Source: www.1500espn.com --- Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Royce Lewis, the top pick in last June’s MLB draft, is the top prospect in the Twins’ organization. That’s the belief of Baseball America, anyway. Each year BA updates its top prospects by organization, and Lewis is the leader of the pack in Minnesota’s suddenly strong prospect ladder. This year’s top-10 list was compiled by Mike Berardino of the Pioneer Press. The top-10 list includes 5 new faces from last year’s top-10 , and in fairness to BA, a subscription-based publication, we won’t be sharing the full top-10 here. I did, however, want to share a few quick thoughts on the prospects outlined in this year’s edition of the preseason rankings. -Lewis is at the top and should be very exciting for Twins fans. He put on a show offensively in the low minors last year, and he’s considered by BA the top defensive infielder in the system. That’s what you’d expect for a No. 1 overall pick. Still, I think we’re a couple years away from having to remind everyone that we all freaked out when the Twins picked Lewis first ahead of Hunter Greene. -Nick Gordon , last year’s top prospect, has dropped. That’s in part because of the flow of talent to the higher end of the prospects rankings — BA factors in “the highest ceilings, with consideration given to the likelihood of reaching those ceilings.” But it’s also probably a commentary on Gordon as a prospect, as he’s yet to prove that he’ll be a sure-fire big league shortstop in 2018. -The 5 new ...
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