Community Positional Prospect #26
by auclairkeithbc on Dec 5, 2025 7:29 PM EST
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PrintWith 21.9% of the open vote and 53.8% of the runoff, Jonathan Singleton is elected Positional Prospect #25.
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RESULTS:
Jonathan Singleton: 21.9% (53.8% In Runoff)
Anthony Gose: 21.9% (46.2% In Runoff)
Mike Olt: 17.2%
George Springer: 7.8%
Josh Bell: 7.8%
Nick Castellanos: 4,7%
Michael Choice: 4.7% (write in)
Leonys Martin: 3.1%
Wilin Rosario: 3.1%
Gary Sanchez: 3.1% (write in)
Jean Segura: 1.6%
Gary Brown: 1.6%
Starling Marte: 1.6% (write in)
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CANDIDATES: Anthony Gose, Mike Olt, George Springer, Josh Bell, Nick Castellanos, Michael Choice, Ryan Lavarnway, Gary Sanchez, Mikie Mahtook, Jonathan Schoop
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IN ROTATION: Starling Marte (#23-0%) Will Middlebrooks (#23-0%), Jedd Gyorko (#24-1.4%), Leonys Martin (#25-3.1%), Wilin Rosario (#25-3.1%), Jean Segura (#25-1.6%), Gary Brown (#25-1.6%),
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TESTERS: Kolton Wong, Tim Wheeler, Billy Hamilton, Rymer Liriano, Garin Cecchini, Javier Baez, Marcell Ozuna, Eddie Rosario, Andrelton Simmons, Oswaldo Arcia, Cory Spangenberg, James Darnell, Matt Szczur, Aaron Hicks, Joe Panik, Mason Williams, Matt Davidson, Derek Norris, Christian Bethancourt, Brandon Jacobs
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#01 - BRYCE HARPER - 59.2%
#02 - MIKE TROUT - 38.8% (In Poll #1)
#03 - JURICKSON PROFAR - 52.9%
#04 - MANNY MACHADO - 31.5% (55.1% In Runoff)
#05 - DEVIN MESORACO - 45.1%
#06 - WILL MYERS - 31.6% (51.4% In Runoff)
#07 - JESUS MONTERO - 61.3%
#08 - ANTHONY RENDON - 53.1%
#09 - TRAVIS D'ARNAUD - 46.6%
#10 - NOLAN ARENADO - 33.3%
#11 - MIGUEL SANO - 37.3%
#12 - YONDER ALONSO - 22.5% (45.3% In 3-Way Runoff)
#13 - FRANCISCO LINDOR - 26.1%
#14 - BUBBA STARLING - 33.8%
#15 - XANDER BOGAERTS - 25.0% (55.2% In 3-Way Runoff)
#16 - ANTHONY RIZZO - 27.8%
#17 - OSCAR TAVERAS - 40.3%
#18 - BRETT JACKSON - 20.3% (58.7% In Runoff)
#19 - YASMANI GRANDAL - 31.3%
#20 - JAKE MARISNICK - 27.3%
#21 - HAK-JU LEE - 28.0%
#22 - NICK FRANKLIN - 24.3%
#23 - CHESLOR CUTHBERT - 30.3%
#24 - CHRISTIAN YELICH - 27.1%
#25 - JONATHAN SINGLETON - 21.9% (53.8% In Runoff)
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by Gobroks on Dec 5, 2025 7:45 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
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by Beachy Keen on Dec 5, 2025 7:38 PM EST up reply actions
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by McCutchenIsTheTruth on Dec 5, 2025 8:26 PM EST up reply actions
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by MonkeyEpoxy on Dec 6, 2025 12:23 AM EST up reply actions
10th
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by gatling on Dec 6, 2025 5:45 AM EST up reply actions
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This is ridiculous.. a guy that is a lock for the top 60 ( and most likely higher) and he is falling like a stone.. Sounds almost as if the Rangers fans stopped paying attention to Ranger’s prospect voting in comparison to the past…
JD’s like, "you want some f*&#ing pitching? Here’s all the pitching you can stand. Now choke on it, b*#&hes;!"- RCCook
LSB: "Oh s#*t, JD. You crazy!"
by laxtonto on Dec 6, 2025 10:19 AM EST up reply actions
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Gold Glove CF with a LOT of offensive potential.
by auclairkeithbc on Dec 5, 2025 7:33 PM EST up reply actions
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by CaptainCanuck on Dec 5, 2025 10:35 PM EST up reply actions
10th
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by gatling on Dec 6, 2025 5:46 AM EST up reply actions
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Don't feed the TROLL!...You have been warned.
by the maroon bird on Dec 6, 2025 9:34 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
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This guy is on the list here, almost single-handedly because of me but, he deserves a second look from y’all maybe?
"No good marriage ends in divorce" - Louis C.K.
by casejud on Dec 5, 2025 10:50 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
i dig mahtook
and think he is severly underrated, but this high is just silly. closer to 40 i think…
by DeathSpeculum on Dec 6, 2025 9:37 AM EST up reply actions
He is tenth in line for me
35th on my positional list
by cookiedabookie on Dec 6, 2025 1:41 PM EST up reply actions
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by auclairkeithbc on Dec 5, 2025 7:31 PM EST reply actions
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by gatling on Dec 5, 2025 8:47 PM EST up reply actions
Marte
Starling
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by JD Sussman on Dec 5, 2025 8:28 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
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TESTERS (New Suggestions Or Favorites From Current Tester Pool)
by auclairkeithbc on Dec 5, 2025 7:31 PM EST reply actions
Brandon Jacobs
I see my other seemingly constant nominee Matt Davidson has made the list now, but I still feel Jacobs belongs in the conversation with most of the names here & strongly so. I also really like the suggestion of Christian Bethancourt from the last round at some point soon.
by Matt0330 on Dec 5, 2025 8:01 PM EST up reply actions
I'll add them to the list
I don’t think Jacobs will make the top 75 though. This tester list is getting really long, but if we re-orient it every few rounds, i think the favorites will get a chance at a fair time.
by auclairkeithbc on Dec 5, 2025 8:05 PM EST up reply actions
No worries either way
I’d be pretty surprised if Brandon Jacobs wasn’t a Top 50 position prospect (I prefer him from an offense first perspective to both Jake Marisnick & Christian Yelich who have already charted for example), but it’s these differences in opinion that make this interesting. Obviously, if there is a space crunch &/or any tester nominees I (or anyone else) bring up don’t make sense to the majority at a particulat juncture, then it is fine to go with others & hold off.
by Matt0330 on Dec 5, 2025 9:59 PM EST up reply actions
Are you talking about Brandon Jacobs
Of the Red Sox?
by auclairkeithbc on Dec 5, 2025 10:19 PM EST up reply actions
Is he even a top 10 Sox Prospect?
Borderline anyway.
by auclairkeithbc on Dec 6, 2025 10:27 AM EST up reply actions
Different strokes, I guess
He’d be #2 for me there but that system seems to polarize just about everybody who looks at it. There’s hardly a consensus or anything close to it.
by Matt0330 on Dec 6, 2025 3:45 PM EST up reply actions
Trevor Story
Mentioned below, but I am curious where “the steal of the 2011 draft” enters the discussion.
by Traindogger on Dec 6, 2025 10:07 AM EST up reply actions
Story
He’d be in my next 5 as far as prospective testers go.
by Matt0330 on Dec 6, 2025 11:52 PM EST up reply actions
Josh Bell
I just don’t get it.
This guy was BA’s 15th best prospect going into the draft. And now he’s around the 50th best prospect in baseball? Can someone explain to me what changed between draft day and now? Is it the large signing bonus?
by blue bulldog on Dec 6, 2025 5:46 AM EST up reply actions
BA
has never been off before? No defense of voting for him but where would he have been drafted if he hadn’t said he was going to UT?
by odbsol on Dec 6, 2025 7:28 AM EST up reply actions
BA's Top 200 Board
isn’t based off of signability though. they explicitly say they rank solely based off of what they perceive as the player’s ability.
as for whether BA has never been off before, sure, i can totally accept that from a given individual. but i don’t understand where this general consensus that Bell is such an awesome prospect comes from, when there has been zero statistical data/scouting reports of Bell since the draft that differ from perceptions of Bell at the time of the draft.
by blue bulldog on Dec 6, 2025 4:10 PM EST up reply actions
Springer
is the only positional player ahead of him on BAs list and not on this list
by odbsol on Dec 6, 2025 7:32 AM EST up reply actions
I believe the number thrown around ...
… was generally that up to 15 players from the 2011 draft would make the Top 50 or 100 (I know that is a large differential). Don’t know specifically where he ranked by BA, but descriptions like “best high school bat in the draft” were not just commonplace, but the norm.
by Traindogger on Dec 6, 2025 7:47 AM EST up reply actions
BA said
they’d have around 15 make the Top 100
and as i just explained, BA ranked him 15 on their Top 200 board
by blue bulldog on Dec 6, 2025 4:06 PM EST up reply actions
you'd prefer trevor story, perhaps?
bell gets a bump because of great power potential. look at sano last year, right around the 40-70 range. granted sano’s got more power and better bat speed than bell, but he also has no other tools of which to speak. Bell has plus (plus?) power, a better hit tool and better all around tools. I think and argument could certainly be made for him being better than the 15th best prospect. Besides rendon and starling, what positional players would you have taken ahead of bell? lindor? springer? i wouldn’t, but an argument could be made.. baez? spangenberg? mahtook? nimmo? laughable…
by DeathSpeculum on Dec 6, 2025 9:33 AM EST up reply actions
Bell is being way overrated.
I don’t get it at all.
by auclairkeithbc on Dec 6, 2025 10:28 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
SNT syndrome
been a major part of these every year..
JD’s like, "you want some f*&#ing pitching? Here’s all the pitching you can stand. Now choke on it, b*#&hes;!"- RCCook
LSB: "Oh s#*t, JD. You crazy!"
by laxtonto on Dec 6, 2025 1:20 PM EST up reply actions
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Let’s actually see if he can handle a wood bat and professional ball before going crazy over him. I mean, he was not seen as an Upton, Griffey, A-rod, or even a Delmon Young, Machado type player before the draft.
by cookiedabookie on Dec 6, 2025 1:43 PM EST up reply actions
At 26th overall for position players
is he being ranked like one of those guys?
by brok515 on Dec 6, 2025 2:04 PM EST up reply actions
No
but I still think it is too high for someone with questions about his contact ability and his fielding ability. The only thing he has going for him is projectable power, but we have not seen if it will translate into the pros.
by cookiedabookie on Dec 6, 2025 2:31 PM EST up reply actions
the thing is
BA thought that Bell was a worse prospect than guys like Jungmann, Guerrieri, Gray, Barnes, and Bradley at the time of the draft. Would you honestly be voting for all of these pitchers before Olt, Gose, etc.?
i understand that individual people who might have scouted Bell think that BA is wrong. i just don’t understand where this general consensus that BA (at draft time) was so off the mark comes from. This isn’t a Trevor Story situation where suddenly we have a ton of new information available that changes our perception of a player.
by blue bulldog on Dec 6, 2025 4:15 PM EST up reply actions
and BA also rated him ahead of starling marte, who's certainly in that
Olt or Gose neck of the woods and called him a 40 home run potential guy. I like Olt and think he’s right around bell, but Gose has too many question marks for me. Ugly swing, low contact rates, chalked full of holes. toolsy AAAA guy for me.
by DeathSpeculum on Dec 7, 2025 9:51 AM EST up reply actions
There are quite a few 40 HR potential guys
Almost none of them will get there though.
by auclairkeithbc on Dec 7, 2025 9:52 AM EST up reply actions
quite a few?!
like who? harper, sano. maybe montero. maybe bogarts? -and maybe maybe maybe singleton ,choice, arcia, matt adams?
i really only see 4 guys with that kind of power harper, bell, montero and sano.
by DeathSpeculum on Dec 7, 2025 4:41 PM EST up reply actions
There are more than that.
Half the systems probably have a C+ prospect in the low minors that K’s way too much with that kind of power potential
by auclairkeithbc on Dec 7, 2025 4:42 PM EST up reply actions
yeah, but come on, those don't really count.
and even if they did, they’re probably more like 30 hr power potential. legit 40 hr prospects are exceedingly rare - thus the sexy
by DeathSpeculum on Dec 7, 2025 4:56 PM EST up reply actions
And I think most Pirates lists
Will definitely have Marte over Bell. BA is obviously down on Marte though.
by auclairkeithbc on Dec 7, 2025 9:53 AM EST up reply actions
Jonathan Schoop
Does anyone have a scouting report on this guy?
by blue bulldog on Dec 6, 2025 5:50 AM EST up reply actions
Here BB
http://baseballnewshound.com/?p=1410
The more I read and see of him, the more I think he is an underrated player - kind of the Brett Jackson of younger, higher-upside prospects. He doesn’t have a wow tool or, stats but he has a lot of good ones.
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by casejud on Dec 6, 2025 7:38 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Don't really like what i've seen from his swing. Def looks like a fluid athlete tho
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by JD Sussman on Dec 6, 2025 2:35 PM EST up reply actions
3rd in line for me
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by gatling on Dec 6, 2025 4:28 PM EST up reply actions
his stats
actually look really good for his age to me, that’s why i was wondering about the scouting report
by blue bulldog on Dec 6, 2025 4:11 PM EST up reply actions
Voting Closed
Josh Bell and Mike Olt will face off in a runoff.
by auclairkeithbc on Dec 6, 2025 8:39 PM EST reply actions
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