#1 C Devin Mesoraco
#2 1B/OF Yonder Alonso
#3 C Yasmani Grandal
#4 SS Billy Hamilton
#5 SS Zack Cozart
#6 RHP Dan Corcino
#7 RHP Robert Stephenson
#8 RHP Brad Boxberger
#9 1B Neftali Soto
#10 OF Yorman Rodriguez
LHP Tony Cingrani
RHP Drew Cisco
UT Todd Frazier
UT Brodie Greene
SS Didi Gregorius
LHP Ismael Guillon
OF Ryan LaMarre
RHP Kyle Lotzkar
2B Henry Rodriguez
3B Gabriel Rosa
OF Dave Sappelt
2B Ron Torreyes
other (please list below)
#1 C Devin Mesoraco
#2 1B/OF Yonder Alonso
#3 C Yasmani Grandal
#4 SS Billy Hamilton
#5 SS Zack Cozart
#6 RHP Dan Corcino
#7 RHP Robert Stephenson
#8 RHP Brad Boxberger
#9 1B Neftali Soto
#10 OF Yorman Rodriguez
I went with Dave Sappelt. I think he has it in him to be a perennial .290/.340/.450 type of hitter with good defense. Those who are only basing their opinion on him from what they saw in the Majors are really missing the boat on him.
I've got high hopes for him, and hopefully management sees it the same way. He was struggling with an oblique injury for most of the season, which took a toll on his stats, and most of his MLB struggles are just jitters and a small sample size. And even compared to most of the rookies, he didn't do too bad.
There are a few drawbacks, however. He's got pretty good speed, but he has no instinct for stealing, and doesn't always make the right decisions on the basepaths. I've also seen reports that his arm strength is subpar overall for an outfielder, especially if he were to spend time in LF or RF. While both of those tools tend to be a bit overrated in my opinion, they're going to limit his situational usefulness.
Also, requesting Juan Duran for the next round.
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Sappelt. Actually my #7, but behind Corcino and Yorman so this is the first I could vote for him. A lot has been said about his time in Cinti, but I think that he made distinctive progress during that stretch. The longer he was up, the more good at bats he had. Strictly anecdotal, but I'll stand by it.
I'm not gonna lobby for Torreyes anymore. Just gonna vote for him, for the sixth straight time.
That said, Sappelt deserves to be at least this high, in my view. The guy can hit. I'm hoping that the warning-track groove he slipped into after his callup was a passing phase.
I just saw a different player in Sappelt.
Sappelt may have been injured - although I didn't hear it at the time - but he was generally unimpressive as a Red and didn't seem to get consistently better over his stint. He did get a few key hits in games and makes contact often.
Maybe he will impress me more next time. I went with Torreyes here.
Last edited by Kc61; 11-14-2011 at 09:51 PM.
"When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"
I went with Sappelt at 10 and will have him here too. I too think that we will see a vast improvement in Sappelt at the MLB level this season and as I stated in the previous thread, I still think he will grow more as a player at the MLB level and surprise us all.
You are right. First 11 games he hit .195 without a walk, 8 strikeouts and just 1 extra base hit. The other 27 games (66 at bats) he hit .273 with 7 walks and 9 strikeouts with 7 extra base hits.
His oblique injury took away from his swing a little bit and hurt his power output once he came back. With the offseason to get things right, I expect his power to be back to normal and I have no issues at all with anything he does offensively. Defensively there is the arm question, but his range more than makes up for it in my opinion because the guy has plus range in center field and probably the best range in left field around since he is a plus range guy in center.
Sappelt all the way here. Would have him higher even. Guy is a major league player.
Imo, all of these prospects from Cozart to Sappelt/Torreyes seem to be on close to the same level. None of them look like world-beaters yet, but each should provide solid contributions to the major league team.
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