{"id":17469,"date":"2022-03-21T12:36:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T16:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17469"},"modified":"2022-03-22T10:33:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T14:33:44","slug":"mlbpipeline-nats-top-30-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17469","title":{"rendered":"MLBPipeline Nats top 30 Prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Vaquero-Cristian-via-talknats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"859\" height=\"723\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Vaquero-Cristian-via-talknats.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Vaquero-Cristian-via-talknats.jpg 859w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Vaquero-Cristian-via-talknats-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Vaquero-Cristian-via-talknats-768x646.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 859px) 100vw, 859px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Vaquero is here, and here to stay.  Photo via TalkNats.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In our continuing series of reviewing\/reacting\/criticizing Nats prospect lists as they&#8217;re released, today we got a big one.  The MLBpipeline.com team (which includes senior prospect analysts <strong>Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo, <\/strong>and <strong>Sam Dykstra<\/strong>) has released their updated top 30 rankings for our system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the links to past analysis: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17425\">Keith Law\/The Athletic<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17420\">Baseball America<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17409\">ProspectsLive.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17400\">Prospects1500<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17356\">Prospects361<\/a>.  We&#8217;re still waiting for a couple major shops who generally release rankings: Fangraphs, ESPN, BleacherReport, and CBSsports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to MLBPipeline&#8217;s list, which is perhaps the most respected source out there.  Here&#8217;s the link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/nationals\/news\/nationals-top-30-prospects-list-2022-preseason\">the story<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/prospects\/nationals\/\">the list<\/a> itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lets do some reactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>At the top, <strong>Ruiz<\/strong> is graduated, so they go <strong>Cavalli-House<\/strong> at 1-2 like everyone else.<\/li><li>They&#8217;ve got our next two significant arms at 3-4 (that being Henry\/Rutledge).  Law had them 3-4 as well, just in the reverse order.  Notably, no other shop has these two arms as high, most pushing them down in to the 6-9 range.  Which tells you what I think about this source versus others.<\/li><li>MLBpipeline is one of the first to rank <strong>Vaquero<\/strong> legitimately; they&#8217;ve got him 5th as a starting point in the system.  The only other shop to even bother attempting to rank him immediately post signing was ProspectsLive (who had him 4th).<\/li><li>Next three are our tertiary tier of RHP starters; in order <strong>Lara, Carrillo, Adon<\/strong>.  No quibbling here; all three could serve as really useful arms in our system in one fashion or another.  Having these three guys in the 6-8 range is completely reasonable.<\/li><li>They&#8217;re high on <strong>Daylen Lile<\/strong>, having him at #10.  But their scouting report is a little dour, projecting him as a bat first spray hitting 4th outfielder.  <\/li><li><strong>Antuna<\/strong>: down at #12.  Finally a realistic ranking of a career .238 hitter who projects as a corner OF with no power.  <\/li><li><strong>Quintana<\/strong> continues to be all over the map: they have him #15; he&#8217;s been as high as #7 (Keith Law) and as low as #24 (Baseball America).  <\/li><li><strong>Boissiere<\/strong> comes in at #17 &#8230; after missing BA&#8217;s entire top 30.<\/li><li><strong>Lucius Fox<\/strong> is #23 &#8230; one of the few times we&#8217;ve ever had a waiver claim be ranked in our prospects list.<\/li><li>Several recently drafted players are in the 20s but entirely missing from BA&#8217;s list, guys like <strong>Saenz <\/strong>and <strong>White.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Mason Denaburg<\/strong> gets #30 treatment, but <strong>Seth Romero<\/strong> is nowhere to be seen.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Notable missing players<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Holden Powell<\/strong>&#8216;s injuries have dropped him off the radar; he needs a bounce back 2022.<\/li><li><strong>Daniel Marte:<\/strong> completely off the radar too.<\/li><li><strong>Tim Cate<\/strong>: completely unranked but is as  high as #12 on Law&#8217;s list.  Interesting how little he&#8217;s rated.<\/li><li><strong>Riley Adams<\/strong>: nowhere to be seen despite being #11 on BA&#8217;s list.  I guess a backup catcher who we all think is going to play every 4th day is not a prospect.  <\/li><li><strong>Mason Thompson<\/strong>; another guy who BA had just outside their top 10 &#8230; then suddenly he wasn&#8217;t there at all.  Did he graduate rookie eligibility?  I can&#8217;t tell.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong> post publishing: per commenter, Adams and Thompson have graduated &#8230; which makes you then ask, &#8220;well why the hell is he on BAs&#8217; list?&#8221; And the answer there is &#8230; well, because i don&#8217;t know.  It&#8217;d be super helpful if baseball-reference.com would have listed them as having graduated (since that&#8217;s my primary source for determining that).  I&#8217;ll update my docs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our continuing series of reviewing\/reacting\/criticizing Nats prospect lists as they&#8217;re released, today we got a big one. The MLBpipeline.com team (which includes senior prospect analysts Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo, and Sam Dykstra) has released their updated top 30 rankings for our system. Here&#8217;s the links to past analysis: Keith Law\/The Athletic, Baseball America, ProspectsLive.com, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral","category-prospects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17469"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17473,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17469\/revisions\/17473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}