Rating last year's rookies-Community Prospect #20

by Dalman on Dec 1, 2025 7:18 AM EST

After none for the first 15 rounds, Chris Sale becomes the third reliever in the last four rounds to come off the board. Our winners so far include:

1. Brett Lawrie, 3b Toronto Blue Jays (51%)

2, Eric Hosmer, 1b Kansas City Royals (57%)

3. Michael Pineda, P Seattle Mariners (38%)

4. Dustin Ackley, 2b Seattle Mariners (41%)

5. Desmond Jennings, of Tampa Bay Rays (47%)

6. Jeremy Hellickson, P Tampa Bay Rays (49%)

7. Freddie Freeman, 1B Atlanta Braves (45%)

8. Brandon Beachy, P Atlanta Braves (27%)

9. Brandon Belt, OF/!B San Francisco Giants (33%)

10. Mike Moustakas, 3b Kansas City Royals (38%)

11. Domonic Brown, of Philadelphia Phillies (32%) (70% runoff)

12. Jason Kipnis, 2b Cleveland Indians 29%

13. Cory Luebke, P San Diego Padres 19% (59% runoff)

14. Paul Goldschmidt, 1b Arizona Diamondbacks 26%

15. Danny Espinosa, 2b Washington Nationals 36%

16. Craig Kimbrel, P Atlanta Braves, 38%

17. Aroldis Chapman, P Cincinnati Reds 56%

18. Wilson Ramos, C Washington Nationals 38%

19. Chris Sale, P Chicago White Sox 26%

The voting breakdown after Sale was: Salvador Perez 17%, Mark Trumbo 14%, Mike Minor 14%, Henderson Alvarez 9%, Lucas Duda 9%, Zach Britton 3%, Alex Cobb 3% (write in) JD Martinez 3% (write in), Allen Craig 3% (write in), Juan Nicasio 0%, Jose Altuve 0%

I'm going to keep the standard at 4%, so Zach Britton, Jose Altuve and Juan Nicasio are dropped. We'll start permanent drops next round but all of these guys will be back again. By permanent drops, I mean that starting this round, players who are on the ballot and get 0% support aren't guaranteed a return to the ballot although they can always come back by showing multiple vote support by write in.

We'll bring back Danny Duffy, Dayan Viciedo, Ivan Nova, and JD Martinez, this round.

In rotation: Jordan Walden 0% (round 16), Allen Craig 0% (round 17), Jemile Weeks 0% (round 17), Kyle Drabek 0% (round 17), Ben Revere 0% (round 17), Mike Carp 0% (round 17), Vance Worley 3% (round 18), Josh Collmenter 0% (round 18, Kenley Jansen 0% (round 18), Aaron Crow 0% (round 18), Zach Britton 3% (round 19), Jose Altuve 0% (round 19), Juan Nicasio 0% (round 19)

We'll give Alex Cobb his first time on the ballot this round, leaving as possible future testers:

Jordan Lyles, Jerry Sands, Dee Gordon, Craig Gentry, Lonnie Chisenhall, Al Alberquerque, Tyler Chatwood, Kyle Seager, Eric Thames and Greg Holland.

As always voting is by +1 and there are places below to suggest testers or vote for players not currently on the ballot. As I am planning on taking this out to 25 rounds and then stopping, there is no guarantee that everyone on the testers list will get a chance to be on the ballot. So, if you think that one of the players on the testers list particularly deserves to be on the ballot you can note that below. I am currently thinking of either Dee Gordon or Lonnie Chisenhall as next round's tester, but am open to suggestion.

So who is your number 20 prospect for future performance among last year's rookies?

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