2013 Los Angeles Angels Top 16 Prospects

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The Los Angeles Angels system has become depleted largely due to promotions of some guy named Mike Trout and Garrett Richards, trades that sent Jean Segura and Johnny Hellweg to Milwaukee, and poor showings in recent drafts. But there is a legitimate top prospect and some young players who could help the parent club soon.

Below are my top 16 prospects with 2013 opening day age, position, and comments on each player. Below the top 16 is a small list of additional notable names. Enjoy.

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Travis Witherspoon Developing Into Legitimate Prospect

Before the 2012 season began I was hard at work on my prospect rankings for each team. I would rank the top 16 prospects and then list about three names afterwards that just missed the cut. Los Angeles Angels outfielder Travis Witherspoon was on my shortlist of about 20 names and was one of the names that completely missed the cut.

Colleague Charlie Nehl and I had a conversation about Witherspoon in the comment section and my answer to why I left him off was “I had Witherspoon on the list I had to narrow down and he was literally #20 for me. The tools haven’t matched the stats yet and he has discipline issues but is a phenomenal athlete.” (more…)

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