Last year's rookies, top community prospects for future performance, #25

Three rounds ago, Andrew Bailey came in second with 16% of the vote, with Daniel Bard at 9% and Jeff Neimann at 6% well back in the pack.  This round, Bailey came in third, with 14% of the vote, behind Zimmerman and this round's winner, Jeff Neimann.  Of course Bard won the prior round.

I certainly don't want to renege on my intention to bring this poll to a close, and I certainly don't want to put people to a choice between Randy Ruiz and Doug Mathis, but seeing who still remains on the list I do think that we would get a lot more closure and some decisions on players who have been the subject of hot and heavy discussion these last few rounds, if we took it out just two more rounds, to round 27, which is actually, in its own right a pretty good baseball number and which should require me to change almost nothing of what I have done to this point.  I promise to stop then, although if anyone wants to continue after that they are welcome to.

Here is where we are so far:

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

23 Daniel Bard, P Boston

24, Jeff Neimann, P Tampa Bay 

As I said above I am going to take this through 27 rounds instead of 25, that doesn't change anything about dropping, Cliff Pennington, Taylor Teagarden, Sean West and  Ryan Perry all of whom drew only minimal support last round.  Everth Cabrera and Garret Jones did just a bit better but are also dropped this round and next, we'll see how things look before deciding whether to add them back for the 27th and final round.

For this round we will bring back Happ, Cecil and Randy Wells, among pitchers and give a tester to Jordan Schafer who has generated some positive discussion these past few round.

possibly returning in rounds 26 or 27: Gio Gonzalez 1% (20), Clayton Richard 2% (21), Gerardo Parra 3% (22)Everth Cabrera 3% (24), Garret Jones 3% (24)

permanently dropped (percentage and round in parens) Luis Valbuena 1% (22), Tommy Hunter 2% (22), Brett Gardner 1% (22), Casey McGehee 0% (23), Cliff Pennington 0% (24), Taylor Teagarden 1% (24), Sean West 1% (24), Ryan Perry 1% (24)

Under consideration to be added for the first time in round 26 or 27: Jake Fox, Brian Duensing, Kris Medlen. 

I've really enjoyed the discussion these past few rounds, I hope that this is a correct reading of sentiment to continue this poll just those extra two rounds longer.