Prospect list season continued Wednesday with the release of Kiley McDaniel’s preseason Top 100 list at ESPN.com. The Oakland A’s had two players crack the Top 100 in Tyler Soderstrom and Ken Waldichuk.
Soderstrom comes in at No. 23 on the list in the 55 Future Value tier. If you are looking for a refresher on Future Value, you can find it here at FanGraphs. McDaniel places Soderstrom’s ability behind the plate behind top prospects Francisco Álvarez and Diego Cartaya, but says that Soderstrom’s bat is arguably the best of the three. He doesn’t think that it is impossible for Soderstrom to stick behind the plate, but that his bat might force him to the big leagues before he is ready behind the plate.