Prospect Watch: Short-Season Standouts

Each weekday during the minor-league season, FanGraphs is providing a status update on multiple rookie-eligible players. Note that Age denotes the relevant prospect’s baseball age (i.e. as of July 1st of the current year); Top-15, the prospect’s place on Marc Hulet’s preseason organizational list; and Top-100, that same prospect’s rank on Hulet’s overall top-100 list.

In this installment of the Prospect Watch, I’m checking in on three players who impressed me last year and are off to big starts this year in the short-season New York-Penn League.

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Rowan Wick, OF, St. Louis Cardinals (Profile)
Level: SS-A   Age: 21   Top-15: N/A   Top-100: N/A
Line: 43 PA, .361/.465/.972, 7 HR, 7 BB, 9 K

Summary
Wick has two plus tools and he’s laying waste to the NYPL early on.

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