We’re a month into the 2017 season, and there’s still one team we haven’t looked at yet in this Prospect Watch series: The Single-A Beloit Snappers.
At this low level of the minors, we’re not usually looking at the organization’s top prospects. Rather, this squad is sort of a “best of the rest.” Half the roster consists of 2016 draftees who didn’t make the cut for High-A Stockton, and there are also several players who went pro as teenagers (either int’l signings, or high school draftees) and are being brought along slowly while they physically develop.
The latter demographic is your best chance of finding an already high-profile name in Single-A, and indeed the only member of our Community Prospect List Top 30 currently in Beloit is former high school pick Dakota Chalmers (now 20 years old).