ESPN.com’s Kiley McDaniel revealed his latest Top 100 overall prospect list earlier on Wednesday, and the Cincinnati Reds were represented by four farmhands. The thing is, it wasn’t a group of four that I think many of us expected to see.
We’ve seen Chase Burns and Rhett Lowder listed almost interchangeably atop the team’s farm system rankings, the pair of Wake Forest arms universally considered the two best-rated prospects the club can boast. That’s no different from McDaniel. However, it’s been some combination of Cam Collier, Sal Stewart, and Edwin Arroyo rounding out the back end of many Top 100 rankings, something largely echoed by our own Community Prospect Rankings.