With the minor league baseball season over, it’s list season, and we’ll continue the league top 10 lists with the Pacific Coast League
Minor league baseball has concluded its regular season and playoffs at this point in the most part, so we will be starting our series of league top 10 prospects here at Call To The Pen. This series will be keyed by Benjamin Chase through extensive video research and discussion with scouts and those within the game. Certainly, there are other opinions on these players and the order, but this is his list. Each list will start with a review of the season for that league and some of the leaders in each league. One note: to be eligible to be on this list, a player must have qualified for the league stat leaders (2.7 PA/league G for hitters, 0.8 IP/league game for pitchers) in order to be considered.
Season Wrap
One of a handful of teams in the minor leagues with 90+ wins, Memphis entered the playoffs with a team that had run away with the best record in the PCL, 11 games better than the next closest team. However, as playoffs do, it wasn’t quite as easy as it looked on paper as some of the best players from that Memphis team throughout the year were in St. Louis helping the Cardinals in a playoff push. El Paso pushed Memphis to a decisive 5th game in the championship series before Memphis won the PCL title, 3 games to 2.
Some of the league leaders:
AVG – Nick Buss, El Paso, .348
OBP – Oswaldo Arcia, Reno, .410
SLG – Oswaldo Arcia, Reno, .639
HR – A.J. Reed, Fresno, 34
SB – Three with 26
W – Justin Masterson, Oklahoma City, and Troy Scribner, Salt Lake, 11
SV – Matt Carasiti, Iowa, 21
K – Wilmer Font, Oklahoma City, 178
ERA – Wilmer Font, Oklahoma City, 3.42
WHIP – Wilmer Font, Oklahoma City, 1.11
Now to the top 10…