Minor League Baseball League Top 10 Prospects: California League

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

In a season where no team in the Cal League won 80 games and no team lost 80 games, the league was bunched quite a bit in the middle. Modesto finished the season with just a .529 winning percentage (an 86 win season in the major leagues) for the best record in the North division overall, winning the first half title. They stormed through the playoffs, sweeping each of their playoff series on their way to winning the league title.

Some of the league leaders:
AVG – Yonathan Daza, Lancaster, .341
OBP – Eric Filia, Modesto, .407
SLG – DJ Peters, Rancho Cucamonga, .514
HR – Seth Brown, Stockton, 30
SB – Wes Rogers, Lancaster, 70

W – Reggie McClain, Modesto, 12
SV – Dylan Rheault, San Jose, 21
K – Jose Almonte, Visalia, 162
ERA – Caleb Ferguson, Rancho Cucamonga, 2.87
WHIP – Adam Bray, Rancho Cucamonga, 1.15

Now to the top 10…