There R Giants Top 50: 11-15
On the precipice of the top 10
Photo Credit: Samantha McCloskey | Richmond Flying Squirrels
Top 50 time is here! So far we’ve looked at:
50: Victor Bericoto
49: Chris Wright
48: Sean Roby
47: P.J. Hilson
46: Alexander Suarez
45: Mikell Manzano
44: Diego Velasquez
43: Carson Ragsdale
42: William Kempner
41: Seth Lonsway
40: Shane Matheny
39: Sean Hjelle
38: Brett Auerbach
37: Ricardo Genovés
36: Hunter Bishop
35: Nick Zwack
34: Erik Miller
33: Spencer Miles
32: Manuel Mercedes
31: Trevor McDonald
30: Ryan Reckley
29: Gerelmi Maldonado
28: Will Bednar
27: Ryan Murphy
26: Will Wilson
25: Nick Swiney
24: Jose Cruz
23: R.J. Dabovich
22: Adrian Sugastey
21: Patrick Bailey
20: Tristan Beck
19: Randy Rodriguez
18: Jairo Pomares
17: Carson Seymour
16: Landen Roupp
When I started this year’s process, I had a very clear idea who my top seven players in the org were (now the order of those top seven is a different story). After that….things got wolly! Maaaaaybe the three or four after that top group were fairly stable, but essentially from the point of #8 it feels like I’m pulling the thread on an unraveling sweater that I could knit back together in virtually any form or shape.
Which is just a way of saying that from about 8 onwards the ordinal structure of this list gets looser and looser (as you could probably tell from the color coding back in my depth charts series, which I’m …..shhhhhhh….secretly departing from in tiny ways here and there).
It would be very easy to move anybody in Friday’s grouping into today’s and vice versa, and not such a terribly hard stretch to shuffle in some of last Wednesday’s players. Hopefully, you’re focusing on the writeups more than the numbers, because that’s where (I hope) the real value of this series lies. So if you get to a spot in the rankings where you think: he shouldn’t be here! Go ahead and mentally adjust the player to your preferred spot. I won’t mind — promise! Just, uh, read the full writeup, please. There are a lot of words spilling out my fingers here and they’re not gonna just read themselves!
Today’s a fun a list, so let’s not delay anymore than necessary getting to a lot of players I really like:
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