Baseball America delivered its post-draft update of all its prospect lists, and as you might expect from a farm system that's suddenly become quite top-heavy, there's good news and bad news.
What's good:
*Luis Robert has ascended from the No. 76 prospect preseason to third overall, just behind Tampa Bay's Wander Franco and the Angels' Jo Adell.
*Andrew Vaughn (24) ranks ahead of Dylan Cease (31), Michael Kopech (33) and Nick Madrigal (59), giving the Sox a strong core on the top-100 list.
What's not great:
*Matthew Thompson and Andrew Dalquist rank sixth and seventh on the White Sox top 30, which is one slot ahead of where I placed them half-jokingly on my knee-jerk midseason update.
*Luis Gonzalez ranks 10th, and he's hitting .239/.299/.344 at Birmingham.
That top 10, for posterity:
- Luis Robert
- Andrew Vaughn
- Dylan Cease
- Michael Kopech
- Nick Madrigal
- Matthew Thompson
- Andrew Dalquist
- Blake Rutherford
- Steele Walker
- Luis Gonzalez
Pawtucket 4, Charlotte 3
- Luis Robert finally had issues, going 0-for-4 with two strikeouts.
- Zack Collins had bigger issues, striking out all four times up.
- Yermin Mercedes went 2-for-4 with a strikeout.
- Danny Mendick was 1-for-3 with a K.
Birmingham 4, Tennessee 2
- Nick Madrigal went 1-for-3 with a double and a walk.
- Luis Basabe singled, bunted, struck out twice and was caught stealing.
- Blake Rutherford, 0-for-4 with two strikeouts.
- Gavin Sheets went 1-for-4 with a K.
- Ti'Quan Forbes, 3-for-4 with a double.
- Luis Gonzalez went 1-for-4 with a stolen base.
- Laz Rivera was 1-for-3 with a strikeout.
- John Parke: 6 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 3 K, 1 HBP
- Alec Hansen: 0.2 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, nine of 18 pitches for strikes.
Winston-Salem 9, Wilmington 3
- Steele Walker went 2-for-5 with two doubles and a strikeout.
Lakewood 9, Kannapolis 6
- Andrew Vaughn went 2-for-5 with two doubles.
- Romy Gonzalez, 2-for-4 with a walk.
- Corey Zangari tripled, walked and struck out thrice.
- Camilo Quinteiro was 0-for-2 with a walk and an HBP.
Missoula 6, Great Falls 5
- Kelvin Maldonado went 1-for-5 with a strikeout.
- Harvin Mendoza, 0-for-3 with a walk and a strikeout.
- Lency Delgado hit his first homer at Great Falls, going 2-for-4 with a strikeout. He was also caught stealing.
- Luis Mieses was 1-for-4 with two strikeouts.
- Sam Abbott went 0-for-3 with a walk and a strikeout.
- Anderson Comas, 1-for-4.
- Kleyder Sanchez, 0-for-4 with a K.
- Cabera Weaver was 1-for-4 with a double and a strikeout.
- Brayan Herrera: 1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 1 HR
AZL White Sox 13, AZL Reds 6
- Samil Polanco went 2-for-6.
- Harold Diaz was 0-for-6 with two strikeouts.
- Bryan Ramos went 1-for-4 with a sac fly, HBP and strikeout.
- DJ Gladney tripled, singled thrice and struck out twice.
- Josue Guerrero went 1-for-5 with a double and two strikeouts.
- James Beard went 1-for-5.
DSL Blue Jays 6, DSL White Sox 4
- Elijah Tatis went 1-for-5 with a strikeout.
- Yolbert Sanchez was 0-for-4 with a K.
- Benyamin Bailey was 1-for-2 with two walks and a stolen base.
- Jefferson Mendoza went 1-for-4 with double and a strikeout.
- Alberto Bernal walked once and struck out thrice.
- Ronaldo Guzman: 5 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 5 K, 1 WP
