4/25/2010

Top 1B: Best First Base Prospects for 2010

Big Corner Bats are Coming, and Coming Soon!

If you're a coach, manager or player development staffer, what do you do with a huge, strong baseball player who isn't very fast, isn't very good with the glove, doesn't have a strong arm... but can hit baseballs five hundred feet? Why, you make him a first baseman, of course. With the simplest job on the field, a first baseman doesn't need to be very mobile, and he doesn't have to 'waste' much time learning the finer points of defense. He can, instead, focus on doing what he knows best: hitting baseballs. It should be no surprise, then, that some of the best batting prospects in the game are corner infielders. Here are a few of our favorites that you'll be seeing soon, most of them this very season.   

His star might have faded a bit, but Floria alumnus Yonder Alonso will still be a quality first base bat very soon.

The usual disclaimer: Scouting Book's Prospect Rankings change very often, to reflect the latest and most promising prospects. These listings update every day as we include new input and MLB situations evolve. For more information on our system, read this blog posting.

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