The Name to Know For the 2016 Baseball Season… Texas Rangers
`Scouting reports, data, and lists of top baseball prospects are more abundant than ever, with both traditional and progressive schools of thought contributing to a golden age of prospect mining. But it’s the nature of this list — our yearly look at young players primed to make impacts during the major league season — that runs head-on into the rapid-fire manner in which young players arrive and dominate at the major league level.
The names that follows is not necessarily the number one best prospects, but rather the ones most likely to make a major appearance in the 2016 season, especially since Spring Training has already kicked off. In order to qualify, the player must have had more innings (for pitchers) or plate appearances (for hitters) in the minor leagues during 2015 than he has accumulated during all of his major league playing time. Players are ranked in order of their anticipated impact this season. Here is a specific guy who definitely a GRAND SLAM!
Joey Gallo: 3B-OF, Rangers: After hitting 82 total home runs in 2013 and 2014, Gallo played 36 games for Texas in 2015. Shockingly, he had never played a professional game in the outfield until 2015. While the 22-year-old’s power is unbelievable, he has either hit a home run, struck out or walked 56.8% of the time in the minor leagues. The 6 foot 5 inch and 230-pounder monster will likely start the season in Class AAA. Don’t be surprised to see Gallo replace Josh Hamilton at some point in 2016. I think the Texas Rangers have struck gold with this one!