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Four Cincinnati Reds prospects land on Baseball America’s latest Top 100 list

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30.7%. 30.9%. 8th.

Three different numerical values, and the only three that are keeping Elly De La Cruz from being pretty universally considered the best prospect in all of baseball these days. The first two represent his K-rates from A+ Dayton and AA Chattanooga last season, respectively, the last of that trio representing where he ranks in the latest Top 100 update from Baseball America - a list that dropped earlier on Wednesday.

Elly hit .300, flirted with 30 total homers, damn near slugged .600, swiped nearly 50 bags, and did it all while playing the kind of defense at shortstop that makes scouts drool.