Minor League Baseball League Top 10 Prospects: Florida State League

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

Minor league baseball has concluded its regular season and playoffs at this point, 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

Tampa outpaced the rest of the league by 10 wins with 85 on the season, but in the end, the teams standing with a share of the league title each finished one of the halves of the season right around .500 but got hot to finish the season. Palm Beach was the top team in the first half, and Dunedin barely made the playoffs, but their roster at the time featured two of the top 10-15 prospects in all of baseball in Bo Bichette and Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. Those two teams ended up sharing the title as Hurricane Irma forced a shared title in the league as Palm Beach defeated Fort Myers and Dunedin defeated Tampa.

Some of the league leaders:
AVG – Alay Lago, Florida, .303
OBP – Nick Solak, Tampa, .397
SLG – Brandon Lowe, Charlotte, .524
HR – Connor Panas, Dunedin, 18
SB – Cole Tucker, Bradenton, 36

W – Andrew Church, St. Lucie, 12
SV – Seth McGarry and Jeff Singer, Clearwater, 19
K – Nabil Crismatt, St. Lucie, 142
ERA – Jake Woodford, Palm Beach, 3.10
WHIP – Taylor Widener, Tampa, 1.15

Now to the top 10…