{"id":18793,"date":"2025-02-04T10:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=18793"},"modified":"2025-02-04T10:51:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:51:22","slug":"espn-and-mcdaniel-top-10-for-2025-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=18793","title":{"rendered":"ESPN and McDaniel top 10 for 2025 Reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Clemmey climbing up the prospect ranks. Photo via WP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Honestly, just giving a top 10 for a system is almost like taking a remedial course in college just so you can get an A on your transcript. In year’s past McDaniel has gone much deeper (22 prospects in 2024, 28 in 2023, 32 or more in 2022), so maybe we’ll get a more comprehensive list eventually, but for now, here’s his top 10 for the Nats system<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quick thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Four of these players are in his top 100, a high mark for any of the overall top 100 lists. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • He retains confidence in House, unlike Law, BA, and MLBPipeline.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Interestingly he has Sykora below Susana, also a first in this off-season. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • King at #5 is now pretty standard after the top 4 names.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Clemmey and Cavalli remain on his top 200, though one has to think Cavalli’s last year of being a prospect is 2025. He’s either going to produce in the majors or become our most high profile 1st round failure since Romero<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • This is the highest we’ve seen either Lile or Lomavita.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Wallace at #10 means he’s creeping up, and it’ll be super interesting to see how the organization handles\/juggles playing time for both Wallace and House if they’re both in AAA. One has to make way for the other, especially since House is the better bet to be a longer-term 3B in the majors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Not making the top 10, but who are top 10 calibre on other lists:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    (This is not criticism of this top 10, which is pretty solid honestly, but here’s some players who have made top 10 lists on other shops so far this year):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • Hassell<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Morales<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Lara<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Dickerson<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Chapparo (which was on a fantasy-focused list, so that’s an outlier)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      I’m not sure you’re making an argument for any of these five over Lile or Wallace. Ok, maybe if it was ME i’d make an argument over Lile, but i’m low-man on Lile and high-man on Hassell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      One last thing: McDaniel’s callout for prospect ot watch is Dickerson, which we’ve heard a couple times already. Super excited to see what he can do in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Honestly, just giving a top 10 for a system is almost like taking a remedial course in college just so you can get an A on your transcript. In year’s past McDaniel has gone much deeper (22 prospects in 2024, 28 in 2023, 32 or more in 2022), so maybe we’ll get a more comprehensive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prospects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18793","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=18793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18796,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18793\/revisions\/18796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}