The minor league regular season officially came to a close
Sunday AAA and double teams are still competing for trophies
in the days ahead, but we're looking to hand
out some hardware of our own at 8 p.m. Eastern
time next Monday. During MLB Network's MLB Awards show
, I'm Sam Dyer of MLB pipeline. And in
this edition of the beep report, we're turning our
eye toward hitting prospect of the year finalists showing in
alphabetical order. Dodgers number two prospect Michael Bush didn't
quite stick in the majors this season but during his
time with Oklahoma City, he was one of a
, A's most prolific batters. The infielder ranked second
among minor league full season qualifiers with both a 6
18 slugging percentage and 104, nine OS while his
3 23 average and 4 31 OVP each placed among
the top 15 S. He led Dodgers minor leaguers
with 27 Homers and tally that number in only 98
games. Expect him to be in the running for
more major league time in L A or elsewhere.
Come next spring rays, top prospect junior Caminero became
the majors youngest player at just 20 years. Old
last week because of his dominant offensive performance this season
at high A and the right handed slugger club,
31 homers across those two levels and not only was
the youngest member of the minor 30 homer club,
he was also the only one to strike out less
than 20% of the time. His 5 91 slugging
percentage and 9 76 OPS ranked fifth among full season
qualifiers and he put up the elite exit velocities to
back those numbers up. That's overall production that could
get him an individual MILB award and a place on
Tampa Bay's MLB postseason roster. Finally, we end
with number one, the number one overall prospect in
baseball that is Jackson Holiday famously climbed from single A
to AAA in his first full season becoming the only
player aged 19 or younger to see four minor league
levels in 2023. He performed everywhere too. Finishing
with a 323 average at 9 40 ones over 125
games. Most impressively, he showed an advanced with
rates above 12% at every stop and an overall OVP
of 4 42 that placed fifth among full season qualifiers
and a 159 WRC plus that ranks six once again
, tune into the MIB award show on MB network
next Monday, October 2nd at 8 p.m. Eastern and
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