After revealing the Purple Row community’s Colorado Rockies top prospect list over the last few 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 tomorrow to conclude the series.
Without further ado, here is the full pre-season 2020 Top 30 PuRPs list, including some voting stats:
Pre-Season 2020 Purple Row Prospects List
| Rank | Player | Total | # Ballots | High Ballot | Mode Ballot | Position | ETA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Player | Total | # Ballots | High Ballot | Mode Ballot | Position | ETA |
| 1 | Brendan Rodgers | 654 | 22 | 1 (19) | 1 | SS/2B/3B | Now |
| 2 | Ryan Rolison | 634 | 22 | 1 (3) | 2 | LHP | 2021 |
| 3 | Colton Welker | 580 | 22 | 2 | 3 | 3B/1B | 2020 |
| 4 | Ryan Vilade | 570 | 22 | 3 | 3 | IF | 2021 |
| 5 | Sam Hilliard | 552 | 22 | 2 | 5 | OF | Now |
| 6 | Michael Toglia | 544 | 22 | 3 | 5 | 1B | 2022 |
| 7 | Terrin Vavra | 538 | 22 | 4 | 6,7 | SS/2B | 2021 |
| 8 | Grant Lavigne | 469 | 22 | 5 | 8 | 1B | 2022 |
| 9 | Aaron Schunk | 444 | 22 | 6 | 11 | 3B | 2022 |
| 10 | Tyler Nevin | 423 | 22 | 5 | 7,16 | 1B/3B | 2020 |
| 11 | Ben Bowden | 401 | 21 | 2 | 12 | LHP | 2020 |
| 12 | Karl Kauffmann | 343 | 22 | 6 | 12,20 | RHP | 2022 |
| 13 | Ashton Goudeau | 306 | 18 | 7 | 14 | RHP | 2020 |
| 14 | Ryan Castellani | 303 | 22 | 5 | 14,16 | RHP | 2020 |
| 15 | Brenton Doyle | 262 | 18 | 9 | 13 | OF | 2022 |
| 16 | Tommy Doyle | 247 | 21 | 10 | 20,22 | RHP | 2021 |
| 17 | Helcris Olivarez | 234 | 18 | 9 | 10,11,21,22 | LHP | 2023 |
| 18 | Eddy Diaz | 224 | 17 | 9 | 17 | 2B/SS | 2023 |
| 19 | Yonathan Daza | 206 | 17 | 10 | 14,17,19,23 | OF | Now |
| 20 | Antonio Santos | 154 | 15 | 10 | 23 | RHP | 2021 |
| 21 | Mitchell Kilkenny | 152 | 16 | 12 | 24 | RHP | 2022 |
| 22 | Riley Pint | 150 | 14 | 12 | 22 | RHP | 2022 |
| 23 | Julio Carreras | 148 | 11 | 9 | 13,19,20 | SS/3B | 2023 |
| 24 | Dom Nunez | 147 | 16 | 10 | 25 | C | Now |
| NR | Roberto Ramos | 147 | 14 | 12 | 17 | 1B | N/A |
| 25 | Justin Lawrence | 131 | 14 | 14 | 18,24 | RHP | 2020 |
| 26 | Jacob Wallace | 129 | 14 | 11 | 16,21,22 | RHP | 2021 |
| 27 | Adael Amador | 121 | 12 | 10 | 26 | SS | 2025 |
| 28 | Ryan Feltner | 105 | 12 | 12 | 26 | RHP | 2022 |
| 29 | Brian Mundell | 105 | 10 | 11 | 25 | 1B | 2020 |
| 30 | Josh Fuentes | 102 | 11 | 10 | 28 | 1B/3B | Now |
It was yet another easy top prospect ranking for Brendan Rodgers in this edition of the PuRPs poll, receiving 19 of 22 first place votes. This is his seventh top PuRP honors in a row. In all, 12 players were listed on every ballot, including the top 10. Note that since his profile appeared earlier in the series, Roberto Ramos was sold to the Korean Baseball Organization and therefore is no longer PuRP-eligible. That opens a spot for Josh Fuentes, who slides in as our new PuRP 30, while Vince Fernandez becomes an honorable mention PuRP.
As a reminder, 30 points were granted for a first place vote, 29 for second, etc. Until a player was named on eight 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. Two ties were broken in the top 30 and several more in the lower reaches of the list.
There was a pretty good consensus about the top 19 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 17 of the ballots.
Some more notes:
- 60 players received at least one vote for this PuRPs list (down from 71 last time), 48 got mentioned on multiple ballots (down from 55), and 36 were named on at least eight ballots (and therefore were unmodified). All PuRPs were named on at least 10 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 six new names compared to the mid-season 2020 list. The new PuRPs are Ashton Goudeau (13), Helcris Olivarez (17), Julio Carreras (23), Dom Nunez (24), Jacob Wallace (26), and Adael Amador (27). Only Nunez had previously been a PuRP on a prior list (and a lot of them at that).
Breaking the list down by position, there are 13 pitchers (nine of them are nominally starters with several on their way to a relief role, 10 are righties, three are southpaws, and only one is in the top 10), three outfielders, eight corner infielders, five middle infielders, and one catcher.
There are 12 PuRPs currently set to start 2020 in the major leagues or Triple-A (including three of the top five), 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.