Julio Urias and Raul Adalberto Mondesi are not just two of the top prospects in the game, but also the kind of rising talents who will make fans stop this spring and say, “Whoa, who was that?”
The list that follows is flooded with players of that ilk. Many of the head-turning farmhands who made the grade are the No. 1 prospect in their respective system, but that wasn’t the case for everyone.
Some of the players who earned this distinction are here because they have a big-time, can’t-miss tool—from an electric pitch to prime-time pop to superspeed.
In some cases, difficult decisions had to be made because individual farms had such a wealth of deserving candidates. In those situations, factors like 2015 second-half performance and whether an unfamiliar player was entering his first spring with a new club were among the tiebreakers.
In a nod to all those fans of teams that start with W’s, T’s and S’s, we’ll run through the list of head-turners in reverse alphabetical order. So now, off to D.C.