Minor League Baseball League Top 10s: Texas League

With the minor league baseball season over, it’s list season, and we’ll continue the league top 10 lists with the Texas 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

Midland may have finished under .500 on the season, but they did earn a playoff spot with a first half wild card spot, and the RockHounds played their way to their 4th straight Texas League title by overcoming a 2 games to none deficit to Tulsa to win the championship. Springfield could have an argument for playoff reconstruction this season as they tied Tulsa for the best overall record in the league, but because they weren’t one of the top 2 teams in their division in either half of the season, they didn’t qualify for the playoffs at all. They will, however, feature prominently on this list.

Some of the league leaders:
AVG – Matt Beaty, Tulsa, .326
OBP – Luis Urias, San Antonio, .398
SLG – J.D. Davis, Corpus Christi, .510
HR – Franmil Reyes, San Antonio, 25
SB – Oscar Mercado, Springfield 38

W – Brett Kennedy, San Antonio, 13
SV – Trey Wingenter, San Antonio, 20
K – Grant Holmes, Midland, 150
ERA – Dakota Hudson, Springfield, 2.53
WHIP – Dylan Unsworth, Arkansas, 1.10

Now to the top 10…