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Rainiel Rodriguez, C, St. Louis Cardinals (Double-A Springfield)
Whether or not we’d ever put a catcher no. 1 once more is a much less thorny query than would we ever put a pitcher primary once more, but it surely’s not with out its perils. We’re just a few years faraway from having Adley Rutschman primary on our midseason 50, and whereas he’s not fairly nearly as good because the names instantly behind him on that listing, nobody would bat a watch trying again at it. Adley was additionally on the doorstep of the majors and had been one of many high prospects in baseball going again to his Cape season earlier than his junior yr at Oregon State. Nonetheless, Rainiel Rodriguez is identical age Rutschman was as a freshman in Corvalis, and he’s in Double-A.
