After revealing the Purple Row community’s Colorado Rockies top prospect list over the last couple weeks, it’s time to show the whole list at once with some voting stats. I’ll also have some thoughts on the state of the system later this week to conclude the series.
Without further ado, here is the full mid-season 2019 Top 30 PuRPs list, including some voting stats:
Mid-Season 2019 PuRPs List
| Rank | Player | Total | # Ballots | High Ballot | Mode Ballot | Position | ETA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Player | Total | # Ballots | High Ballot | Mode Ballot | Position | ETA |
| 1 | Brendan Rodgers | 865 | 29 | 1 (26) | 1 | SS/2B/3B | Now |
| 2 | Peter Lambert | 816 | 29 | 1 (3) | 2 | RHP | Now |
| 3 | Ryan Rolison | 788 | 29 | 2 | 3,4 | LHP | 2021 |
| 4 | Colton Welker | 780 | 29 | 2 | 4 | 3B | 2020 |
| 5 | Grant Lavigne | 725 | 29 | 2 | 7 | 1B | 2022 |
| 6 | Michael Toglia | 677 | 29 | 4 | 5 | 1B | 2022 |
| 7 | Terrin Vavra | 637 | 29 | 5 | 9 | SS | 2021 |
| 8 | Ryan Vilade | 605 | 28 | 4 | 6 | SS/3B | 2021 |
| 9 | Tyler Nevin | 547 | 29 | 6 | 9,11 | 1B/3B | 2020 |
| 10 | Ben Bowden | 519 | 27 | 4 | 11 | LHP | 2020 |
| 11 | Aaron Schunk | 516 | 29 | 6 | 10 | 3B | 2022 |
| 12 | Rico Garcia | 500 | 28 | 6 | 12 | RHP | 2020 |
| 13 | Karl Kauffmann | 459 | 27 | 3 | 12,16 | RHP | 2022 |
| 14 | Sam Hilliard | 410 | 26 | 7 | 17 | OF | 2019 |
| 15 | Yonathan Daza | 408 | 27 | 6 | 12 | OF | Now |
| 16 | Ryan Castellani | 381 | 26 | 6 | 10,11,20,21 | RHP | 2020 |
| 17 | Riley Pint | 305 | 28 | 6 | 21,23 | RHP | 2022 |
| 18 | Eddy Diaz | 295 | 22 | 7 | 14 | 2B/SS | 2023 |
| 19 | Mitchell Kilkenny | 283 | 26 | 8 | 29 | RHP | 2022 |
| 20 | Jesus Tinoco | 273 | 23 | 8 | 20,25 | RHP | Now |
| 21 | Breiling Eusebio | 235 | 16 | 3 | 9,16 | LHP | 2022 |
| 22 | Tommy Doyle | 226 | 22 | 7 | 27 | RHP | 2021 |
| 23 | Roberto Ramos | 216 | 23 | 12 | 25,28 | 1B | 2019 |
| 24 | Justin Lawrence | 215 | 21 | 13 | 21 | RHP | 2020 |
| 25 | Brian Mundell | 165 | 17 | 10 | 23 | 1B | 2019 |
| 26 | Vince Fernandez | 156 | 16 | 3 | 21,28 | OF | 2020 |
| 27 | Bladimir Restituyo | 156 | 14 | 10 | 10,27 | 2B/SS/OF | 2023 |
| 28 | Josh Fuentes | 149 | 12 | 10 | 18,19 | 1B/3B | Now |
| 29 | Ryan Feltner | 114 | 16 | 15 | 20,23,24,29 | RHP | 2022 |
| 30 | Brenton Doyle | 104 | 16 | 17 | 26 | OF | 2022 |
It was yet another easy top prospect ranking for Brendan Rodgers in this edition of the PuRPs poll, receiving 26 of 29 first place votes. This is his sixth top PuRP honors in a row. In all, 9 players were listed on every ballot, including the top 7.
As a reminder, 30 points were granted for a first place vote, 29 for second, etc. Until a player was named on 10 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 wasn’t applied to any 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 as well as the write-ups of the honorable mention PuRPs. One tie was broken in the top 30 and several more in the lower reaches of the list.
There was a pretty good consensus about the top 20 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 at least 22 of the ballots.
Some more notes:
- A record-tying 71 players received at least one vote for this PuRPs list (up from 60 last time), 55 got mentioned on multiple ballots (up from 50), 33 were named on at least 10 ballots (and therefore were unmodified), and all PuRPs were named on at least 12 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 pre-season 2019 list. The new PuRPs are Michael Toglia (6), Aaron Schunk (11), Karl Kauffmann (13), Eddy Diaz (18), Mitchell Kilkenny (19), Bladimir Restituyo (27), and Brenton Doyle (30). Only Kilkenny had previously been a PuRP on a prior list.
Breaking the list down by position, there are 13 pitchers (9 of them are nominally starters with a couple being a question mark, 11 are righties, two are southpaws, and three are in the top 10), four outfielders, eight corner infielders, five middle infielders, and zero catchers.
There are 11 PuRPs currently in the major leagues or Triple-A (including three of the top ten), so it won’t be long before we start seeing some of these guys producing for the Rockies, which will open up room for some new faces on future PuRP lists.