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Last week we asked you to help us rank Royals prospects. The process was simply. Thanks to a widget from “All Our Ideas”, a preference ballot selecting two Royals prospects at random was presented to you, asking you to choose which was the better prospect. After you voted, you were given another choice. And another. And another, perpetually, until you stopped voting.
Overall, we received 59,767 votes on the 50 players I entered into the system. To little surprise, Matt Strahm topped the list, with an estimated 94% chance it would be selected over any other choice. Hunter Dozier and Josh Staumont both came in with a 90% estimated chance it would be selected over other choices. Surprisingly, Kyle Zimmer came in at #4, although that could be due to his name recognition. That name recognition may have helped other prospects like Ashe Russell (#15) and Bubba Starling (#21) both of whom were first-round picks but who have struggled mightily as prospects.
Here is the complete list of players as you ranked them.
- P Matt Strahm
- 3B Hunter Dozier
- P Josh Staumont
- P Kyle Zimmer
- 1B Ryan O’Hearn
- C Chase Vallot
- OF Khalil Lee
- P A.J. Puckett
- OF Jorge Bonifacio
- P Eric Skoglund
- P Jake Junis
- OF Donnie Dewees
- P Miguel Almonte
- P Scott Blewett
- P Ashe Russell
- OF Peter O’Brien
- P Nolan Watson
- 1B Samir Duenez
- OF Seuly Matias
- P Foster Griffin
- OF Bubba Starling
- C Meibrys Viloria
- 2B Corey Toups
- SS Marten Gasparini
- C Cam Gallagher
- P Andrew Edwards
- P Eric Stout
- P Jonathan Dziedzic
- OF Elier Hernandez
- P Garrett Davila
- IF Ramon Torres
- P Pedro Fernandez
- P Luke Farrell
- OF Anderson Miller
- OF Alfredo Escalera
- P Corey Ray
- SS Ricky Aracena
- IF Nicky Lopez
- SS Jeison Guzman
- P Cristian Castillo
- P Antony Bender
- C Xavier Fernandez
- 1B Chris DeVito
- 3B Travis Maezes
- 2B D.J. Burt
- OF Kort Peterson
- P Gerson Garabito
- P Richard Lovelady
- C Sebastian Rivero
- 3B Manny Olloque