Our Top 100 is now underway, as well. We’ll try for a daily Top 100 entry on-site, and the Prospect Vote will turn over as soon as the top vote-getter seems to have an insurmountable lead — but we’ll take no longer than a week to vote each round.
We have six of 10 players from last year’s initial prospect vote poll on our first ballot this year, with two players matriculating out of rookie status (Oscar Colás and Lenyn Sosa) and two pitchers falling out of Top 10 consideration (Norge Vera and Sean Burke). And though “we’re not rebuilding,” four of the Top 10 on the ballot to begin were acquired and were not even in the system in 2023; put another way, not a single player from our farm system has moved up onto the first ballot in 2024. Oof.
Last year, Sosa was spending his sixth year among our Top 100 Prospects, and this year we have three players in their fifth years on the list: Bryan Ramos, Cristian Mena, and José Rodríguez.
All right, let’s have some fun. And get voting!
[Point of order: Zach DeLoach, Prelander Berroa, Dom Fletcher, and the White Sox were the three players who would have taken part in this vote that the team acquired on February 3. They won’t be in our Prospect Poll because of the date of their purchase, but they will all be included in our Top 100 Prospect countdown (Shane Murphy is presently at number 54).
Mario Camilletti’s time on the ballot was brief as he made progress on his second attempt, receiving 50 out of 280 (17.9%) votes.
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Camilletti is the third-second baseman to advance in the vote:
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Camilletti has never participated in our Prospects Poll before. We had just 24 rounds in our 2023 vote, and we only had 17 rounds in our 2022 vote. In 2020, Will Kincanon was ranked No. 30, and in 2021, Andrew Pérez was ranked No. 30.
Not only did Camilletti easily win the round, but Eric Adler also moved up to second position from 10th place, making the greatest jump imaginable without winning the round. This time around, Shawn Goosenberg is entering the battle.
