After revealing the Purple Row community's Colorado Rockies top prospect list over the last few weeks, it's time to wrap up the series by showing the whole list at once. Without further ado, here is the full midseason 2017 Top 30 PuRPs list, including some voting stats:
Midseason 2017 PuRPs List
| Rank | Player | Total | # Ballots | High Ballot | Mode Ballot | ETA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Player | Total | # Ballots | High Ballot | Mode Ballot | ETA |
| 1 | Brendan Rodgers | 1,199 | 40 | 1 (39) | 1 | 2018 |
| 2 | Ryan McMahon | 1,115 | 40 | 1 (1) | 3 | 2018 |
| 3 | Riley Pint | 1,107 | 40 | 2 | 2 | 2020 |
| 4 | Raimel Tapia | 1,084 | 39 | 2 | 3 | Now |
| 5 | Peter Lambert | 1,011 | 40 | 2 | 6 | 2019 |
| 6 | Ryan Castellani | 974 | 40 | 4 | 7 | 2018 |
| 7 | Colton Welker | 936 | 40 | 3 | 7 | 2020 |
| 8 | Ryan Vilade | 916 | 40 | 4 | 9 | 2021 |
| 9 | Tom Murphy | 910 | 40 | 5 | 9 | Now |
| 10 | Yency Almonte | 867 | 40 | 5 | 9 | 2018 |
| 11 | Sam Howard | 667 | 39 | 8 | 11 | 2018 |
| 12 | Pedro Gonzalez | 650 | 40 | 8 | 12 | 2021 |
| 13 | Garrett Hampson | 633 | 38 | 8 | 13 | 2019 |
| 14 | Dom Nunez | 577 | 37 | 11 | 15 | 2019 |
| 15 | Jordan Patterson | 534 | 38 | 6 | 14 | Now |
| 16 | Forrest Wall | 532 | 38 | 9 | 11 | 2019 |
| 17 | Brian Mundell | 499 | 39 | 9 | 16 | 2019 |
| NR | Jose Gomez | 446 | 36 | 10 | 14,17,19,21 | N/A |
| 18 | Ben Bowden | 443 | 35 | 10 | 17 | 2019 |
| 19 | Daniel Montano | 400 | 32 | 12 | 18 | 2022 |
| 20 | Robert Tyler | 323 | 31 | 13 | 19 | 2020 |
| 21 | Mike Nikorak | 294 | 30 | 12 | 17,25,26 | 2021 |
| 22 | Tyler Nevin | 253 | 28 | 14 | 23 | 2020 |
| 23 | Jairo Diaz | 229 | 26 | 12 | 29 | Now |
| 24 | Will Gaddis | 202 | 23 | 12 | 21,27 | 2021 |
| 25 | Vince Fernandez | 163 | 25 | 18 | 25 | 2020 |
| NR | Alejandro Requena | 157 | 16 | 11 | 20,22,27,28 | N/A |
| 26 | Sam Hilliard | 155 | 22 | 11 | 29 | 2019 |
| 27 | Jeffri Ocando | 142 | 18 | 16 | 20,25,30 | 2021 |
| 28 | Tommy Doyle | 128 | 19 | 17 | 27 | 2020 |
| 29 | Parker French | 80.8 | 13 | 15 | 23,25 | 2018 |
| 30 | Chad Spanberger | 79 | 19 | 18 | 28 | 2021 |
It was an easy first place finish for Brendan Rodgers in this edition of the PuRPs poll, his first top billing. He received 39 of 40 first place votes — the other went to #2 Ryan McMahon. The top five players all cleared 1,000 points over the 40 counted ballots. PuRPs Jose Gomez and Alejandro Requena (along with top HM PuRP J.D. Hammer) were traded after polling had closed — they appear here on the list in a non-ranked capacity, but Parker French and Chad Spanberger take their place as PuRPs.
As a reminder, 30 points were granted for a first place vote, 29 for second, etc. Until a player was named on 14 ballots, his vote totals were modified on a sliding scale to avoid an individual ballot having too much say over the community forecast. In this edition of the list this rule was only applied to one player in the top 30. For more info on voting numbers for players that didn't quite make the top 30, please check out the intro post to this edition of the PuRPs list. No ties were broken in the top 30.
There was a pretty good consensus about the top 17 prospects, forming a clear tier of players that the electorate felt were potential MLB impact players by virtue of the fact that they were named on almost every ballot. Indeed, there seemed to be consensus across most of the list, as the bottom four PuRPs were named on fewer than half of the ballots. Looking back on past PuRPs lists, it appears that Colorado's farm system is slightly weaker than it was in preseason thanks to the graduation of four top ten PuRPs — all key members of the big league starting rotation this year.
Some more notes:
- In all, 13 players were on every ballot, 66 players received at least one vote for this PuRPs list (down from 69 last time), 58 got mentioned on multiple ballots (up from 56), 30 were named on at least 13 ballots (and therefore were unmodified), and all of the top 26 were named on at least half of the ballots, showing that most of the list was more or less agreed upon by the community, if not necessarily the order. Here is a link to the polling thread.
- In this edition of the PuRPs list there were seven new names compared to the preseason 2017 list. The new PuRPs are Vilade (8), Gaddis (24), Fernandez (25), Hilliard (26), Ocando (27), Doyle (28), and Spanberger (30).
Breaking the list down by position, there are 13 pitchers (11 of them are nominally starters with a couple being a question mark, 11 are righties, two are southpaws, and four are in the top 10), three middle infielders, seven outfielders, two catchers, and five corner infielders. It looks like there are six PuRPs that are in MLB or Triple A currently (including three of the top ten), so it won't be long before we start seeing some of these guys producing as regulars for the Rockies.
With that, I declare the midseason 2017 Purple Row Prospects List complete.