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Vote for Your Favorite Bats

favbat2016Quick! Before they get traded!

It’s time to crowdsource our favorite position players in the Washington farm system as part of our annual offseason ritual to fill the void between when the Nats get eliminated in the playoffs and a season-ending injury in Spring Training the last pitch in September and the first pitch in April.

OK, so here’s how it works… Send me your Top 10 list of minor-league position players (40-man guys are eligible as long as they have rookie status) to enfieldmass-top10bats[at]yahoo[dot]com (link will open your preferred email client) or submit them in comments.

I’ll compile the votes and weight them in reverse order (#1 = 10 points, #2 = 9 points… #9 = 2 points, #10 = 1 point). When it feels like I’ve got a sizable number of submissions, I’ll update this post to let people know I’ve ready to write the “Top 10” post.

This will create the seventh annual NationalsProspects.com Top 10 Bats list.

Now, let’s not forget that “Bat” is my shorthand for “position player” – obviously there are guys for whom the glove is something to wear to blend in when they’re out in the field, but try to take into account both offense and defense. The National League remains stuck in the 19th century when it comes to the DH, so we can’t overlook defense entirely.

The Winter Meetings start up today at the Gaylord in National Harbor, so there’ll be plenty o’ speculation (because speculation is always Irish?) about proposed trades, both actual and agent-planted. Baseball America hasn’t had a Transactions post since before Thanksgiving but one is expected this morning, so we may have back-to-back posts this week!

As always, feel free to discuss in the comments…

9 Commments

  1. Robles, Soto, Stevenson, Kieboom, Severino, Ward, Antuna, Franco, Banks, Bautista.
    Honourable mention to Neuse, but only because a couple of the experts have him in the overall top ten.

    1. I will be like greg Gutfeld and raise up the names Franklin Sierra and that young kid on DSL C.S. With the
      Lefty bat

  2. Robles, Soto, C. Kieboom, Severino, Ward, Stevenson, Franco, Gutierrez, Goodwin, Marmolejos.
    Honorable mentions to take the place if/when some of the above get traded before you compile the results: S. Kieboom, Noll, Neuse, Bautista

  3. 1. Victor Robles
    2. Juan Soto
    3. Carter Kieboom
    4. Pedro Severino
    5. Andrew Stevenson
    6. Brian Goodwin
    7. Drew Ward
    8. Jose Marmolejos
    9. Anderson Franco
    10. Osvaldo Abreu

  4. 1. Robles
    2. Ward
    3. Stevenson
    4. Soto
    5. Marmolejos
    6. Goodwin
    7. C. Kieboom
    8. Abreu
    9. Gutierrez
    10. Franco

    HM: Agustin, Wiseman, Neuse, Johnson, Banks, Keller, Davidson

    TBD: Antuna, L. Garcia

  5. I just want to personally thank Bryce Harper for letting the Nats know he won’t be signing for them for less than $400.

    This will steel the resolve of anyone in the Front Office about trading away any of our young outfielders, knowing they are needed in a couple of years.

    We have lots of pitching prospects available, but precious few bats to spare.

    Drew Ward & Victor Robles– we’re counting on you.

  6. 1) Robles
    2) Stevenson
    3) Soto
    4) Ward
    5) Severino
    6) C. Kieboom
    7) Franco
    8) Marmolejos
    9) Bautista
    10) Goodwin

  7. This is an interesting but weird exercise, as I’m trying to figure out — as I try to do every year — how to mix ceiling/potential with actual performance. Soto has a high ceiling and posted the best overall numbers in the organization, so he gets my vote for #1.

    1. Soto
    2. Robles
    3. Ward
    4. Goodwin
    5. Severino
    6. Stevenson
    7. Marmolejos
    8. C. Kieboom
    9. Wiseman
    10. Davidson

    HM: Sagdal, Franco, Bautista, Banks, Gutierrez, Noll, Neuse

    Incidentally, Sagdal had a higher OPS than anyone else in my top 10 other than Soto or Marmolejos.

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