout and Randal Grichuk couldn't be more different in terms of their games, writes Jeff Johnson of the Eastern Iowa Gazette.
• We're familiar with the pitching depth at the top of the Rays' farm system, but it's time we get to know some of the impressive arms they have in the low minors like Alex Colome, Kyle Lobstein, and Wilking Rodriguez, says Matt Eddy of Baseball America.
• Starlin Castro has moved quickly through the Cubs' system and is in Double-A as a 20-year-old this season, but even that may not be enough to slow him down, according to Guy Curtright of MLB.com.  Castro is batting .356 and playing solid defense so far this season.
• Dee Gordon is in the discussion with Castro for top shortstop prospects in all of baseball, and as Jared Massey of LADodgertalk.com breaks down, what Gordon lacks in experience he makes up for in pure talent.
• The Royals have finally promoted Kila Ka'aihue to the majors, but as Sem Mellinger of the Kansas City Star points out, how is he going to get any at-bats?

Baseball America Hot Sheet

Baseball America has released their weekly Hot Sheet (which they do every Friday) and there are some of the same names as there were last week.  This week's prospects recognized for their efforts include:

• Lars Anderson
• Simon Castro
• Starlin Castro
• Jarred Cosart
• Wilmer Flores
• Grant Green
• Jay Jackson
• Andrew Lambo
• Jordan Lyles
• Eduardo Nunez
• Jake Odorizzi
• Dennis Raben
• Wilking Rodriguez
• Tony Sanchez
• Jerry Sands
• Justin Smoak
• Stephen Strasburg
• Trayce Thompson
• Josh Vitters

Unfortunately, there has to be a bad part of the list each week, and this week's members are Hector Rondon, Corey Brown, Matt Sweeney and Eric Arnett.