Joc Pederson, James Baldwin Get Love in BA's top Pioneer League Prospects

For Phil’s quest to find not elite bats with awesome stretches over at least 40 games.

Alex Avila:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?id=avilaal01&t=b&year=2011&share=0.33#218-257-sum:batting_gamelogs

40 games 1.066 OPS

Jhonny Peralta (SS)

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?id=peraljh01&t=b&year=2011&share=1.67#1009-1070-sum:batting_gamelogs

.354/.396/.632 – 1.028 for 62 games from 5/6 to 7/23

Matt Joyce, 44 games

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?id=joycema01&t=b&year=2011&share=1.05#190-233-sum:batting_gamelogs

.410/.460/.729 from 4/14 to 6/2.

These are some of the one’s I have found, I’m checking for september now, and I bet Loney will be the best out of all of them for the year of 40 or more games :)

we should’ve put this on the top of the page 600 comments ago

Like I said, he’s in my top 5 :)

I watched at least 40 Raptors games in person this year, I spoke with a lot of scouts while I was at the games so I feel I have a good opinion when it comes to this team and group of prospects. Baldwin hit 9th for the team in the playoffs. He looked foolish against lefties, but he is only 19 so he has time to improve but he needs to seriously adjust his swing mechanics and make consistent contact and get on base with his speed. Joc was the best all around player I saw IMO in the whole league. He hit for average, average power, has speed and a plus arm in the outfield and he only struck out 54 times with 36 walks as a 19 year old. As for Dickson first of all he played 20 games less than the rest of the team. 2nd Ogden is nowhere near the most extreme hitters park. Yes each team plays at an elevation of 3,000 ft above sea level but Ogden’s park actually has real dimensions, Orem for example is 305 ft down the LF line with a 15 foot high wall, 375 to the gaps and 312 down the RF line, that park is ridiculous in terms of dimensions for the elevation they play at. Dickson stuck out 44 times with 19 walks he had a .402 OBP and hit .347 against lefties and .329 vs righties. He also played a gold glove caliber 1st base so I don’t understand their comments that as a first baseman he needs to mash to gain respect. Well he mashed, leading the team in HR despite 20 fewer games and his defense and range were plus plus. He’s a good enough athlete he could move to the OF, he’s great with the glove so I’d love to see him try to play 3rd base, I may be out of my mind, but what do you have to lose with the absolute lack of 3B prospects in the Dodgers system. I understand Kaleb Cowart was a 1st round pick so he’s a better prospect on that fact alone, but I watched Ogden play Orem at least 10 times and Dickson was clearly better than Cowart and it wasn’t even close. Sure Cowart is younger but are you basing the ranking on the seasons the guys had or the age these guys are+the seasons they had. Baldwin is definitely not deserving to be #11 on this list, hell Scott Schebler was considerably better than he was. IMO the best prospect in the league was Cron and it isn’t even close, especially since Cron put up all of his number with a shoulder injury that needed surgery but he played through it prior to hurting his knee.

He’s a good enough athlete he could move to the OF, he’s great with the glove so I’d love to see him try to play 3rd base, I may be out of my mind, but what do you have to lose with the absolute lack of 3B prospects in the Dodgers system.

I can only imagine how fast he’d move through the system if he displayed an ability to play third.