Every weekend, I will be posting about the minor leaguers you should be stashing on your team. This list will be arranged by impact for this year only. Players that will be called up sooner will be ahead of players with more talent who might only be called up late in the year. Prospects are a great way to stay ahead of everyone else rather you are in a dynasty league or a 10-team league. With the minor league season going, we can start seeing some movement with this list. With more and more games to evaluate, new players will jump onto the list, while others could fall off entirely.
1) Tyler Mahle, Cincinnati Reds AAA, ETA: August
Across two levels, Tyler Mahle’s has a 1.97 ERA through 132.1 innings. He is a command and control specialist. He has struck out 129 and walked only 29 batters. A solid 4.45 K/BB Ratio and a .194 BAA leads to an impressive 0.91 WHIP. Mahle might not have the skills of Brent Honeywell but I love control pitchers and he has the stuff to make an immediate impact.
I think Tyler Glasnow should be back on this list. He has but electric in AAA and over his last 3 starts has 30K : 3BB in 19 IP.
He is no longer a prospect. If he was a prospect, he would have been 5th.
Nic – love the content! One thought… I’m usually with the other commenters asking about minor league players missing from your list. What definition of prospect are you using? Usually if someone’s only gotten a short stint in the show and they’re back full time in AAA after struggling, they won’t be owned in most fantasy leagues. I think most of us follow this column for “best imminent call-up”, whether they’ve been up before or not. So for instance would love to see someone like Glasnow on this list (think the same happened with Berrios and Snell earlier in the season). Just a thought!