Reds May 2023 Games Thread

[CJD]

ESPN just updated their top 50 prospect rankings, and Elly De La Cruz is now the #1 prospect in baseball (according to ESPN).

https://www.espn.com/mlb/insider/story/_/id/37708227/top-50-2023-mlb-prospects-updated-de-la-cruz-mayer-holliday

The article itself is rather bland, only giving 1 sentence at most for each prospect, but that's still pretty awesome.

Quote:De La Cruz has continued to improve his polish at the plate while also continuing to show eye-popping 70- and 80-grade tools all over the field, but all of the top six players here look like they could become 65 FV prospects.

Also making the top 50 are Matt McLain at 19, Noelvi Marte at 48, Cam Collier in the "late cuts" section, but if they had assigned numbers to that list, he's the 5th player listed, which would make him the 55th prospect, and then Andrew Abbott made the "Risers: 50 FV now, 45 FV or lower preseason" list. Again, if we assume they're listed in order of how they would have been ranked, Abbott is the 5th player listed here, which would make him the 70th ranked prospect.

The only player of those that got an individual sentence was McLain.

Quote:A few slots down, McLain has made a swing adjustment that lets his offensive tools play. He is now in the big leagues, as is a thriving Bradley.

I don't know what the point of prospect rankings that don't have some form of scouting report attached to them are, but it's still cool to see a Reds player be ranked as the #1 prospect in baseball. That hasn't happened since Jay Bruce!