We're on the level within the season when varied nationwide websites replace their prospect rankings ultimately. Simply this week, Eric Longenhagen wrote concerning the varied modifications at FanGraphs, and Kiley McDaniel up to date his high 50 checklist at ESPN. Final week, Sam Dykstra highlighted the most important risers within the MLB.com rankings.
In these updates, a couple of Dodgers prospects stand out. One in every of them seemingly received't be a prospect by the top of the week, as Andy Pages has 121 at-bats by Tuesday, simply 9 AB shy of exhausting his rookie standing. However his efficiency within the majors has put him again on the map, even along with his current hunch (8-for-56, 411 OPS in his final 16 video games).
Pages is hitting .248/.282/.421 with 5 house runs, six doubles, and 16 RBI and has performed in all 32 video games since being known as up, beginning 31 occasions. He at the moment sports activities a 99 wRC+, giving the Dodgers basically a league common outfielder for a month, one thing they haven't had outdoors of Teoscar Hernández this season.
That catapulted Pages from 94th on MLB.com's preseason checklist to No. 54 now. He wasn't listed in FanGraphs' high 100 coming into this season, however he's at 68th now, or no less than for a couple of days.
Josue De Paula didn't have a house run for Low-A Rancho Cucamonga till final week, however then hit 4 of them in three video games towards Inland Empire.
“He didn't hit a house run till a couple of days earlier than this replace, however his underlying exit velocities have been sensational,” Longenhagen wrote to FanGraphs. “His common exit velocity of 94 mph to date this season is elite, eight ticks from final 12 months, whereas his 114 mph max is 4.”
De Paula is hitting .246/.336/.458 with a 111 wRC+ this season, and has jumped from the highest 100 in FanGraphs to No. 28 now, and from 68th to thirty fifth on ESPN. He’s now the Dodgers' high prospect on FanGraphs, ESPN and Baseball America (who up to date their checklist on Might 2). De Paula turns 19 on Friday.
Dalton Speeding shared the catching duties at Double-A Tulsa with Diego Cartaya, and likewise noticed plenty of time at designated hitter and even began as soon as at first base. However he's hitting his calling card speeding, and he's hitting .253/.380/.455 with a 132 wRC+ by his first six weeks of Double-A, and he's minimize his strikeout fee by 24.4 % in Excessive-A Nice Lakes final 12 months. to 19 % this 12 months.
This bumped Speeding up from seventy fifth in the course of the offseason on ESPN to the No. 1 prospect. 40 now. Says McDaniel: “Speeding remains to be solely a catcher perhaps, however he's mature to the purpose the place he would play frequently even when he couldn't catch.”
Speeding was additionally one of many greatest risers on MLB.com's checklist, from 67th to 52nd. FanGraphs has Speeding the No. 65 prospects in baseball now, down from 60 earlier than the season.
In Tuesday's sport at Springfield, Speeding left the sport within the third inning, with no phrase on his standing.