While the majority of the baseball world is focused on the stars of today and where they will be playing next season, the stars of tomorrow are honing their crafts in various offseason leagues.
Over the next few slides, we’ll rank the most eye-opening individual performances taking place in the Arizona Fall League.
It may only be a month’s worth of games, but the AFL is often a jumping point for prospects to take that next step. In the 2014 AFL season, New York Yankees slugger Greg Bird used a standout performance to prepare for a call-up to “The Show” the very next season.
There are numerous prospects following in Bird’s footsteps this fall. Fellow Yankee Gary Sanchez, Minnesota Twins outfielder Adam Brett Walker II, Atlanta Braves hurler Lucas Sims and Boston Red Sox first baseman Sam Travis are just a few of the players we’ll look at it in the coming slides.
We’ll obviously take statistical information into account, but we’ll also take a look at how each prospect’s game is progressing. In this case, a player’s development is just as important as a small sample size of numbers.
Let us know what you think about our selections in the comments section below. Which prospects have impressed you this fall? What is a realistic timeline for the following names to reach the major leagues?
2015 will go down in MLB history as the year of the prospect, so it’s fitting that various young players are jockeying for position in the AFL. Let’s rank the most impressive of those performances.