We are in the season of midseason ranking season. I have already released my Midseason Top 20 and Baseball America and Baseball Prospectus have released their Midseason Top 50s. But now we have another round of Top Prospect Lists.
No 2014 draftees included.
28. J.P. Crawford
I love the reports on his defense and I think the bat will improve.
43. Maikel Franco
Hit poorly in April and June, hit well in May and so far in July. Stock is down but based on entire track record I don’t want to drop him past this slot yet.
Baseball America Phillies Top 10 Prospects
No 2014 draftees included. The full publication can be bought from the iTunes newsstand.
- J.P. Crawford
- Maikel Franco
- Jesse Biddle
- Deivi Grullon
- Cameron Perkins
- Aaron Altherr
- Carlos Tocci
- Severino Gonzalez
- Roman Quinn
- Tommy Joseph
Philadelphia Inquirer Top 25
2014 Draftees included (and apparently graduated prospects)
- J.P. Crawford
- Maikel Franco
- Aaron Nola
- Ken Giles
- Jesse Biddle
- Roman Quinn
- Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez
- Cesar Hernandez
- Cameron Perkins
- Kelly Dugan
- Tommy Joseph
- Severino Gonzalez
- Cord Sandberg
- Matt Imhof
- Carlos Tocci
- Zach Green
- Adam Morgan
- Ethan Martin
- Aaron Altherr
- Aaron Brown
- Deivi Grullon
- Yoel Mecias
- Shane Watson
- Dylan Cozens
- David Buchanan
why do you think the Inquirer has Altherr so low even while he has been brought up the majors twice this year
He is a player with a lot of divided opinions. If you look at the stat line you are going to be lower on him. Also some evaluators don’t like the hit tool and that really limits the profile they see him reaching (the bat isn’t that fast, the swing has some length due to his length, and he doesn’t have the feel for making contact to overcome that). Personally I rank him highish because I think he is fairly safe to have a 4th outfielder career if he can’t get the contact and approach more consistent.