The Athletic’s Keith Law has come out with his top 20 prospects list for the San Diego Padres organization. To be considered a prospect, Law said players must still be eligible to win the 2022 Rookie of the Year award. To qualify for the Rookie of the Year, players need to enter this season with less than 130 at-bats or 50 innings pitched in the major leagues, or 45 days on the 26-man roster.
Here is Law’s full top 20:
- CJ Abrams, SS
- Robert Hassell III, OF
- MacKenzie Gore, SP
- Luis Campusano, C
- Jackson Merrill, SS
- Joshua Mears, OF
- James Wood, OF
- Euribiel Angeles, SS
- Robert Gasser, LHP
- Sammy Zavala, OF
- Victor Acosta, SS
- Tirso Ornelas, OF
- Justin Lange, RHP
- Victor Lizarraga, RHP
- Eguy Rosario, 2B
- Nerwilian Cedeno, 3B
- Brandon Valenzuela, C
- Adrian Martinez, RHP
- Kevin Kopps, RHP
- Ray Kerr, RHP
Others of note: Steven Wilson (RHP), Efrain Contreras (RHP), Jarlin Susana (RHP), Ryan Bergert (RHP), Max Ferguson (INF, OF), and Ethan Elliott (LHP)
Takeaways
Abrams is certainly the best prospect in the Padres farm system and he could end up being a smaller version of Fernando Tatis Jr.