Prior to the start of every baseball season, Baseball America ranks each organizations top prospects and the Padres list was released today.
Baseball America notes that the seven trades the front office made cost them 12 prospect-eligible players in less than two weeks. Eight of the those prospects have ranked among the Padres’ top 20 including shortstop Trea Turner (No. 2), righthanders Joe Ross (No. 4), Zach Eflin (No. 9) and R.J. Alvarez (No. 11); lefthander Max Fried (No. 6), second baseman Jace Peterson (No. 10), first baseman Jake Bauers (No. 15) and outfielder Mallex Smith (No. 16.
Still in the organization, “Righthander Matt Wisler, catcher Austin Hedges and outfielder Hunter Renfroe, the system’s top three prospects, all have upper-minors experience and could be ready quickly in 2015.”
