Instead of sharing that Jurrangelo Cjintje lost the head-to-head vote to Quinn Mathews for the #5 prospect during our regularly scheduled programming (tomorrow), I figured it was more appropriate to have its own official post. There was an interesting quandary posted in the comments that was not a quandary at all as it turns out. There was a belief that Cjintje could have plausibly lost to Joshua Baez but would have beat Mathews. But no, the prospect order was seemingly confirmed when Cjintje beat Baez and then
lost to Mathews. The order as it stands now:
- JJ Wetherholt
- Liam Doyle
- Rainiel Rodriguez
- Quinn Mathews
- Jurrangelo Cjintje
- Joshua Baez
- Leonardo Bernal
- Jimmy Crooks
- Brandon Clarke
- Tink Hence
- Tekoah Roby
The 12th prospect gets revealed tomorrow, although it wouldn’t be terribly difficult to figure out who that is if you really wanted to know right this minute. And hey while you’re here, I might as well get some use out of this post and run another comparable player poll, which I technically lost when Cjintje was automatically placed in the top 7 without ever going on the vote.
Comparable Player Poll #1
One of the appeals of making this its own post, quite frankly, was being able to run a couple extra of these. When Cjintje got added to the top 7 without ever going into the main vote, I lost a comparable player poll. And since this is such an exceptionally short post and you’re already here, help me separate seemingly indistinguishable prospects who may or may not get added to the voting, but at least shortening my options from 3 to 1 would help a lot. The first of these will be simple: pick the best of the 2025 trade deadline pickups:
Nate Dohm, 23 – RHP
Low A: 7 GS, 28.1 IP, 27.9 K%, 8.2 BB%, 43.4 GB%, .351 BABIP, 3.18 ERA/2.66 FIP/3.14 xFIP
High A: 15 GS, 46.2 IP, 27.9 K%, 10.9 GB%, 39 GB%, .289 BABIP, 3.28 ERA/4.28 FIP/3.52 xFIP
Scouting (FG): 50/60 Fastball, 45/50 Slider, 30/50 Command
Frank Ellisalt, 24 – RHP
Low A: 18 G (7 GS), 50.2 IP, 28.4 K%, 10.4 BB%, 30.2 GB%, .222 BABIP, 3.02 ERA/3.69 FIP/3.64 xFIP
High A: 6 (3 GS), 15.1 IP, 22.2 K%, 12.7 BB%, 35 GB%, .282 BABIP, 4.70 ERA/4.18 FIP/4.26 xFIP
Scouting: 55/60 Fastball, 50/60 Slider, 30/40 Change, 30/40 Command
Mason Molina, 22 – LHP
Low A: 11 GS, 46.2 IP, 32.3 K%, 8.3 BB%, 43.6 GB%, .298 BABIP, 3.86 ERA/3.87 FIP/2.94 xFIP
High A: 11 GS, 49 IP, 28.1 K%, 13.3 BB%, 36.5 GB%, .270 BABIP, 2.39 ERA/3.38 FIP/4.03 xFIP
Scouting: 45/50 Fastball, 40/45 Slider, 35/40 Curve, 50/55 Change, 30/40 Command
No mini-profiles here, just the stats and the scouting.
Comparable Player Poll #2
Kind of weird comparison honestly, but today we are looking at two recently recovering from Tommy John pitchers with not much of a sample size and a recent draft pick with zero sample size. I wanted all of them in a poll at some point, and honestly, comparing three guys with very little sample to work with makes sense to me. As such I don’t think listing the stats is particularly useful. Here’s a spoiler: the Tommy John guys struck out a lot of guys but also walked a lot of guys.
Cade Crossland was the 2025 3rd round draft choice out of Oklahoma. He is left-handed and had in my opinion a bit of a confusing stat line last season. Playing in the SEC, he struck out a good number of batters, walked a bit too many but nothing too bad and…. allowed a lot of runners to score. He is an underlying metrics + scouting the stuff bet I would guess.
Andrew Dutkanych IV was the 7th rounder from the 2024 draft who was drafted after having already gotten Tommy John, with a gamble on grabbing a higher round talent who was available lower because of his injury. He threw 17 total innings and finished the year in Low A.
Jacob Odle was a 14th round pick from the 2023 draft who needed Tommy John after getting drafted and thus missed all of 2024. On the bright side, he threw 51 innings last season including 43 in Low A. He averaged a bit more than 3 innings per start.
All three are 22-years-old, so age is not a separator.
That’s all I have for you. The #12 prospect will be revealed tomorrow and so will the chance to vote on 13th best prospect.
