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Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2023: Top 30 summary

A full breakdown of the 2023 mid-season PuRPs voting

MLB: Spring Training-Los Angeles Angels at Arizona Diamondbacks Matt Kartozian-USA TODAY Sports

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 as a whole Monday to conclude the series.

Without further ado, here is the full mid-season 2023 Top 30 PuRPs list, including some voting stats:

Mid-Season 2023 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 Adael Amador 647 22 1 (12) 1 SS 2025
2 Zac Veen 620 22 1 (7) 1,2 OF 2024
3 Yanquiel Fernandez 612 22 1 (1) 3 OF 2024
4 Chase Dollander 599 22 1 (2) 4 RHP 2026
5 Jordan Beck 568 22 3 5 OF 2024
6 Drew Romo 517 22 4 6,8,9 C 2024
7 Sterlin Thompson 505 22 5 6 3B 2024
8 Benny Montgomery 474 22 5 7 OF 2025
9 Gabriel Hughes 474 22 5 8 RHP 2025
10 Dyan Jorge 447 22 3 7,13 SS 2026
11 Jordy Vargas 431 22 5 10,12 RHP 2026
12 Joe Rock 391 22 7 12,15,16 LHP 2024
13 Jaden Hill 382 22 7 10,14 RHP 2025
14 Warming Bernabel 368 22 7 11,13,18 3B 2024
15 Hunter Goodman 352 22 8 14 1B/OF/C 2024
16 Carson Palmquist 296 22 11 17 LHP 2025
17 Sean Sullivan 292 21 11 19 LHP 2026
18 Cole Carrigg 234 22 13 numerous C/SS/OF 2026
19 Jackson Cox 228 18 10 18 RHP 2026
20 Robert Calaz 222 20 12 12,23 OF 2027
21 Jake Madden 214 19 13 20 RHP 2025
22 Julio Carreras 134 16 15 22 SS 2024
23 Victor Juarez 131 12 14 21 RHP 2025
24 Mason Albright 99 13 19 25 LHP 2025
25 Aaron Schunk 97 12 13 25,26 3B 2024
26 Victor Vodnik 84 16 18 28,29 RHP 2024
27 Grant Lavigne 84 9 11 none 1B 2024
28 Chris McMahon 83 14 16 24,26,30 RHP 2024
29 Michael Prosecky 69 7 13 26 RHP 2025
30 Case Williams 63 12 19 27 RHP 2024

This time around, shortstop Adael Amador topped the poll with 12 of the 22 first place votes (including mine). Outfielder Zac Veen got seven of the remaining first place votes, and both players generally were in the top three. Outfielder Yanquiel Fernandez jumped up nine places from pre-season to finish third, while two Tennessee Volunteers (first round pitcher Chase Dollander and outfielder Jordan Beck) rounded out the top five.

As a reminder, 30 points were granted for a first place vote, 29 for second, etc. Until a player was named on seven 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. Benny Montgomery and Gabriel Hughes had the same point total, ballot count, and high ballot, but Montgomery had the high mode ballot to edge out Hughes. Victor Vodnik and Grant Lavigne were also tied, with Vodnik getting the edge due to appearing on more ballots. Ties were also broken down-ballot according to voting rules. Polling concluded in early August and since then, no player receiving votes has had their eligibility status change.

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, a look at multi-ballot players as well as the write-ups of the honorable mention PuRPs.

Some more notes:

  • This was a list that had a strong consensus, as 17 players were listed on all 22 ballots, including the top 16. Beyond that, the entire top 21 was listed on at least 19 of the 22 ballots, forming a clear tier of players that the electorate felt were worthy.
  • 63 players received at least one vote for this PuRPs list (up from 51 last time), 44 got mentioned on multiple ballots (up from 52), while 33 were named on at least seven ballots (and therefore were unmodified). Here is a link to the polling thread.
  • In this edition of the PuRPs list, there were nine new names compared to the pre-season 2023 list, only one of which (Aaron Schunk at 25) had previously been PuRPs. Three came from the draft: Chase Dollander (4), Sean Sullivan (17), and Cole Carrigg (18). Three came from trades: Jake Madden (21), Mason Albright (24), and Victor Vodnik (26). The other new PuRPs are Robert Calaz (20) and Michael Prosecky (29).
  • The biggest risers vs. the mid-season list were Carson Palmquist (up 12 slots), Fernandez (up 9), and Sterlin Thompson (up 7). The biggest fallers who remained on the list were Chris McMahon (down 13), Grant Lavigne (down 7), Jaden Hill (down 7), and Warming Bernabel (down 7).
  • Breaking the list down by position, there are 15 pitchers (most of which are nominally starters with a few potentially on their way to a relief role; ten are righties, five are southpaws, and two are in the top ten), five corner infielders, five outfielders, three middle infielders, and two catchers — there’s some positional flexibility in there of course.

I’ll have more on the overall system in my concluding post on Monday.