While Oakland Athletics’ fans may be excited about next year’s potential harvest of minor league stars like Matt Olson and Chad Pinder, it’s easy to forget which players were considered top prospects even as recently as last season, given how few of them actually pan out as major leaguers. For every prospect who finds a home in the big leagues, there are plenty of others that struggle to succeed at that level – or even reach it in the first place.
Continuing our series, we’ll look at the A’s top ten prospect list from the 2014 off-season to see what kind of impact those players made last year, and where they’ll end up in 2016.