Dbacks Top 20 Prospects

[Chris_Sanders]

http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/mlb/prospects/watch/y2012/#list=ari


#1. Trevor Bauer RHP
#2. Archie Bradley RHP
#3. Tyler Skaggs LHP
#4. Chris Owings SS
#5. Matt Davidson 3B
#6. AJ Pollock OF
#7. David Holmberg LHP
#8. Patrick Corbin LHP
#9 Micheal Perez C
#10 Evan Marshall RHP
#11 Bobby Borchering OF
#12 Wade Miley LHP
#13 Andrew Chafin LHP
#14 Anthony Meo RHP
#15 Charles Brewer RHP
#16 Adam Eaton OF
#17 Kevin Munson RHP
#18 Ryan Wheeler 3B
#19 Justin Bianco OF
#20 John Leonard 2B / SS

Nice little write up on each guy.

 

[Dback Jon]

Thanks for posting - a whole lot of pitching there

 

[Zeno]

I will be just an hour north of Jacksonville, FL for the spring and most of the summer, I hope to be able to catch as many Mobile games there as I can. I assume the double A team will still be fairly stacked for the D Backs so I look forward to it.

 

[Arizona's Finest]

So who does everyone like lower on the list that may end up being a stud (i.e. a Paul Goldschmidt type).

My votes for Borchering. I have liked him since the drafted him and being a HS player means hell take longer to develop. But i think when he does he'll be a Corner OF/3B star.

 

[azsportsfan01]

So who does everyone like lower on the list that may end up being a stud (i.e. a Paul Goldschmidt type).

My votes for Borchering. I have liked him since the drafted him and being a HS player means hell take longer to develop. But i think when he does he'll be a Corner OF/3B star.

Borchering has already been moved to left.

For me the guy I'm look at making a huge step forward is David Nick. He should move to Mobile this year and may be our 2nd baseman of the future. He had a good breakout year last year, his 3rd in pro ball, but I think this is the year he supplants himself as a legit prospect.

As for guys on this list the 3 who are lower on the list who could make the majors this year are AJ Pollock, Adam Eaton, and Ryan Wheeler. I think the best of that group will end up being Eaton though Pollock is closer to the majors.

I am going to be following Kevin Munson closely this season. He has been fairly average in his 2 years in the minors but the D-Backs challenged him and sent him to the fall league and he went nuts. He is a guy who will probably never be a closer but has the stuff to be a great set-up man. The other guy is Michael Perez. We really have no catchers of note in the minors and he is a guy who should stick at catcher and has a powerful bat. He was drafted last year so he is far away but always fun to find a guy who is in the low minors and follow his career to the majors.

 

[azsportsfan01]

Forgot to add Eury De La Rosa. He is an tiny guy (5'9" 165lbs) who doesn't throw all that hard but strikes people out and rarely walks a guy. He has pitched 179.2 innings in his career and has a 197/52 K/BB ratio. He is probably a few years away from the majors but if he has another big year he could blow up and be in the pen quick.