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morning afternoon, Athletics Nation!
We’re nearly done voting on our annual Community Prospect List, in which we crowdsource the Top 30 prospects in the Oakland A’s farm system. The current ballot today is for the 28th spot.
It was already known that no A’s players cracked Pipeline’s national Top 100 list, but
someone had to finish at the top of Oakland’s system. It turned out to be teenage catcher
Tyler Soderstrom, last summer’s 1st-round draft pick. We put him second on our CPL behind lefty pitcher
A.J. Puk, while Pipeline swapped the two, with various other mainstream sources landing on each side of that debate Baseball Prospectus and Keith Law chose Puk, while Baseball America went with Soderstrom.