Minor League Baseball League Top 10 Prospects: Eastern League

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

Trenton had the big team in the 2017 Eastern League during the regular season, winning 92 games, 7 games more than any other team in the league. However, they ran into a team who was an absolute buzzsaw at the right time of the year as Altoona swept through the entire playoffs to win the Eastern League after winning the Western division title.

Some of the league leaders:
AVG – Garabez Rosa, Bowie, .310
OBP – Mike Ford, Trenton, .410
SLG – Jeremy Barfield, Portland, .584
HR – Christin Stewart, Erie, 28
SB – Champ Stuart, Binghamton, 35

W – Yefry Ramirez, Trenton/Bowie, 15
SV – Shane Broyles, Hartford, 21
K – Ryan Castellani, Hartford, 132
ERA – Corey Oswalt, Binghamton, 2.28
WHIP – Thomas Pannone, Akron/New Hampshire, 1.09

Now to the top 10…