Sean Buckley
Drew Cisco
Jacob Constante
Carlos Contreras
Tim Crabbe
Pedro Diaz
Jeff Fellhauer
Brodie Greene
Drew Hayes
Jeremy Kivel
Travis Mattair
Jonathan Moscot
Curtis Partch
Juan Perez
Josh Ravin
Sal Romano
Gabriel Rosa
Steve Selsky
Juan Silva
Bryson Smith
Zach Vincej
Ryan Wright
Other (Please Name)
Ryan Wright? A college prospect who doesn't play a premium defensive position, and didn't do much with the stick last year over our new bonus baby with a golden arm? That doesn't make sense to me.
Does it really matter? It's practically a crapshoot after the first four prospects.
Arise and walk, come through. A world beyond that door is calling out for you. Arise and walk, come through. It's calling out for you.
Three guys with MLB service time. Guys ranked in the 20-30 range turn out to be Major Leaguers. Looking at my personal lists, guys like Jeremy Horst, Pedro Villarreal, Denis Phipps, Henry Rodriguez, Daryl Thompson, Kristopher Negron, Sam LeCure, Pedro Viola, Enerio Del Rosario, Matt Maloney, Travis Wood, Robert Manual, Chris Heisey, Chris Dickerson, Paul Janish, Ramon Ramirez, Craig Tatum and Miguel Perez have all been ranked 25th or lower and have all spent some amount of time in the Major Leagues and several guys have spent decent time there. Major Leaguers are still out there on this list.
Josh Ravin can throw 101 MPH. Constante hasn't thrown a pitch to a professional batter yet. Ravin has dominated AA at times as a starting pitcher. His upside, while he may not be likely to reach it, is more than Constante. Sal Romano is the same age as Constante is, he held his own in the Pioneer League, throws just as hard, is taller and is a groundball machine. His upside is probably just as good, if not better.
I could make an argument to put 15-20 different guys here and be fine with it. Wright is one of those guys.
I agree there isn't too much of a differentiator between the arms, I just don't see the love for Wright.
A reason I like Constante more than Ravin is that Ravin's warts are very apparent already. Dude has a plus fastball, but still only has a 1:1 K:BB ratio. We should hope that Constante will have a much better than Ravin's career 6.71 BB/9.
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