This kid could be the top prospect in baseball. Better than Kris Bryant. He and OF Joc Pederson are going to revitalize the Dodgers offense. It won't be long before he joins Pederson in LA to make the Dodgers a little younger and their offense a lot better. It won't hurt the budget that they will be young, talented and under team control for five or six years,
Two strong left-handed bats and both play quality defense. With these two and add in a strong right-handed bat in Guerrero (Bumgarner's new BFF), it will be interesting to see how quickly and seamlessly the Dodgers can work these young hitters into the everyday lineup. A lot will depend on how Seager handles this jump from AA to AAA.
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"I'm running out of words to describe this kid. He's phenomenal," Tulsa manager Razor Shines said last week. "Everything he does is different. I don't know how to explain what I'm seeing. It's like high school baseball, it's like he's a really good player dominating high school. He makes it look so easy."'via Blog this'
Shines wasn't shy about piling hype on the left-handed hitting infielder.
"He's better than everybody else, it's just that simple," he added. "It's the way a young Willie Mays was better than everybody else or the way a young Hank Aaron was better than everybody else. I don't think you can explain it. I think he's this gifted. He is by far the best player I have ever managed."
The Dodgers are loaded with prospects with the three listed above and Kiki Hernandez on the rise as well. Add in uber-pitching prospect LHP Julio Arias and RHP Grant Holmes and the Dodgers are poised to stay at or near the top of the division for years to come. The Dodgers prospects are as highly regarded as any in the bigs and they have plenty of them.
Around the rest of the division the D-Backs come in loaded with Yasmany Thomas looking for a position to hide his glove, 3B Jake Lamb and SS Nick Ahmed are already getting opportunities to shine along with RHP Archie Bradley. If you add in fellow RHP prospects Allen Webster, Aaron Blair and one of my favorites Touki Toussaint down the road, the D-Backs could return to contention quickly.
The Padres are counting on trades to move up in the division, but they too have solid prospects in C Austin hedges, OF Hunter Renfron and RHP Matt Wisler. How quickly 2B Taylor Lindsey and OF Rymer Liriano rise could dictate how good for how long the Padres can be.
The Rockies look to add RHP's Eddie Butler and Jon Gray and LHP Tyler Anderson to the pitching rotation. We already know they can score runs and play defense.
The Giants appear to continue to build with "high-floor low-ceiling" prospects like Joe Panik, Andrew Susac and Matt Duffy on the offensive side. The next couple of years will determine whether they do the same on the pitching side with Kyle Crick, Tyler Beede, Clayton Blackburn, Keury Mella, Ty Blach and Adalberto Mejia. The amount of productivity they get from this group and a gaggle of hard-throwing relievers from the right and left side will dictate the Giants fortunes over the next five to ten years.
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