Baseball America Ranks the Top 10 Nats Prospects

The overlap between our list o’ bats (because bats are always Irish?) and the Baseball America Top 10 is rather strong – with seven position players making the Top 10:

1. James Wood, OF (deadline trade)
2. Robert Hassell, OF (deadline trade)
3. Elijah Green, OF (’22 Draft pick)
4. Cade Cavalli, RHP (2)
5. Brady House, SS (5)
6. Crithian Vaquero (’21 IFA)
7. Jarlin Susana, RHP (deadline trade)
8. Jeremy De La Rosa, OF
9. Jackson Rutledge, RHP (9)
10. T.J. White, OF

Perhaps not coincidentally, there are also seven players acquired over the past two Julys, including Los Friars Tres del San Diego^™.

No explanation was given for the continued incumbency of Jake Johansen II Jackson Rutledge, despite his languishing in Low-A for all of 2022. This is baffling, given that not one but two younger players with ceilings just as high, if not higher, were dropped (RHP Andry Lara, SS Armando Cruz).

As per usual, the chat questions were asked from the gambl…er, fantasy POV. Unfortunately, there’s still no update on Brady House, unless you’re buying that his coming down with COVID “messed with his power” (having had both, I can assure you the back injury is about 99 44/100ths responsible).

I suppose that in the big picture, if we can only point to one questionable choice out of 10, then perhaps we’ve turned a corner and things are starting to look up from a system that not that long ago was ranked dead last.