Last year's rookies, top community prospects for future performance #23

This round goes to Ricky Romero with 18% of the vote.  Daniel Bard comes in second.  Andrew Bailey, who had come in second the previous two rounds, drops to third. 

1. Matt Wieters, C Baltimore

2. Tommy Hanson, P Atlanta

3. Andrew McCutchen, of Pittsburgh

4. Brett Anderson P Oakland

5 Gordon Beckham, 3b CHW

6. Rick Porcello, P Detroit.

7.Elvis Andrus, SS Texas

8. Colby Rasmus, of St. Louis

9. David Price, P Tampa Bay

10. Travis Snider, of Toronto 

11.  Dexter Fowler, of Colorado

12. Chris Tillman, p Baltimore

13t. Matt Latos, p San Diego

13t  Derek Holland, p Texas

15. Cameron Maybin, of Florida

16t Chris Coghlan, of Florida

16t Trevor Cahill, P Oakland

 
18 Matt Laporta of/1b Cleveland

19 Kyle Blanks, of San Diego 

20 Nolan Reimold, of Baltimore 

21 Drew Stubbs, of Cincinatti

22. Ricky Romero, P Toronto

Luis Valbuena, Gerardo Parra, Tommy Hunter and Brett Gardner all draw a smattering of support, but none enough to avoid being permanently dropped from the last few rounds of this poll.  Brad Bergesen, Casey McGehee, Everth Cabrera and Mark Rzepcynski all return for another chance, and Jordan Zimmerman get's his first chance on the poll.  Everyone in the top eight (out of twelve) stays on for next round, everyone with at least 5% of the vote stays on, anyone meeting neither of those criteria are permanently dropped.

temporarily dropped from the poll (percentage and round in parens)  Randy Wells 0% (18), Cliiff Pennington 1% (19), Garret Jones 3% (21)

permanently dropped from the poll (percentage and round in parens) Gio Gonzalez, 1% (20), Clayton Richard 2% (21), Luis Valbuena 1% (22), Gerardo Parra 3% (22), Tommy Hunter 2% (22), Brett Gardner 1% (22)

With just two rounds left after this one I am listing players who are under consideration to be added for the first time in the  last two rounds.  I decided to get as many players as possible who had previously been considered and needed to be considered again into this round, that should still leave me the ability to add at least 2 new players in each of the last two rounds.

Among hitters I will probably go with either Taylor Teagarden or Jake Fox unless I decide to only add pitchers the rest of the way.

Among starting pitchers there seems to be no sentiment for David Hernandez,  so Duensing, Swarzak ,Mazarro and West are still possibilities for one spot.

Among relievers, I am considering  Ryan Perry, Jose Mijares, Tony Sipp, Kris Medlen, Luke Gregerson and Sean West.  All of these guys had very nice years last year, almost all with k rates of better than 1 per inning with minor league track records that say this is no fluke.  I had been working under the assumption that until one of Bard or Bailey won, none of these guys would have a chance, but we are going to test that next round by adding two of these guys, regardless of what happens to Bard/Bailey.

Finally, as discussed in the previous thread, Jordan Zimmerman probably should have been added as a tester at least a few rounds ago, though my understanding is that he is expected to miss all of 2010.  We'll see how the voting goes this round before assessing whether that made a differerence.