MINOR LEAGUE/PROSPECTS Thread

i think that's exactly it
as time goes by
if they guy doesn't progress/make it to the bigs
he's essentially walking in place
and thus losing status

 

let me ask you something [because i don't know]
is his status based on the team he's on?
i.e. is his ranking based on where he is with the dodgers?
and would he perhaps be ranked higher if he were with an organization with no catchers ahead of him?

 

as far as i remember he was blocked in the other organization as well
thats why he was a career minors guys

 

Seager ranked Top-10 SS by MLBN's Kenny and Ripken
by Matthew Moreno | Dodger Blue — 26 minutes ago

Entering last season the Los Angeles Dodgers were in the tricky position of needing to fill the void left at shortstop after Hanley Ramirez signed with the Boston Red Sox without blocking the rise of Corey Seager.

Los Angeles wound up trading for Jimmy Rollins, who met one criteria as he was in the final year of his contract, but the veteran also struggled at the plate.

Seager was promoted from Triple-A last September and he took advantage of Rollins being sidelined with a sprained right index finger.

Behind a hot start to his Major-League career, the 21-year-old prospect took hold of the starting job at shortstop over the final month of the regular season.

Seager then became the youngest position player to start a postseason game in franchise history when he was penciled in the lineup for Game 1 against the New York Mets in the 2015 National League Division Series.

With Rollins now a free agent and seemingly a lock not to be re-signed, the expectation holds Seager will be the Dodgers starting shortstop come Opening Day.

While he wasn’t ranked a top-10 player at his position by MLB Network’s The Shredder, he was ranked the No. 7 shortstop entering the 2016 season by Brian Kenny and No. 8 by Bill Ripken.

Mike Petriello also has Seager as the seventh-best shortstop at present time, but believes a move to third base is to come:

“I don’t think he’s going to be the long-term shortstop. But, if we’re looking at him for this year or next year, he’s probably good enough to stick there. I have him at No. 7, although I believe in the bat and eventually he’s going to be a third baseman.”

Both Kenny and Ripken added they wouldn’t be surprised if Seager was ranked the No. 1 shortstop heading into the 2017 season.

In 27 games with the Dodgers, Seager hit a blistering .337/.425/.561 with four home runs, eight doubles, 17 RBIs, a .421 wOBA and 175 wRC+. He began last season with Double-A Tulsa, then joined Triple-A Oklahoma City on May 1.

Complete rankings of the top 10 shortstops right now:

 

Micah Johnson ranked #7 2B by MLB Pipeline
by Matthew Moreno | Dodger Blue — 2 hours ago



Under team president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman the Los Angeles Dodgers have carefully protected their crop of prospects while simultaneously focusing on adding to the farm system.

Such was the case in a three-team trade last December with the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox that netted the Dodgers Micah Johnson, Frankie Montas and Trayce Thompson.

Los Angeles sent Jose Peraza and Scott Schebler to the Reds in the prospect-heavy trade.

Given some of the uncertainty the Dodgers faced at second base at the time, it wasn’t beyond reason to believe Johnson could play a role for the club as early as this season.

However, the Dodgers have since re-signed Chase Utley, who with Kiké Hernandez is expected to handle second-base duties.

Where Johnson begins the season is still to be determined, but he’ll do so as the No. 7 Minor-League second baseman, via Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com:

7. Micah Johnson, Dodgers
Don’t use Johnson’s brief trial as the White Sox’s regular second baseman as a measure of who he can be in the big leagues. He may never be more than an adequate defender, but he can hit, he can get on base and he can run, as evidenced by his .301 average, .368 OBP and 153 stolen bases in 385 Minor League games. Perhaps the change of scenery in Los Angeles, courtesy of the three-team trade that brought Todd Frazier from the Reds to Chicago, will help.​

Johnson spent 36 games up with the White Sox last season, batting .230/.306/.270 with nine walks and 30 strikeouts in 114 plate appearances. He was ranked the No. 2 overall second baseman in the Minors entering 2015.

Peraza, who appeared in seven games with the Dodgers last season, is ranked No. 2 after being listed as the top player at his position last year. Yoan Moncada of the Boston Red Sox is this year’s No. 1 second baseman in the Minors.

Johnson becomes the latest in a string of prospects to be ranked highly by MLBPipeline.com. Jose De Leon is ranked the fifth-best right-handed prospect, Julio Urias the top left-handed prospect and Cody Bellinger the No. 8 first baseman in the Minors.

Bellinger, De Leon and Urias were among the 16 players extended a non-roster invite to Spring Training on Monday.

 

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